Punchbowl News reports that the former Senate majority leader, who is retiring after his current term ends in January, lost consciousness at his Washington, D.C., home at 8:36 a.m. on June 14, before a dispatcher sent over an Advanced Life Support ambulance. Journalist Desiree Townsend posted a recording of the call from the emergency dispatcher Tuesday afternoon to X.
Mitch McConnell Was Found Unconscious Before He Was Rushed to Hospital
https://newrepublic.com/post/212595/mitch-mcconnell-found-unconscious-rushed-hospital
130 Comments
tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 133 pts · 34d
Don’t party, he’s still alive, and an absolute disgrace to turtles.
blackbelt352@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 34d
Aww.... welp keeping the champagne on standby.
joyjoy@piefed.social · 11 pts · 34d
We can celebrate the fact he's abstaining from voting.
cmbabul@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 33d
Correct, I still have to find his final phylactery and destroy it, this happened right after I got to the penultimate
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 33d
Hopefully he's in pain
tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 33d
I wouldn’t wish pain on anybody. It’s a good thing he’s a nobody.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 34d
He is one of the most responsible people for where American politics are today.
Absolutely no conscience and no morals, he is as close to pure evil a politician can get. He was among the main people that created the circumstances that allowed Trump to become president of USA.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 34d
He died as he lived. Holding up Senate business for his own personal bullshit reasons.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 57 pts · 34d
At what point is it elder abuse to let him keep trying to work as a senator?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 34d
Ask Dianne Feinstein. Staffers were dragging her hand to the vote-clicker by the end, because she could barely move herself.
MrMcGasion@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 34d
Kinda hard to ask her at this point.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 34d
Break out the ouija board and find her restless ghost. I refuse to believe that bitch ain't haunting something.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 33d
Politicians should not be working right up to the moment of death.
Clearly the work isn't too difficult if these people are choosing not to retire. Clearly the pay and benefits (and under-the-table backroom dealing) is too sweet to pass up for a happy retirement.
I guess when you get so many days of paid vacation, healthcare, and access to billionaires bribing you with luxury vacations, who needs to retire? It's not like they're out there going door to door serving their constituents...
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 34d
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 34d
We need term limits for Congress.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 34d
I think Congress needs age limits more than term limits.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 33d
diablomnky@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 33d
Maybe something along the lines of, if you're eligible to collect social security, then you're too old to serve in government.
PurpleHawkeye619@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 33d
Dont do that. That just incentivizes getting rid of social security so congress can keep their power till death
diablomnky@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 33d
If it's coupled with term limits, mandatory voting, and making running in a primary like jury duty, it might work.
PurpleHawkeye619@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 33d
Genuinely curious what you mean about making running in a primary like jury duty?
diablomnky@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 31d
Similar to the concept of Athenian Democracy where all citizens were expected to report for a lottery and if their names were picked they had to serve.
PurpleHawkeye619@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 31d
Worth noting Athenian citizens were only about 10% of the population.
Of them, only maybe 1/6th could actually serve, as military or any other citizens too far away from the Ekklesia were excluded.
Also worth noting the Ekklesia was limited in voting on items presented to them by the Boule, which was basically a smaller council made up entirely of rich folks
Athenian democracy wasnt as democratic as advertised
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 32d
I disagree. Age limits would disallow competent people who happen to be old from serving (Bernie, for instance). Age does not correlate well to competency, but if you're young you might believe that. Competency itself can't be measured well enough by a test to be meaningful, so that is out.
There already is an effective age limit in that people typically run for office the first time when they're relatively young, and a term limit would kick them out before they got old. Old people running for the first time would likely be seen as out of touch, unless they make compelling arguments (again, see Bernie), and so would not be elected.
Having only an age limit would still allow people decades to entrench themselves and do great damage.
In short, the problem isn't competency, it's corruption. If anything, they're too competent at being corrupt. It's the same reason we have a term limit for the President, without the limit, we'd have Putin.
Finally, I think there's a chance term limits could pass, whereas an age limit wouldn't.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 18 pts · 34d
You're lucky it's limited to alive people only. I wouldn't be surprised if Supreme Court got rid this limit as well.
sunnie@slrpnk.net · 15 pts · 34d
You mean like corporations are people and they can run for congress also? New nightmare unlocked.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 7 pts · 34d
It's a nightmare we are heading towards too.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/delaware-court-upholds-voting-by-companies-small-towns-election-2026-05-26/
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 34d
Yeah, how hard would it be for any competent lawyer or accountant to spin up a few thousand privately and closely held C Corporations per day. How much is a vote worth? According to the trial court judge (there's room for at least two appeals to get to the Delaware Supreme Court thank Voticulus, god of elections and tiny candles), $150 plus postage.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 33d
Bah, why even go to that much trouble when they can just ask AI what the results of an election would be?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 33d
it's just a few dozen million to rig an election my way. building an AI machine to obfuscate it costs billions
so you're right. let's go with the AI. sounds like government.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 34d
Stop giving them ideas
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 1 pts · 34d
Google for president!
