Everyone speculating it was a stroke, but he might have just realized he shit his pants. He is old, either explanation seems likely.
It makes me mad at myself, but his fear and confusion in that moment was cathartic. You have to hurt a lot of people eyes wide open to actually deserve the suffering of witnessing your own mind and sense of self crumbling from the inside, but Reagan was and McConnell is on that list.
We at least got to witness him experience a tiny sliver of the shame, pain, and terror of the Americans he inflicted his cruelty on for decades with a shit eating grin so he could cut his own taxes and that of his country club friends on the backs of hard working, struggling human beings.
No sympathy for the devil. I’ll remember you this way, Mitch. Now go fade away you spooky, sociopathic fuck.
Some of the comments in this thread really show how quickly both sides are to dehumanize one another.
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Dehumanizing fascists is morally acceptable.
sounds familiar
Tolerance is a peace treaty, them wishing for and enacting policies that would lead to the deaths of people like me and the people I love means that my ability to tolerate them is gone.
I will happily read this guy’s obituary and the obituaries of his cohorts.
He is a human whose obituary I will read with great pleasure.
But that’s a turtle.