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A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆When I look at the video of a clearly struggling Mitch McConnell, I think about how scary and difficult that must be, and how hard McConnell has worked throughout his life to ensure that the end of people's lives are as difficult and scary a struggle as they can possibly be made.
When you look at video of Mitch McConnell struggling to speak, remember that all human beings have lives that matter, and take a moment to share a little bit of human empathy for the tens or hundreds of millions of people who have fallen victim to the life of Mitch McConnell.
John G R Wilson@JuliusGoat Fuck Mitch The Bitch. May the fleas of a thousand camels infest HIS crotch.
MemphisDaPlaya 🎲🎲
Sir Farts Alot@JuliusGoat Fitting, no?
PNW Deb@JuliusGoat EXACTLY!!!
JakeQuokkaMCM@JuliusGoat the old bastard should have retired from this a long time ago and spared all the hand wringing about his present condition.
RealGene ☣️@JuliusGoat
I'm just waiting for the presser where he loses control of his bodily functions on camera, and how the news drones will report it.
I'm just waiting for the presser where he loses control of his bodily functions on camera, and how the news drones will report it.
annie gray@RealGene @JuliusGoat
It's probably already happened, but Mitch can afford the highest end incontinence products, so we'll never know.
It's probably already happened, but Mitch can afford the highest end incontinence products, so we'll never know.
Agora@JuliusGoat I hope his end isn't dignified either. He is such a horrible human being.
Pam@JuliusGoat but he and Scalise have the BEST healthcare that they voted for themselves.
Joe Hill 🇵🇸🇺🇦@PamB @JuliusGoat #Scalise is a weird one for me. My mom died of #MultipleMyeloma in 1979, long before there was a cure. I’d trade 1,000 Scalises to have my mom back for even a day.
Noah Cook@JuliusGoat I have, in fact, had experiences similar to McConnell.
Be better.
ChrisAshtearIm sorry to hear that, but maybe if mitch had "been better" he would garner more sympathy.
Him having medical issues doesnt erase the damage he has done.
@chrisashtear @JuliusGoat I know this is an alien concept to a majority of people, but some of us believe that medical care is a human right and that people with disabilities are still human and have the ability to contribute as much to society as everyone else.
If you choose to make neurological disease political, you probably belong in the Republican Party.
@UncivilServant @JuliusGoat unfortunately mitch disagrees with you about medical care being a human right.
And all the contributions to society mitch has made have been negative.
@chrisashtear @JuliusGoat May you be so judged in your hour of need
@UncivilServant @JuliusGoat Look man i dont think its unreasonable to lose empathy for a person based on the evil theyve done. Would you really be weeping for a murderer?
I may be overall kind of an asshole, but I also didnt indirectly kill a bunch of people by getting roe v wade overturned.
@chrisashtear @JuliusGoat Now here's a funny thing, I haven't even mentioned anything about McConnell's politics. I feel like we can maybe keep these things separate.
Otherwise you're just saying that you only think I deserve to work for the government because of my center-left views, so you're willing to make an exception for me as one of the "good ones".
@UncivilServant @JuliusGoat i didnt mention a single thing about you, or your capacity to work in government, so maybe dont put words in my mouth.
The argument was about being more sympathetic to mitch just because he has a medical condition.
The Magic Lemur (Eat The Rich)@UncivilServant @chrisashtear @JuliusGoat Fucking centrists always think you can play nice with monsters
@TheMagicLemur @UncivilServant @JuliusGoat ok maybe you should dial it back a little bit there. I think hes mostly upset cus he has the same or a similar condition.
justpeachy@UncivilServant @chrisashtear @JuliusGoat
Mitch McConnell has done a lot of damage to society & to the government. Hating him has nothing to do with his mental issues, and everything to do with him actively working to make sure more people die.
He’s being laughed at for having mental issues because he’s a terrible person, not because of the mental issues. People would be making fun of him anyway, because he sucks and he ruins lives.
@UncivilServant @chrisashtear @JuliusGoat it’s not a bad thing to laugh at an abuser suffering, unless you’re an abuser.
Anne Ominous@UncivilServant @chrisashtear @JuliusGoat
and it is 100% on mitch that he is up there, still trying to destroy people's lives, instead of say, getting help and hanging with his fam in his "hour of need"
my empathy goes to those he is ruining with his lifelong dedication to cruelty.
@rustoleumlove @chrisashtear @JuliusGoat Plenty of Republicans would call me evil for helping our state Medicaid agency cover gender-affirming care.
Few of them would be so callous as to use it as a reason to blame me when I have an episode of transient aphasia or other neuro "blips". None have suggested that I should retire.
