Did Mitch just have (another) stroke?

[4th&Five 41558]

MTG still supports old ass Trump though, correct?

Edited August 30, 2023 by 4th&Five

[TexArcher 37977]

Marjorie Taylor Greene calling anyone not fit for office is some next level self-aware satire.  She's owning this SNL sketch.

Oh, this is real life and she thinks that was a smart thing to say?

Oh.  Well.  Shit.  This isn't going well.

[Celery Man 20966]

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

4 hours ago, Grade of D as in David said:

Normally I would feel bad watching someone go through that, but I love watching him fumble around in public. 

 

Fuck that puto. 

fucking same.  he's done so much fucking damage to this country that frankly i'm all for them wheeling him out for more of these.   edit: which totally contradicts my attempts to be a nicer person.  but whatever, fuck him.

Edited August 30, 2023 by MC Fresh Breath

[bluto 4932]

Can we get a Kentucky senate race with an abortion election item at the same time?

[South Austin 52519]

19 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

MTG still supports old ass Trump though, correct?

If by “support” you mean “gargle his old wrinkled balls,” yes.

[Js1 85408]

14 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Marjorie Taylor Greene calling anyone not fit for office is some next level self-aware satire.  She's owning this SNL sketch.

Oh, this is real life and she thinks that was a smart thing to say?

Oh.  Well.  Shit.  This isn't going well.

The dumbest Democrat still is 10x smarter than Large Marge

[Chooky 13315]

MTG is an unintentional irony factory. 

[Pods 7585]

[Gatorubet 30246]

1 hour ago, Native Horn said:

I won't be challenging you for that.

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

that x post didn't show the follow up question which is worth a view

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/30/mitch-mcconnell-freezes-struggles-to-speak-in-second-incident-this-summer.html?__source=iosappshare|com.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard

 

 

[Chewbacca 7780]

3 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

It's very weird. I feel like CEOs retire and it's the most similar position I can think of. I guess the board has the power to push them out? 

I just think if I reached a certain age, I'd want to be sitting out my days on the porch with a glass of tea instead of having to give talks at a podium.

Yeah, if the CEO of a public company zones out in a board meeting or earnings call, he's gonna be replaced quickly.  None of this cover up bullshit.

[Pato del Muerto 52524]

1 minute ago, Chewbacca said:

Yeah, if the CEO of a public company zones out in a board meeting or earnings call, he's gonna be replaced quickly.  None of this cover up bullshit.

My BIL was svp of a company and doing very well. They retired him at 65. Don’t want old blood at the top stifling creativity or averse to new thinking- and don’t want to lose good junior execs to a lack of upward mobility near the top. 

[Burt 4085]

5 hours ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

Another one.

 

This just proves what the far right has been preaching all along - Biden is too old to be president!!

[Gatorubet 30246]

3 minutes ago, Burt said:

This just proves what the far right has been preaching all along - Biden is too old to be president!!

[Fudge Nuggets 19206]

6 hours ago, 'stache said:

Time to put ol Mitch down.

[956 Worldwide 34715]

I would just like to point out that whoever replaces Mitch is likely to be much worse and that there is a chance that one day historians will draw a line from McConnell’s stroke to a collapse in U.S. support for Ukraine.

This is literally the only thing he’s been good on but at the moment it’s almost worth it. 

[Horn Dog 9875]

[BamaATL 16593]

[hobbes2702 13045]

44 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

I would just like to point out that whoever replaces Mitch is likely to be much worse and that there is a chance that one day historians will draw a line from McConnell’s stroke to a collapse in U.S. support for Ukraine.

This is literally the only thing he’s been good on but at the moment it’s almost worth it. 

Whoever replaces him cannot really be worse since they can’t achieve anything on their own. He’s the head of the Republican Party essentially and he’s one of the worst people ever to hold office in this country. The day he’s out of office our country is better off.

[Grade of D as in David 13253]

7 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

Whoever replaces him cannot really be worse since they can’t achieve anything on their own. He’s the head of the Republican Party essentially and he’s one of the worst people ever to hold office in this country. The day he’s out of office our country is better off.

We will likely end up with a Joffrey like replacement in terms of both cruelty and ineffectiveness.

