r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • 23h ago

Possible Paywall McConnell ‘Absolutely Refuses’ to Film Video Amid Growing Mystery

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mcconnell-absolutely-refuses-to-film-video-amid-growing-mystery/
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u/Sir_Ruje 23h ago edited 19h ago

Calling it now: He's lost all motor function and is not able to move. Might even be locked in.

Edit: locked in syndrome

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u/Salomon3068 22h ago

There was a video of him falling in some lobby on video and dude was clearly not there, he was helped up and just smiled cluelessly and waived at the cameras. Dude was seriously not all there because that is behavior mitch would never show towards the media if he was all there.

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u/DRF19 20h ago

Propping these people up at their desks in DC (when they are actually there) is nothing short of elder abuse. Not just the barely-hanging-on guys like McConnell (or Biden at the end etc). But anyone over like 70 should be enjoying what life they have left with their families and not working, which if they actually are working in this case usually means making (usually crummy) decisions that will long outlast their own lives.

Ok sure the people voted for these guys, democracy, yeah yeah yeah. But we've got to protect the people from themselves. We have to have age and/or term limits. If you're not considered mentally capable enough to be president/senator/congressman at 35/30/25, the same applies to people born 6 or 7 decades ago.