This one is worse, significantly worse. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell freezes again while taking questions from reporters on Wednesday at an event in Kentucky. This very disturbing cognitive disconnect is raising additional concerns about the 81-year-old’s health.
The episode happens after a reporter asked him about running for re-election in 2026. WATCH:
WASHINGTON – […] Senators quickly sought more information about McConnell’s health after the incident, according to one person familiar with the dynamics. Shortly after the Wednesday incident, McConnell held calls with his closest allies including Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.), Conference Chair John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), according to people familiar with the calls. All of them are potential successors to McConnell.
WTF do these old fossils cling to power vs. retiring and enjoying their golden years? Chuck Grassley is 87; Mitch McChao is 81; Diane Frankenfeinstein is 90, for goodness sake!
you Cannot serve god and money. There is no god in their realm. So pray for our enemies. It’s gods will that we do this.
“Pray for our enemies, because we’re going medieval on them.”
S. K. Bannon
Maybe it is not about them but instead who they are married or related to that makes them desirable candidates for public office. Their unelected spouses or relatives do their dirty work behind the scenes without the public focus. More bureaucrats besides JoeBama are owned lock, stock, and barrel by foreign interests, China et al. But people keep voting for the same riff-raff.
We are learning daily that perhaps we the people just think we are voting as it is revealed how each party funds or does not fund its particular slate of candidates.
So true. All you have to do is look at the current Hunter mess. If not for the laptop becoming public, the discussion of how much money is given to most politicians and how they are gaining their wealth. It’s become part of the job, and family members are part of the plan.
so of course, families have become reliant on those connections . Especially if they’ve been in office their whole life! Public service is no longer the objective.
Forget age limit. Term limits are what is needed. That would force them to have a job before and after their elected one. Imagine the concept!
And if one of the Trump Boys was doing 1% of what Hunter has done and continues to do, the dirty Left would be apoplectic.
Not sure why Nancy Pelosi’s son has not been investigated. I saw a pic of him speaking at an event in Ukraine.
And Romneys and more sons.
Foreign aid was always used to enrich the politicians. My father who passed in 2004 had an uncle that was in congress back in the late 40’s. My father asked the uncle in the late 50’s why we kept giving money to other countries when the voters were against all the foreign aid. His uncle replied “you’ll never get rid of foreign aid. Too many congressmen get their fortunes that way.”
I’ll bet if America ended all foreign aid most of congress would probably quit on their own.
CCP affiliated Elaine Chao is Mitch’s wife for a reason.
Yup. Her family is in the Chinese shipping industry.
one could replace ‘reason’ with treason
She certainly didn’t marry him to sleep with him. Imagine sharing your bed with a cold molten fish.
Yes, TREASON
korekkt!!!
Voting is rigged so how do we know who people keep voting for?
I hope the Kentucky voters are pleased with themselves.
I believe McConnell has been selected rather than elected. IMO that’s true for a lot of these lifers.
Everyone talks about the Mueller witch hunt costing $30 million.
I heard Mitch spent $30 million keeping Roy Moore out of the Senate.
That puts things into perspective doesn’t it?
Me too!
I wish Trump hadn’t endorsed him. Right after the election McConnell turned on Trump. RINO!
Nope. Some of us tried to get him out of office the last time.
And Sen. Paul supports him every election.
Because Mitch controls the KY RNC. If Senator Paul doesn’t support Sen. McConnell, the RNC pulls support from Sen. Paul and he gets primaried.
and then they all end up in dark, deep, hades, hell……
They are fools who make those choices!
Love of money is the root of all evil.
AND
The meek shall inherit the earth.
Chuck Grassley is fighting the DC corruption, and he is still compos mentis, the other two fugeddaboudit.
To keep their tracks covered.
Clearly, one can do that for a l-o-n-g time with enough amassed power, money, and sycophants.
You don’t really have to do much, your staff does all the real work and tells you how to vote, people all around you cater to your every whim, a car and driver take you wherever, great restaurants, concerts, and cutlural events, a beautiful city where you are coddled and treated like aristocracy, and on top of all that they give you $174,000 a year to spend. Who would give that up? Heck, he’s ALREADY retired.
US Senate Seats are profit centers, like corporations have profit centers. The Senator is the brand. Like Ronald McDonald.
