r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • Aug 28 '26
Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell Has Been Missing for 75 Days—With No Updates
https://newrepublic.com/post/214878/mitch-mcconnell-missing-75-days6.8k
u/Knighth77 Aug 28 '26
It's like politicians don't answer to us. They do whatever they want with little to zero accountability. They're well-paid, well-insured, well-funded, do the bare minimum, trade as they wish, collude all they want, then give us close to nothing, take more of our rights, and sell the country one piece at a time. It's wild so many people are ok with this level of gross incompetence and corruption.
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u/therossboss Aug 28 '26
It's like an entire country was created so that they wouldn't have to have a king - and now we have a king. So cool that this country is filled with idiots who love to be abused.
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u/Evil_Weevill Maine Aug 28 '26
We didn't want ONE king. We wanted a few hundred ultra wealthy kings apparently.
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u/Majestic_True_Lilly Aug 28 '26
Unironically yes, that is how this country was formed. When founded, only the land owning rich white men of the 1% had a vote. It was 50 years before all white men got the vote, then another hundred years before men of all races got the vote, and then another 50 after that til women got the vote, and things are still nowhere near equal.
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u/stilljustacatinacage Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26
Still blows my mind that America's misogyny is actually more powerful than its racism. It's like finding out Ken Jeong is a licensed medical doctor or Dolph Lundgren has a Masters in chemical engineering.
They'll let black men vote ahead of the white mothers of their children, and even 200 years later, will elect a black man as President moments before throwing away the entire country rather than electing the most qualified, whitest white woman in the country.
It's impressive dedication to the bit, really.
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u/SethLight Aug 28 '26
It is one of the most wild things to learn that Americans let the people they inslaved vote ~50 years before they let their wives.
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u/FellowHumanNo404 Aug 28 '26
Let them vote? Only after they had a war about it. Conservatives always have to be dragged kicking and screaming, and once you get them there you still have to fight to keep them from dragging everything backwards.
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u/rab2bar Aug 28 '26
Patriarchy is older than racism
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u/stilljustacatinacage Aug 28 '26
For sure. I've heard it said that misogyny is the oldest form of bigotry. It just feels strange to see it on such a blatant, grand scale. To which I'm sure any women readers of my comment will roll their eyes and say, "no shit".
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u/Jazeraine-S Aug 28 '26
Hey, we’re just glad that men see it, too. That’s an important step towards actually doing something about it.
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u/JEFFinSoCal California Aug 28 '26
I think that’s true, especially when you see that homophobia is just misogyny wearing a different mask.
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u/DietCherrySoda Aug 28 '26
Well of course, every village has women but you need to invent pretty sophisticated transportation to see people that don't look like you.
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u/jenniferfox98 Aug 28 '26
Why at this point I assume I'll see a gay male president in my lifetime before a woman.
*Gay WHITE male president.
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u/Weathercock Aug 28 '26
They actually go hand-in-hand. It would not be uncommon for regressive politicians and leaders to pit the interests of women's movements and rights in conflict against racial ones. It's actually very similar to the TERF movement.
Ultimately, it ends up hurting everyone.
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u/massberate Aug 28 '26
I have to go for the low hanging fruit here and also remind you that Dolph Lundgren has a Masters of the Universe.
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u/Potential-Bearcat Aug 28 '26
Honestly part of why I'm of the opinion that there was never any reason to be proud to be an American. This country has always been garbage, built on hate and cruelty. Trump truly is the perfect example of an American.
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u/Ehcksit Aug 28 '26
Conservatism and capitalism were created as a reaction to the fall of European monarchies and the rise of democracy, specifically because rich people didn't want to have equal political power with commoners and peasants.
They maintain the power imbalance of the divine right of kings, but hidden behind the inheritance of wealth instead of bloodlines.
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u/KnotYourAverageRider Aug 28 '26
A king is a king because the other wealthy lords allow him to be a king so long as he champions the wealthy lords' cause. Billionaires are the new lords. There is and always will be a breaking point where things need a re-balancing. I think we're getting close if not already there.
