There was a national reckoning after the 2024 presidential campaign about federal officials — Joe Biden and his White House, specifically — hiding important health information from the public. But the hiding hasn’t stopped. If anything, it appears to be getting worse. Increasingly, some very high-profile public officials seem to have concluded that constituents and the broader public simply aren’t entitled to basic information explaining lengthy absences from their jobs. And their staffs are enabling them.
Republican Rep. Tom Kean of New Jersey recently returned to the House after spending more than 100 days away with no explanation at the time, ultimately citing depression. Now, questions are building about the also mysterious and now weeks long absence of GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
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Mitch McConnell, Joe Biden and the growing epidemic of politicians hiding health problems: https://cnn.it/4vg0inZ
Their PRIVATE life has no effect on their PUBLIC Life. People love to say that
📰 Sen. Mitch McConnell was hospitalized weeks ago, but new details about his health have been few and far between.
Audio from an emergency medical services dispatch suggests that McConnell, 84, was reported unconscious at his Washington residence in June, prompting an advanced life support response. However, his office says the former Senate majority leader’s health is improving.
How in F do you do this story without mentioning trump? Oh I forgot, israeli owned.
Must you really inflict Scott Jennings on your audience? Yuck. I’ll get the story somewhere else.
You can tell CNN is now owned by Trump. Given that Trump’s health is worse than Biden’s, but there’s literally no mention of him, and yet he’s the current president.
Y’all bringing up Joe Biden but ignoring Donald Trump’s mental decline!
It is apparent that out Leadership’s failure to disclose health crisis is their means of staying in power.
Sadly it was true of Biden; who definitely should have stepped down. It is true of Donald. Remember Feinstein and McCain? Ronald Reagan…
We have a problem. Term limits and age restrictions will be beneficial in helping alleviate these problems.
Blinders people have on are amazing
“What’s with them?” They’re liars, surrounded by layers of liars. Grifting off governance, lining they and their “consultant” mates’ pockets & blowing donors. They don’t give a f🤬k about ordinary Americans.
How about from Trump?
They forgot the woman who was in a memory care center.
Most Americans don’t have the option of being missing from work with out letting their boss know why.
Yeah this aged really well.
Interesting at 1:38 when the guy brings up Biden the immediate reaction is well do you have medical proof Biden wasn’t mentally totally with it? But it’s fine to speculate on whatever is happening to McConnell or whatever Republican we want to fill in the blank with. Ha CNN what a joke. Is there not a place for unbiased reporting? What happened to the media, it’s shameful.
Mitch needs to go before congress and explain why he left the good folks of Kentucky without representation for more than a month. He can start with a video taken with reporters present as proof of life.
Notice you left Trump out of the equation
How far have we come in 90 years?? We haven’t. In 1933 FDR gave his living wage and workers rights speech. He said living wage, not minimum wage, go read it. Congress twisted it to “minimum wage” in 1938 and started it at 25cents per hour. As of now, (since 2009) it is 7.25$. So workers are worth less than a dollar a decade to businesses and the government. 7 blue and 6 red administrations have allowed minimum wage (and education, health care and other vital budgets) to stagnate, never keeping up with inflation. I get told those budgets are “adequate” every day. To keep those budgets adequate there has been 60 years of incrementally lowering standards of education, raising prices and taxes for health care etc. Since when has the US been okay with adequacy? America being the “biggest and he best” mindset died in 1938, clearly. Then Congress approved Reagans trickle down tax bill in 1986. 3 red and 3 blue administrations have not fixed this either. The question of the continued usefulness of the Electoral College has been contested since the 1790s. In the 2000 race, the Supreme Court had to settle the contest, PROVING that the EC had become obsolete. 