[DDD Dad 14339]

2 minutes ago, Grade of D as in David said:

We will likely end up with a Joffrey like replacement in terms of both cruelty and ineffectiveness.

 

[Superhero 8830]

I wonder if he’s having seizures. My coworker’s son has petite mal seizures and will blank out for almost a minute.

Or maybe he’s having focal seizures. When I first getting them in 2016, I lost the ability to comprehend what people said, and didn’t make any sense when I was trying to say something back. It took my brain a few minutes to “reboot” before I could communicate again, but there were times when the communications part of my brain would keep shutting down over and over, and I give up and hope tomorrow would be a better day.

Anyway… fuck Mitch.

[Sawbonz 27578]

An 85 yo w new onset seizures is most likely from stroke, tumor, or progressive dementia (happened to my mother)

[YGIFS 19452]

Was listening to 590AM on drive home yesterday.  Caller weighs in with "Mitch is doing a tremendous sacrifice for the country.  He's staying in office, at great harm to himself, to keep the Democrats from pushing through their socialist agenda in the Senate because he's the tie-breaking vote.  He's an American hero!" 

Ed Clements has to tell him there's a Democratic majority with or without Mitch, and that American heroism is not holding onto power while risking your health and hurting your party and the Senate.  You could hear the caller slink down in shame.  When Ed Clements is the voice of reason on this, we are truly fucked.   

[GhostOfTomJoad 9331]

Ed Clements with an intelligent take...is that the first or second seal of the apocalypse being opened?

[Ghost of LL 15539]

12 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

Was listening to 590AM on drive home yesterday.  Caller weighs in with "Mitch is doing a tremendous sacrifice for the country.  He's staying in office, at great harm to himself, to keep the Democrats from pushing through their socialist agenda in the Senate because he's the tie-breaking vote.  He's an American hero!" 

Ed Clements has to tell him there's a Democratic majority with or without Mitch, and that American heroism is not holding onto power while risking your health and hurting your party and the Senate.  You could hear the caller slink down in shame.  When Ed Clements is the voice of reason on this, we are truly fucked.   

And beyond that, Kentucky law requires the governor to appoint a member of the same party to a Senate seat that becomes vacant.

I mean, I guess he could appoint a relatively liberal Republican.  But where would you find one of those in Kentucky?

[jimmyjazz 45976]

Yeah, I was gonna say, if Ed Clements is educating you on civics and the government, you should just kill yourself.

[jimmyjazz 45976]

4 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

I mean, I guess he could appoint a relatively liberal Republican.  But where would you find one of those in Kentucky?

Illinois?  That's all I got.

[Sawbonz 27578]

7 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

And beyond that, Kentucky law requires the governor to appoint a member of the same party to a Senate seat that becomes vacant.

I mean, I guess he could appoint a relatively liberal Republican.  But where would you find one of those in Kentucky?

Does the law say anything about how long someone needs to be a Republican before they can be appointed? What is to stop a Democrat from switching parties and then being appointed?

[4th&Five 41558]

42 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

An 85 yo w new onset seizures is most likely from stroke, tumor, or progressive dementia (happened to my mother)

[YGIFS 19452]

12 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

And beyond that, Kentucky law requires the governor to appoint a member of the same party to a Senate seat that becomes vacant.

I mean, I guess he could appoint a relatively liberal Republican.  But where would you find one of those in Kentucky?

I may have this wrong, but I think they're one of those states where Kentucky Legislature gives the Governor a handful of names and he gets to choose from those.  Obviously, they'd be pretty far right.  But Governor has some out where he can just put in a Democrat or liberal Republican if he wants and while they adjudicate the shit out of it in courts, that Senator's vote in D.c. still counts.  This is weird because it was explained to me by a Kentucky lawyer years ago and I wasn't paying attention because we were at a Longhorn football game with open bar.  Probably 2018 or so.  She was running for some judgeship or some shit and was using V&E Texas for some reason.  She had some experience in the legislature and I had nothing to talk to her about but was stuck making drinks for her so I said something about how Kentucky just became the last "southern" state since reconstruction to have both of its chambers flip to Republican.  So she started telling me all these nuances of how both parties are gonna plot to fuck each other over in the near future.  Maybe she was from the future, or maybe I was drunk /csb

This is gonna get weird for Mitch and the Senate.  And shit's already weird.  I mean this'll involve whatever happens with Impeachment articles in the House, Ukraine funding, VP Harris, Kentucky and all moderately insane southern GOP politics.  
 