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u/ACoderGirl Canada Aug 28 '26
It's because voters have shown there's no need for reps to give a shit. What's the good people of Kentucky gonna do? Probably vote in another vile ghoul like him and continuously reelect him too. To a large degree here, people like Trump and McConnell are symptoms of how shitty the people are. Yeah, stuff like electoral interference exist and there's propaganda, but that only goes so far.
So on a sense, in fact, they even are answering to their voters, because their voters keep reelecting them when they do shitty things.
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u/Exciting-Record8101 Europe Aug 28 '26
They re-elect the same guy since 1985 and then pretend they can't do anything about their representatives.
And now that he's not showing up to his job, where are the protests? People just don't care, not enough to do anything, anyway.
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u/Odd-Promotion2743 Aug 28 '26
Other than the Tea Party, I've literally never known conservatives to protest. One of our fundamental, 1st Amendment rights, and they basically never use it. Not just not use it, but fantasize about murdering other Americans who do protest. Such servile bootlicking, and they never seem to be aware of it.
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u/Autumn_Ridge Aug 28 '26
I live near enough to Kentucky to see their political ads on tv. In the last Republican primary, the two candidates argued incessantly about which of them was closer to Trump, as in a compliment and not an insult. Both put Trump's name and image into their ads.
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u/SillyAlternative420 Massachusetts Aug 28 '26
The missing component in our current democracy is fear.
When I go to work, I have fear that I'll lose my job and not be able to support my family.
When they go to work, they have zero fears.
This is a problem.
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u/legit_doom_scroller Aug 28 '26
Thank you for this depressing, honest, in-your-face account of our reality. It needs to be said out loud more often. See data centers and flock cameras (they’re basically exactly the same; one exists for the other) for a recent and controversial accounting of politicians ignoring their constituents.
I mean, there are a lot more examples of constituents getting screwed by their elected officials, but data centers/flock cameras seem to have captured the ire of both parties, MAGA aside.
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u/DryPersonality Aug 28 '26
Thank the "I don't do politics crowd" that just vote party lines.
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u/Intelligent_Sky_7081 Aug 28 '26
I think it was Stanford who did the study about how much public opinion determines if a law is passed.
They found there is almost no correlation between public opinion and if a law is passed, over many generations and not just recently.
But what they did find was the opinion of rich individuals and large corporations often did correlate to if a law was passed or not.
Politicans havent answered to us for a very long time. Politicians are just good at convincing people otherwise.
And people want to believe their government is 'working' for them. Anything else and they will have a meltdown of epic proportions. Kind of like a temper tantrum for adults. People just hope/believe that someone will fix things.
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u/TM761152 Aug 28 '26
"But Communism!" Every boogeyman they claimed about the left, THEY'RE DOING.
Every single fucking accusation IS AN ADMISSION BY THESE ASSHOLES.
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u/PigglyWigglyDeluxe Aug 28 '26
That’s exactly it, nobody is doing anything about it. Short of 300+ million Americans protesting 24/7, it’ll never stop.
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u/Kelani_Kelani South Carolina Aug 28 '26
The Senate only has 36 more actual work days scheduled for the remained of the year. I doubt we will see Mitch any more. He will "retire" at the end of his term and that'll be end of it all. Well, except for the speculation, of course.
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u/AreYouDoneNow Aug 28 '26
Trump needs a military ballroom to hide his phylactery.
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u/Billazilla South Carolina Aug 28 '26
Nah, he's not that clever. He's just got a horcrux. But it is a hewge one. Thus, the "ballroom".
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u/Positive-Room7421 Aug 28 '26
Lich makes sense.
Trump is a ghoul, his buddy Putin is obviously a vampire. Lots of supernatural creatures running around these days.
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u/va_wanderer Aug 28 '26
Vote Necrepublican, they said.
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u/DaaaahWhoosh Aug 28 '26
This is what happens when Biden didn't find and destroy their phylacteries during his term.
