I could watch McConnell falling on his face for hours:

[George II]

Link to tweet

[Docreed2003]

1. 🤣🤣 that just made my day! Thanks George!

[Hoyt]

2. Feel guilty, but I could too.

[soothsayer]

3. Ha! Is the laughter real?

[CatWoman]

6. is that his wife helping him up?

[secondwind]

8. Looks like her, yes.

[liberalla]

13. The woman at the podium resembles her, but I don't know. Hopefully we'll get

better video. The woman behind her (with longer hair) is the one who reacts first. I'm curious what he tripped over.

[Shermann]

41. Maybe he tripped over his 2016 statements? nt

[A HERETIC I AM]

78. Or his contract with Satan

[sandensea]

69. The other lady is - but Elaine took her sweet time

"That flatulent old idiot - wait - this makes me looks bad, right?"

[BigmanPigman]

53. Seems like a laugh track is used as an added bonus.

[Gore1FL]

54. Th laughter on the video is not. The laughter at my desk is. nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Time to go, TurtleBoy. (Trump is next)

[soothsayer]

11. If only he landed on the back of his shell

[CatWoman]

15. LOL!!!!

[stillcool]

18. LOL...

[liberalla]

19. heh heh! yep, I bet he'd be stuck on his back forever.

[soothsayer]

20. I can completely picture it!

[Disaffected]

46. Someone should

put him on top a fence post.

[mia]

51. Thanks for the laugh!

[soothsayer]

64. Awesome

[thinkingagain]

63. Lol

Someone who is talented needs to make that into a meme or whatever that it to funny of and image not too.

[dalton99a]

5. Karma should do a better job

[sheshe2]

7. Not only fell.

He had a huge problem getting back up.

Yes, I did laugh. Seems to me trump and the trumpers are tripping all over their lies.

It is what it is.

Karma gonna get ya, get ya, get ya.

[Tanuki]

9. I'm freeeeee-fallin'

?itemid=13055688

[TexasTowelie]

10. Well,

Mitch did have polio as a child.

[torius]

12. The Trumpers would

Have called polio a hoax

[soothsayer]

21. And he would have been fine with pushing out a fake vaccine as long as it helped re-election

[lunatica]

14. I'm not going to laugh at people falling like that BUT

I will savor the fact he humiliated his sorry ass and wounded his own arrogance. I hope he never gets over the embarrassment.

[Polly Hennessey]

27. Oh, I have no problem laughing and I

am not convinced Moscow Mitch is a “people”.

[lunatica]

45. LOL!

You make a good point!

[Skittles]

91. I too am reluctant to be amused by an elderly person falling

but it is also hard for me to drum up any sympathy for someone so vile

[Alpeduez21]

16. The media needs to play this as much as they played Hillary stumbling

[demtenjeep]

28. I actually saw this in a different forum and it isn't from this year

they say

but I can't find it where I saw it earlier

[LuvNewcastle]

17. I'd have laughed harder if he'd been

strangled with piano wire.

[Blue_true]

22. He tried to do the cool Kamala walk. Didn't go well for him. nt

[WhiskeyWulf]

23. Hopefully that's foreshadowing. nt

[LeftInTX]

24. He's still living and breathing....

[demtenjeep]

25. looked like he was trying to cartwheel and faceplanted

the laughing made it even more funny

[liberalmuse]

26. I don't want to see him fall. I want him completely ousted.

I want the history books to teach in schools all the damage this POS did to our country in 10 years.

[Nevilledog]

29. You got off easy. People weren't happy with me posting it last night.

It did not go over particularly well.

I laughed, and I'll laugh every time I see it!

[George II]

30. I didn't see that last night, sorry. I can't see ANYONE not laughing at that - at least here on DU.

[Ms. Toad]

33. Laughing at polio survivors for remants of the disease they survived is really funny. Hahahaha.

What's next? Lauging at COVID survivers when gasp for breath in a few years?

https://www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/mcconnell-virus-carries-echo-his-boyhood-polio

Mocking disbilities is not something that belongs on DU, even when the person with disabilities is a Republican. Hope you'll self-delete it.

[Nevilledog]

38. My understanding is he entered the military after having polio.

[Ms. Toad]

42. I have no idea whether that is true, or not -

But if you are at all familiar with polio, you would be aware that those who had it in childhood experience an increase second wave of symptoms as they age.

Post-polio syndrome refers to a cluster of potentially disabling signs and symptoms that appear decades — an average of 30 to 40 years — after the initial polio illness.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/post-polio-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20355669

McConnell, specifically, has said it impacts his ability to climb stairs.

