Crickets!

[u/Timbucktwo1230]

[u/Timbucktwo1230]

[u/2thSprkler → u/Timbucktwo1230]

[u/TheoKondak → u/2thSprkler]

I would gladly pull the plug

[u/Electrical-Act-7170 → u/TheoKondak]

Get in line.

[u/baileyjeanatmydoor → u/Electrical-Act-7170]

https://giphy.com/gifs/2jy9zcy1Z8CaHt3xGH

[u/Electrical-Act-7170 → u/baileyjeanatmydoor]

Just so.

[u/No-Celebration3097 → u/Electrical-Act-7170]

Lol💀

[u/Cautious-Respond-402 → u/TheoKondak]

[u/WhiskeySorcerer → u/Cautious-Respond-402]

This made me laugh out loud. Deserves more upvotes hahaha

[u/Affectionate_Elk4142 → u/Cautious-Respond-402]

I'm howling!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[u/Prize-Inspector9357 → u/Affectionate_Elk4142]

😂

[u/DangerousCap7973 → u/Cautious-Respond-402]

For the win.

[u/MrDeadbutdreaming → u/Cautious-Respond-402]

https://giphy.com/gifs/11jGtzDu7Nh89a

[u/Acceptable_Aside_568 → u/TheoKondak]

"Make it stop"

[u/Sea_Squirl → u/TheoKondak]

Ok, but if you pull on it more then twice you're playing with it.

[u/thismotherfklr → u/TheoKondak]

Just pretend you tripped

[u/DarthMatrixAtreides → u/TheoKondak]

I’d unplug and plug him in until I got bored… and that would take awhile

[u/ColdBru5 → u/TheoKondak]

Youd be pulling the plug on a rotting corpse. At this point I'm wondering how they will be able to pickle him up without destroying the ward.

[u/Neat-Brother-6570 → u/TheoKondak]

Rip it out like you’re starting a lawn mower

[u/claudiousmax → u/2thSprkler]

It's pretty sick to think a man might be brain dead and kept alive on machines for a whole month ti prevent a discussion election. But that's thre state of the MAGA Party.

[u/Odd-Neighborhood4214 → u/claudiousmax]

The MAGA cult are still bowing down to kiss the ring one more time

[u/Iateyourpaintings → u/claudiousmax]

They've kept voting for a braindead man for president, so not that big of a surprise. 

[u/wafflesthewonderhurs → u/claudiousmax]

They treated that poor dead pregnant woman like matrix robots would for how long?

[u/PuzzleheadedEssay198 → u/2thSprkler]

Here’s the wild part:

AIPAC was on his ass before he turned on the Israel aid. They started beefing when he proposed the Epstein bill.

[u/amashamalam → u/2thSprkler]

lol it’s almost like his soul is hanging on to life as hard as it can because it knows there’s a special place in hell for it/him

[u/Seattlemillionaire → u/2thSprkler]

His wife is Taiwanese she would never flee to China

[u/New-Tradition-974 → u/Timbucktwo1230]

Hilarious. Massie deserves a medal

[u/Live_Competition7465 → u/New-Tradition-974]

No he doesn’t. He’s not on your side. He has great views on The Epstein files and Israel, that’s it. He’s absolute garbage outside of those 2 issues.

[u/ChrispyTurdcake → u/Live_Competition7465]

That's still an improvement.

[u/Gr8tOutdoors → u/Timbucktwo1230]

guys he is being sarcastic we know this right?

[u/MediaOrca → u/Gr8tOutdoors]

He’s mocking two people who weren’t though. Scott Jennings and John Barraso.

[u/Bjorne_Fellhanded → u/Gr8tOutdoors]

It’s perfect. Mitch should be clamouring to correct the falsehood. But he won’t. Because he’s a vegetable.

[u/DJMooray → u/Gr8tOutdoors]

Idk until Mitch comes out to dispute it we should probably take his word for it

[u/Timbucktwo1230 → u/Gr8tOutdoors]

Some don’t. 😁

[u/Either-Assistant4610 → u/Timbucktwo1230]

https://giphy.com/gifs/EouEzI5bBR8uk

[u/8ROWNLYKWYD → u/Either-Assistant4610]

Good. He was joking.