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u/parasyte_steve Aug 28 '26
This is literally like fallout new vegas when they kept that guy cyrogenically frozen to run shit. It's literally just a few steps away from that.
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u/aliensdick69420 New Jersey Aug 28 '26
Does he have a sister? They'll just shove her right in there
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u/CharacterShoe9832 Aug 28 '26
On day Republicans will sit around and have a good ole laugh at some of the stuff Yertle pulled off.
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u/matthieuC Europe Aug 28 '26
Ariel Sharon remained prime minister of Israel for 3 months while in a coma.
Then lasted 8 more years before dying.
We might be there for a while
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u/Rasp_Lime_Lipbalm Aug 28 '26
Bitch McDouchebag isn't running in November. He's done regardless of being alive or dead. Republicans already achieved their endgame of halting any special election and getting a maverick third party candidate running.
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u/m0ngoos3 Aug 28 '26
Technically, the special election was their own fuckup.
They passed that unconstitutional law when Andy Bashear was elected, to prevent him from appointing people.
Then they went into panic mode when McConnell died/went full veggie.
Bashear has said that he thinks this bullshit is hurting Republicans chances of retaining the seat come November. (statewide seat, in a state with a Democratic Governor)
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u/bejammin075 Pennsylvania Aug 28 '26
The governor of Kentucky should have state buildings bring the flags to half mast for McConnell's death until proof of life is obtained.
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u/DrDerpberg Canada Aug 28 '26
I dunno, that implies mourning.
Is there such a thing as raising flags to full mast and a half?
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u/badgersoccer1905 Aug 28 '26
This is a huge scandal. In a normal, functioning democracy, this would be wall-to-wall news.
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u/Gloopgloops Aug 28 '26
The bar has fallen crazy low everywhere over the past 15 years. I don’t know how stuff gets back to normal when everyone is so desensitised to the world being nuts.
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u/Trail_Dog Aug 28 '26
What we're seeing is the direct impact of the corporate capture and wholesale propagandizing of the internet.
This isn't just a Trump issue. it's bigger than him. We're all victim to the largest shift in the targeted delivery of propaganda ever in history. The amount of data that these tech giants have at their disposal that can be used to manipulate us is unreal.
AI is going to make it even worse.
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u/Academic_Carrot_4533 Aug 28 '26
Looking back, the Glenn Beck prime time era with the fema death camp talk was really a sign that the bar had already been lowered without sufficient repercussion. And I don’t need to get started on citizens united today…
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u/Cosmic_Seth Aug 28 '26
Death by a thousand cuts.
Ford V Dodge led to citizens united.
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u/chpbnvic America Aug 28 '26
You can thank the billionaires who own the news networks and decide what they report on
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u/Alatarlhun Aug 28 '26
It isn't the bar. It is that the corporate media won't make it an ongoing scandal like they do with anything a Democrat is involved in. re: Hunter Biden's laptop, Benghazi, etc.
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u/VanceKelley Canada Aug 28 '26
In a normal, functioning democracy,
In a normal, functioning democracy a convicted criminal promising to rule as a dictator gets opposed by 80%+ of the electorate, not 31%.
In a normal, functioning democracy the candidate who gets 3 million more votes than her opponent is declared the winner of the election.
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u/fbp Aug 28 '26
Grab em by the pussy would have ended any other candidates run.
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u/yrcastr Aug 28 '26
I remember feeling so relieved when that hit the news because I thought it would mean the end of him. When it didn't, I knew there wouldn't be anything he said that would matter.
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u/MurkyInvestigator810 Aug 28 '26
It was the moment Republicans announced to the world that as a matter of policy, they do not give a shit about women being raped. I'll never understand any woman who votes for these fucking psychopaths.
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u/VanceKelley Canada Aug 28 '26
When Billy Bush laughed at trump bragging he could "grab 'em by the pussy" it ended one career: Billy Bush's. Media corporations had higher standards than the American Electoral College.
