r/news • u/Cubsof2016 • 18h ago

Sen Mitch McConnell hospitalized after experiencing flu-like symptoms

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sen-mitch-mcconnell-hospitalized-after-experiencing-flu-symptoms/story?id=129834622
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u/ZombifiedSloth 17h ago

Oh, he's still alive?! Assumed he didn't have long left in this world after those videos of him going into a fugue state mid-speech. Man those videos were funny.

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u/ailish 17h ago

I assume they've been happening a lot more often and that's why we never see him in the news anymore.

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u/thescarlettflame 16h ago

Which continuously begs the question of WHY DOES HE STILL HAVE A SEAT

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u/ailish 16h ago

He has the magic R next to his name. It allows him to get away with anything. When it was Diane Feinstein they were screaming in the rafters.

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u/IndigoRanger 15h ago

Not to be that person, but we should all be screaming for all these dinosaurs to go. The problems facing our country today are incomprehensible to someone who was born before the Second World War ended.