Luke Thomas: Mitch McConnell can barely speak, yet he is still being wheeled through the US Senate to vote, and Luke Thomas argues the real scandal is that both parties treat this gerontocracy as normal.
From Dianne Feinstein to Joe Biden to McConnell, Washington keeps propping up leaders in visible cognitive decline while staff quietly run the office.
Luke opens with a viewer question: should anyone involved in the McConnell situation face legal consequences? That leads into a bigger conversation about what happens when Congress and the presidency become places where people die in office instead of stepping down. He walks through the Democratic precedent, the questions that were never answered about Biden, and why he is less worried about Trump 2028 than he used to be, even as the former president's own decline becomes harder to ignore.
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Chapters
00:00 Should McConnell's Staff Face Legal Consequences?
00:20 Feinstein, Biden, And The Bipartisan Precedent
01:25 Trump 2028 And His Cognitive Decline
02:10 Weekend At Bernie's Legislating
02:55 Not A Serious Country Anymore
03:40 Normalizing Decline In Congress
04:25 He's Cooked And Everyone Knows It
05:10 Why Both Parties Are Guilty