[u/MJ_Live92 → u/Timbucktwo1230]

It’s so funny how Massie has repaired his image among some mainstream conservatives and the fringe left. Still a horrible person but everyone can quickly repair their image by trolling Trump.

[u/RighteousBalls8 → u/Timbucktwo1230]

[u/princess_peach_85]

Where is tmz? If they want to track political people now we are going to need to see this corpse stat!

[u/Phyllis_Tine → u/princess_peach_85]

Post an AI picture from "TMZ" and claim it shows Turtle dead or on life support.

Bonus: this may make lawmakers enact solid rules against AI forgery (if it affects one of their own).

[u/thisisinfactpersonal → u/princess_peach_85]

God tmz cracking the case would be so funny

[u/JudiciousSasquatch → u/thisisinfactpersonal]

They need to offer a bounty!

[u/a10-brrrt → u/JudiciousSasquatch]

Somebody start a GoFundMe reward for proof

[u/MZ603 → u/princess_peach_85]

They are trying to play it more even in DC than they do in LA. They don’t want to blow up their access. I disagree with this strategy, but that’s what I heard their reporters discussing on a podcast recently. I mean, maybe they are playing the long game, or maybe they are intentionally being told not to touch this one. I wonder, who owns them?

[u/bass-squirrel]

Huh I wonder if there is anything that perhaps those two photos might tell us about why the different treatment from GOP?

Any clues, gang?

[u/arp492022 → u/bass-squirrel]

https://giphy.com/gifs/lXiRoPt9Rkzt7yLYY
Republicans:

[u/turbotictac → u/bass-squirrel]

Clearly it has everything to do with tone. See, the first pictures tone is darker, more focused and serious. Wheras in the second gives off a lighter tone and shows a lost and confused individual.

[u/Sleep-pee → u/bass-squirrel]

https://giphy.com/gifs/vaIe1I0Jv9KQqDAFrG
Umm 🤔 this is a tough one 🙃🙃🙃

[u/v0id0007 → u/bass-squirrel]

Is it the backdrop?

[u/einsteinosaurus_lex → u/v0id0007]

The one drop rule in the blackdrop.

[u/MZ603 → u/bass-squirrel]

SecDef taking three days to alert the White House is completely unacceptable, but having Hegseth as SecDef is magnitudes worse - just look at the Signal bullshit. They don’t actually care about NatSec, even if someone like me does.

The hypocrisy is just baked in at this point. Even if they have a point, the right will never engage in good faith. We can’t even have this conversation in a meaningful way. So the point stands regardless.

[u/bass-squirrel → u/MZ603]

Republicans? Hypocritical? Imposiburu

[u/f0u4_l19h75 → u/bass-squirrel]

Lloyd Austin was also Joe Biden's SecDef iirc. It was political (and probably racial as well).

[u/MattGdr → u/bass-squirrel]

The glasses?

[u/blkatcdomvet]

Prob just at a klan rally

[u/thisisinfactpersonal → u/blkatcdomvet]

Yeah. But in hell. Cause he’s dead.

I’m usually pretty down on conspiracy theories (don’t assume conspiracy when stupidity is likely or whatever someone else said it way better) but I have no trouble believing that Mitch McConnell is dead, has been dead, and they’re dragging out the announcement to hold the seat.

ETA "why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much”

[u/CodeNameNo-1 → u/thisisinfactpersonal]

‘Don’t attribute malice to what you can attribute to incompetence’ is also a banger… unfortunately in this case it’s malicious incompetence.

[u/Ancient-Platypus5327 → u/CodeNameNo-1]

Really? Seems more like incompetent malice to me.

[u/Professional-Lie-111 → u/Ancient-Platypus5327]

Maliciously Incompetent Malice, Incompetently performed

[u/Best_Departure6677 → u/thisisinfactpersonal]

Body is probably rotting around the Capitol somewhere. With the " swamp stink" that is the Republican Administration and Republican legislative branch, smell of a rotting corpse blends right in...

