Sen. Mitch McConnell has been hospitalized for an undisclosed medical issue, according to a spokesperson.

The 84-year-old was admitted to a hospital Sunday morning and “is receiving excellent care,” his office said.

It wasn’t immediately made public why he was taken to the hospital.

McConnell has suffered a series of health issues in recent years and was hospitalized for eight days in February for flu-like symptoms.

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    Imagine if he were doing literally any other job. How ridiculous it would be for him not to have retired yet

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      I don’t even really understand why people like that cling to power the way they do.

      They’re literally dying on the job. Don’t they want to retire? Spend their money a bit?

      They’re not even a dictator where everyone and their mother will come after the scraps of the kingdom when they show weakness.

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        These people are basically retired. Their primary activity is fundraising, which is talking to the same few hundred people for the last 30 years. Helping constituents is handled by the office, so are policy decisions. They actually work for a few days a quarter, and the perks more than compensate for it.

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        It’s not just a job anymore, it’s their entire identity. We all work with people like this at some point. The job is all they are, they have nothing else outside of that. Add the control fetish so many of them have and they cannot leave.

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      People need protection from this. Mandatory agree limits for all public functions.

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      If he even knows where he is. There’s an incredibly high chance he’ll just space out again as his brain fails to connect to the rest of his body.

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    It’d be nice if people would start reminding him that once he kicks the bucket, he’s heading somewhere very hot and unpleasant. And we love that for him.

    And if religion is wrong, then he’s going to the void of endless nothing and he is going to be remembered for being a PoS waste of oxygen who protects pedophiles.

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    Health tip for everyone:

    Drink more water.

    No. Not because it’s good for you. But because in the next few years, there’s going to be an awful lot of graves coming up to be pissing on.

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    “It wasn’t immediately made public why he was taken to the hospital.”

    Oh, maybe because he fucking 84 and shouldn’t represent Americans. Dude was alive when we dropped the atomic bomb during world war 2.

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    He opened the his car window and was nearly pummeled to death by his own wattle, saved u a klik

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    Hope your death is only as painful as you deserve, Mitch - You were a vicious cancer on the world that we nay never recover from, and all because you got caught having sex with a guy in the military.