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[–] 133 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They're finally going to do something?

Actually shocked over here.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I hear you. This is absolutely unexpected.

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  • [–] 101 points 1 month ago (18 children)

    Please tell me that this is in response to a wellness check that someone called in when he didn't show up.

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  • [–] [S] 70 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (17 children)

    I’m seeing conflicting reports. Newsweek says he did not show, and his staffers released a statement. CBS says he was seen in public and at the senate. Still have set to see any video evidence of this.

    https://www.newsweek.com/mitch-mcconnell-says-hell-vote-in-senate-after-3-month-absence-from-fall-12441269

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  • [–] 82 points 1 month ago (5 children)
  • [–] 57 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    CBS, is Faux Nooz for people with INDOOR plumbing.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-mcconnell-returns-to-the-senate-for-the-first-time-since-his-june-hospitalization

    There's clips of him being wheeled out of his house too. Doesn't look like he spoke with any reporters. I'm guessing a stroke affected his speech. He certainly looks significantly older than three months ago.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    looks significantly older

    There's an episode of dr. Who where they age the doctor physically to match his age and glitchin' Mitch still looks older than the 900 year old CGI goblin of 2010 BBC evening sci-fi. How could he possibly look any older?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Good match for Davros, the creator of the Daleks. Good match with the lore too.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I'm still not ruling out a Weekend at Bernie's situation. They had plenty of time to figure out how to puppet his corpse.

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  • [–] 91 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Must be nice have 3 months paid vacation from work.

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  • [–] 149 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Senate staff not to take video of his remarks in the second-floor hallway, even though video is often permitted in that area. Still images were allowed.

    And the press, being completely controlled by the government offered absolutely NO pushback to this. Freedom of the press? An well informed public? "Most transparent government"? Buncha bullshit. You will only hear what the party wants you to hear.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Was this removed from the article? I literally cannot find it.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    well damn... I think it was. I quoted it right from the article... looks like they took it out.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    I definitely remember reading that part, even mentioned it in the post I made earlier. The press is completely under control of the regime now. Soon they'll be more careful not to put in anything that could even possibly cause them to get a displeased phone call.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Fucking hell. So they are hiding good reporting. 😔

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  • [–] 99 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    From what I can tell, this video was taken as they arrived to transport him, then later another one was taken when he was actually brought out of the house and put into the limo. Then more video was taken of him being wheeled around in the safe space Senate Chamber, but out in the hallway, only photos were allowed to be taken, no video.

    So my guess is, he's non-verbal and they're going to wheel him around and help him push the right button to vote when they need his vote on something. So far I haven't seen -- more importantly heard any footage of him actually speaking. In the video I linked with him being wheeled out, he doesn't speak but does a "thumbs up" once, and in the car we see he has a blank expression and mindless grin.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    They're going to wheel his corpse onto the Senate floor and have someone push the button for his vote.

    Already did once, apparently.

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  • [–] 64 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    So they really did the weekend at bernies routine?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Also, I'd love to see what drugs were in his system during his public performance

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    It seems like they have some sort of concoction that will reanimate someone who is near death for a short bit of time.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 month ago (1 child)
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    Get that turtle!

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Again, wtf is going on? CNN posted this: https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/14/politics/mitch-mcconnell-senate-return-health

    Is that completely fabricated in AI?

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  • [–] 28 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I was wondering the same. AP sent out a news alert saying he voted. - https://apnews.com/article/mitch-mcconnell-senate-return-abe03e84e30a174da4076385692b5751

    This raw story says that "more than an hour after the Senate convened without him" I legit don't know what to think.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 month ago

    Reporters and photographers were told by Senate staff not to take video of his remarks in the second-floor hallway, even though video is often permitted in that area. Still images were allowed.

    What the fuck is going on... this is crazy he is clearly not well and needs to resign.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago

    Weekend at Bernie's was supposed to be a parody. 🤨

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago

    This is pathetic.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 month ago

    I still think he's dead.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 month ago (7 children)
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  • [–] 57 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    From the AP article:

    Reporters and photographers were told by Senate staff not to take video of his remarks in the second-floor hallway, even though video is often permitted in that area. Still images were allowed.

    So its deliberate

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    Because necromancy is illegal? Because it's illegal right?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    Just in time to make all hemp users into felons.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago

    Are we finally going to get some god damn answers?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    The spell that was cast on Lindsey Graham is finally paying up dividends. Slow acting spell, that one...

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I met a traveller from an antique land
    Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
    Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
    Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
    And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
    Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
    Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
    The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
    And on the pedestal these words appear:
    "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
    Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
    Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
    Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
    The lone and level sands stretch far away.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    turtle with popcorn, subtly vibrating with excitement

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    I can't believe that they had three months to hide the evidence and didn't bother.

    With friends like those Mr McConnell...

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Word has it A malicious acorn was found to have bounced so may times off the roof and gutter, then onto a secret service car roof that the loan Secret Service Agent on duty was positive they were being invaded. He called and said bring everything you've got! They said please repeat and he shouted EVERYTHING!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    [taking my crab costume out of the closet, cleaning and ironing it...]

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (7 children)
  • [–] [S] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

    Where’s the video?

    Also, why do all the stories claiming he made a public appearance leave out the fact that capitol police have been at his house today?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Turns out, no matter how corrupt SCOTUS is, as long as it's filled with white christians, necromancy is illegal

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