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u/Frostyrepairbug Aug 28 '26
I'm old enough to remember how Howard Dean's campaign ended. Weird that if you have an R by your name, you can get away with a YEAH.
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u/OsmerusMordax Aug 28 '26
And in a normal democracy its leader would be impeached and forced out of office if they ever uttered the annexation threats Trump has said to us (Canada)
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u/mrtrololo27 Aug 28 '26
We really need to demand major media reforms. Conservative oligarchs monopolising and owning all our legacy media has proven to be as dangerous as we were long ago warned about. The amount of censorship and sane washing they do while framing everything in a Conservative lens is unacceptable, Un-American, and must change.
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u/direwolf71 Colorado Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26
What's absolutely nuts is that the right is convinced that the mainstream media is leftist. Fox IS the mainstream media, and CBS, CNN and MSNBC/MSNOW are right of center.
If Chuck Schumer disappeared for 75 days, it would be the lead story every day on every major network.
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u/waitthissucks Aug 28 '26
I know, that's the craziest part. It's absolutely insane to hide someone's death for so long in the name of corruption. So many people working together to cover this up. His wife, everyone is crazy. Say it's "not true" then why isn't anyone trying to get to the bottom of this? I get that families need to value privacy, but in his case it's very important to know exactly where he is or he needs to be fired
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u/Legitimate-Bed1591 Aug 28 '26
He isn't legit dead. As people say, he'll just not be in a state to do his job. Maybe he had a stroke.
I guess it's neither her nor there in terms of outcomes.
They are probably not committing a crime per say but, you know. It's a deception all the same at this point.
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u/JonathanBadwolf Aug 28 '26
I’m still wondering why the American people haven’t burned everything to the ground. I don’t think I know of a worse humiliation of a people by their own leadership. Though if you know any good historic examples, I’d like to hear them.
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u/cornerbash Canada Aug 28 '26
They're heads down doing what they can to survive, with most in debt or locked into cheque-to-cheque survival. The rich brought back slavery in all but name and the populace is controlled as long as they can barely scrape by, hoping someone else will save them in the meantime or that normalcy will return if they swing votes back the other way next election.
There's a breaking point where the people will be unable to continue surviving and move to burn everything to the ground, but those pulling the strings are treading carefully not to push too hard to that point until they've got all their control measures in place. They'll keep up the misinformation campaigns, slowly bleeding money and power from the people until they've seized it all and it's too late.
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u/Sharikacat Aug 28 '26
The nation is too large where most demonstrations and protests really don't effect anything on a federal level. Nothing anyone does in Minnesota is going to have any noticeable impact on voters in Texas. Shut down the entire state of Washington for a week, and the people of South Carolina won't even notice. Every "No Kings" protest in every single state starting Saturday morning and peacefully concluding that evening will be blissfully ignored by Trump and the GOP at large.
There are only a handful of places that, if shut down, will cause actual national crisis that would cause Congress or even Trump to take some sort of action. These are either central hubs of traffic and trade (Atlanta, New York) or of personal significance to lawmakers (D.C.). How quickly do you think Trump would do something (whether positive or negative) if people stormed Mar-a-Lago or his NJ golf club? They won't do anything unless and until it effects them personally, and 1-day rallies don't do that. Most places in the nation don't have the leverage to hurt lawmakers on a federal level and can be safely ignored.
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u/Kohounees Aug 28 '26
American god is money. General strike will get the job done. If you are able to do it. Too bad your labor unions are pretty weak.
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u/LudmilN Aug 28 '26
I see plenty of videos online of americans beating each other up and starting shit tho. Clearly you guys are on average a bit more confrontational. Like i don't think i've seen a brawl in a fast food joint anywhere except in america
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u/SelfAwareSausage Aug 28 '26
We’re too comfortable. Uprisings and revolutions of the past came from genuinely unlivable circumstances and environments. Now we’re too comfortable with the social pacifiers of sports, entertainment, and all sorts of vices to actually force a real change in our government.
