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Punchbowl News reports that the former Senate majority leader, who is retiring after his current term ends in January, lost consciousness at his Washington, D.C., home at 8:36 a.m. on June 14, before a dispatcher sent over an Advanced Life Support ambulance. Journalist Desiree Townsend posted a recording of the call from the emergency dispatcher Tuesday afternoon to X.

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[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 14 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

You know, dying in office used to be notable and fairly uncommon. Mostly assassinations, plane accidents, etc.

But now our government is more of a hospice than anything else.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Please be dead please please please

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

If he weren't, I feel like they would have said so.

[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 14 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Mitch, god is telling you to retire. Listen to her.

[–] NM_Gringo@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

We've reached peak Republican when we have to demand proof of life from the hospital for a GOP senator from a state with a Dem governor.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 9 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I predict Mitch showing up to the next senate vote wearing this

[–] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 hours ago

Republicans would still vote for that over a Democrat

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 6 points 13 hours ago

ah a wooden overcoat, excellent choice

[–] jerome@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

They are going to Bernie him until they can be sure they'd get another republican just as malicious as he was.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago

Sort of like Stalin, eh?

[–] KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

When asked if he enjoys having no power over the machine he helped create, he shat himself as opposed to his usual routine of pissing himself. The foul odor was a sign of distress.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 day ago

Why couldn't this have happened like, 20 years ago

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 day ago (7 children)

If I found him I'd have left him

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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Too little, too late.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day ago

He is one of the most responsible people for where American politics are today.
Absolutely no conscience and no morals, he is as close to pure evil a politician can get. He was among the main people that created the circumstances that allowed Trump to become president of USA.

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 132 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Don’t party, he’s still alive, and an absolute disgrace to turtles.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

I wouldn’t wish pain on anybody. It’s a good thing he’s a nobody.

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 5 points 16 hours ago

Correct, I still have to find his final phylactery and destroy it, this happened right after I got to the penultimate

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (12 children)

We need term limits for Congress.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think Congress needs age limits more than term limits.

[–] diablomnky@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe something along the lines of, if you're eligible to collect social security, then you're too old to serve in government.

[–] PurpleHawkeye619@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Dont do that. That just incentivizes getting rid of social security so congress can keep their power till death

[–] diablomnky@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

If it's coupled with term limits, mandatory voting, and making running in a primary like jury duty, it might work.

[–] PurpleHawkeye619@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Genuinely curious what you mean about making running in a primary like jury duty?

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (7 children)

At his funeral, throw a fire extinguisher in his grave. Where he is going, he will need it.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago

Don't waste a perfectly good fire extinguisher on that slug. Give him an empty one with a hole in the side, because that's about as much as he gave the citizens on the country.

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