Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell struck up a friendship during their nearly quarter-century in the Senate together. Now in their 80s, the Democratic president and the Senate GOP leader appear to be giving political cover to each other as they fend off questions about their advanced age and health issues.

Notably, McConnell, R-Ky., 81, hasn’t joined Donald Trump, 77, and other Republicans who have attacked Biden’s age, health and mental acuity as he seeks re-election.

And after McConnell’s second freeze-up last week, Biden was one of the first to call McConnell, telling reporters that his “friend” sounded like “his old self” and that such episodes are a “part of his recovery” from a fall and a concussion this year.

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    Literally just yesterday Fox had some other attack piece on Biden and the picture they used of Biden he looked totally zonked-out.

    McConnell’s walking-dead impersonation changes nothing for Republicans. Hypocrisy means nothing to those people.

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      Fox is so fucking bizarre. I mean, everyone hears about it, but unless you’re stuck in some type of torture chamber where you can’t switch the channel, you just can’t comprehend how overt and low effort the fake propaganda is on there. It blows my mind every year or three when I get stuck somewhere where it’s on.

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        You’d be surprised at the number of American households that voluntarily put themselves in such a torture chamber

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          I have a couple friends who’s older family members just run Fox 24/7. And from what they tell me, it’s not fun having family members like that. I feel very lucky.

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        The same people who voluntarily put themselves in that torture chamber then tell me that Fox “has really gone downhill” so they’ve gotta get their Newsmax. Totally disconnected from the reality of the world.