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u/JonathanBadwolf Aug 28 '26
I'm still rooting for you guys. There seems to be a lot of positive political movement too and communities really helping each other out. It's just always sad to learn that the world isn't like I'd hoped it was.
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u/KeepItUpThen Aug 28 '26
Imagine if other elected officials like Ocasio-Cortez or Mamdani or Sanders didn't show up to their job and weren't seen for months. There would be a lot of talk about it on the angry-old-people TV news channels.
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u/yoursandforever Aug 28 '26
Can't think of a time in American history when something like this would be acceptable in general.
Except now.
What the hell has happened?
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u/ATX_native Texas Aug 28 '26
Watch this and let it sink in, it’s been about 20 years.
https://youtu.be/vRQhXooojjY?is=qoExR6MK7HIBk3qQ
They actually discussed policy in depth and had a discussion. Not “Concepts of a Plan”.
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u/RobertJ93 Aug 28 '26
Man what was it, not 8 years later you had Trump wandering around menacingly behind the other candidate whilst screaming about her emails.
Insane.
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u/anxiousinfotech Aug 29 '26
I disagreed with McCain on most everything politically, but I had great respect for him. I always felt he was a good man who believed he was doing the right thing, even if I didn't think it was the right thing.
We've fallen so far in so little time.
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u/boxdkittens Aug 28 '26
Russian disinformation campaigns that target every subject and political subgroup under the sun.
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u/RUWill Aug 28 '26
This is an insane level of fraud being committed on the American people, especially his constituents in Kentucky. His team needs to go to prison for this.
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u/Dimitri3p0 Aug 28 '26
100%
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u/Little-Use-2027 Aug 28 '26
And none of the other politicians are doing anything either. It's crazy.
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u/oddTaskJob Aug 28 '26
I haven’t heard SHIT from the Democratic Party besides AOC showing me her fertility treatment. Good for you girl but I don’t give a fuck. Where is our representation!?
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u/Lord_Nurggle Aug 28 '26
I started feeling bad that they were doing this to him.
Then I remembered he is the one who wouldn’t confirm supreme justices.
Fuck him. It makes me happy that his legacy will be him getting Weekend at Bernie’s.
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u/Ulftar Canada Aug 28 '26
Isn't it fitting that they won't confirm he's dead either?
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u/ClusterFoxtrot Florida Aug 28 '26
McConnell was responsible for killing a lot of legislation, and proudly. It's fitting.
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u/Toastwitjam Aug 28 '26
You can’t confirm or deny someone’s health this close to an election if they’re a republican obviously.
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u/DouchecraftCarrier Aug 28 '26
Then I remembered he is the one who wouldn’t confirm supreme justices.
It's worse than that. He denied Garland a hearing with something like 275 days left in Obama's term claiming it was too close to the election, and then turned around and rammed ACB's nomination through after something like 30 Million Americans had already voted early.
He also openly stated that, given the opportunity, he would hold SCOTUS at 8 justices for the entirety of a Hillary Clinton presidency. He also denied Obama hearings on a litany of lower court appointments - appointments that he then turned around and accused Obama of being derelict for not filling. And of course as soon as a Republican was in office he was all too happy to fill them.
And these motherfuckers want to accuse the Left of wanting to pack the courts. They've been packing the courts. For like over a decade at this point.
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u/myychair Aug 28 '26
He’s quoted as saying one of his proudest moments in politics was blocking all of Obamas legislation during his second term. The guy torpedoed a bill he proposed because it had democratic support. Mitch McConnell is one of the most damaging politicians in American history.
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u/YikesTheCat Aug 28 '26
If Donald Trump is fascist then Mitch McConnell is the pre-cum to fascism.
