Which shoulder? pic.twitter.com/nrV7uSWMF6
— Schooley (@Rschooley) August 4, 2019
“Tripped”:
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was briefly hospitalized after suffering a fractured shoulder from a fall outside his home in Louisville on Sunday, his office said in a statement.
“This morning, Leader McConnell tripped at home on his outside patio and suffered a fractured shoulder. He has been treated, released, and is working from home in Louisville,” McConnell spokesman David Popp said in a statement.
McConnell was in touch with Sens. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) on Sunday “to express his deepest sympathies for the people of El Paso and Dayton and discuss the senseless tragedies of this weekend,” the statement said…
McConnell, 77, is running for a seventh term in the Senate next year.
Not sure a doctor’s note is gonna be enough to let him escape this time:
A growing number of Democrats are calling on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to cancel the chamber’s August recess so that they can take up gun control legislation in the wake of two mass shootings this weekend.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called on the Republican leader to end the chamber’s break to vote on a universal background check bill after the two shootings — one in Dayton, Ohio, and another in El Paso, Texas — left at least 29 dead and 53 injured in a matter of just 13 hours. The Senate is currently in recess until September.
The bill Schumer is referencing, H.R.8 or the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019, would create new background check requirements for gun transfers between unlicensed individuals. It passed the Democrat-controlled House in February 240-190, with two members not voting…
Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, made the same plea in a tweet on Sunday.
“Thoughts and prayers are not enough. We must act. Mitch McConnell please call the Senate back to work tomorrow and let us vote on gun-safety laws,” he tweeted. He also told CBS’ “Face The Nation” that “the president needs to sign this bill.”…
[Last remaining black GOP congressman]Tim Scott, R-S.C., told “Face The Nation” on Sunday that he willing to come back to the Senate to work on gun safety measures.
“I’d do it tonight, I’d leave tonight, I’ll go tomorrow. It doesn’t matter to me, this is such an important issue and an issue that we sometimes only get part of the picture because of the mass shootings,” he said…
“If we have anything to pass along, we will,” McConnell spokesman David Popp told NBC News when asked if there were any plans to come back into session during the five-week August recess.
I wonder how Mitch would have reacted if he showed up at the hospital and he was told there won’t be any doctors there until the election.
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) August 4, 2019
Raoul
Thoughts and schadenfreude.
Llelldorin
Poor guy—he uses his shoulders for shrugging all the time! So close to his head, too, which he never uses…
M31
well, the blood of murdered innocents is pretty slippery
John Revolta
Guess he won’t be reaching across the aisle so much for awhile……………….
What? Too soon?
geg6
Fuck him. I hope he falls again and breaks the other one.
germy
I hope he has good health insurance.
Omnes Omnibus
I am so upset. I seem to have misplaced my tiny violin. Has anyone seen it?
SiubhanDuinne
Is there such a thing as an inside patio?
Ksmiami
New slogan- “Eliminate the GOP- they’re as impotent at governing as they are in bed!”
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
Here you go:
Kelly
Open Thread? It’s been a bitterly sad weekend. Perhaps some beauty is what you need. Here’s some pics of our visit to Yachats on the Oregon Coast last week. The morning low tides were -1.6 and the weather was lovely.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/HoTFwwANSjKErsxS8
germy
@Omnes Omnibus:
I’ll need a scanning electron microscope.
John S.
@SiubhanDuinne:
Maybe a veranda, portico or lanai qualifies?
Although they are all defined by being open to the outside, so perhaps not.
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: Great. Thanks. Now I can actively not play it in sympathy.
debbie
@SiubhanDuinne:
Late happy birthday!
schrodingers_cat
@SiubhanDuinne: May be he has a courtyard.
germy
They’re telling us it was a fall on his patio.
Is it possible he forgot his safe word while being head-scissored by Elaine?
It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
LAC
Aim a little higher and break your fucking neck next time.
Ruckus
@SiubhanDuinne:
Is that a 10,000 times enlargement?
Because it looks huge. At least for my give a fuck violin. Mine was made by ants, using an ant sized electron microscope and lasers because there are no physical cutting tools small enough.
Damn, beaten to the punch again. This is getting older than I am.
SiubhanDuinne
@debbie:
Thanks, Debbie!
Ruckus
@LAC:
How do you really feel?
Best not to say, as you probably know.
germy
germy
Jay
JDM
@M31:
Especially when you just can’t resist doing a little dance in it.
Mike in NC
77-year-old geezer Mitch McConnell was evacuated by special jet to Vladimir I. Lenin General Hospital #5 in Moscow for surgery for which 90% of his constituents are ineligible. He’s expected to coast to easy re-election.
germy
The accident was captured by his home video system:
SiubhanDuinne
@germy:
Please pass the brain bleach.
Raven
@schrodingers_cat: we have a”sun porch” with brick tile that doubles as a dining room. It has French doors that lead out to our screen porch.
Another Scott
@Kelly: Very nice. Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
germy
@SiubhanDuinne: She heard that loud snap! and said “Uh, oh…”
But by then he’d passed out.
Anyway, that’s how I think it happened.
