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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.

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[-] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 133 points 4 days ago

Don’t party, he’s still alive, and an absolute disgrace to turtles.

[-] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago

Aww.... welp keeping the champagne on standby.

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[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 69 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

Please be dead please please please

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 66 points 4 days ago

He died as he lived. Holding up Senate business for his own personal bullshit reasons.

[-] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 15 points 3 days ago

Mitch, god is telling you to retire. Listen to her.

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[-] KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org 27 points 4 days ago
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[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 57 points 4 days ago

At what point is it elder abuse to let him keep trying to work as a senator?

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 51 points 4 days ago

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 points 4 days ago

Kinda hard to ask her at this point.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago

Break out the ouija board and find her restless ghost. I refuse to believe that bitch ain't haunting something.

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[-] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 28 points 4 days ago

If I found him I'd have left him

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[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 39 points 4 days ago

We need term limits for Congress.

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 18 points 4 days ago

I think Congress needs age limits more than term limits.

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 18 points 4 days ago

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 points 4 days ago

You mean like corporations are people and they can run for congress also? New nightmare unlocked.

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[-] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 4 days ago

Why couldn't this have happened like, 20 years ago

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 39 points 4 days ago

They are going to Bernie him until they can be sure they'd get another republican just as malicious as he was.

[-] jtrek@startrek.website 34 points 4 days ago

He's a horrible person who deserves no peace and no dignity.

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago

At his funeral, throw a fire extinguisher in his grave. Where he is going, he will need it.

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.

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[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago

Set the dancing crabs on high alert.

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[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 23 points 4 days ago

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.

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[-] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 20 points 4 days ago

Don't forget what a piece of shit this guy has been his whole adult life.

[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago
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[-] becausechemistry@piefed.social 25 points 4 days ago

Thoughts and prayers

[-] NM_Gringo@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

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 points 3 days ago

I predict Mitch showing up to the next senate vote wearing this

[-] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

Republicans would still vote for that over a Democrat

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

ah a wooden overcoat, excellent choice

[-] NM_Gringo@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

He dead and the governor of Kentucky, who appoints his replacement, is a Democrat.

[-] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

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.

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[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 21 points 4 days ago

June 14th? And we only hear of this 2 weeks later?!?

What about the Kennedy Center?

What about those Trump-Epstein Files?

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[-] Abyssian@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

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.

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