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u/ZenMon88 Aug 28 '26
He also denied you guys sick leave meanwhile he is collecting sick leave still. This is nasty ass work
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u/bbbbbbbbbblah United Kingdom Aug 28 '26
McConnell was also among the many republicans who decided to politically intervene in Terri Schiavo's case, so it'd be a hell of an example of karma
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u/JaronJervis Aug 28 '26
My guess is, they had secret funeral weeks ago and he was buried then. We will never see Mitch McConnell again, that man is dead.
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u/DramaticWesley Aug 28 '26
More likely he is hooked up to machines in a vegetative state.
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u/siazdghw Aug 28 '26
Or he had a stroke and is completely non verbal and shows signs of it (droopy face).
Regardless, this obviously is not how the system should work and he should've been removed even if the solution was just a temporary stand-in (which it's not) until the end of his term.
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u/Cloaked42m South Carolina Aug 28 '26
This is my bet. He'll be unplugged to much drama.
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u/VirtualMoneyLover Aug 28 '26
But at this point, what is the point? I could see to do it to pass the Aug 2nd deadline but we passed that.
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u/SageOfTheWise Aug 28 '26
We have to stop thinking there has to be some really clever plan behind all this. It's just as likely its a bunch of people all at odds on what they should be doing to take advantage of the situation. So instead, nothing keeps happening.
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u/hendergle Aug 28 '26
This. It's my belief that his handlers have reached the "now, what?" phase.
You know- when you have a really great plan, and you execute it flawlessly, but then you realize you never thought about what to do AFTER you executed it.
Like the time our back yard became the home for a family of skunks and we went out and got a humane trap. Sadly, the words "now, what?" were directed at me, the genius who thought it was a good idea to trap a skunk in a porous wire cage without considering the fact that someone would have to go pick it up.
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u/mythrilcrafter Aug 28 '26
Yup, if he was 100% dead they'd grab a GOP cheerleader to replace him like South Carolina did with Lindsay and Darline Graham.
The fact that they haven't done that means that he's alive enough for them to not want to say he's dead, but he's not not-dead enough to want to present proof of life.
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u/bramley36 Aug 28 '26
Handlers have been hiding the final location of Lich McConnell's phylactery.
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u/benk4 Aug 28 '26
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u/Rick-burp-Sanchez Aug 28 '26
Nah dawg, with modern medicine, we're talking some kind of Frankenstein-Pinnochio puppet man who can keep his eyes open to gawk at the world like a goldfish for about 30 seconds before "falling back to sleep." There's dead, and then there's mostly dead, just ask RFK's brain worm.
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u/e_t_ Texas Aug 28 '26
Like in "The Magnificent Ferengi" where Nog remote pilots Keevan's corpse, animated with cortical stimulators.
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u/ShakaarResistance Aug 28 '26
Niche reference but I like it. Also shout out Iggy Pop as a Vorta in that episode
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u/EllieVader Aug 28 '26
We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient
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u/takumidesh Aug 28 '26
Legally (and scientifically), braindead is dead.
There isn't a loophole and manually pumping someone's heart for 6 months doesn't make them alive.
If he is braindead, any fraud doctor who wants to lie would just not call the death instead of hooking him up to a machine for no reason
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u/sailphish Aug 28 '26
I think he’s alive, but with a severe cognitive impairment.
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u/kingsumo_1 Oregon Aug 28 '26
Dude was glitching out before this all happened. He may - and I will emphasize may - technically still be alive. But if so it is a "light on, but nobody is home" situation.
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u/hadriker Aug 28 '26
Nah. He's alive. I think he had a stroke.
Explains the long hospital stay and rehab. Explains why they won't put him in front of a camera. Facial paralysis, slurred speech. May not have full use of his limbs etc.
He's gonna try and ride out the rest if his term like this and retire as planned in January.
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u/GLEEMONEX-for-PETS Aug 28 '26
Severe stroke victims don’t plan shit. If this is the case he is being victimized again by his handlers.
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u/UncleCoyote Aug 28 '26
They'd stop your paycheck too.
He's still raking in the cash.
