What a travesty against the American people.

Editor's note: The 84 year-old Mitch McConnell really does need to be removed from office. And while Americans are at it, especially the Americans who live in Kentucky, they need to be reimbursed for the $43,500 in government salary for the three months he didn't show up for work. Why wait until 2027? The US senate can expel him with a two-thirds vote. Mitch McConnell's four-decade Senate tenure makes him the longest-serving party leader in U.S. history and shows exactly why term limits are urgently needed: no elected official should be able to entrench themselves in power for generations while the political system built around their incumbency makes real accountability impossible.

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Mitch McConnell has resurfaced, 3 months after disappearing from public view. https://t.co/WBeMp32VeM 🎥: @hicharliecotton https://t.co/fHVhJ89DFe

— TMZ (@TMZ) September 14, 2026

Just like the narrator of "Dazed and Confused," stuck in a relationship where he's being led along, unsure what's genuine and what's manipulation, many Americans feel similarly toward their decades-long "relationship" with McConnell. They're locked in by a system that keeps him in power, uncertain what he's really doing for them anymore, and increasingly disoriented by the gap between his continued presence and any clear sense of who it's actually serving: