US senator Mitch McConnell on Sunday revealed for the first time that a fall led to his hospitalization, breaking the silence about the Kentucky Republican’s condition after weeks of mounting speculation about his health.
The statement included a smiling picture of McConnell with his wife, Elaine Chao, a tacit response to speculation online that he had died or was incapacitated. McConnell held a copy of Sunday’s Washington Post sports section in his hand.
Physical newspapers use shitty font/dpi, part of why it’s huge.
It’s weird he’s grasping like that, but that’s the important bit. It’s an instinctual grasping response even infants have, and people only grab everything in reach when their higher facilities are compromised.
For the last year he’s been freezing in public, long before this “fall”, his brain is shutting down and accumulating damage