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u/Special_Persimmon_52 Aug 28 '26
Sounds like he's nearly completely incapacitated. These are the big recliner type chairs that can also lift you up and tilt you forward to make it easier for someone to assist you in getting up. Then he no doubt uses a walker when he does rise. I doubt he can communicate much, so any correspondence allegedly directly from him is utter bullshit.
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u/ShareGlittering1502 Aug 28 '26
Some big logical leaps there friend. People can have trouble getting in and out of a chair without having brain damage. They can also use a walker or wheelchair without brain damage.
That said, it’s still incredibly sus that the guy that’s spent his life in front of a camera, can’t be seen on one
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u/jellyhessman Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26
The fact he was on the ground for an unknown amount of time after a severe enough cardiac event that it required sustained CPR and life-saving measures is why he almost certainly has brain damage.
Less than 1% of people his age survive an event like that. Never mind coming out healthy and happy.
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u/AngelofVerdun Aug 28 '26
Truly a test run for Trump.
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u/WeirdIndividualGuy Aug 28 '26
Trump already had his test run last year when despite leaving for his weekend golf, he wasn't actually publicly seen golfing like normal.
And that was just a weekend, let alone 75 days. Trump as POTUS does not have the benefit of just going missing for that long, compared to Mitch who is just 1 out of 100
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u/jcarter315 I voted Aug 28 '26
That's also the same time when they released that video where his tie and the windows behind him kept changing randomly, because it was AI.
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u/Sea-Ambition-451 Aug 28 '26
They've been testing AI videos of Trump for a while now.
We'll know it's fully AI when Trump stays awake for meetings.
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u/Just_Cartographer258 Aug 28 '26
The GOP are currently growing his clone..
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u/AngelofVerdun Aug 28 '26
More like build a scary accurate AI version. They'll 100% be releasing videos of him long after he's actually gone to hell.
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u/Mr_Meng Aug 28 '26
I can totally see Trump dying and then the GOP just uploads all the info about him into a AI model and having that 'run' the USA and I hate it.
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u/ShittalkyCaps Aug 28 '26
WHERE. ARE. THE. INVESTIGATIVE. JOURNALISTS. IN. THIS. COUNTRY ?!?!?
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u/ClubSoda Aug 28 '26
Journalists are all retired. Everything is done by clickbait AI algorithms run by media billionaires.
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u/Tiiimmmaayy Aug 28 '26
Honestly medical info and HIPAA laws can be a bitch for a journalist to navigate. Going into the hospital to spot him opens them up to a world of hurt from lawyers. But I don’t see anything wrong with staking out the hospital or his home to get a look at him being transferred. I can’t believe no one has seen anything when he was discharged.
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u/__GayFish__ Aug 28 '26
Remember all those people concerned about fraud of dead people collecting social security checks? And yet, here we are.
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u/ZillaSlayer54 Aug 28 '26
He's in hospice care and I expect that We will hear of his death sometime next year.
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u/BrownSugarBare Canada Aug 28 '26
Really? I think he's dead. And dead bodies don't give updates.
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u/ITrageGuy Aug 28 '26
You can't hide a dead person. You can very much hide someone seriously ill.
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u/nickiter New York Aug 28 '26
This is the calculation that makes the most sense to me. It's easy to just keep him in a private facility if he's alive. Hiding a dead person has some major legal implications.
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u/ChebyshevsBeard Aug 28 '26
Sixteen pigs will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. So be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm.
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u/The_Playbook88 Aug 28 '26
They replaced Lindsey Graham very quickly because the rules benefited them. I wonder what the rules are for Mitch's state? Likely not so favorable.
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u/cybah Aug 28 '26
Cuz in KY they will need an election. GOP must know they would lose so they are doing Weekend at Mitch’s instead
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u/NoOnesKing Maryland Aug 28 '26
Probably more they don’t need an empty seat for the rest of the year w the likely loss of senate seats in November
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u/punkbrad7 Aug 28 '26
There isn't anything beneficial about this except using it to force this stupid smear campaign to make it all Beshears fault, even though he literally cannot do anything about this, politically or legally. The seat is solidly red and no one has ever come close to flipping it back to blue in 3 decades, and the odds of Andy Barr not taking the seat in January were already slim to none, let alone anyone taking it in a special election.
