Mitch McConnell submitted a Note from His Doctors saying he was shipshape and perfectly able to serve, and was just feeling the after effects of dehydration.
These doctors just happen to be the attending physicians of the Senate, who serve at the pleasure of whoever runs the Senate.
And who are, I'm quite sure, hired for their discretion in reporting the true health status of the people to whom they owe their jobs.
The office of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday released a new report from the Capitol's attending physician saying an evaluation from neurologists after the lawmaker had two recent, public health scares found he did not suffer a stroke or seizure.
The report by Dr. Brian Monahan also states the 81-year-old Kentucky Republican does not have Parkinson's disease.
Rand Paul is an ophthalmologist who has practiced medicine for more than 25 years. Dr. Brian Monahan said that there is no evidence that McConnell had a stroke or seizure. Paul said it looks like a "focal neurological event."
[Quoting the Washington Examiner:] "I've practiced medicine for 25 years, and it doesn't look like dehydration to me," Paul told a group of reporters. "It looks like a focal neurologic event. That doesn't mean it's incapacitating, doesn't mean he can't serve. But it means that somebody ought to wake up and say, 'Wow, this looks like a seizure.'"
Nah. We live in an Empire of Lies.
McConnell is vowing to serve until his term ends... in 2027.
Sure, sure.
Mary Katherine Ham responded to that hypochondriacal obsessive "infectious disease expert" who trudged to two different pharmacies seeking covid tests. He couldn't just order one from Amazon and wait 24 hours; no, he needed to know he was officially a Covid Survivor and Internet Hero now, and was willing to risk other people's health for this Twitter Gold Star.
Mary Katherine points out that the media is incentivizing this behavior: They publish every This-Goes-to-11 covid scare piece. But if you write a more restrained piece, they refuse to publish, claiming you're pushing "disinformation."
Which now means "information which is 100% correct, but leftwing neurotics don't like it."
Mary Katharine Ham
@mkhammer
1) This is a CURRENT op-Ed. Wow.
2) The vicious cycle of COVID coverage is the *most* neurotic experts or laypeople w the *most* pitched responses to Covid get op-Eds placed, no prob. I had Covid with a 2-mos-old. If I'd written some psycho piece about feeding her formula under the bathroom door, while isolating her, that's a piece! Lots of clicks, fueling others' neuroses and the suffering of young children, who shouldn't have been isolated from their parents when sick.
A rational risk analysis piece, in which I just said I wasn't that worried and fed my newborn and lived my life? Not so much. If published, the fact-checking about my alleged minimizing of the virus would be intense. But the chiller piece is the more correct, sane response (and represents a more broad part of the population). The incentives, they are bad.
Megyn Kelly: I regret having gotten the vaccine, because even though I was "immunized," I got covid "many times." I also got an autoimmune disorder which my rheumatologist says definitely might be linked to the vaccine.
Fuckheaded TikTok manlet and influencer Harry Sisson, who is kind of like Ben Shapiro minus the charm and masculine magnetism, is super-excited that the covid vaccine immunized "Doctor" Jill Biden against covid.
Well, it didn't do that, because she did contract covid, but this tweenfluencer is pretty sure it did something!
Biden's gangster DOJ seeks jail time for a journalist who covered the J6 protests.
A court document filed on Tuesday has revealed that Department of Justice prosecutors are seeking a 120-day sentence for InfoWars host Owen Shroyer, who did not enter the Capitol building on January 6, 2021.
The Biden DOJ claimed that Shroyer "spread election disinformation paired with violent rhetoric" to viewers in the months leading up to January 6, and that on the day, "Shroyer took to a megaphone before leading a crowd to the Capitol" and said "The Democrats are posing as communists, but we know what they really are: they're just tyrants, they're tyrants. And so today, on January 6, we declare death to tyranny! Death to tyrants!"
"Shroyer did not stop at the sight of tear gas or sounds of explosions on the west side of the Capitol. He continued marching around to the top of the east steps chanting '1776!,' where rioters would eventually violently breach the Capitol and its police line and halt the transfer of presidential power," the court document states.
Is the DOJ going to prosecute those who claim that violent BLM riots are just "the voice of the unheard," or nah?
Wait, I guess they can't do that, because they'd be prosecuting themselves. The DOJ itself proclaims that violent riots are justified because they are the "voice of the unheard."
"It's just me and my mask."
Florida Man, meet Florida Bear.
A three-legged bear who wanted to join in on the Labor Day weekend festivities was caught swiping White Claws from a Floridian family's outdoor fridge.
Shocking video shows the black bear -- affectionately known in the neighborhood as "Tripod" -- nonchalantly sauntering Sunday across the screened-in patio in Lake Mary, a city roughly 20 miles north of Orlando.
Joseph Diglio, 13, was watching TV inside the home when the family's dog, Bruno, erupted into chaotic barking.
...
"There's a literal bear in our patio ... Oh my God, I've never been this close to a bear."
Tripod slowly crept across the lanai, sniffing out potential grub the family might have left out.
He settled on fish food that the Diglios left next to their fish tank before heading to the bar.
"He just opened the door!" Diglio exclaimed gleefully.
"He's about to take the beer. There ain't no food in there buddy."
Tripod, however, seemed perfectly happy with the drink selection at the Diglio household.
"He took three White Claws, drank, and left very happy. His favorite flavor is mango and strawberry," Joseph's mother Josaury Faneite-Diglio told the outlet.
He drinks White Claw? I guess he really is a "bear."