Sen. Mitch McConnell falls in Capitol hallway

He’d rather risk a broken bone than to answer for his bullshit.

“despite the almost certain fact that he hides a fortune of indefinite magnitude somewhere about his musty and venerable abode. He is, in truth, a very strange person, believed to have been a captain of East India clipper ships in his day; so old that no one can remember when he was young, and so taciturn that few know his real name.”

Hp lovecraft: terrible old man

Define "alive".

Unfortunately.

And in the capital???

Why do we have such elderly people in control of our country that them tripping is newsworthy?

Because it is easier to defend a sitting candidate than advance a new one, and the corporate oligarchs that manage our democracy prefer reliability to efficiency.

Besides, what is the House/Senate not doing that the ruling class might want them to do? They all vote exactly how they're told.

Maybe our leadership shouldn’t be frail, brittle-boned octogenarians?

So long as the paymasters are getting what they demand, who cares?

The purpose of Congress is to gatekeep the legislative process, not to look young and pretty.

Is anyone going to raise the question?

No, you're the first person to ask it. Especially here on Lemmy.

Old people have all the money, so they own politicians. They want people who are pliable and know the game, so you get these rigid shitpuppets who never go away

Unfortunately

Someone must have turned him over so he wasn't flailing on his shell. You know, showing that empathy that his party despises.

Didn't they just remove limits so that Xi can serve as leader for the rest of his life?

With the likely changes coming in biotech, this seems very short-sighted.

New Charlie Kirk meme dropped... to the left.

I'm hopefully a long way off from it, but I tell my wife pretty regularly that if I ever fall and can't get up to just leave me on the floor. Gravity will have made it's decision, I'm to be a floor-person, no sense in trying to fight it. Let me crawl.

I work in 911 dispatch, I get calls all night, every night for lift-assists, sometimes we're sending help out to the same place every night or even multiple times a night.

I don't want that for myself.

Here's the video. Tried posting directly but Lemmy wouldn't load it.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DP4M3OAAKkR/

Dude's into his mid-80s. He should be playing with his grandkids finishing up his second decade in the Hague, not wandering the halls of the US Senate.

From the balcony, I hope.