2 blue and 2 red administrations have maintained it anyway. In 2010, Citizens United was adopted, despite blues obvious opposition to it, even Obama and Biden refused to reverse it, knowing damned well what would happen, and AgentOrange certainly wouldn’t. We still have people in Congress who were not on thier first ballot rodeo before I was old enough to vote, and I am over 40. I have no memory of a time when I never heard the names Feinstein, McConnel, and BaderGinsberg, Thomas (Clarence), and Graham among others in relation to politics. My grannie told me once that politicians were like trash, if you didn’t take them out often enough they will start to stink. This is why the HoR is a cesspit, the Senate a landfill and the Whitehovel and Ovalouthouse are a toxic waste dumpsite. Neither party has taken out the trash in 90 years, the sewer rats just keep dying in thier seats. The ONLY people who benefit from the lack of term limits, age limits and lifetime service limits etc, are politicians. They only spin it as “discrimination, ageism”, or whatever they want to label it as, so they can keep thier jobs. If Feinstein and Granger (Texas) aren’t elder abuse, I don’t know what is… 90million voters (including me, nonpartisan since age 18) stayed home last year. Why did neither party even try to get any of us to change our minds? We already knew the outcome, that’s why. Kamala was just (younger) HELLery2.0. Kamala grabbed already unpopular HELLerys putrid policy purse, got into the DNCs rusty status-quo mobile and puttered along down serpentine BoomerAgenda Blvd and guess what? She lost to the same conman HELLery did. Who knew. There is no such thing as a true liberal party any more. The DNC is run by people who were liberals in the 50s and 60s, which are at best only left-wing Conservatives now. Right wing Conservatives are now extremists and the only “Liberals” that exist, stayed home because neither party truly wants our vote, or they would have accommodated a few of our “”radical”” ideas and quit recycling coffin-ready candidates expecting us to support and save the duopoly that treats us all like shit. For the past few decades, both parties tell voters that decline to vote that “every vote matters”. No, they don’t, or the DNC/RNC would try to win those 90 million every election, but they do not. Only red/blue sheep matter. The rest of us have been legislated, gerrymandered and pay-to-played into irrelevance. For 90 years both parties have allowed the larger media companies to absorb the smaller ones so that there are only a handful of media outlets. Those mega-outlets are owned by the same billionaires that own politicians from both parties. They won’t say anything they aren’t told to. Independent media doesn’t exist. Being kicked by blue donkeys and trampled by red elephants has been the norm for decades if you are a nonpartisan. All of these policy changes that blue are now b1t(h/ng about, have been on the minds and hoped for agendas of nonpartisans etc for decades, but nonpartisans are blocked from ballots because we refuse to put on a colored hat. Politicians need my vote more than I need thiers. I don’t need thier vote at all. I also don’t need thier permission, opinion, or approval to vote or not. Voters have no civic duty to any politician who has no civic responsibility to thier constituents. NONE. Read the constitution. Nowhere does it say that voting is compulsory. What these politicians and sheep voters fail to understand is that no ones vote is constitutionally guaranteed, promised, or even implied. Only sheep believe that they are. It is a candidates job to earn them, not the job of the voter to give them for free. A civics teacher once told me that my vote was like a tip at a restaurant. It isn’t anyones obligation to give one, and you should only give it for good service, not for poor service, or for getting no service at all… I didn’t forfeit my vote, red and blue did. Thier bad.
A civics professor once told me that before you vote (especially for incumbents); do the math and follow the money. If you can’t, then they are up to no good. Another thing the professor told me, that the longer a politician is in office, the more loopholes they learn about (from older politicians) to screw over thier constituents. He also said that that my vote was like a tip at a restaurant. It isn’t anyones obligation to give one, and you should only give it for good service, not for poor service, or for getting no service at all. My granny once told me that politicians were like the trash, if you don’t take them out often enough they start to stink. That being said, name one politician in either party who did not leave office (dead or not) a millionaire/billionaire on less than 200k a year? Or if they already were, that the 200k a year (average) was all they earned in office. (example) Diane Feinstein (her dad was a doctor, her mom an alcoholic) was worth an estimated 88 million when she passed, and had been in politics since 1955, straight out of college. My parents are younger than that. 68 years of (alleged) service. Quick math, we will do averages and assume that state and local representatives make more or less the same as federal representatives at the same level, knowing that she flipped offices alot.
Congresspeople get paid what? 170k (now)? 170,000×68=11,560,000 over 68 years.
The salary in 1955 was between 12 and 22K, so 17k average. That is 1,156.000 for 68 years.