Ohio Mom
I never gave any thought to how old McConnell was, he’s older than I would have guessed.
Joining everyone else in not feeling sorry at all.
schrodingers_cat
@Raven: Many traditional Indian houses have an inner courtyard with verandahs surrounding them that lead to different rooms.
The Dangerman
While a staunch pacifist, I’m enjoying the thought of perhaps Merrick Garland came by to say “hello” (no disrespect intended for Mr. Garland, no respect intended for Mitch).
Ksmiami
@germy: theoretically could the doctors refuse to treat him because of their moral and religious values? I mean I wouldn’t give him water in the desert let alone patch him up?
Kay
Except they don’t stand united. None of them “stand” at all. They’re all subservient to Donald Trump. By Monday they’ll all be kissing his ass again. They’re embarrassing, cringing cowards. I get an authoritarian mindset but Jesus Christ, look at the person they chose to worship. He’s not even charismatic. He’s awful.
Suzanne
@John S.: Maybe it was really a balcony or a mezzanine.
I’m not a very good person. I only sent #thoughtsandprayers .
bemused
@Jay:
Jesus. Who is teaching them to hate and kill ffs?
Suzanne
Someone in another politics forum I read noted that McConnell’s shell obviously failed to protect him.
I LOLed.
Raven
@schrodingers_cat: Cool, our old house had an 8ft wide hallway from front to back. We used 4ft of it for half the length for a stairway. It’s interesting because the walls of the sun porch are exterior siding so, with the brick floor, it be funky!
SWMBO
@Kay: Rick Scott is just Happy that, with McConnell’s insurance, the hospital is sure to get paid. Rand Paul went to Canada for his surgery. Pity we let him back into this country though.
Suzanne
@germy:
Maybe wetsuits and a dildo were involved.
schrodingers_cat
@Raven: Sounds cool. I has porch envy.
Van Buren
I have to say, I never thought McConnell was the type to drop acid.
zhena gogolia
@Kelly:
Most beautiful place I’ve ever been.
Steve in the ATL
@germy: no way. She’s a beard. If he liked women, he wouldn’t have been kicked out of the army.
B.B.A.
I’ve heard that Cocaine Mitch had polio as a child, and he still has muscle issues to this day. Now I don’t want to mock someone’s disabilities, even someone as amoral and malevolent as Cocaine Mitch… but if he had polio-related issues, how did he get into the military to begin with? Setting aside the mysterious circumstances of his discharge, which I’m 50% convinced is concealing a career-ending scandal and 50% convinced it’s just a long troll.
Skepticat
NEEDLESS and senseless.
@JDM:
For the win.
Jay
@bemused:
It’s the ususal song and dance around the actual issues that get’s played on a loop at Faux News.
4 hours after the El Paso shooter and his manifesto had been arrested and identified, Faux News was still speculating that it might still be ISIL or MS-13.
mrmoshpotato
Thoughts that the turtle-faced, fascist motherfucker can go fuck himself. Prayers that he burns in hell while a line of people pisses on his grave.
bemused
@Jay:
Not an ounce of humanity exists in these creatures.
mrmoshpotato
@Kelly: Nice pictures. I hope that sprinkler isn’t busted and spewing water straight up.
smintheus
I blame video games for McConnell’s fall. Also Hollywood, in part.
Mary G
@Omnes Omnibus: @SiubhanDuinne: Happy belated birthday!
I like to imagine that Moscow Mitch was so enraged by all the protesters who shouted down his speech at Fancy Farms (actual name) yesterday that he didn’t look where he was stamping. Karma is a bitch.
tokyokie
@SiubhanDuinne: I was also thinking that “outside patio” was redundant. But then the flack who put out the statement with that redundancy said McConnell “suffered a fracture shoulder,” which, were it phrased in active voice, would be the more concise “fractured a shoulder.” So it’s not like McConnell hired the guy for his brilliant English abilities.
Kelly
@mrmoshpotato: It a whimsical whale sculpture spouting in the lawn
SRW1
@Ohio Mom:
In turtle terms, 77 human years is still pretty spritely.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Ksmiami
Poor patio…
Jay
joel hanes
@germy:
Mitch doesn’t get off on women.
Ms. Chao is his beard and the source of his fortune, not his wife in the romantic sense — and in return, the interests of her family’s
smugglingshipping firm has a protector in DC.It’s a business/political partnership.
mrmoshpotato
@Mary G: Fancy Farm, KY – if that name doesn’t scream “BROTHEL!” or “goat fucking”…
mrmoshpotato
@Kelly: Oh. Didn’t put 2 and 2 together. Very whimsical, very whale.
Ruckus
@SWMBO:
Canada probably asked him to leave. You know to improve the place.
West of the Rockies
@geg6:
Yes! Call me petty, but I’m glad the turtle took a little tumble. As Lump said of the Cummings home burglary, “Too bad.” Is McConnell in pain? Good.
Doug R
@SWMBO:
@Ruckus:
“America’s not sending their best people”.
Sister Golden Bear
@Kay:
Feature not a bug. To them it’s proof that most incompetent white guy is better than any POC (or women, or LGBT folks).
