What happened with Mitch McConnell is very sad.

[imanamerican63]

I hope those who thinks it is funny that it has happened again, realizes that it can happen to anyone? When I see the videos it reminds of what my grandmother went thru when she started to the very same thing. My mother (my grandmother’s daughter) is also showing signs of the same issues. It’s a horrible experience for anyone to deal with. So, please be respectful! I don’t like McConnell or his political views, but he is a human being who is experiencing a tough situation. Let’s show the GOBers that cruelty has no place when it comes to person’s health issues like McConnell or anyone else.

[CountAllVotes]

1. I agree

This most recent episode reminded me of my late husband so much.

He was 85 years old and died of vascular dementia.

He had that same lost look to his face.

I cannot help but wonder if this is what is going on with Mitch McConnell.

I hope his family is able to find him the care he needs.

It was a horrible thing that he went through (and what I went through).

My husband died in May of last year and there wasn't much help for me or him sadly.

I find nothing funny about it either.

It is plain sad.

[democrank]

2. I dislike Mitch McConnell intensely

but not as much as I abhor cruelty. Health issues are no joke.

[treestar]

67. Which includes the voters who send him to the

Senate.

[Roy Rolling]

3. Don't Be Cruel

Being in the company of evil people shouldn’t make us evil, we should enlighten the evil.

It’s all we can do. Becoming cruel is not an option.

[Bengus81]

31. Mitch will receive the BEST health care he can get with ZERO financial worries....

Meanwhile back at the ranch he did EVERYTHING in his power to make sure people could NOT have the ACA while him and other members of Congress who voted the same as that piece of human waste get the BEST for LESS.

He fought the ACA before it came law,he tried numerous times to repeal it AFTER it was law and insuring MILLIONS who finally had the safety of a health care package. He fought to stop a bill that would have insured millions more CHILDREN in this Country.

Who the HELL does that kind of crap?? Mitch McConnell,that's who

FUCK that SOB............

[Phoenix61]

38. Right there with you.

I’ll add blocked Obama’s USSC appointment helping to strip women of their reproductive rights.

[Solomon]

49. Thank you.

[diverdownjt]

55. Momma always said "if you can't say something nice"

......................................................................
Karma is a bitch.
Mitch can go F*&K himself. Sorry Mom...I couldn't stay quiet.

[Aristus]

60. "If you can't say something nice, come sit right here next to me!"

Alice Roosevelt Longworth.

I have sympathy for anyone suffering from his condition, but who isn't also a horrible human being. He has been deliberately cruel for his entire stint in the Senate. He played political games with our judicial system that will lead to the oppression of millions of Americans for decades. He abused his power in the most spectacular ways imaginable.

If he is now reaping what he has sown, that does not obligate us to forgive and forget. Forgiveness is for those who show sincere repentance for the awful things they have done.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

80. +1

No sympathy for the devil.

[2naSalit]

4. It is sad...

But it shows he needs to retire now not later though I suspect he'll die in office.

[machoneman]

56. ...he'll die in office". How about now?

[2naSalit]

63. Hey...

Anytime works for me.

[Raine]

5. I agree and thank you for being kind. I hate seeing the cruel comments

that have appeared in DU.

[CountAllVotes]

8. Maybe after it happens to them they will change

I was already not finding any humor nor criticism in any person that is ill.

They require care and love as difficult as it may be for some to realize.

I look back on what I went through with my poor husband.

All I can really do is just

I often wonder if I did enough.

Where did I fail?

What could I have done differently?

I just don't know but there is no room for cruelty in my heart.

[pazzyanne]

10. + 1 nt

[Mopar151]

6. Mitch needs a tall drink, and a comfy chair.

Mrs McConnell can charter/ lease something/ somewhere nice and quiet.

[PCIntern]

7. I agree with your altruistic sentiments, however

(And there always is a “however”) these GOPee folk see your kindness, understanding, and consideration as a weakness because for many, you are their mortal enemy and they despise you.

