Mitch McConnell Is Decaying In Plain Sight

82-year-old Mitch McConnell fell twice at the Capitol this week and had to leave the premises in a wheelchair. The man is rapidly deteriorating before our very eyes, but his case is just one of many for our geriatric leaders. These problems can no longer be ignored, and the public must come together to demand that we put either term limits in place or demand mental and physical health checks with full disclosure to the public. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Republican Senator Mitch McConnell fell twice, once down the stairs of the Capitol building on Wednesday of this week. This is now the sixth or seventh time in the last two years alone that Mitch McConnell has taken a nasty fall. In fact, the falls, two of them once again on the Capitol steps, one in the cafeteria where he fell with a whole plate of food were so bad that he had to be escorted out of the capitol in a wheelchair. Mitch McConnell is 82 years old. He has been serving in the united, uh, United States Senate since I was two years old, actually almost two years old. So he's been there for 40 years. He is not well. He keeps falling down and his, his press department had the audacity to say this after the falls on Wednesday when he was escorted out in a wheelchair. They said, Senator McConnell's fine.

The lingering effects of polio in his left leg will not disrupt his regular schedule of work. There's only so many times that y'all can continue to blame this on the polio that he did have when he was a child. Because here's the thing, he, uh, as I said, been there 40 years. Polio from his childhood didn't seem to bother him during the first 37 years, right? No. So unless he's, you know, kind of had a resurgence of it, this is old age talking and yes, I know the polio did in fact cause some damage and that damage is gonna get worse with old age, but it's getting worse with old age, right? The age factor is the underlying condition here. He concussed himself a year and a half ago in one of these falls, froze up multiple times in the middle of speaking. His brain is not working.

You can't blame that crap on polio. It's his age. There is a time, and that time is actually several years ago. But if not, then now when the public has to demand that we get these geriatric people who are literally deteriorating before our eyes, they have to go. The Democrats have done it. The Republicans have done it. Feinstein died in office because she was too stubborn to retire, even though she didn't know what the hell was going on around her anymore. We got a man in the White House right now, the oldest person ever to be sworn in as president of the United States. This is an issue, but the only one they wanted to talk about the media was, was Biden. Oh, oh, he is getting old and he is slipping. Yeah, he sure was, but Mitch McConnell's literally slipping. And this is like, was a blip in the radar. Gone. We are ruled by people who are Aspen. Put it in a brilliant article a couple months ago, dying to stay in office.

Quite literally, the public has to demand term limits, right? We have to get these people out of there. So you don't end up with a Mitch McConnell who goes into office in his forties and then stays there till his eighties, till he can't even function as a human being anymore. Term limits are the answer. And if we can't get that, and I do think that this shouldn't be a, a plan B, I think this should be part of the original plan too. Then we need comprehensive mental and physical health checks on every single member of Congress and government official every year, at least once a year, maybe twice would be preferable. And all of that information fully revealed to the public.

I know that's a violation of hipaa. Well, we can sign waivers and they can agree to it or else they can't run for office. That's how you change that rule. It's, it's quite simple. I mean, the process of actually doing that would be insanely difficult, but I think given the public's mentality right now on our aging leaders, I think we'd be able to get it done.