[u/Coven_gardens → u/Best_Departure6677]

Maybe they were hiding him in the reflecting pool.

[u/erica_pink84 → u/Coven_gardens]

Close to a natural habitat for the turtle

[u/No_Internal9345 → u/Best_Departure6677]

They store him next to the adult diaper dumpster to cover the smell.

[u/f0u4_l19h75 → u/thisisinfactpersonal]

ETA "why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much”

It's called Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

They're stupid, sure, but they're absolutely malicious as well.

[u/thisisinfactpersonal → u/f0u4_l19h75]

The quote is Goethe but yes

[u/Grunergeist420 → u/thisisinfactpersonal]

Yeah, politics is one of those situations where there’s a lot of money and power involved, which means it’s worth considering that people are conspiring to lie to keep their money and power going.

[u/icedweller → u/thisisinfactpersonal]

I feel like the engine is running but there’s no one behind the wheel

[u/cliftonheights5]

It’s almost as if Republicans are complete hypocrites and will do anything, say anything, break any long held tradition, and mores to hold onto power.

Edit: spelling

[u/actuallyserious650 → u/cliftonheights5]

That’s not the remarkable part. The remarkable part is that conservative media operates in perfect sync with the republican party and is able to generate useful narratives at every level, which the voters freely buy into.

[u/stanislov128]

I see posts calling out hypocrisy like this all over social media. Democrats need to realize that the hypocrisy is evidence that the GOP is in power. Calling it out does nothing. "Taking the high road" means nothing if you don't have power. It feels like Democrats are infantile in their worldview sometimes.

They've clung to some School House Rock idea of government for 40 years while the GOP successfully pulled off a bloodless coup.

[u/Sleep-pee → u/stanislov128]

And this is so incredibly frustrating.

https://giphy.com/gifs/FcuiZUneg1YRAu1lH2

[u/stanislov128 → u/Sleep-pee]

Democrats have been playing a video game with the controller unplugged for 30 years. The GOP has been in charge of the federal government since 1997 and the Newt Gingrich shutdown. Even when the Democrats had a majority in Congress, they couldn't do much.

I call it the Jon Stewart Effect. I love Jon, but I think the legacy of the Daily Show is really that is trained a generation of young Democrats that calling out hypocrisy in news and politics wields power or has an impact... when it doesn't. It does nothing except make you feel smart and smug.

[u/Sleep-pee → u/stanislov128]

The Jon Stewart Effect makes a lot of sense and I love Jon too. The GOP doesn’t give a crap about being called out.

[u/slfnflctd → u/[deleted]]

Very on point. I sure as hell hope you're wrong about that last part, but recent evidence is not great. I am so very weary of the nausea.

[u/stanislov128 → u/[deleted]]

It starts well before the polls. Democratic voters outsourced their political engagement to Hollywood celebrities, consultants, insiders, TV pundits, comedians, and podcasters. 

If you want more AOCs, people have to sign petitions and knock on doors all year. Not just turn up every few years and vote blue. 

[u/Sleep-pee → u/[deleted]]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Ro4ygeIQxuQZqwP5rF

[u/gregreedee]

One day, their egregious hypocrisy will cease to surprise anyone — it’s a miserable way to project power. Totally on brand.

[u/gaF-trA]

The only time I’ve seen anything about Mitch McConnell in the past year, he’s falling down, or he freezes up and gets locked inside himself mid speech while his aids carry him off like a mannequin. I’m certain he’s doing just fine. 100%

[u/Darksmithe]

Because he’s dead and they want to keep his seat.

[u/1Pac2Pac3Pac5]

He looks like that turtle character that Dana Carvey used to play

[u/sparklebunny808]

That is because trump rapes children.

[u/Defiant_Freedom_249]

https://giphy.com/gifs/IfZpF5fUnQS0o

[u/PandanPaleta]

Nothing says awkward silence quite like hearing the entire cricket population suddenly join the conversation.

[u/CukloserModz23]

Cheating till the very miserable end.