I for one offer no reaction either way to their “misfortunes”. Silence speaks volumes.

I will not state what I privately feel, it’s way too feral

And what I did above is what they do when they cannot comment without a certain form of alienation by the populace. Blah blah blah BUT blah blah blah.

[GreenEyedLefty]

24. I support this.

That said, I will not forget McConnell's vow to hinder and obstruct President Obama at every turn, including the 2016 Supreme Court failure to take up Obama's nominee, which led us directly to the mess we are in now.

Honestly, fuck that guy. No sympathy. Will I say this out loud in mixed company? No, but I mean it.

[PCIntern]

44. Yes.

[Chainfire]

59. It is usually sad to see a person losing cognitive function. I watched it happen to beloved family

members. McConnell is a devious, hateful, bastard that has worked hard to destroy the Democratic process. He is too damn power greedy to retire. He will keep going until he freezes up permanently and today couldn't be quick enough.

[Duncanpup]

9. Yes we can have compassion for Mitch

Even though he’s a rat bastard that would strip SSI or Medicaid away from millions a rat that raised his salary many times yet voted no on raising the minimum wage.

He wouldn’t show any mercy or compassion to anyone else.

[pazzyanne]

12. But I for one do not want to be like Mitch McConnell!

Showing kindness is a sign of strength. Becoming bitter is the result of dwelling on the evil in other people. There are so many good and kind people out there if you focus on finding them.

P.S. This does not mean that I don't fight evil, because I do. Removing evil using the ballot box is effective, but hard work.

[OldBaldy1701E]

16. What you said is wonderful

But the fact that we have to go 'find them' shows how rare the people you mention are. THAT is the upsetting part. That seems to remove the idea of there being 'so many' of them.

[MiHale]

36. 👍 If we want them to change we must lead the way.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

81. Uh yeah

Good luck with that.

[BannonsLiver]

65. There's no "we".

[Tomconroy]

11. It is sad. He looks thin and like he has lost weight.

Mitch represents the views of about half the people in the country. And he doesn't support a traitor like Trump. And he is a big supporter of Ukraine.
He is an opponent. He is not my enemy. I wish him well.

[Rebl2]

13. Thank you

for saying this. I have had similar experiences with my parents. It’s awful to make fun of someone in a situation like this.

[malaise]

14. Sorry about your husband but he was not the Minority Leader in the US Senate

What is sad is that he hasn’t resigned yet.
What is sad is how said ReTHUGs scream about Biden’s age.
MoscowMitch is no longer competent. The sad truth is that if we live long enough we will all face deterioration in one way or another.

Byebye MoscowMitch.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

83. +1

Agree. Seems some people are seeing their own loved ones instead of the evil that is Moscow Mitch and the MAGAt cult.

"What can Congress do about guns? Congress can't do anything!" FFS he called HIMSELF the Grim Reaper!

He's a piece of shit and if I go wonky when I get older I'll STILL say that asshole is a piece of shit.

[Afrocat]

15. Funny, no. Do I have sympathy, absolutely not.

They don't care about how sick I am, how sick you are, how sick the people they pretend to represent are. Each and every one of them actively engage in sabotaging the little bit of healthcare we do get. McConnell has been chief among those doing this for almost my entire lifetime. As I've grown I've watched this man actively make my world worse on purpose. Do everything in his power to strip away rights and steal from the people. Frankly, if I were to do a little dance and say good for evil ass I wouldn't stepping out of bounds, but I'm not. I just want him to go away and leave us alone.

[Scrivener7]

17. You are a kind person.

[BeyondGeography]

18. The GOP is so far-gone that McConnell has become one of the few adults left in the room

The sad truth is we could do much worse than him in that role.

I take no joy in his struggles.

