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    PhilipTheBucketA to Politics@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 4 months ago

    Mitch McConnell using a wheelchair after falling down stairs at the Capitol

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    Mitch McConnell using a wheelchair after falling down stairs at the Capitol

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    PhilipTheBucketA to Politics@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 4 months ago
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    A spokesman for McConnell said the 82-year-old senator is "fine" and using a wheelchair “purely as a precautionary measure."
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    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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      Couldn’t help myself with this one. Please feel free to mod if inappropriate for the community; no hard feeling will be had.

      • neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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        Highly appropriate

      • PhilipTheBucketOPA
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        https://www.cc.com/video-clips/s4z9il

        • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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          “We put a million songs on this because…it’s fun as shit”

          I took some broadcast journalism electives in college and interned at a local station and can confirm: Adding funny music and sarcastic chryons to otherwise boring B-roll is, indeed, fun as shit.

    • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.ee
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      Another DEI hire 😔

    • cabron_offsets@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Just fucking die already.

      • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksM
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        He’s not the worst republican, let that sink in.

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          He may not be the worst, but was by far the one of biggest enablers of the maga bs.

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    • Ioughttamow@fedia.io
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      I prefer to believe the constitution beat him up

      • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
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        It’s got a lot more people to beat up…

    • ProIsh@lemmy.world
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      Damn after all this shit finally good news

    • skozzii@lemmy.ca
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      The longest living turtle lived until 192 years old, so young mitch here is only about halfway through his life by my math…

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      No one over 70 should be allowed to work in any public position. Work if you want, but not in any capacity of public functions.

      Cognitive decline is significant after 70 (being generous). How the fuck are public interests best served by people who came to adulthood half a century ago, whose bodies are piloted by decaying mush on autopilot?

      70? Great, you’re out.

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        For context:

        Trump = 78

        Biden = 82

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      anyone got the footage? the cc link doesn’t work for me.

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        It’s just a 4 minute daily show segment on it and is padded with ads, probably available on YouTube.

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      Following in the footsteps of Strom Thurmond and Dianne Feinstein.

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      First of all it wasn’t stairs, it was stair. Second, it’s sad funny (but still funny.)

      Starts at 20 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0TwpU7BRfQ

      Did he yell at the dude trying to help him?

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        Those freezing episodes are rough to watch.

        In the end, the ragged man comes for us all. And he will not be deterred.

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          But not all.

          “Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on.”

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            Do you love?

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      @PhilipTheBucket

      A guillotine would be more appropriate for what ails him!

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