Be better than bigots. This should not be a difficult task, and yet somehow, here we are...
@UncivilServant @chrisashtear @JuliusGoat
i am better than bigots, bc i am not bigoted.
but you can judge me all you want, have a superiority complex or whatever.
i'm not trying to be a paragon of ideals! i live in the real world, where people like mitch mcconnell can die screaming and i'll laugh about it, it's not difficult at all... to tell people to FUCK OFF
@rustoleumlove @UncivilServant @JuliusGoat i think what it comes down to is, they value civility more than actions. At least thats my guess.
Civility is nice and all, but theres no good to be found in being civil with a party that wont compromise, tries to overthrow the government, and wants minority groups dead or subservient.
@UncivilServant I will not feel bad for a terrible human who has hurt millions, and fuck you for trying to elicit pity for that monster.
Artemis13Athena@UncivilServant @chrisashtear @JuliusGoat you needn't worry about Mitch and his health care, he has the best that tax money can provide, because he fancies himself and his cronies better and more deserving than the rest of us. I take no joy in his decline, but I can understand others indulging in a little schadenfreude. I just want him to leave office and be replaced by someone with more compassion.
Tina H@UncivilServant @chrisashtear @JuliusGoat
It is ALSO possible to have empathy with a human being AND see the distinct irony in the situation.
Without belonging to the if-the-world-was-flat-we-have-fallen-off-the-right-side-ledge party.
Amy Hoy@chrisashtear @JuliusGoat @UncivilServant nobody is saying he should be deprived of medical care. nor are they mocking his disorder. they’re saying he’s evil and doesn’t deserve sympathy, and he doesn’t.
identifying with a mass murderer because he shares your disorder is not necessary.
penpencilbrush🇨🇦@UncivilServant @JuliusGoat I think it's too late for McConnell to 'be better.' He has no power now to undo all the damage and misery he's created.
@penpencilbrush @JuliusGoat Bless your heart, I hope if you ever experience a neurological episode, you will be around people who are nicer, more empathetic, and just generally better overall human beings than you appear to be capable of mimicking.
@UncivilServant @JuliusGoat Saving my niceness, empathy and overall humanity for the millions who are suffering (some of them neurological episodes) because of McConnell.
Lily Star@UncivilServant @penpencilbrush @JuliusGoat I am certain that if I ever have a neurological episode the people around me will be nicer and more empathetic, because I am not a heartless bastard who has made it my career to destroy peoples lives.
OtownKim@UncivilServant @penpencilbrush @JuliusGoat you are WAY to judgemental to the point I believe you are a Troll! Mitch McConnell can suffer a horrible miserable painful end of life. That's what he deserves!! Period! He's a maniacal POS that has made millions of Americans, including children suffer!! May he rot in front of all the families he's hurt!
Ponygirl@UncivilServant @penpencilbrush @JuliusGoat Nodody on this thread can come close to the level of evil that McConnell is. We will have, and will deserve compassion in our hour of need. McConnell does not.
@Ponygirl @penpencilbrush @JuliusGoat I regret that I am unwilling to hurt the "right" people. It is obviously a character flaw and a minority view in both parties, it seems.
I'm not surprised, really. We all had it beaten into us in high school that some people need to be hurt and some people have earned the right to hurt others.
Unfortunately, I can't fix a societal case of Stockholm Syndrome.
jz.tuskWow, so you denied medical care to millions, before needing it yourself?
@jztusk @JuliusGoat I have literally had a seizure at my desk while working to bring medical care to the elderly, poor, and disabled.
I have experienced transient aphasia as well, it is terrifying, and when I say there are "no words" I mean that literally.
I also know that many of the people I help may be people I wouldn't get along with. There are bad people in any group, but I don't demand that we only help saints and punish sinners.
Medical care is a human right. Even for people you hate
I admire professionalism. I am glad that there are people like you who will provide care for anyone, even someone as horrible as, say, a rapist. I sincerely raise my hat to you, and give you thanks.
But I think that professionals should understand that the scope of their expertise has limits. Despising Mitch McConnell is a social good, so while he should get medical care, we shouldn't stop despising him.
@UncivilServant @jztusk @JuliusGoat McConnell is a criminal racist traitor POS that has caused millions to suffer under his disgusting "leadership". I have empathy for most but NOT him at all!!! He's a scumbag and I hope he suffers!!!!!!
@UncivilServant @jztusk @JuliusGoat Good to hear Mitch is suffering just like the peoples whose voices he robbed.
Matt@UncivilServant @JuliusGoat it appears you missed the point
cat static 🇺🇸🇺🇦@UncivilServant @JuliusGoat So have I. His repeated evil choices made it worse.