The profit center deploys an army of sales and marketing staff whose job is to bring money into the profit center. The brand’s job is to deliver the catch phrases. Most of the actual work is done by staffer employees of the profit center. Early on, the Senator actively manages the brand. The geriatric ones are run by their wives or kids, mainly, but also various grifters in the political class.
McConnell has to call Thune because their brands are tightly coupled, and they will act to ensure no competing brands (MAGA) disrupt the revenue streams.
Because so much of the revenue revolves around the brand, the profit center (and all the people who benefit financially from it) has a need to prop the Senator up for years, sometimes decades (eg Strom Thurmond) after the person has lost their mental acuity/competence.
I’ve been talking about Senate seats as profit centers for about 20 years. When the Biden’s refer to Joe as “the brand”, this is what they’re talking about. I laughed out loud when I heard it because it’s the thing nobody is supposed to admit.
Quick question…would their removal be for light or transient reasons? Or has it reached the point where it is our right and duty to throw them off.
We’ve always had a duty to throw them out. We, and I include myself in this, keep falling for the old “but if we don’t vote the Democrats will win” charade.
They keep us juuust close enough to getting control to keep people voting, but fink on us if they happen to win.
Until we all realize that our participation in a corrupt system is perpetuating the corruption – and abandon it – we are trapped.
I guarantee you at least a few people looked up “governor of KY” today to find out if a D or R would replace McConnell.
It does not matter at this point. They are arresting our political allies and charging them with phony crimes. The system has collapsed. McConnell is just another symptom of the stroke.
In other words, they could give a damn about the country and the American people. Their position has very little to do with honest stewardship and more to do with lining their own pockets. It angers me that we ONLY have 100 Senators to represent us and many of them belong in a geriatric ward. Pffft!
Direct Hit, Hokkoda! I once had the chance to ask Senator Lugar (Indiana) about a recently passed congressional pay raise. He chuckled and dismissed the question, as if to say the raise amounted to peanuts, which, as it turns out, all congressional pay raises amount to peanuts compared to the graft received by these characters. Throw em all out and claw back their ill gotten gains!
Thank you for stating this so clearly and accurately. Pres Trump made his living by selling his Brand, his Name.
Great connection, thank you.
I think it’s for the gilded cage style of living and the associated multiple perks, highlife, limos, banquets, world travel, fame, media attention etc. See?! You can be in a mummified state and keep your sinecure, surrounded by multiple aids doing everything for you.
RBG.
A person who loved their country would resign and let someone more capable to represent their state.
A controlled person does what their master commands.
A person who loved the country would not be fighting MAGA or be aligned with any forces who are fighting MAGA.
They don’t want to give up their power. I”m sure their families care more about the power and the money than they do about the health of these politicians too. The have no souls.
Protection from prosecution.
Diane is dead. They just prop her up like weekend at Bernies. It’s disgusting
Money and/or power. Either tends to corrupt, I’d say more like a universal truth than a tendency. Term limits to break the cycle!
This is all in gods plan. Everything is all gods plan. Fear not says the lord. Vengeance is mine says the lord. Signed — someone who looks Trumpish.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy at a better time.
Hope he dies soon. He and his wife are traitors, while his daughter is a communist. He can’t die soon enough. Don’t care if a Dem is appointed to the seat, he is a uniparty globalist traitor so a Dem is the same thing different flavor.
if there was a pandemic on capitol hill…would anyone really care??????????
NOT ME!
I’ll pray for him, sure will.
I pray next time he puts his crooked ass up on the podium he drops like a rock
Caught something from ol’ Joe I guess…
He’s already out to pasture. Someone please make it full time.
l have one more reason why Turtle McTurtle doesn’t step down—remb what John McStain did? Stayed on til he croaked so he would lie in state? Big, fancy, “look at me”funeral?? At our expense? His family paraded in front of mics & the front page for days, telling how wonderful he was & how we plebes never realized it? It’s what they live for—notoriety & as much money as they can squeeze out of us, even at their funeral. Despicable!!
McCain was ‘put down’…if you recall.
Same needs to be done w/McCommie.
McCain’s funeral show was designed solely to make President Trump look bad…
Nature’s karma.
I wonder what he is seeing when that happens? From the look on his face, it must be horrific.