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 33d
No, they will decide to give AI personhood. Thereby allowing an AI to run for office, and causing all sorts of other problems that will start with "We can't turn it off, that's murder".
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 33d
And they'll treat it like abortion. "You can't turn it off, that's murder. And anyone who tries to turn it off will receive the death penalty"
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 33d
No, they will treat people protesting the construction of a new one like they are trying to abort it.
jtrek@startrek.website · 34 pts · 34d
He's a horrible person who deserves no peace and no dignity.
stringere@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 34d
He could have had both by retiring a lomg time ago. Oh well.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 32d
If that were the case, he probably would not be a horrible person who deserves no peace and no dignity.
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 34d
Set the dancing crabs on high alert.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 34d
Destiel on standby with bated breath
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 34d
They been on high alert since Krasnov leaked his hand bruise photo. What's higher than high alert because those crabs are going through all my weed
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 33d
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 32 pts · 34d
dltk@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 34d
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 34d
Well good news, that's exactly how they're doing it to us.
AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml · 28 pts · 34d
If I found him I'd have left him
poprocks@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 34d
Not all heros wear capes
Aneb@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 33d
Some, very few, have @lemmy.ml
deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.ml · -7 pts · 33d
And .world has none, only those who get in the way of real progressive politics. Hehe
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 33d
Boo, that's not even a joke, just particularly lame divisiveness.
deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.ml · -4 pts · 33d
You can dish it out but you can’t take it. I made the same joke you did, but I’m divisive? Because I’m anti imperialist? I don’t get it. Thanks for making this not fun
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 33d
You're replying to the wrong person, I didn't comment in this thread previously
deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.ml · -3 pts · 33d
Ok? Why are you talking at me then?
KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org · 27 pts · 34d
How could they tell?
nullspace@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 33d
When asked if he enjoys having no power over the machine he helped create, he shat himself as opposed to his usual routine of pissing himself. The foul odor was a sign of distress.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 34d
At his funeral, throw a fire extinguisher in his grave. Where he is going, he will need it.
KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 34d
I don't believe in a hell, but I think a fitting eternity for Mitch is forever being ass fucked with a pineapple (no lube, pointy end first) while licking clean Lindsey Graham's "ladybugs"
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 34d
How can you not believe in Hell? We're in it now.
too_high_for_this@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 34d
You just had to say it. My mind has been trying to repress that fact and you just had to say it.
iocase@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 34d
Hopefully he'll be right next to kissinger
kmartburrito@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 34d
As well as Donald J Rapeinger
Bytemeister@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 33d
Unfair that Lindsey is getting sent to heaven though...
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 33d
Don't waste a perfectly good fire extinguisher on that slug. Give him an empty one with a hole in the side, because that's about as much as he gave the citizens on the country.
thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 34d
wewbull@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 33d
That's not a fair test in this case.
becausechemistry@piefed.social · 25 pts · 34d
Thoughts and prayers
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 23 pts · 34d
If McConnell dies, then the governor will choose his replacement, and the governor is a Democrat. Unless he wants to completely END his political career, he will choose a Democrat.
The Senate Republicans won't want that, so it's a pretty good bet that when McConnell dies, they will keep it a secret for as long as possible.
PostProcess@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 34d
They are! He died ages ago, the battery just ran out which is why he was found immobile...
Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 34d
Battery? Feel way too modern for Republicans...
PostProcess@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 34d
It's probably one of those old ones made of potato.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 32d
It was actually a hamster on a wheel. Unfortunately, the hamster too, has succumb to the wicked evil within his decaying corpse.
zombyreagan@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 34d
If it looks like mitch is going to die the KY legislature will just pass a law stripping the power from the governor to appointed interim senator
Azulos@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 34d
Actually they planned ahead and already did that.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/28/kentucky-replace-mcconnell-beshear-00149543
Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 34d
Republicans are such fascist fucking filth.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 33d
Ugh.
Dultas@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 34d
Nah, pretty sure they can just not confirm them.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 32d
Who, the Senate? There's no approval process for Senators, that's for presidential appointments. In KY, the governor just appoints them, and they're the new senator from Kentucky.
That doesn't mean that Trump and the MAGA Senate won't unilaterally rewrite the Constitution, and insist on approving the new senator, and insist on taking it all the way to the SCOTUS, where they will lose, but have successfully kept him out of office and voting for months.
Dultas@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 32d
I used the wrong term. Would have been swearing in. Johnson delayed one by over a month in Congress and as far as I know the same can happen in the Senate.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 32d
Gotcha.
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 34d
I bet they Weekend At Bernies him and his votes.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 22 pts · 34d
Why couldn't this have happened like, 20 years ago
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 21 pts · 34d
June 14th? And we only hear of this 2 weeks later?!?