Steeplejack (phone)
@Kelly:
Nice pictures.
rk
Pity it wasn’t his neck. Maybe next time.
Jay
Sister Golden Bear
@germy, @Ksmiami: “The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t. Not without your help. But you’re not helping.”
Yes, I’m channelling our blood-thirsty Hawaiian apocalypticist today….
debbie
@germy:
You made me click! :-/
satby
@Jay: funny, I was accused of being on the side of the antifa today.
debbie
@Jay:
You’d think he’d suggest teaching them how to hump the flag instead, no?
Omnes Omnibus
@Sister Golden Bear: NotMax isn’t particularly bloodthirsty.
Ajabu
Fuck the turtle. A year ago I tripped and fractured my shoulder. 48 hours later I was at work playing a fucking marimba. I couldn’t even dress myself but went to work anyway because I had no choice. So I truly hope this repulsive mothafucka is in agony for many months to come. Thots and prairs my black ass…
I take great pleasure in knowing that he can’t even tie a necktie around his scrawny neck.
Mothafucka…
Sister Golden Bear
@Omnes Omnibus: I wasn’t referring to NotMax.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
Is it wrong to hope he’s still in excruciating pain? I don’t care. I hope he’s still in excruciating pain.
Omnes Omnibus
@Sister Golden Bear: I know.
Citizen Alan
@satby:
Take pride in it. I would if someone accused me of that.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mary G:
Thank you!
SiubhanDuinne
@tokyokie:
Good point.
Bill Arnold
Hope Sen MM is learning a lesson about random life-threatening health events. He could have broken his neck, or damaged his skull, with very slightly different falls. How is his health otherwise? He looks pretty close to being worm food[0] in recent photos. (IMO.)
Were stairs involved? (I am curious, for reasons.)
[0] Reading this ATM: Mutualism and biodiversity in soils (Lavelle et al, 1995) – “larger organisms interact with micro-organisms through the “external rumen” or facultative endosymbiotic digestive systems.” – “external rumen” is a term of the art for the soil being part of the digestive system of some earthworm species. That is, they eat, shit, eat their shit, repeat.
SWMBO
@SiubhanDuinne: @Omnes Omnibus: Happy belated Birthday! I wish for you all the wonderful things you wish for yourselves.
schrodingers_cat
@SiubhanDuinne: Happy Belated Birthday.
SiubhanDuinne
@SWMBO:
That’s nice. Thank you.
schrodingers_cat
Was it an accident? Or did Putin’s henchmen pay a visit?
rikyrah
Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) Tweeted:
19 out of 20 murderers have no mental illness diagnosis.
4 out of 5 mass shooters have no mental illness diagnosis, and half showed no signs on a prior, undiagnosed illness.
Framing this as just a mental illness problem is a gun industry trope. Period. Stop. https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1158135236858961921?s=17
SiubhanDuinne
@schrodingers_cat:
Thanks, SC!
satby
And I’m not sure I buy that a 77 year old guy fell, fractured a bone, and “was treated and released”. Wouldn’t the hospital want to keep him overnight just to rule out possible causes of the fall? I suspect a ploy to avoid calling the Senate back into session.
SFAW
@germy:
It was MORE irresponsible to omit a trigger warning for that line about Traitor Turtle and Elaine. Now I gotta go to Shaw’s for two gallons of brain bleach
SFAW
@SiubhanDuinne:
Belated Happy Birthday, young one!
SFAW
@schrodingers_cat:
If they had, he wouldn’t be “treated and released” — except to the morgue.
But we can always hope.
SFAW
@Ajabu:
I know a large number of persons who would gladly help with that.
LesGS
I guess I’m not as far gone into living in a state of hatred as I thought. It took me a few hours to think, “Too bad the break wasn’t four inches higher…”
I’m going to be so happy when McConnell is gone from the Senate. If that takes his being gone from life, too, oh well!
cwmoss
@zhena gogolia: @zhena gogolia: We’ve got 400 miles of coastline like Yachats here in the 33rd state, all of it public access.
Ladyraxterinok
@Omnes Omnibus: @Jay: Remember 1st and immediate reaction of media to OKC Bombing was to zero in on a poor Muslim living quietly in OKC area.
Ladyraxterinok
@joel hanes: iIRC Mitch has several adult children from 1st wife. Heard couple at least don’t support his politics.
Ladyraxterinok
@rk: Didn’t Dem majority leader have a painful accident at about same age when he was in office?
thalarctosMaritimus
@Ksmiami: You’re reminding me an old Doonesbury cartoon where Kissinger’s heart surgeon tells him that he had him opened up on the operating room table, and was holding in his hands the heart of a war criminal. “Then I thought of my Hippocratic oath, and sewed you back up.”. he told Kissinger.
mrmoshpotato
Well this showed up in my YouTube feed: Ben Folds – Moscow Mitch
Elizabelle
@satby:
Bingo. I was wondering about that too. Way to stay off the Sunday shows, and not be hounded for a response to 2 large gun massacres in less than 24 hours.
May breaking his shoulder be the highlight of Moscow Mitch’s week.