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Sunday Evening Open Thread: I’m Not Feeling Much Pity

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“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.

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  2. 2.

    Llelldorin

    Poor guy—he uses his shoulders for shrugging all the time! So close to his head, too, which he never uses…

  8. 8.

    SiubhanDuinne

    This morning, Leader McConnell tripped at home on his outside patio

    Is there such a thing as an inside patio?

  9. 9.

    Ksmiami

    New slogan- “Eliminate the GOP- they’re as impotent at governing as they are in bed!”

  17. 17.

    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.

  19. 19.

    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.

  24. 24.

    Jay

    Here's part of Texas Lt. Gov Dan Patrick's appearance on Fox & Friends, where he uses the El Paso shooting to call for federal government intervention in the video game industry, more prayer in schools, and more saluting the flag, among other things. pic.twitter.com/8xqkEyvvH7— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) August 4, 2019

  25. 25.

    JDM

    @M31:

    well, the blood of murdered innocents is pretty slippery.

    Especially when you just can’t resist doing a little dance in it.

  26. 26.

    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.

  28. 28.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @germy:

    Is it possible he forgot his safe word while being head-scissored by Elaine?

    Please pass the brain bleach.

  32. 32.

    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.

  34. 34.

    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).

  35. 35.

    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?

  36. 36.

    Kay

    Rick Scott
    @SenRickScott
    ·29m
    What we’ve seen in the last 24 hours in El Paso and Dayton is devastating. Hate and intolerance are corrupting too many of our young people.
    White nationalism is a cancer on our country. We all stand united against this evil.

    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.

  39. 39.

    Suzanne

    Someone in another politics forum I read noted that McConnell’s shell obviously failed to protect him.

    I LOLed.

  40. 40.

    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!

  41. 41.

    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.

  42. 42.

    Suzanne

    @germy:

    Is it possible he forgot his safe word while being head-scissored by Elaine?

    It would be irresponsible not to speculate.

    Maybe wetsuits and a dildo were involved.

  47. 47.

    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.

  48. 48.

    Skepticat

    and discuss the senseless tragedies of this weekend,

    NEEDLESS and senseless.

    @JDM:

    well, the blood of murdered innocents is pretty slippery.
    Especially when you just can’t resist doing a little dance in it.

    For the win.

  49. 49.

    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.

  50. 50.

    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.

  54. 54.

    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.

  55. 55.

    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.

  57. 57.

    SRW1

    @Ohio Mom:

    I never gave any thought to how old McConnell was, he’s older than I would have guessed.

    In turtle terms, 77 human years is still pretty spritely.

  58. 58.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    Ava DuVernay
    @ava

    1h
    Happy Birthday, Mr. President. At times like this, I wish you were still leading us. Actually, at all times, I wish you were leading us. But thankful for the time we had. Blessings to you and your family today, @BarackObama
    . And many more.

    1.3K Retweets 8.4K Likes

  61. 61.

    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 smuggling shipping firm has a protector in DC.

    It’s a business/political partnership.

  65. 65.

    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.

  66. 66.

    Doug R

    @SWMBO:

    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.

    @Ruckus:

    Canada probably asked him to leave. You know to improve the place.

    “America’s not sending their best people”.

  70. 70.

    Jay

    As we reckon with the fallout from another incident of white supremacist hate crime, terroristic mass murder, I remind you all of two things:- the people best equipped to identify potential assailants are fighting terrorism allegations;

    – the next attack is only weeks away.

    — The Problem is White Supremacy (@EmilyGorcenski) August 4, 2019

  71. 71.

    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….

  76. 76.

    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…

  78. 78.

    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.

  83. 83.

    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.

  90. 90.

    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.

  91. 91.

    SFAW

    @germy:

    It would be irresponsible not to speculate.

    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

  93. 93.

    SFAW

    @schrodingers_cat:

    Was it an accident? Or did Putin’s henchmen pay a visit?

    If they had, he wouldn’t be “treated and released” — except to the morgue.

    But we can always hope.

  94. 94.

    SFAW

    @Ajabu:

    I take great pleasure in knowing that he can’t even tie a necktie around his scrawny neck.

    I know a large number of persons who would gladly help with that.

  95. 95.

    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!

  99. 99.

    Ladyraxterinok

    @rk: Didn’t Dem majority leader have a painful accident at about same age when he was in office?

  100. 100.

    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.

  102. 102.

    Elizabelle

    @satby:

    I suspect a ploy to avoid calling the Senate back into session.

    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.

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