• ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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    8 days ago

    The only thing Old Man McConnell has to do is just have like 6 or so journalists show up individually for like 10 minute interviews.

    Instead we are getting these awkward proof of life photos.

  • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    Only because the geriatric fucks in Congress haven’t figured out how to prop up a vegetable in a way that carries any legal authority.

  • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    8 days ago

    Per my Canadian girlfriend: I cannot come to happybadger’s school in my porsche and say hi to everyone because I am undergoing intense physical therapy. Sorry. I will do that later.

  • grue@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    “I’m still working hard to get back to my full schedule of work in the Senate and in Kentucky, keeping up with intense physical therapy per my doctors’ orders,” McConnell, R-Ky., said in a statement.

    What’s a “statement?” Just written words somebody claims are from him? It doesn’t fucking count unless it’s in person in front of legitimate trustworthy journalists.

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      8 days ago

      No, in the previous one they had him feebly pinching a newspaper and it was more obvious that his wife was stopping him from falling over. Same half-vacant, placid expression, though.

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    8 days ago

    He’ll be like this until the beginning of next month, where a sharp decline will lead to his “unfortunate” passing. So tragic, not predictable at all.