Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) vowed Wednesday to keep his job as Senate Republican leader at least through 2024 and to finish his seventh Senate term, which runs through 2026, despite recent health problems.

“I have no announcements to make on that subject,” McConnell, who is 81, told reporters when asked about calls from fellow conservatives to step down as Senate Republican leader.

“I’m going to finish my term as leader and I’m going to finish my Senate term,” McConnell declared.

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      I heard its just a regular Ball mason jar and they keep it in the basement at the Heritage Foundation… like right by the display case with Ted Cruz’s spine and across from the cheap plastic dorm room trashcan from Target that houses McCarthy’s single brain cell.

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      this what you get when you allow the Lich to DM… i don’t know who decided that was a good idea, you know… must have been some bargain or other…

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        “Weekend at Bernie’s” was an 80’s movie about a businessman that is murdered by the mob, but two of his employees stumble upon the body and, believing they accidentally killed him, have to puppet his corpse to try to convince people he’s still alive until they can escape. It’s a comedy, despite how dark it sounds.

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    “I’m going to finish my term as leader and…"

    { 47 seconds of silence }

    "I’m going to finish my Senate term,”

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    Mitch McConnell has personally done more harm to the people of the US than anyone since Reagan. He is one of the greatest monsters in modern American history, directly responsible for immeasurable human suffering and he does not deserve to live.

    The next one needs to kill him, and I hope it happens on camera for all of us to watch, because it’s the closest tbong to justice he will ever face.

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    Once the lizard people mothership arrives with his new host body from the home world.

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    We need to retake the Senate for the blue team in 2024 so that we can have a real leader, like Diane Feinstein.

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    Lich McConnell went back and reviewed the Necronomicon and realized that these episodes don’t actually mean anything and the necromancy spell he cast 800 years ago should give him a few more terms.

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      I don’t know what’s going through these ancient politicians’ heads but don’t they reach a point where they’ve accomplished everything in life they can and they just want to relax? Being an 80+ year old senator and dying in office sounds horrible to me.

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        It’s not about being accomplished for most of them anymore. It’s about not letting go of their power. They won’t admit to themselves that they’re old or the world has changed. They grip desperately to their seat and their power because they “can still do it”, and they “know what’s best”.

        People who have had a senile friend or family member have seen similar stuff plenty of times. Older adults who can’t even close their hands all the way or remember that they dont have shoes on will argue and fight, sometimes violently, that they can still do something. For example, still cook with an open flame despite catching their house on fire three separate times. Or that they can still drive despite not seeing past their fingertips and not knowing what city they’re in.

        There is a thing called aging gracefully that involves accepting the difficulties of getting older and passing the torch, and clearly a large number of politicians are having a serious problem with it.

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    Sen. Mitch McConnell 's future ghost (RIP-Ky.) vowed Wednesday to keep his its job as Senate Republican leader…

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