That was a really satisfying video, in a morbid kind of staring at a car accident kind of way.

Damn, he looks old in that video. It strikes me as kind of cruel that our political system so strongly incentivizes seniority, both for the young fresh politicians who’re just getting started and the career politicians who feel like they can’t retire because they need to justify dumping the best decades of their lives slowly shimmying up that totem-pole.

FWIW: I do think that connections and experience really do matter for good governance, but no other industry pushes things this far. It’s messed up and it’s messing everything else up, too.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Senator Mitch McConnell froze up for more than 30 seconds on Wednesday during a public appearance before he was escorted away, the second such incident in a little more than a month, a clip from an NBC News affiliate showed.

McConnell, 81, was responding to questions from reporters after an event with the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce in Covington when he froze up, staring into space and not responding to reporters and others nearby.

After being approached by a second person, McConnell began talking again but needed reporters’ questions repeated to him by an aide and gave minimal answer in response.

Representatives for McConnell were not immediately available for comment.

The incident was eerily similar to one that took place in the Senate at the end of July, when McConnell also froze in the middle of a press conference and had to be led away, returning several minutes later to finish taking questions.

(Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Richard Cowan in Washington; editing by Scott Malone, Caitlin Webber and Susan Heavey)

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You can hear his neurons trying to handshake.

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