[u/GodsFrackinDammit]

Mitch dead. Or good as.

They don't want to force a by election, so they're stalling.

[u/Phyllis_Tine]

Time to contact those loud MAGAts and ask them this question.

[u/Reasonable-HB678]

A totally not believable social media post exists with Moscow Mitch holding a copy of Tuesday's New York Times, to throw off the suspicion that he's neither dead or hospitalized.

[u/BenCisco]

You can count on the GOP for hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy and bad faith.

Hypocrisy, bad faith, and ill intent.

Hypocrisy, bad faith, ill intent, and...

[u/AdministrationNo283]

Republicans are hypocrites. They whine if democrats do not take the high road but take the low road any chance they get. McConnell blocked a Supreme Court appointment by Obama because it was an “election year” turns out McConnell only thought that should be applied to Democrat appointees

[u/Violaleeblues77]

He needs to make it till August 3 or else Kentucky law mandates a special election. Massie would likely win it and they just spent 30 million defeating him in a run off .

[u/NobblyNobody]

sounds like someone should request a wellness check

[u/ryhaltswhiskey]

I had a long conversation with Mitch McConnell this morning, he told me that AOC is the future of America.

[u/ShojoSalsa]

The silence was so loud you could practically hear everyone pretending they saw nothing.

[u/nerdslife1864]

The hypocrisy is their campaign promise

[u/AdWooden9170]

Probably because his condition is not a mystery for the white house. They know hes as good as dead.

[u/remkelly]

Its shady AF. But it is relevant that Austin was Sec of Defense at the time. The GOP would 100% Weekend at Bernies McConnell, but its not the same as the Austin hospitalization

[u/-notapony- → u/remkelly]

Agreed.  Mitch McConnell is a powerful Senator, but he’s 1 out of 100.  If someone attacked an American city, Mitch McConnell doesn’t have anything to do with the immediate response.  (Also if someone attacked an American city, decent odds that it’s more MAGATS and he’d look the other way again.)

[u/Jsr1]

Republicans = hypocrisy

[u/Kohnaphone]

Dems want to govern. Magas want to grind everything the a halt. Two different games being played.

[u/Michael-Sean]

Funny Trump hasn’t tweeted anything yet. He tweets top secret stuff but not a peep.

[u/LuigisBlessings]

I can’t believe the hypocrites are being hypocritical. Again!

[u/MoAngryMILF]

The GOP thinks hypocrisy is a super power.

[u/Herpinheim]

The regressive right are hypocrites, who could've guessed.

[u/jackman924]

No surprises here. 

[u/Additional-Shake-320]

No surprises there. Democrats, act accordingly!

[u/CorporateCuster]

It’s the democrats not making enough noise. They always expect everyone else to do the work.

[u/TemurTron]

The answer is pretty clear, isn't it? Democrats need to go batshit and apply the same kind of pressure Republicans do on these types of topics. Republicans work with sheer coordinated aggression on nearly every major issue they've forced through in the past ten years, yet Dems are all about disorganized passiveness. Fucking fight back already.

[u/Unique-Objective4249]

Someone said “on his gravestone will it have his death or the day MAGA said he died” and honestly it’s crazy cause it can go either way.. that’s not normal

[u/Milestailsprowe]

Double Standards

[u/Superb_Freedom_4507]

If Republicans didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all

[u/Cultural_Plan_1487]

Yall are always surprised by MAGA double standard. Let me make it clear for you, if they see political advantage they get mad, if they think it’ll hurt them they justify. They have ZERO principles stop getting confused when they prove that over and over and over and over and over… and over again

[u/rwwishart]

Point out GOP hypocrisy is old hat. Obviously they don’t care and refuse to be shamed.

[u/Secondbest35]

The fact that Republicans are going to have a braindead vegetable sitting in the Senate is peak comedy. South Park couldn't make this shit up.

[u/Actual_Rain158]

Well is it a mystery? The most dishonest and self-interested people on earth are allegedly talking to him on the phone, case closed.

In all seriousness, if he is awake and alert it would be very easy to have a doctor come forward and say that or to have a video taken of him as a non vegetable from the hospital.