Angels of death must be visiting him while he tries to speak and they’re showing him the next “act”
Look at his right eye…going rogue.
No other arena in the world would allow this sort of thing to continue.
Sad and despicable.
Heard a good thought yesterday–if you were getting on a plane and you saw the pilot was McConnell or Biden, would you stay on the plane?
EXACTLY.
Thune, Barrasso, and Cornyn. All Uni-Party controlled opposition. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
We’ll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgment of all wrong
Won’t be fooled again, Oh no
So..he looks at the demon in the corner who’s taking his soul to Hell and freezes up.
What’s the problem?
Mitch is the poster boy for the GOPe, literally the face of the party.
This is what we’re up against
Blow hard enough he might tip over
Puppets have one requirement and that’s that they must be able to perform. I’d like to write that I’ve enjoyed the show so far but, this is one puppet that should have been replaced a long time ago.
Continue the video– His man comes to him, speaks a few quiet words, McConnell blinks, and ‘comes to’. What does THAT remind you of?
Hypnotism
This is the power Mitch will have before God at his particular judgement; none.
Every single one of those evil men in D.C. who purport to rule will have the same power.
According to Fr. Chad Ripperger, “Authority is a real thing” ; that is, Authority, like a Marriage, is a real thing apart from the people who occupy the Holy office.
The men, like mitch, who deface the sacred, experience exactly what Satan got when it declared it would not serve.
The fumes are running out for these men and that is a good thing.
#LogosRising
Love Fr. Ripperger!!!
THE Leader.
And ANYONE think the gope, rino, establishment, uniparty is IN CHARGE? Will ever be in charge? WANT to be in charge?
NO, they want power and $$$$$.
The little people back home deserve no better than they get…HIGH gas/fuel, lower wages, higher inflation, record-setting interest rates and crime, lawlessness. WE, the uniparty, got $$ to get and get to capitol hill cocktail club every night…
WE ARE REPRESENTED by THIS???????????
THEY ARE ALL ONE IN THE SAME…don’t care if they have a d or r behind their name.
You WON’T hear one gop member call out McConnell….for FEAR of being targeted, losing $$$, having someone primary hiim/her…IT’S HOW THE GAME WORKS!!!!
I’ve no faith in govt, parties, USA any longer….NONE.
“Senator, …. (please stop, you’re embarrassing me.)
It appears as though asking an unsettling question triggers the ‘brain freeze’. We have corrupt invalids running America now – a true sign of the decline of a nation.
What is significantly worse is that no one in the DC Crime Syndicate is ever indicted, fired, or punished in any way, no matter how high the crimes or clever the cover-ups. Not a single one of them.
That alone tells us all we need to know about what we are dealing with and who has flushed the Constitution down some unkept commode in the Capitol.
The Uniparty and its corporate paymasters have so much invested in McConnell that they can’t let him go. Chaos could ensue (for them).
McConnell was an evil genius, perfect for the Uniparty. He has always been our biggest enemy in D.C., the rest are pikers compared to him.
And now, the Uniparty faces armageddon. Their leader is a walking corpse who they can’t let go of, and Trump could win but the Uniparty would now have to be led by one of the pikers.
It’s like the Soviet Union crumbling, with the ancient politburo geezers grasping to retain power. We are here now.
I prefer him when he is seized up.
It it gonna take one of these old geezers dropping dead on live TV for you people to understand we need to get rid of them?
Zombie Mitch is a good look for what the Republican Party has become
I knew as soon as he had that fall, was it the end of last year or the beginning of this year? He had a TIA and the decline would happen. It’s accelerating now and will get worse every week.
I hope it sooner than later. This man and his CCP wife should be reviled and despised. They hate “we the people”, this has been on display since the Tea Party. I’m not going down the road of saying to pray for him because he is evil and own by Satan.
I hope there is dissent in the GOPe Senate in electing a leader. I gave Rick Scott credit in challenging The Old Crow in 2023 for leader. Scott has been tarred and feathered by McConnel and his henchmen/women.
I don’t care if he dies tomorrow. There’s an election this November for KY Governor and Daniel Cameron is running against pretty boy Beshear. I think and hope Cameron whips his butt. I’m not in KY but am next door in TN.
He’s been hacked by the CCP.
Dead man walking! Dead man walking!!