Here's the only lucid thought I have on all this.  The lockstep GOP talking point is Mitch is fine, just under a lot of stress, and is running his party as always, to keep America free from Biden's socialist hellscape.  Then Mitch, during a cognitive moment, will say something off the cuff that Trump did some crimes-ing and should not be President.  And shortly thereafter, the lockstep GOP talking point is that Mitch is old and suffering from mental diseases and needs to resign for the good of the country and doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.  That part comes around the holidays.

[Smax 3800]

16 hours ago, TeeDubya said:

 

an undisclosed location above Lady Bird Lake, Gov Abbott and a player to be named later?

[Js1 85408]

42 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

And beyond that, Kentucky law requires the governor to appoint a member of the same party to a Senate seat that becomes vacant.

I mean, I guess he could appoint a relatively liberal Republican.  But where would you find one of those in Kentucky?

Michael Adams, Kentucky SOS.  He's actually not insane and actually made some decent(ish) reforms to Kentucky elections during COVID that remain permanent.

Probably the best you would get.  

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

" socialist agenda"

lol.  

[WhatTheBuck 28788]

21 hours ago, G650 said:

Sounds like his batteries are going dead

[WhatTheBuck 28788]

1 hour ago, Sawbonz said:

Does the law say anything about how long someone needs to be a Republican before they can be appointed? What is to stop a Democrat from switching parties and then being appointed?

The RNC, I assume. But they let Trump run as a Republican so we know they don’t have a rigorous vetting process. 

[Hookah Horns 3083]

1 hour ago, Smax said:

 

an undisclosed location above Lady Bird Lake, Gov Abbott and a player to be named later?

[horn4life 3762]

The main thing is the Kentucky legislature did what the GOP always does (what moral children would call cheating) they changed the rules on appointing a replacement Senator to replace McConnell. He has to be replaced now with a Republican.  Somenthing that only happened because, the citizens of Kentucky used their votes to show they preferred a change, they wanted a Democratic Governor.  Thus the rules had to be changed to thwart the will of the people.

A mirror image of what McConnell and the GOP did to pack the Supreme Court. They changed the rules not once, but twice, purely for political gain.  Not giving a shit about the citizens that were not Republican.  Now the court has the lowest approval rating ever.  Probably because the rules were changed twice to place 3 justices in place who combined have fewer confirmation votes than any other two justices in the last what 80 years, prior to the comical demonization of Justice Jackson because they have damaged the process so much? (80 years was a wag) Baically there has never been a mojority put in place with fewer confirmation votes than the current majority. Mitch did that.

What is sad to me is that Mitch McConnell presided over the largest deterioration of two of our nations branches of Government in the Senate and the Supreme Court.  Now you can't even get military promotions advanced. And as I said above the Supreme Court is now viewed as heavily political, and where Republican Justices live the lifestyles of the rich and famous.  Because they also do not give a shit about any citizen that is not Republican. And concerns about ethics are simply no longer a concern from top to bottom in the Republican Party.... unless it's a Dem...

Mitch led the biggest partisan shift in our nation, and in doing so he damaged our Democracy.  Simply because he turned his party into a party before country party.  And until the last 10 or so years, I honestly did not believe that about the GOP.  But today the evidence is overwhelming. Party before country, again, and again, and again.

 

 

Edited August 31, 2023 by horn4life

[Longhorn_Fan68 33874]

no one coming out of Kentucky will be as effective as Moscow Mitch. Effective in creating money for the wealthy and securing way more money per capita from the federal government than many of its neighbors. If you've been paying attention part of the reason the GQP is digging in their heels and dying at their post is because there is literally no one to replace them. The incoming class is filled with conspiracy theorists and true believers who simply don't bow to the almighty dollar like their predecessors. I mean, sure, they'll be greedy as fuck and equally as crooked, but they'll be spending their time trying to ban adrenochrome and kitty litter boxes in schools. They just aren't equipped like the old guard. the good part is, the same cannot be said for the other side.

