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McConnell episode alarms Senate GOP
(www.politico.com)
May he receive the sympathy he has shown to others.
Aye!
Age limits, please. Retire already..
Not opposed to age limits, but I could also see this happening to a younger person who's simply sick.
Anything can happen to anybody but cognitive decline is far more likely as you get up there in age
Not quite this but a young newsreader a few years ago had a glitch and started talking gibberish.
I don’t think putting age limits on public officials would fix the underlying problems with US politics, the fact that he can keep winning despite his incompetence and policy being anathema to the interest of his voters suggest much larger issues in the news and voting systems.
Even if we banned everyone over the age of 70 from being a legislator, we’d just have younger fecal stains getting elected by the same broken systems and pushing the same bad policy.
I agree. Age barely tackles the problems. With this Mitch event, I’m reminded of the Feinstein thing from earlier this year.
The GOP remind me of the Skeksis from "The Dark Crystal".
It's not just the gop. Feinstein needs to go as well. But yes the gop are evil like the skeksis.
Agreed. And Feinstein barely knows what's going on. Pelosi and the establishment dems are just using her to keep a seat. It's freaking elder abuse, at least in her case.
in both cases i dont understand it, well mitch is a little more understandable as the senate minority leader, the seats are safe for their respective parties. force these people out before they get to this point so they can enjoy some time at home with family.
Feinstein has several VERY important committee positions, including the Judiciary and Intelligence committees. Losing her on those would allow for even MORE Republican shenanigans.
That said, as a Californian, she needs to go YESTERDAY.
Old people lying about in committees is no basis for a system of government
Well, it is true that legislative power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical gerontic ceremony.
Wouldn’t she be replaced quickly, resulting in a Democratic majority and new Democrats on those committees
My understanding was that she’s being kept there because Pelosi doesn’t want Newsom to appoint her replacement, since that replacement would have a slight advantage in the 2024 election cycle.
I'm not gonna shed a single tear when he finally bites the dust (quite the opposite, in fact), but that was still freaky to watch.
I know these ghouls don't care, and it's not like everyone likes me. But it has to ve a weird feeling to know that when you finally eat dirt, people around the world go: fuck yeah.
He was just listening to Moscow in his ear price and his attention drifted.
What are you talking about? If he goes, Ukraine loses an ally.
He's the face of the Republican Party in the Senate and has been behind some really reprehensible actions like stealing a Supreme Court seat, but you are correct that currently he's supportive of Ukraine. I wouldn't expect that to last if Trump or another Russian tool wins the Presidency. He wasn't nicknamed "Moscow Mitch" for no reason.
https://medium.com/swlh/the-reasons-the-name-moscow-mitch-has-stuck-to-mitch-mcconnell-698d70196170
I am just referencing a nickname not making an actual critical judgment. Its gallows humor and little more.
I'm alarmed he pulled through.
Disappointed to the extreme
When you realize that you should not have smoked before the presentation /s
It is honestly tragic and infuriating to watch elected leaders rot while refusing to stop governing.
These comments... goodness. May we never, ever lose our humanity. Ailment is not to be celebrated. That man has a family who loves him and are worried about him. I hope he gets the treatment he needs and is returned to good health.
By being the brains behind the Republican party, he has done more to endanger the entire world via climate change than almost any other living person. That's leaving aside the destruction of democracy in America and all the many, many, many individual ruined lives. He is quite literally multiple orders of magnitude more evil than the worst serial killer in history, and when he dies I will hold a massive party in which the house toilet is decorated to resemble his grave.
I think you mean, "I hope he gets the treatment he has worked to deny to millions of other americans and then retires so we never have to see him again."
(sorry, edited that. I was letting him off way too easy. Guy is single handedly responsible for holding up basically any and all progressive legislation for thepast... 10+ years and has definitely hurt millions of people as a result.) I don't want to wish harm on anybody, but this dude sucks and needs to go away.
The good news is you DON'T need to wish harm on him in order to think he sucks and needs to go away. Yes, he sucks, but that's irrelevant to his health. Celebrating the declining health of somebody because we don't like them is a big line to cross on the path to becoming a callous ghoul. We need to be better than that.
If social media was around in the 1940's I'm fairly sure I would not have lamented the declining health of Hitler. "He's a man with a family! I'm sure he is scared and just wants to feel better."
No thanks. Mitch McConnell spent his career enriching himself and hurting others. I don't feel bad for him.
While I severely doubt all that, you are right. It's not good to celebrate suffering, even if someone has done so much wrong. That being said, I understand the urge to do so.
I won't feel at all bad if he dies, but I won't be cheering either.
Maintaining a spirit of compassion and forgiveness in your thinking, even in the face of a monster, is positive. Wagging your finger and wrinkling your nose at the distaste that those who aren't so forgiving of his absolutely horrific misdeeds is not. It pretends to be magnanimous while actually sniping at people who have good reason to be at peace with this man's suffering.
I would argue that extending humanity to those who are less than perfect in their response to these horrors should be a higher priority than making sure nobody says anything nasty about someone as destructive as this particular individual.
I don't agree with your assessment that I'm not "extending humanity to those who are less than perfect in their response." It's fine to want the guy out of office ASAP because he's terrible. My point was simply that if one wants to maintain their own humanity, one should not celebrate the ailments of their enemies. Or, as Nietzsche said: "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster."
Calling their humanity into question when they see the downfall of someone who's oppressed them and are glad of it isn't exactly an action rooted in empathy and understanding. Is it?
Of course overly indulging the ugly parts of ourselves can have disastrous consequences, but do you think it's more 'human' to deny the very real justice people feel when they see powerful and malicious people fall?
Personally, I think a big part of having humanity for ourselves and one another is not beating ourselves up for being human. We have to have compassion for ourselves and for others who suffer as well as for our enemies. To me, that extends to not shitting on their revelry when Dorothy drops a house on somebody.
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