[Nevilledog]

43. I'll have to rewatch it...I don't remember seeing stairs.

[Ms. Toad]

60. He's less than a step away from a platform that is 10-12" high, with no handrails or steps

to help him step up. When he stumbles, he lands with his knee on the platform and crawls up.

Pretty much what has happened to me as I approach steps (or, more frequently escalators) largely from the apprehension of how challenging the approaching task is.

My disability is vertigo - but whatever the stair-related disability, there is an added mental stress as you approach the challenging task, which sometimes translates into unexpected stumbles. They have changed the screening questions recently, but when the quesiton was, "Have you fallen within the last 6 months?" my answer was an automatic "Yes." and then I counted back to my last undignified plant on the pavement, which was invariably less than 6 months ago. When I fall, I just automatically set a new 6-month counter, since they always ask. That has remained true, even though I no longer have active veritigo - it only takes a tip off balance to send me into a tumble, from which I cannot recover. I can't imagine it is any different with post-polio syndrome.

Now that they have gotten to 2 months, sometimes I can actually answer "No." My mother (88) always answers, "No" - and was surprised, recently, to find out how often I land on the ground. It's not fun - and, as applicable here, it's not fun to be (vicarioulsy) made fun of.

[Nevilledog]

62. I understand your position.

[Ms. Toad]

66. I just updated my prior post with additional information. n/t

[sheshe2]

87. I agree. Polio is not funny.

Though I did laugh seeing him fall not knowing his history.

That said, he more than anyone knows what proper health care means to all Americans. He more than anyone should be doing his damnedest to give the same healthcare to the people that we, the taxpayers are paying for his. We pay for his gold plan and he takes away all our basic needs, that includes yours. He is doing all he can to take away women's basic healthcare, pap smears, mammograms and birth control. He wants pre-existing conditions not to be covered when he himself has a covered pre-existing condition covered.

He wants to push us all over the cliff. He wants us all to die. I don't care if anyone laughs at him because he doesn't give a damn about us.

I am so very sorry for your disability, MS Toad. My heart breaks for you. Mitch will, however laugh in your face as he takes yours and our healthcare away.

[Ms. Toad]

88. Fortunately, it is mostly in remission.

I had an active bout about a year ago - bad enough that I had to toss the cart of books I needed one floor up on the elevator then walk up to the floor to meet it (elevators are worse than stairs). But the initial bout was 11 months of torture - and terror - before we figured out how to send it away. The worst was when I was on a crowded escalator approaching the bottom and someone was shoving down from the top - so I had to concentrate both on stepping off the moving escalator onto solid ground without falling on my own - but I also had to signal to the idiot doing the shoving that he was literally endangering my life (since I would have been trampled by people who had no alternative but to step on me when their step reached the ground). Fortunately, it didn't come to that - but the folks surrounding me probaby had a fun tale for their kids about the crazy screaming lady on the escalator.

It's amazing how much people assume about physical abilities based on appearance. I used a cane during most of that time - less to prevent falls - and more to be a visible sign that I was not stable so that people would be careful not to jostle me.

And - all it took was a couple of days of the room spinning about a year ago to be right back in the thick of it. And there are gas stations I boycott because of the constant motion screens that don't stop even when I am required to interact with the screen, and don't get me started on 3D photos in FB timelines (both of which are major triggers). But I fall well, and the only serious injury I had from a fall had nothing to do with vertigo.

I know McConnell is a vile human being - and lacks even a drop of empathy his own situation should have created. He deserves to be called out loudly for his hypocrisy and cruelty. But we can do that without laughing at his disability (and by extension, balance/mobility disabilities across the board).

[sheshe2]

89. Welp.

I know McConnell is a vile human being - and lacks even a drop of empathy his own situation should have created. He deserves to be called out loudly for his hypocrisy and cruelty. But we can do that without laughing at his disability (and by extension, balance/mobility disabilities across the board).

When he stops laughing at us then I will stop laughing at him. I will stop laughing when he gives one shit about 200K dead Americans. He aids and abets all theses deaths. He condones every lying word out of the presidents mouth even when el presidente mocked a disabled reporter.

Tell that to Mitch, not me.

[Ms. Toad]

90. Thanks for laughing at me, too - because that is what you are doing

when you use a disability to mock someone.

[betsuni]

92. He doesn't give a shit about 200K dead Americans. He said he was The Grim Reaper and

it turned out to be almost literally true.