[smuggs 9353]

Perhaps Mitch just temporarily spaced-out while reminiscing about this Narvel Felts jam.

 

 

 

[Js1 85408]

48 minutes ago, horn4life said:

The main thing is the Kentucky legislature did what the GOP always does (what moral children would call cheating) they changed the rules on appointing a replacement Senator to replace McConnell. He has to be replaced now with a Republican.  Somenthing that only happened because, the citizens of Kentucky used their votes to show they preferred a change, they wanted a Democratic Governor.  Thus the rules had to be changed to thwart the will of the people.

The Mass Dems did similar in 04 when they thought Kerry would win and did not want Romney to appointment a GOP replacement to fill the rest of the term.  Now they get an interim (as of 2009 when Kennedy was dying) and have to have a special election. That’s how Scott Brown won in 2010

And they floated the “same party replacement” in 2021 when it looked like Warren could be given a Cabinet spot 

Edited August 31, 2023 by Js1

[RDCanecutter 26452]

21 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Weird that we have them, just as age minimums instead of age limits.

Back then we figured they'd die in a duel or something respectable.

[Blotto 23559]

1 minute ago, RDCanecutter said:

Back then we figured they'd die in a duel or something respectable.

Well, I'd still lay money on Lindsey Graham ultimately perishing after declaring "Tummysticks at dawn!"

[RDCanecutter 26452]

3 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

I mean, I guess he could appoint a relatively liberal Republican.  But where would you find one of those in Kentucky?

First you get the nekkit pictures. Then you tell them you want them to be relatively liberal.

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

58 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

no one coming out of Kentucky will be as effective as Moscow Mitch. 

while this might be true it seems the damage he's done over the decades is enough to have sunk as all.  pick an issue, but the climate change that will get all of humanity (sooner rather than later) is a good start.  horn4life's post is also great in summarizing some other issues.  healthcare for all would seem topical, but he's done great damage there as well. the entire trump enablement so he could do more damage.

in short my friend,  it doesn't matter to me if the 'next' is more or less effective.  he's fucked us all and imo nobody has done more actual damage to this country and changed the rules of engagement.  so since we're all fucked, please parade his currently suffering ass around a bit more for me to sneer at.  

Edited August 31, 2023 by MC Fresh Breath

[RDCanecutter 26452]

23 minutes ago, smuggs said:

Perhaps Mitch just temporarily spaced-out while reminiscing about this Narvel Felts jam.

 

 

 

When I was 19 I left my home in pseudo-Gone-With-The-Wind Selma, and moved just far north enough in Alabama to border the industrial zones. At that time, when shift change came, factory gates would vomit forth columns of Detroit Iron piloted by clones of Narvel Felts. Those old (40) guys were patient when we whelps invaded their spaces, which we were wise to seldom do. They could and would beat somebody's ass in between beers.

[TexArcher 37977]

Today, I learned who Narvel Felts is or was.

Tomorrow, I hope I forget.

 

Edited August 31, 2023 by TexArcher
Unless he can run for MTG's seat, in which case he's got my full support.

[YGIFS 19452]

I'm reading the name "Narvel Felts" in Dudley Moore's drunken slur voice from "Arthur" and it's a helluva lotta fun.  

Make no mistake America---nobody, and I mean nobody, made more of an opportunity on raising money and gaining power after Citizens United than Mitch McConnell.  To underestimate him or think him naive or stupid is the dumbest move you can possibly make.  But he was a known evil quantity.  Then Trump comes along and while Mitch enjoyed having Trump serve his end-game, the last two years, Mitch lost control of his horse.  And now in the twilight of his life, as Trump faces another end-game, Mitch has lost control of everything else.  He will begin more frequent episodes of going in and out of consciousness, despite standing up in public.  In the end, the episodic horrors will overtake him and he won't know fact from fiction.  But the last thing that goes through his mind, besides a blood clot, will be to wonder how he ever let Donald Trump get control of America.  And that final thought will be lucid and it will envelop him in darkness as he crosses the water to the other side.  It's a horrible fate that awaits him and not many will be with him on the sojourn to madness.  I'd wish him peace but he wouldn't know what to do with it.  

[4th&Five 41558]