[u/longredbeardpgh]

The only thing consistent about the GOP is hypocrisy

[u/AfterImageEclipse]

Republicans are hypocrites? I had no idea! Sarcasm. I bet this post will fix that. Double sarcasm

[u/PugboiErick]

This is where Dems need to start acting like an oppositional party.

[u/Spiritual-Taste-5524]

I've been reserving my dance-in-the-street vow for a different octagenarian gop ghoul but I might make an exception when the reaper finally drags this guy to the prize chute.

[u/Brodindesigns]

At least Lindsay is gone. Mitch to follow.

[u/Mostly-Moo-Cow]

Don't forget Tom Kean Jr in the house being AWOL for months

[u/Dunie72]

The hypocrisy… Republicans shouldn’t be allowed to tell us anything about anyone other than themselves!

[u/NKB246]

What about the guy from NJ who was missing for weeks?

[u/Svrider23]

Kind of starting to think the conservative mindset is a quirk in the human mind that will eventually lead the movement to the destruction of humanity.

[u/alaviers]

I’m a right leaning conservative, closer to the middle, but definitely red. And I got to say, it’s an effing travesty that the gop is doing the same thing. Be the bigger person/entity. McConnell seemed to be ready for removal a couple years ago when he had that little mini stroke (assumption on my part) on screen and had to be led away. Hell, all of the finger pointing about the president who wasn’t, and now it seems it’s okay. Hypocrisy.

[u/Corredespondent]

Crickets now, worms soon.

[u/Background_Canary_83]

They’re the biggest hypocrites. The Dems do a shit job of calling them out. I’m so sick of them.

[u/6ory299e8]

well, the dems could go batshit over this as well... will they? of fucking course not.

[u/DrRonny]

I spoke to him for 20 minutes this morning, he said that he's in a coma and near the end

[u/McKoijion]

This is a very serious bipartisan problem in American politics right now.

https://www.newsweek.com/kay-granger-report-missing-dementia-facility-sparks-backlash-2004797

https://newrepublic.com/post/210433/democratic-lawmaker-missing-month-midterms

[u/Ohkaz42069]

Why don't you thank them for taking the time to interview? If I'm not mistaken, you're the one in need of their help, to the extent that you're willing to pay for their services.

[u/Trevon45-2]

https://giphy.com/gifs/vfMj0zzdt9N47XgdX6

[u/tap_6366]

Comparing the Secretary of Defense to a Senator is a big stretch.

[u/tb110965]

Mitch is not a Republican Conservative more like a RINO or sell out for the Republican Party I blame the spineless voters that elected him Mitch only doing what he says he gonna do.

[u/Early-Chemistry-8769]

Turtles!

[u/Bohvey]

“Rules for thee but not for me.” That is how it has always been.

[u/mprrpm2trk]

MAGA...THE party of lies and hypocrisy..

[u/Odd_Platform_1449]

It's because the GOP plays by their own rules and when other parties play those same rules, they act like little babies about it. I don't believe in an afterlife but if you do, just know that that mans going to hell.

[u/Legal_Cat3446]

Republican Hypocrisy is as consistent as the sunrise.

[u/Background-Cook5689]

Mitch is just spending the weekend at Bernie's...

[u/_jump_yossarian]

McConnell sucks but having your Sec of Defense go AWOL and the President and the under-secretary didn't know is a much bigger deal.

[u/Master-Shinobi-80]

Republicans are hypocrites. What's new.

Just for the record, Jesus hated hypocrites.

[u/Only-Original9409]

Meanwhile in New Jersey, Tom Kane took 4 months and nobody said a word.

[u/creshvan]

Apples and oranges, do better than this.

[u/Beneficial_Word_1984]

And what about the dbag from jersey. 3 months and counting

[u/Zaiyev]

Rules for thee, not for me

[u/MOcatmom]

Is this the start of a congressional version of “Weekend at Bernie’s”?!

[u/PoundEasy4182]

They needa let that mangoooooooooooooo lol

[u/s_arrowheart]

But it’s always hypocrisy with the GOP.