So if we calculate half her alleged “service” at the 1955 salary, that would be 78k.
And the other 34 years at the modern salary that would be 5,780,000. 5780000 + 78000= 5,858,000.
Where did the rest of her over 82 million come from??
Tax dollars, and whichever blue antique representatives people have been voting for because the DNC told them to are taking just as much.
At an extra 82 million each x 535 members of congress is 43,870,000,000. Nearly 44 BILLION goes to people making 170k. (??)
The federal education budget is around 160 billion. So 535 congress people are sponging nearly a third of the federal education budget.
According to a quick search there are about 500,000 elected politicians (most local) nationwide.
You can do the fiddly math about how much those politicians are sucking out of your states tax dollars, but if each of the 500k “”earn”” only half of Feinsteins estimated 88 million that is 500,000 x 44,000,000 = 22,000,000,000,000. They don’t stay in office to serve thier constituents, just thier stock portfolio.
Liars, cheaters, narcissists, sheep, malcontents and red/blue sycophants are incredibly expensive aren’t they? Imagine what we could do if we could apply all that to education and health care?? Oh right, but Feinsteins CA 60’s hippy, palm-reader, psychic and Tarot card reader side hustle was likely quite lucrative I am sure. My uncle had chicken pox as a kid, and shingles twice as an adult, both before he was 50. You bet your a55 everyone in my family over 50 is vaccinated. Feinstein had NO business even going back to DC after that, especially not at 90 but the DNC wouldn’t cut her loose to pass away with what little dignity she had left. I have been nonpartisan since age 18 because I actually paid attention in civics classes.
And why does no one in this country have historic literacy, or civic literacy? Because politicians and voters have been trying to educate a 2010s and 2020s population of students on a 1970s and 1980s budget in schools built in the 1950s and 1960s, using an education model 7000 years old despite technology advances that could make education cheaper in the long term, but voters won’t pay for in the short term. (I have been told I should write a book about this, but won’t waste my time, no one would print or buy anything written by a nonpartisan.) Both parties have deliberately been removing classes like civics, home economics and history since the 60s and 70s so that students leave HS as nothing but sheep, and making sure they are unable to afford higher education to change that. The schools I went to had so many portable classrooms on campus they looked like trailer parks. And some of those portables were put there in the 70s, complete with grimy avocado colored accordion/bi-fold internal doors. That was thier solution to classroom overcrowding and there were still 40 of us in the same classroom. The district I am in now has 60 kids in each classroom, and they bi7ch about the number of parents removing kids to home school them. Coming up in 2036, another generation of functionally illiterate and unemployable SocialMedia “influencers”? As it is, 50% of kids have been leaving HS functionally illiterate, and showing up at college needing remedial math. The schools I went to still look exactly the same. No one in this country has wanted to invest in education for decades and then wonder why 3 generations of Americans are so f-ing stupid. We get told that vital budgets like education and health care are “”adequate””, every damned day. Since when!? And since when has the US been okay with adequacy?? The US being “the biggest and the best” mindset died in 1938. My confidence that the state of education will change in my lifetime (I am over 40) is in negative numbers no matter what color hats are in office. I have even less confidence that the huge education overhaul this country needs will happen within the next century, or even two. Dumb-a55 American sheep are who are needed to maintain this destructive duopoly, and even blue will not change that, or they will lose thier do-nothing jobs which are all they care about. They didn’t get these jobs because they wanted to help people. They got these jobs so they could somehow become millionaires on less than 200k a year all while doing nothing at work. Not Shady at all?