What about the Kennedy Center?
What about those Trump-Epstein Files?
EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 34d
Pretty sure he had a tumble that was in the news.
Kennedy Center is unimportant.
Epstein files will come out when the country falls apart of when everyone in them is dead. Whichever comes first.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 4 pts · 34d
If the Kennedy Center is unimportant, then why is it still covered with a tarp?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 33d
It was definitely reported when it happened, I remember commenting here about it
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml · 20 pts · 34d
Don't forget what a piece of shit this guy has been his whole adult life.
bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 33d
You know, dying in office used to be notable and fairly uncommon. Mostly assassinations, plane accidents, etc.
But now our government is more of a hospice than anything else.
Janx@piefed.social · 17 pts · 34d
Which will die first: the Democracy he helped kill, or his own walking corpse?
TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 15 pts · 33d
Mitch, god is telling you to retire. Listen to her.
snerkbleat@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 33d
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 33d
Margaret Thatcher maybe?
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 33d
Ding dong the witch is dead
TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 33d
LOL!
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 33d
Plenty of women gods who aren't all powerful and have to context with the general fuckery of their male counterparts. Or in the case of Aphrodite making problems for herself and her children, for further context read the lliad and the Aeneid.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 34d
NM_Gringo@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 34d
He dead and the governor of Kentucky, who appoints his replacement, is a Democrat.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 34d
Kentucky is no longer among the states that allow the governor to select a replacement US Senator for a vacant seat. McConnell himself got the KY state legislature to require a special election for his seat a couple years ago. Beshear will have no say in his replacement.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 34d
I mean while it works to our disadvantage (probably} in this case, I do prefer when these offices are filled from elections and not appointments. Kentucky has a strange and unique identity and it's hard for outsiders to grasp since we don't know the history well.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 34d
So you KNOW they won’t announce his death.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 33d
Not sure what’s more on-brand, Mitch McConnell continuing to ratfuck US politics from beyond the grave, or democrats allowing themselves to be politically outmaneuvered by a dead guy
Abyssian@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 34d
I hope when he regains consciousness, it's in one of those Hellraiser scenarios where he's stuck in an eternal loop of... torment. I guess that seems like what just hell would be as well?
Either way. As long as he suffers, forever, in the knowledge it's all his own fault because he's such a piece of shit.
Beetschnapps@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 34d
The community should come together, everyone pitch in, and buy him a lament configuration plus a get fucked card.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 33d
Please be dead please please please
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 33d
If he weren't, I feel like they would have said so.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 32d
Looks to me like he's probably brain dead and on life support. We can only hope 🙏
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 33d
They are going to Bernie him until they can be sure they'd get another republican just as malicious as he was.
KC_Royalz@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 34d
I hope whatever his affliction was, was super painful and it happens again
Lasherz12@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 34d
Who would rush in such a situation?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 34d
There is no emergency in a pandemic or the McConnell household is the rule I was taught
SupraMario@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 34d
They (gop) will "weekend at Bernie's" him until Jan.
green_goglin@thelemmy.club · 7 pts · 34d
Welp, Mitch glitched (again).
NM_Gringo@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 33d
We've reached peak Republican when we have to demand proof of life from the hospital for a GOP senator from a state with a Dem governor.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 33d
I predict Mitch showing up to the next senate vote wearing this
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 33d
ah a wooden overcoat, excellent choice
NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 33d
Republicans would still vote for that over a Democrat
capt_wolf@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 34d
His operator just walked away. Even puppeteers have bathroom emergencies.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 34d
He’s a comic villain that has a turtle shell support system roll up and pull him in when he’s on the verge
f1error@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 34d
🤞
rayyy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 34d
Many people are saying he is dead.
too_high_for_this@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 34d
A lotta people, you gotta believe me 👐
They're saying, "That guy Mitch, he's very dead. Very, very dead."☝️
And let me tell ya, folks... 👏 THE MAN 🤲 IS DEAD👌. I saw him just the other day, I saw him and said, "Wow, that guy looks dead." 🫵
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 33d
altphoto@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 34d
A few staples here and some duct tape otta get him back up and running in no time at all! Extremely presidential at this point. Better if he's able to say his name and maybe a few other coherent phrases. They can just prop him up wherever needed, make him say a few things and move on to the next thing.
Or Permanent aphasia... Well not so permanent at this point but great for going out in a world of confusion. Hopefully people learn from this.... Don't be fucking evil! We all die but being evil doesn't help anyone.
jerome@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 33d
Yay!
Pacattack57@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 34d
Damn wasn’t he just in the hospital when they did the last vote on the housing bill?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 34d
Why rush? If you don't take the time to slow down and smell the flowers you'll miss out on life
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 34d
Hope the endless void swallows you whole and you feel it you pos.
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 33d
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 33d
Sort of like Stalin, eh?
samus12345@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 33d
Too little, too late.