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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReminder: Mitch McConnell said there was NOTHING wrong with his health when
this photograph was taken, to which this nurse (me) calls bullshit:
https://www.thecut.com/2020/10/whats-going-on-with-mitch-mcconnells-hands.html
POLITICS OCT. 23, 2020
Whats Going On With Mitch McConnells Hands?
Earlier this week, an arresting image emerged online: a tightly cropped photograph of discolored, purplish hands bearing a few small bandages, limply hanging from the sleeves of a black suit. They belonged to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Due to its haunting nature, the photo which was captured on October 20 quickly took off on social-media platforms.
Speculation about McConnells health abounded, and people pointed out that the area around his mouth also appeared bruised. There were several theories as to what could have happened, with some even wondering whether he might have had the coronavirus. A few days later, McConnell seemed to address the online uproar directly, insisting that absolutely nothing is wrong with his health.
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That is NOT a healthy dude.
I would be a liar if I said anything nice right now, so I'll just keep some of that crap to myself and call it good.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)nt
dweller
(23,737 posts)And his hands showed defensive wounds
🤔
✌🏻
Maru Kitteh
(28,353 posts)And a metric f-ton of blood thinners.
May Mother Nature have her way with him.
brewens
(13,717 posts)mouth?
Lefta Dissenter
(6,623 posts)TERRIBLE IMAGE in my brain now!!! Wheres the bleach?
True Dough
(17,440 posts)to show up for work AND FIGHT FOR THE FORCES OF EVIL!!!
It's admirable as hell when Jamie Raskin does it. But Mitch, he should have just stayed home a long time ago.
FSogol
(45,624 posts)a blueberry.
Captain Zero
(6,903 posts)All bruised up from falls. Maybe his blood pressure is running LOW?
OF COURSE any number of underlying conditions could be the real reason for low blood pressure and falls.
Maru Kitteh
(28,353 posts)So yeah - LOTS of falling. Does look like it could very well be episodes of syncope.
PCIntern
(25,704 posts)Gee
Think maybe theres a circulatory issue
?
Or perhaps hes modeling for a standin in one of those ER revivals of gangrene occurring.
Maru Kitteh
(28,353 posts)faded to yellow. Dude was not in good shape then, and so very few improve with age so . . . . let the countdown begin.
samplegirl
(11,551 posts)And the bruises from blood thinners has made it worse!
Laffy Kat
(16,402 posts)Ilsa
(61,721 posts)"He's so vigorous, he exercises in fight clubs."
Yeah, that's the ticket.
Hands, face, lips, chin are all bruised or recovering from bruising. Lots of falling going on there, I think. Or Elaine Chao is tired of his BS.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,985 posts)Should he step down though the Kentucky legislature that it has to be an appointment from his party.
wnylib
(21,890 posts)so Bashear can appoint the newly minted "Republican." If Republicans in Kentucky complain, Dems can just say that they are honoring McConnell's memory by using the kind of political tactics that he would endorse.
OR, to really commemorate McConnell, Bashear could just leave his seat open, with no appointment at all in order to "let the people choose" at election time. It's what McConnell would have done.
If Bashear does not use one or the other of those tactics to get around McConnell's attempt to control his own replacement, I will be very disappointed in him.
Laffy Kat
(16,402 posts)He may be on blood thinners, too. It looks like he may have had an IV in his hand or had a fall.
Maru Kitteh
(28,353 posts)Is not something that will happen to all of us though. THAT is Mitch McConnell.
Scrivener7
(51,119 posts)I wondered about a cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
Maru Kitteh
(28,353 posts)bruising, turned yellow beneath both eyes.
Falls.
gab13by13
(21,611 posts)but with those hands he better be on blood thinners for them to look like that.
Maru Kitteh
(28,353 posts)elias7
(4,041 posts)Doesnt explain whats happening peri-orally though. Looks almost cyanotic, which in his age might be relative hypoxemia.
Sanity Claws
(21,872 posts)and he is still alive.
gab13by13
(21,611 posts)Wednesdays
(17,556 posts)John Ludi
(589 posts)his Dorian Grey-type portrait, but he always looked like a putrid sausage sack stuffed with rotten clams to me.
leftieNanner
(15,218 posts)Along with blood thinners.
My mom had that problem.
McConnell is clearly unhealthy.
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)Are we pretty sure that the photo wasn't shopped?
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