This is how every Empire on the planet has fallen (some more than once), economic failure, social division, political ineffectiveness and abuse of government power and humans refuse to quit doing the same thing. I have been nonpartisan since age 18, and that will never change. Both parties are equally culpable for the he//-hole our country has become. They have spent decades intentionally dumbing down Americans so that they can keep thier jobs, till death do us part. Then, when it matters most they assume Americans “aren’t that stupid”. 50% of kids leaving HS functionally illiterate, and more and more showing up at colleges needing remedial math. He//, I don’t know anyone under 35 (English Speaking) who can write in cursive, read an analog clock, change thier own car tire, or tell me who was president the year they were born. Whelp, here we are, exactly where the government wanted every time they declined to vote for more education funding. Dumb as a box of rocks, emotionally ignorant, no common sense and suffering from civic Stockholm Syndrome. They treat us like sh1t, but people vote for them anyway. A civics teacher once told me that the longer a politician is in office, the more loopholes they learn about (from older politicians) to screw over thier constituents. Name one politician in either party who did not leave office (dead or not) a millionaire/billionaire on less than 200k a year? Or if they already were, that the 200k a year (average) was all they earned in office. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, but expecting different results. That is literally what the DNC spent the last 4-5 elections doing. Barely winning 1, who was riding Obamas a55, not on his own merit or with his own policies, and losing 2. Then what do they do? They chant “Blue no matter who”!, that’s what. (AgentOrange was a democrat, remember??) As if that strategy hadn’t tanked the last 3 times……. Some of the founding fathers didn’t even want parties (look it up), and this sh1t is why. People join parties and literally let 2 committees of BILLIONAIRES decide who goes on the ballot, and on election day, just do what they are told. Even if that candidate has a clear, decades long record of doing absolutely nothing in thier constituents best interests. News flash. Abraham Lincoln was a spoiler. People are scared to “split the vote”, because politicians tell them it is a bad thing, and the establishment doesn’t want to lose thier jobs. Splitting is only a bad thing, and only happens when literally everyone on the ballot sucks. If everyone jumped to a spoiler (or different party) because thier “committee candidate” sucks, that wouldn’t be splitting it at all. Red/blue are both terrified of spoilers which is why they badmouth them all the time and have spent 90 years incrementally legislating themselves, and the voters into this destructive duopoly. People worry about “splitting” the vote. If that happens a few times the parties will have no choice but to choose superior quality candidates won’t they? Splitting the vote is civic tough love, you would let them make thier mistakes, and not Molly-coddle a bunch of senile octogenarians. 90 million stayed home because quality candidates do not exist. As it stands, both parties don’t discourage civically ignorant voter sheep from getting online and trying to guilt-trip, bully and gaslight literally everyone who won’t walk the red/blue line and choose thier side. They both say that declining to vote is the same as voting for “the other one”, and in the same breath bemoaning and blaming the 90 million voters that didn’t bother to show up. Any number plus 0 stays the same, that is basic math, not rocket science. Those 90 million refusals didn’t go to one side or the other, and that is why both parties are pi55ed. Because the nonpartisan voters they need to win over paid attention in math class, and can’t be guilt-tripped, bullied or gas-lit into helping them. Imagine what would have happened if more voters had not been forced to go MAGA because the DNC “lesser of two evils” StatusQuoKamala (and HE//ery before that) wasn’t actually” lesser” in thier opinion. “Lesser” is subjective, and NEVER in the voters best interests regardless of hat color. Musl1m Americans even voted for AgentOrange (used to be a democrat!) despite his threats to level Gaza to build hotels and resorts. You would think that would teach the DNC to select better quality candidates… Nope… AgentOrange wouldn’t have won that one demographic if the DNC wasn’t trying to force voters to deep throat Bidens pissy, watered-down, on the fence policies by voting for StatusQuoKamala, who had literally no platform of her own, just a HE//ery/Biden hybrid jalopy. Duopolies are, always have been, and always will be dangerous. Red and blue do get to pick thier po1son, arsen1c or cyan1de and the country dies puking its guts out or of multiple organ failure. Dead is dead. The rest of us just get to watch the country die of a cancer we didn’t ask for and tried to prevent. In college (before Brexit) I actually looked at the number of parties in each country worldwide. Look at other duopolistic countries on the planet. You wouldn’t want to live in ANY of them. And if you look at just the EU, the smallest country there is Malta, less than 50k in population with 4 parties. (?!!?!?!!??) And Belgium and a couple of others have the most with 14….. If we had 14 or (many) more national parties AgentOrange wouldn’t even have gotten a round 1 in the OvalOuthouse because he would have had to convince multiple parties and thier voters to side with him, and he certainly wouldn’t have a majority in Congress either.