[nowforever]

19. Its called karma

He is a spiteful and evil man. His mission after Obama was elected was to make sure he was not reelected. He destroyed our courts by installing right wing zealots who are helping dismantle our democracy. He is a power hungry fascist who allowed Trump to trample on the constitution without consequence. I doubt this illness will be able to ignite even one iota of humanity in his vacant soul. May he suffer now for all the sins he has and will commit and then burn in hell.

[BigmanPigman]

35. Hear, hear!

[cstanleytech]

20. Do I have sympathy? Yes, a little bit but Moscow Mitch can still go F*** himself!!

[Fullduplexxx]

21. Glitch McConnell is not your grandmother

I hope it's painful and I hope he is scared shitless

[Aviation Pro]

22. What's sad was the reaction of the aide

Who should have called for EMT.

[malaise]

25. What was sadder is one one of them suggested that he would see a doctor n/t

[YDogg]

30. He is their meal ticket.

They will keep propping him up as long as they can.

[Sky Jewels]

77. And she basically was most concerned with blaming

the reporters for not speaking loudly enough, as if that were the problem.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

23. Totally agree

[Walleye]

26. I don't think we are kind to people because they deserve it necessarily, it's basic humanity

Here is where we really show we believe in equality. We are all equal in that we only have one life to live and one death to die. Joe Biden called to check up and wish him well. That is what a kind person does

[Jirel]

27. Hard pass.

Mitch is a cruel scumbag who has contributed knowingly and willingly to the suffering of a large portion of the country. I’m comfortable taking pleasure in the karmic misery he is receiving, just as I take pleasure in Dumpy’s legal woes. I’m done with the calls for false piety and performative compassion for someone who wouldn’t spare a thought for the lives he destroys.

May his end come quickly for the nation, and may he feel some portion of the despair he has cost his victims.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

84. +1

[femmedem]

28. Thank you. I needed this thread as an antidote to the other one.

[neurochaos]

29. This is why the left is viewed as weak, fragile and wimpy.

Mitch McConnell for decades has been the tip of the spear in damaging our democracy, setting us back with racial, women’s and worker’s rights. People are homeless, sick or dead because of the evil that he has done in his political lifetime… and here “we” are on the left wringing our hands over people expressing happiness seeing this man going through it. I for one am not of the practice that if they go low, we go high. I believe in the military verbiage that you overwhelm the enemy with superior force. Like Jay-Z rap line, “They threw 2 at me, I threw 4 back.” We need less milk-toast on the left and more burnt toast.

[cactusfractal]

33. This

It's it the decent, kind thing to do to show compassion?

Yes.

Would they do the same?

Fuck, no.

He's been central in getting us to this desperate position, and because he's a skilled politician he's backed off juuuuust enough from the MAGA to give people the impression he's not quite one of them.

He's one of them.

[dalton99a]

50. +1. You can't fight evil criminals with the "high road" and "turn the other cheek"

[samplegirl]

32. Where's his loving little wife and kids?

Why continue to parade him out when he is clearly not well?
The stress it puts him under alone is not working!
Whoever is on charge of his health at this point is not looking at his best interest.
Keep going and parading him out and it will most likely kill him.

[Bengus81]

34. The GOOPERS are in to deep with the "Biden is too OLD for office" BS

That's why they keep trotting him out despite the fact that there is something seriously wrong with Mitch. This is what the Republican party has become and keeps getting worse.

[dalton99a]

58. I suspect they want him to stay home and avoid the public humiliation

They certainly don't need his Senate salary to live well

[TNNurse]

37. Oh, I agree,

I despise the man, but it is sad that no one in his life seems to care enough to get him out of the public eye and maybe some health care.

[edisdead]

39. I care about good people.

He is not a good person.
I have not a single fuck.

[Funtatlaguy]

40. The damage he did to the country with SCOTUS is immeasurable.

[dalton99a]

47. +1. That and the HUNDREDS of Trump judges he pushed through the Senate

Many are crazy and unqualified extremists

[ecstatic]

41. Agreed, but he needs to step down immediately

It seems as though they're going to force us to watch him die live on tv. That's not cool. He needs to step down and take care of his health and spend time with his wife and family (if they are still in his life). Kentucky voters and US voters deserve more.