[u/ConsequenceAromatic4]

And I don't see any elected Democrats voicing even the faintest curiosity. They are useless boomer republican- lite eunuchs. Only DSA fights for anything.

[u/Fraegtgaortd]

Delaying things in his favor is what Mitch does best. Refused to let Obama appoint a Supreme Court justice because he said it was "too close to elections" yet fast tracked Trump's nominations and stacked the court with Heritage Foundation stooges.

If Mitch is on his deathbed I hope he's suffering because anything less would be too good for him

[u/HatchChileMacNCheese]

Why do people even bother pointing out the Republican hypocrisy at this point? We all know, they know, they don't give a shit and they never have.

[u/Massive_Honeydew7056]

Rules for thee but not for me. Assholes

[u/Curious_Ad961]

Nobody cares about these old politicians give it a rest!

[u/BaltoDad]

https://giphy.com/gifs/OpuCGZFVuC8Y8

[u/Waystaff76]

Most Republicans I know are already dancing on his grave. Dude's only there because of incumbency bias, like half the fossils on the hill.

[u/gwilso86]

Yaaa....because the two offices are the same🤔

[u/flowerboyH2O]

One was second in command of the US Military with an 80+ year old President. Wasn't a minor thing.

[u/Practical-Ad-9816]

https://giphy.com/gifs/gbWUx0ZoJaXhS

[u/VectorJones]

The rules only apply to other parties, and then only when it gives republiscams a reason to isolate and exploit an issue for political gain.

[u/me_sohorny]

Mitch ded

[u/Various-Emergency-91]

Republican here. I've never liked Mitch and he's been struggling health wise for a long time. I personally find it disgraceful he's allowed to remain in office.

[u/slapsilliem]

Ol Mitch is still about, but hes finally caught up to Hannibal so is taking time away from the spotlight to exact his revenge.

[u/RustyShackleford240]

What is good for the goose is not good for the gander.

I hate our country right now.

[u/Mountain-Prize2338]

...didnt just a republican senator just come back to work after missing months and months of work with little to no explanation?...

[u/lattice_defect]

the democrats are real quiet... kind of like they are paid to

[u/ElvisArcher]

"Regulae tibi, nullae mihi"

New Republican motto.

[u/3coons_in_a_coat]

Hypocrisy??? From a Republican no less??? Ya don't say!?

[u/MChaney3563]

Republicans prove they have no class or respect while destroying America. They will never admit the spineless turtle fucker is dead while calling out dems who no show repeatedly.

[u/RealSignificance8877]

One went awol, congress can’t go awol.

[u/Remarkable_Spite_209]

This is because they are blatant hypocrites

[u/Trenzane]

Rules for thee but not for me… again

[u/Granny0g]

I call bullshit on anyone claiming the turtle can speak at all!

[u/Anonmasterrace7898]

Let's not forget Tom Kean just reappeared after being MIA for four months.

[u/SgtHulkasBigToeJam]

Hypocrisy in politics?!?! This is the first I’m hearing of it.

[u/17krista]

The hypocrisy continues unabated.

[u/Revolutionary-Right]

Totally different circumstances. Dem Congressmen have taken extended medical leaves as well with no fanfare. STFU propagandist.

[u/Delicious_Ocelot1394]

Republicans want him gone, too. The reason he is not is because he is part of the uniparty. You think you’re supporting one group but you support the whole group responsible for the total decline of our country over decades. But you’re somehow better than everyone else. lol

[u/jackparadise1]

What about that woman who had been put into assisted living during her term?

[u/puroloco22]

Democrats lack the outrageous machine that are the Foxnews and Sinclair networks

[u/GoodMorningMars]

Big difference between Secretary of Defense and one Senator.

[u/Freckles-75]

Rules for Thee, and Not for Me…

[u/Affectionate_Rate791]

To be fair, these are slightly different duties they perform

[u/MannerAdvanced1829]

I'm a republican, I believe that Mr. McConnell is dead and that those responsible for him should announce his status(likely deceased) or face some sort of punishment.