Fuck him.
"If only one man dies of hunger, that is a tragedy. If millions die, that’s only statistics" -- Stalin, Jan 20, 1947
add: I find your appeal morally repugnant.
@JuliusGoat Perhaps I could have phrased that better. I have some idea of what Mr. McConnell might be experiencing right now.
And I have some idea how I might feel if someone felt this was the best time to pass judgement.
And I have some idea how much respect I would have for such a person.
And I remember hearing people say that they want leaders who will "hurt the right people", and I think about how much respect I have for such a person.
That was my reaction to a familiar situation.
@UncivilServant As for those who hurt the “right people” I am reminded that Mitch McConnell has spent his life hurting the “right people” at scale and with horrifying efficiency, and so I think it appropriate to think of him as the kind of person who did such things, and to have deep empathy in this time for his victims, whose response to the end of this life dedicated to their suffering is theirs to have.
@UncivilServant to have empathy for those going through exactly what McConnell is going through, I feel it important to remember that few people have done more in our lifetimes to increase that suffering than Mitch McConnell. My judgment of him started long before his illness, but on behalf of his victims I won’t suspend it.
Steve@UncivilServant @JuliusGoat
1. Transient ischemic attacks are scary and terrible, whether the victim is my late maternal grandmother, Noah Cook, or #MitchMcConnell.
2. Mitch McConnell is evil, but the terrible fate _he_ deserves is not a gradual decline into #dementia caused by transient ischemic attacks that leave damage behind. The terrible fate _he_ deserves is to watch the #Republican party collapse under the weight of its own infighting and evil, in spite of his best efforts to guide it toward the more conventional Republican malice it had before the multiply-indicted twice-impeached racist misogynist fascist idiot mobster took power in the party.
3. Mitch McConnell in the midst of a #Transient IschemicAttack is a better legislative tactician than everyone else in his party combined. When he's trying to restrain the malevolence of the new fascist wing of the party, that's actually a good thing. When he's advocating for conventional Republican malice, it's a bad thing.
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1. Transient ischemic attacks are scary and terrible, whether the victim is my late maternal grandmother, Noah Cook, or #MitchMcConnell.
2. Mitch McConnell is evil, but the terrible fate _he_ deserves is not a gradual decline into #dementia caused by transient ischemic attacks that leave damage behind. The terrible fate _he_ deserves is to watch the #Republican party collapse under the weight of its own infighting and evil, in spite of his best efforts to guide it toward the more conventional Republican malice it had before the multiply-indicted twice-impeached racist misogynist fascist idiot mobster took power in the party.
3. Mitch McConnell in the midst of a #Transient IschemicAttack is a better legislative tactician than everyone else in his party combined. When he's trying to restrain the malevolence of the new fascist wing of the party, that's actually a good thing. When he's advocating for conventional Republican malice, it's a bad thing.
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4. Given the ascendancy of the fascist wing of the Republican party, and the strength of the Republican party in his state, the result of a McConnell resignation or death or primary defeat could be appointment or election of someone even worse than he is. Sure, the replacement wouldn't have any seniority, and almost certainly wouldn't be anywhere close to McConnell as a legislative tactician. But he'd still likely be a vote for fascism in a safe seat.
5. Given the likelihood that any McConnell replacement would be worse, unless fascism is resoundingly defeated next election, I'm going to wish him just enough health to cling to his Senate seat for a little longer.
/end
Daisy Doo & TuxieGirl Betty@JuliusGoat Yup. He's a POS
PirateJoie@JuliusGoat Wow, that’s true. Still hate to see people stroke out, as I saw it happen to my Dad.
Nicole ParsonsTime catches up with all of us.
#MoscowMitch did all he could do to wreck American democracy at the behest of his billionaire donors, foreign and domestic.
Does this mean Deripaska is shopping for a new puppet?
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a27259438/oleg-deripaska-kentucky-aluminum-mitch-mcconnell-rand-paul/
Russian oligarchs adore funding the GOP
https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/mcconnell-trump-russia-deripaska-affirmative-action-20221004.html
So do planet-frying oil oligarchs
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/inside-the-koch-backed-effort-to-block-the-largest-election-reform-bill-in-half-a-century
Koch spent a lifetime undermining the health of Americans. He's been very successful.
American life expectancy dropped 5 years during Trump's presidency alone.
To keep tax cuts for the rich, McConnell let 1.17 million Americans die of covid.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/05/us/politics/koch-brothers-affordable-care-act.html
https://theintercept.com/2021/10/15/conservative-dark-money-ads-biden-build-back-better/
Canadian Crone@JuliusGoat #NoPity for the man. He deserves only what he gave others. Which is misery.