[smirkymonkey]

93. +1000

I could give one shit about his disability since he doesn't give a damn about millions of Americans with disabilities whom he is threatening to deprive of insurance and doom to bankruptcy and even death. Fuck him. The day he dies will be one of the happiest days of my life.

[LeftInTX]

83. He was also determined unfit for service due to an optic neuritis.

Don't know if this was secondary to polio or not

[grantcart]

39. "When they go low we follow Ms. Toad".

[George II]

40. McConnell himself says the only after effect of the disease is that he has difficulty walking...

.... UP stairs, not down stairs and not on level ground. That's fall was on level ground.

I guess I'd be more sympathetic if he wasn't trying to take healthcare coverage from 20-30 million Americans.

More about him:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_McConnell#Early_life_and_education_(1942%E2%80%931967)

In 1944, at the age of two, McConnell's upper left leg was paralyzed by a polio attack. He received treatment at the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation. The treatment potentially saved him from being disabled for the rest of his life. McConnell stated that his family "almost went broke" because of costs related to his illness.

His family almost went broke because of the costs related to his illness YET HE WANTS TO TAKE COVERAGE FROM MILLIONS OF AMERICANS!!!

[Ms. Toad]

44. Does that make your laughter at his disabiity any easier on others with disabilities?

Mocking a disability - for whatever reason - is still mocking a disability.

You want to mock him for other things - be my guest. But mocking someone for characteristics that are often used to discriminate againt or disparage people, not cool.

[George II]

48. As noted already, his disability is NOT why he tripped and fell! He was walking on level ground...

...which he says is NOT a problem for him.

He had a relatively normal childhood after recovering, played baseball in school, and was NOT medically disqualified from the draft.

More, again from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_McConnell#Early_life_and_education_(1942%E2%80%931967)

In March 1967, shortly before the expiration of his educational draft deferment upon graduation from law school, McConnell enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve as a private at Louisville, Kentucky. This was a coveted position because the Reserve units were mostly kept out of combat during the Vietnam War.

[Ms. Toad]

52. First off - I see a gigantic step.

As someone who suffers from a different disability that sometimes makes steps challenging, I can tell you first hand that having difficulty with steps is not limited to lifting one's leg to mount the first step. It also involves the step or two ahead as you mentally prepare for task that is most directly impacted by the disability. The mental panic/shoring up to prepare for the approaching steps often translates into stumbling ahead of those steps.

And, as I indicated, polio often involves a period of years of no symptoms (during which enlistment might be possible), followed by an increase of symptoms as post-polio syndrome takes hold decades after the initial infection.

This hits personally, from two perspectives - both a disabiliy that makes stairs challenging when active, and friends who had polio as chidren (with post-polo syndrome decades later).

I find the OP incredibly offensive, and still hope you will self-delete.

[Gothmog]

103. This makes me smile

Link to tweet

[smirkymonkey]

94. It's Mitch McConnell.

He's not human. He deserves to be mocked. If he was shot in the head, I would still find it funny. He is an evil, horrible POS. I don't care if he had a disability. He has never shown one ounce of compassion for anyone else who has been disabled and has actively worked to eliminate their healthcare. Fuck him.

[Ms. Toad]

95. And every other disabled person who sees you using his disability to mock him

and knows exactly how you feel about them.

[smirkymonkey]

96. It's not about a disability. It's about him.

How do you defend the way he plans to deprive the millions of disabled people of their much needed healthcare? I would never mock another disabled person.

I mock him because he is the embodiment of evil and he seeks to harm other disabled people by taking away their insurance and the protection for pre-existing conditions that they need to survive. The man is the embodiment of Satan.

[Ms. Toad]

97. You are using his disability to mock him.

Using a characteristic to mock someone is not an effective, unless that characteristic is viewed by many as negative - and by using it a weapon, you adopt that negative view.

It has absolutely nothing to do with defending him, as I am sure you know. I am criticizing the tool you are using to mock him, in the same way I would criticize the use of gay as an insult, or misgendering someone as an insult.

Don't use characteristics that are historically scorned as an insult, unless you are aligning yourself with those who view them that way.

There are plenty of ways to attack his hipocrisy without using his disability to mock him.

[smirkymonkey]

98. Nope.

Sorry. He is not immune to criticism, even though he had a disability as a child. He had help and he would deny it to others. That is not okay.

"In 1944, at the age of two, McConnell's upper left leg was paralyzed by a polio attack. He received treatment at the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation. The treatment potentially saved him from being disabled for the rest of his life. McConnell stated that his family "almost went broke" because of costs related to his illness."