[FSogol]

42. The very sad part is no one around him cares about him. His staff and co-workers pretend the

reporters are at fault for not speaking loudly. They make excuses for his obvious medical problems. He's nothing more than keys to power for them and they're going ride him until he collapses for a final time.

He could be spending time at home surrounded by loved ones, instead he has Thune staring over his shoulder.

Very sad.

[moniss]

43. Yes I know and

my take on it is to be more or less neutral in my comments about his health but I will say that I cannot be sad for that aspect of his life. My sadness about Mitch is that he never found it in himself to turn away from the cruelty and self serving grab for power that brought negative health consequences of far greater severity to so many than what he is suffering now. That he either could not see it or could but didn't care or cared about greed and power more is where sadness seems right.

I don't wish him ill or wish him really anything at all. It's too late. The life has been almost completely lived. It can't be undone now and time for correction in course is gone. I don't think about his suffering. I don't really want to think about him at all. I would rather think about and remember the people who suffered unnecessary pain and problems because they couldn't get the healthcare they needed because of him. I'll remember the anxiousness, pain and despair of spouses who held loved ones but couldn't ease their pain and suffering. I'll think about how those memories will live with them forever. I'll think about those things because Mitch and people like him will not.

[dalton99a]

45. ZERO sympathy for a fascist enabler who packed our judiciary with Trump judges

and couldn't wait to destroy Obamacare at every opportunity

and defended Trump at both impeachments


McConnell has ZERO respect for Americans, American democracy or our Constitution

[Crowman2009]

46. Hard for me to feel sympathy given how most people in his state can't afford healthcare.

Then there was that time he blocked COVID relief and laughed about it during a debate:

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Frankly Mr. Filibuster gets what he deserves.

[TNNurse]

48. I just watched Sanjay Gupta on CNN discussing this.

I had thought TIA. He also had a fall with possible brain injury recently. But he used the term "Parkinsonian". My mother had Parkinson's and for those of you not familiar with all forms of the disease, she never had ONE TREMOR. Instead, she became slower and more rigid and eventually unable to speak. So I do see that as a possibility. There is also a dementia component in the disease. Since Mother could not speak, we have no idea about that.

[Best_man23]

51. I have sympathy for what you're going through with your mom

I also have sympathy for nearly everyone and anyone who has a family member going through this and similar issues related to aging.

However, when it comes to McConnell, I have no sympathy whatsoever.

Americans today and everyday are DIRECTLY living with the consequences of actions he took as Senate Majority Leader from 2016-2020. He IS the singular reason we have Justice Stolen Seat (Gorsuch) and Justice OfDonald (Barrett) sitting on the SCOTUS today. He IS the reason we now have a SCOTUS that we cannot 100% rely on as a guardrail against McConnell's party taking us down the path toward an authoritarian regime.

The kindest thing I can muster to say about McConnell is, perhaps the scales are in the process of being righted.

[jcgoldie]

52. What Mitch McConnell has done in the Senate for almost 40 years is way more sad

...for millions of Americans. Fuck Mitch McConnell.

[Emile]

53. +1 spot on!

[Autumn]

54. No it's not sad. It's what happens sometimes when you get that old. What is sad is the

healthcare he denied others while he receives the very best. Respectful my ass. Fuck that disgusting old man. I hope I get to see him going through it again.

[Brainfodder]

57. Yes very sad that he didn't stroke out 12 years ago+ already.

FTG


Feeling BAD about Mitch suffering, hurting, or dying, NOT FUCKING AVAILABLE!

Remember all his treachery on SCOTUS (the 3) and stopping bills from democrats from moving forward.

Mitch needs interrogated for his crimes against humanity/RICO before he is a corpse?

[Conjuay]

61. Why do people keep insisting he is human?0

His actions say something else.