The Governor of Kentucky is a Democrat. Cocaine Mitch has to stay in the Senate, but he does not have to stay on as Minority Leader. If he were to step down I assume his replacement would be another RINO. That said, someone who can actually function in the job should be better.
Kentucky prepared for this. A recent law states the governor must pick a senate replacement from the same party as the person leaving. I believe from a list of 3 people supplied by the legislature.
One can only hope that McConnell can make it (in whatever state) until January 2024, when (hopefully) a new Republican Governor can appoint a Republican to serve out the remainder of his term. Those on this forum who state that it doesn’t make a difference who’s there are kidding themselves. Barring a full fledged revolution, where ALL the politicians are thrown out, and we start over, retaining only the good ones who believe in the Constitution, we need to control both houses of the Congress. Trump, if he is reelected, will need that in place if he is to have any chance of turning the Obama/Biden “Transformation” around. We have become a Godless nation, and He is displeased. He can heal us, or abandon us as many of us have abandoned Him. Please check out my website on Substack, or my other website for for more in depth opinions. Just search for: “Captain Al’s Newsletter, or go to http://www.captain-al-speaking.com. United we can win. Divided we shall surely fall.
He heard the question. Maybe that was simply his answer?
God was answering the question for him. God is GREAT, ALL the time!
Wishing the very best for the old Turtle. The best for us, that is….
This is one reason why there needs to be both age limits and term limits for Members of Congress and all Federal offices.
Father Time is an unwelcome guest whenever He shows up, as He will eventually do for all of us. But, He should find you happily relaxing in comfortable retirement after a job well done.
….as the large turd painfully slides into his diaper.
Old geezers clinging to power. Nothing changes under the sun.
I feel sorry for the guy, but what an evil, duplicitous old asshat.
PLEASE, to someone responsible, compassionate and humane in FMM’s family, put a fork in this guy!
He’s done!!
You wonder why aides don’t prep office holders for questions like that. “I’ll decide that question when the time comes” is a good answer.
Actually, another really good answer is:
“Why don’t you ask Diane Feinstein that question?”
But, Mitch has more Senatorial decorum than me.
This has to have China worried.
When China is more worried then the republican base, it might be a clue that it is time to leave.
They have someone lined up. China plays the long game.
“I’m sorry, we’re gonna need a minute.” Ya think?! You’re gonna need much more than a minute.
He’s done, he’s shot. Just like BIDEN, FEINSTEIN, FETTERMAN!
And TAXPAYERS are paying for this Kabuki theater!
For the love of God and all that is holy get them all out!
Resign NOW!
Bye bye turtle
And let’s not forget what happened to the old bastard that last time he got together with his constituents.
They booed and heckled him for over 5 minutes straight, demanding that he RETIRE.
Choosing to stay in office after all of this is another act of contempt for the public.
Just throwing this out there, but could it be that all these 80 + years politicians feel they can’t leave the office in order to protect themselves just by being an elected official and by joint effort, be also part of the controlling effort with the 4th branch? Ie….stay in office, means s safety. To guilty to leave office and open themselves to real investigation.
That’s a big part of why Pelosi won’t leave Congress – to have immunity. So I imagine the same for McConnell and the rest of the Democrats – leave only when you die, thus preserving your family fortune that was amassed illegally.
Maybe he should run for President! Looks like he is ready!
The entire Left and the people who support them (RINO’S) are essentially psychopaths. Also, study after study show that liberal white women vote almost two to one for Democrats. Without their support the Democrats would hold far fewer elected positions. Do not see anything changing until voting patterns change.
You’re in a desert, walking along when you look down and see a tortoise. It’s crawling toward you. You reach down and flip it over on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can’t. Not with out your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that? — Bladerunner
I tend to think all these old corrupt politicians are clinging to their power because there is something happening behind the scenes as well as Trump leading the charge in front of everyone’s eyes. They know that if the American people really knew what they’ve been doing all these years that they won’t be able to walk down the street when they retire. At the same time the people that are blackmailing them are keeping them from retiring because they want their payoffs in kind.
Vaxxed and boosted, or simply slipping away into dementia. One or the other; perhaps both.
It sure seems like horrible people have longer lives than good people.
I guess that is to remember bad people longer when they are around.
His final resting place, Beijing!