He lived and thrived because of a Democratic program which saved his leg and his life. He now exists to deny healthcare to other people through no fault of their own. Simply because they do not have the money to pay for it outright. He is an evil, hateful man. I don't really give a fuck if he had a disability if he is willing to deny healthcare to others. He can go to hell for all I care.

[betsuni]

99. +1

[Gothmog]

104. Do you object to this asshole being referred to as MoscowMitch?

[Ms. Toad]

105. Not particularly

It speaks directly to his connection to Moscow, the seat of the Russian government, and its interference with our elections. Russian interference with our elections, unlike having a disablity, is actually a bad thing.

Personally, I tend not to use nicknames - but as long as the nickname doesn't leverage the negative connotations associated with a historically condemned characteristic (non-whites, LGBT, physical appearance, disablities) I don't particularly care if others do. (e.g. MoscowMitch, Traiter tots, Drumpf are fine; Miss Lindsay and mAnn Couter are not.)

[bsiebs]

65. Sorry but..

Mitch could be a Holocaust survivor. He is still pure evil for his actions... fuck him.

[Ms. Toad]

67. I agree he's pure evil.

That doesn't justify mocking a person with a disability - since mocking him mocks all of us with mobility disabilities.

And yes, this one is personal. I have vertigo which can easily send me tumbling in the circumstances depicted. It is currently inactive, but it has been more than a decade since I could answer the perennial question at the doctor's office, "have you fallen in the last 6 months" with anything other than, "Yes."

So when you are mocking McConnell, you are also mocking me.

[BusyBeingBest]

84. Oops, wrong spot!

[madinmaryland]

74. I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR MCCONNELL. THIS IS ALL ON HIM

He has done everything to FUCK everyone with diseases that can be treated. He is doing everything to ensure only the wealthiest of the wealthy get quality health care. I’ll laugh at this piece of shit Senator if I want to. Stop being so sanctimonious. Thx.

[Ms. Toad]

77. It isn't about McConnell - it is about the rest of us who are similarly disabled

and see you laughing at us (vicariously).

And yes, I have a disability that make stairs challenging at times - and yes it has been more than a decade since I could answer the standard screening question,"Have you fallen within the last 6 months" by saying, "No." The vast majority of those,"yes" answers were associated with falls on stairs or falls within a step or two of either stairs or escalators.

When you mock him, you are mocking me. And I don't appreciate it.

[madinmaryland]

80. Yes. My comment was about McConnell. I'm not sure

you got that that.

IT’S THE HYPOCRISY. NOTHING MORE.

[Ms. Toad]

111. Then don't mock a disability to talk about hipocrisy.

Mocking the disability tells the rest of us with disabilities exactly what you think of us behind our backs.

Directly address his hipocrisy. It is not that hard to use your words, rather than a laugh track added to an image of a person with a disability falling down - regardless of who that person is.

[treestar]

110. That is working too hard to be a victim

Really. This is about McConnell, and claiming he is disabled. To what degree? He is still out destroying our country. And he is rich, so any disability is minimized. He can afford whatever he needs and works hard to make sure people like you don't have help.

[still_one]

101. McConnell is being mocked, not for his disability. We are talking about someone who is working to

take away people’s health care, take away women’s rights, workers rights, environmental protections, etc

We are talking about someone who is so busy stacking the courts with right wing judges, that he doesn’t have time to entertain the stimulus plan

After what he did refusing to allow “the black president” to appoint a SC court nomination,
if the guy broke his neck I wouldn’t be shedding any tears, based on how many people lives he had a hand in destroying

[Ms. Toad]

102. It is impossible to use a disability to mock someone, Without mocking the disability

Jeering at someone who stumbles because of a disability in my presence tells me exactly what you do behind my back when my vertigo causes a identical fall.

Use a tool other than ridiculing the visible effects of a disability to condemn him. It is no different than attacking Graham by misgendering him, or implying he is gay.

[treestar]

106. How do you know he has any disability now

and that his fall there is a result of a disability?

[Ms. Toad]

108. He had polio as a child

He says he has difficulty climbing stairs as as result of polio.

Post-polio syndrome is real - and generally progressive

We don't see his feet when he tumbles - but from the fall (in which he lands with one knee on the 10"-12" platform it's pretty clear it is stair-related (i.e. climbing the platform), which makes it relatively certain it is disability related.

I can tell you from personal experience - as someone who regularly stumbles on the stairs due to vertigo - the emotional impact of the disability that makes me tumble also increases the likelihood that I will misstep and tumble as I approach the stairs as I get more and more apprehensive.