[BannonsLiver]

66. Yeah how many lives has that POS ruined or made difficult.

Fuck him. He doesn’t deserve compassion.

[Funtatlaguy]

62. I'm waiting for Trump to express his sympathy for Mitch & Elaine

Still waiting….





STILL…






still….

[BannonsLiver]

64. It's absolutely not sad.

Not even a little bit.

[LAS14]

68. "Let's show the GOBers that cruelty has no place"

And this applies to a number of other kinds of posts. I think we should always check to see that DU doesn't begin to sound like a GOP message board -- not for the political opinions expressed, but for cruelty or prejudice.

[Recycle_Guru]

73. then they should stop protecting this asshole amd get him to retire

he is clearly not well. If he wants to stay in the public arena them he has to face harsh criticism.

[AKwannabe]

69. I'm glad that you can feel for someone because you have a similar experience

But Mitch isn’t like that
He doesn’t feel for anyone

He will get what he deserves eventually
Karma Mbitch, Karma

I wish him well with Karma cuz he gonna need it. Hahahaha! Karma

[LPBBEAR]

70. Nah

I don't have a bit of sympathy for him. The day he croaks I'll be smiling because it will be a good day for this country.

[DemocraticPatriot]

71. What Mitch McConnell has done with his life is even sadder...

for all of us.

However, I understand your position and agree with it.

[Recycle_Guru]

72. if it happened to some random elderly dude, yes--sad

when it happens to this shit head, I laugh and laugh and laugh.

Fuck that guy. He has perpetrated more evil on our country than Trump and Bush combined.

[BWdem4life]

74. A real human being?

A being of some kind, but "human" is debatable.

[harumph]

75. What happened to us under his leadership is so very SAD.

Here is my fantasy: The best thing that could happen for him (and us at this point) is for him to totally lose it and shit his pants. Upon shitting his pants, he reaches in there and grabs a bit a poop. Smiling at the camera like an idiot and holding his stool aloft, he announces, "Mother..., I've done a poopy." Then, silence from the Republicans as they see no reason to call for his stepping down
as they are all secret coprophiliacs. Who knew! The best thing for the Republicans is to be HUMILIATED so badly, even the abetting
MSM can't play it down. Though I'm not sure after experiencing Trump there is sufficient shame and self reflection amongst these foul creatures for them to feel embarrassment. Very sad indeed.

[budkin]

76. No it isn't.

Mitch McConnell doesn’t have a shred of dignity and we should afford him none.

[Sky Jewels]

78. Meh.

Mitch McConnell can fuck off and drop dead. Just because he was born as a homo sapien doesn't mean I have to feel anything other than utter contempt towards him. He would happily push me in front of an oncoming train for being a lib. He doesn't think I deserve bodily autonomy, because I was born with a uterus. To be completely honest, I think this "Oh, we have to be so compassionate to everyone, no matter how evil they are and no matter how much harm they've done millions of others" is bullshit.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

87. Concur

Totally.

[maxsolomon]

79. Because it's McConnell, I don't feel particularly sad about it.

Age and infirmity comes to us all (if we're lucky), and strokes are one of the ways it comes.

My Dad had a TIA 2 years ago. It lasted 5 minutes and it was how we discovered he has AFIB. He's had treatment ever since and he's as good as an 87-year-old with a pacemaker can be.

McConnell could recover from this well enough to be the same utter evil asshole he's always been for the next 4 years. In fact, that's what I expect.

[LuckyCharms]

82. I look at it this way. We can be like "them", or we can

mirror President Biden's reaction.

I'd rather mirror President Biden's reaction.

I don't like McConnell either, but I don't wish him suffering.

I was a caretaker for my mom for about 5 years before she passed. So I've seen all that agony up close.

I don't wish to see it again.

[Voltaire2]

85. I don't care. nt.

[AmBlue]

86. Could not agree more

I lost my Mom to dementia last year. Anyone going through any kind of brain or physical function failure deserves compassion, all politics aside. If one cannot manage that, then silence will suffice.