[treestar]

109. It's him though not you

He is not too disabled to be a Senator and to do all he can to force his agenda on us. I don't think your experience proves anything. His words certainly don't.

[Ms. Toad]

112. Adding a laugh track to a person with a disability

falling down is mocking the disabilty. Period. It's not funny, regardless of who it is.

He is not too disabled to be a Senator

That you would even utter these words should prompt you to examine your attitudes about disabilities, since it suggests that at least subconsciously you view people with disabilities as less qualified.

[Nevilledog]

37. Good heavens......I'm glad you posted it!

People are on at different times. If I find something to share that means I want people to see it.... Not that it ever has to be from me. Does that make sense?. LOL

[Cha]

35. Oh really? "poor mitch" was it? I didn't laugh.. but

said it's a Monster & Monster Enabler taking a fall.. hope it's a sign for Democracy.

[BlueStater]

81. Fuck him. He's one of the most despicable people alive today.

He deserves any sort of pain that comes his way.

[Buckeyeblue]

31. Mitch is a grade A asshole. He would sell his mother's soul.

But watching old people fall makes me sick to my stomach.

[Chellee]

47. +1

nt

[Generic Brad]

32. That's the monster of the senate with all the power?

He's just a man. A frail, weak, little man who can be knocked over with a feather.

Jenga, Mitch!

[Cha]

34. Fucking Monster & Monster Enabler takes

a fall.. hope it's sign for Democracy!

[GoCubsGo]

36. If he was a Democrat, the GOPers would be starting conspiracies

that he's dying, and needs to drop out of his race. Just like they did when Hillary fell ill with pneumonia.

[betsuni]

49. Yup. And that he's been lying about the serious illness he's dying from.

Splashed across the front page of the National Enquirer, then picked up by the rest of the media.

[Ms. Toad]

56. It is the remnants of polio.

Mocking people with disabilities is so much fun.

[TwilightZone]

72. There is zero evidence of that assertion.

None. Zilch.

[Ms. Toad]

75. He has acknowledged difficulties with stairs as a remnant of polio

and his tumble is within one step of a 10-12" step.

You're in rationalization mode (for mocking an individual who is disabled) if you don't see the connection

[treestar]

107. +1

[Blue Owl]

50. Wish someone would've kicked him while he was down

I hate that fucking fuck and every evil thing he stands for

[live love laugh]

86. 💯

[paleotn]

55. Seems Karma gave ole Mitch I little shove.

Lets hope that's just the beginning of what Karma has in store for him. No punishment will be too great for that much evil.

[warmfeet]

57. I would like to meet him in the woods.

No one else around - for miles.

[xxqqqzme]

58. Didn't he fall at his

home last year? Dislocate or fracture his shoulder? I'm sketchy on details.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

59. Wish he would have faceplanted.

Or cracked his skull and slipped into a coma and never wake up.

Love watching that asshole fall.

[Lucky Luciano]

61. This is utterly childish.

...and I only watched it about 17 times.

[Aviation Pro]

68. Six years ago....

...but maybe it's time for an encore performance.

[JoeOtterbein]

70. Really?

Why would anyone even want to see him at all?

Other than gone?

[betsuni]

71. How many times did Republicans vote to get rid of the ACA again?

He doesn't give a shit that many Americans are uninsured or underinsured. They fall and break something and go into debt by hospital bills, who cares!

[George II]

73. In the house at least once a month when they were in charge. I think it was only close....

...a few times in the Senate, culminated in the infamous John McCain thumbs down. Watch the body language of Mitch McConnell (who was "so disabled" that he needed a 2-S classification to dodge the draft!):

Closeup and analysis:

[betsuni]

76. That was a glorious moment.

I heard that Joe Biden had something to do with convincing McCain to vote no, can't remember where.

[George II]

79. I heard that, too. I guess it's because John McCain and Beau Biden were suffering from the same....

....type of brain cancer, and they understand what a serious ailment can do to one's bank account if not wealthy.

We all disagreed with McCain's policies and votes over the years, but deep down inside he was a very good man. And a very PATRIOTIC American.

[betsuni]

82. I liked when Meghan McCain said her father loved traveling with Hillary. "There was vodka involved."

Yes, a very patriotic American, the old-fashioned type of Republican who are so rare now.

[BusyBeingBest]

85. He couldn't wait for RBG's body to become cold before

taunting her family, Democrats, and all decent people with his ghoulish fill-the-seat announcement. Crawl up to that podium, motherfucker, you deserve zero sympathy or dignity.

[George II]

100. He made his announcement within an hour of the announcement of her death. Ghoulish is right.