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u/JDDJS New York Aug 28 '26
Which is exactly why it's silly that everyone is so convinced that he's dead. He's obviously just severely mentally impaired.
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u/Braelind Aug 28 '26
If I went MIA from my job for 75 days, I'd definitely not have a job anymore. Why it's different for this turtle faced dead fuck is... pretty fucking obvious.
It's treason.
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u/SwiftCase Aug 28 '26
If he were a Democrat, the Republicans would be outside his home claiming that every second he doesn't walk outside is proof that he's dead and Democrats are unfit for office. Yet Democrats are silent and the Governor does nothing.
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u/doc_daneeka Aug 28 '26
There's really nothing the governor can do except complain. He can't legally replace him via appointment or call a special election. And even if he somehow could, the Senate could just refuse to seat his replacement. What exactly do you think Beshear should be doing?
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u/MarquetteNPR Aug 28 '26
Should be removed from office if not present in 75 days.
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u/swankpoppy Aug 28 '26
I wonder what would happen if I didn’t show up to work for 75 days without talking to my boss.
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u/birria_tacos_ Aug 28 '26
How has there not been a single report or leak from any given person that's associated to him or had some form of contact with him since the time he was admitted into the hospital? You're telling me there wasn't a single passerbyer in the weeks he was in the hospital, from the time he got discharged, not a singe sighting these past few weeks while he's been "recovering"?
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u/Wayofchinchilla Aug 28 '26
The staff that covered this up absolutely need to go to jail eventually when we get to the point where the truth comes out.
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u/mywifesoldestchild North Carolina Aug 28 '26
No rules, no integrity, no honor left in the Republican party, it's just the ends justify the means of them retaining absolute power.
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u/hanumanCT Colorado Aug 28 '26
I read somewhere on reddit that he is the only vegetable that the government hasn't had a recall on yet.
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u/DoctorSchwifty Aug 28 '26
Usually people go missing for this long they are presumed dead.
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u/Mr_Tort_Feasor Aug 28 '26
There were missing posters placed around DC and they went viral (maybe a month ago).
As far as I am concerned, KY can give up half of its representation in the Senate for as long as it wants to.
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u/Cautious-Extreme2839 Aug 28 '26
This literally favours the Dems to just leave it.
If Mitch doesn't show up he can't vote. It'sa free seat.
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u/Cloaked42m South Carolina Aug 28 '26
McConnell isn't running for office and it's one less vote for Republicans.
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u/snoo_spoo Aug 28 '26
They are not. Seven years for Kentucky, although it's only five in some states.
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u/ThatsItImOverThis Aug 29 '26
Cuz he’s dead as a doornail. They don’t care anymore. 10 years ago a missing Senator would be huge news.
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u/IM_INSIDE_YOUR_HOUSE Aug 29 '26
Imagine missing from YOUR job for 75 days with no response to anyone reaching out to you. How long would you last?
We need to hold our leaders to AT LEAST the same standards we hold ourself to.
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u/Julian_Thorne Minnesota Aug 28 '26
how does the GOP benefit from that
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u/MadContrabassoonist Aug 28 '26
They don't. The only conspiracy is the mundane and ultimately sympathetic conspiracy of a family being too proud or too private to admit that he's beyond any chance of a meaningful recovery. McConnell is a piece of shit, but if he's too far gone to ramble in such a way that it could be edited into a 20-second "statement" that would placate the dumbest voters in America, he's probably incapable of legally resigning even if he wanted to.
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u/Indubitalist Aug 28 '26
It’s just odd that they bothered trying to make him seem alive with that doctored photo of his “recovery” with his smiling wife by his side. That reporter points out in the time lapse that he basically looked like a vegetable in the last public appearance he made and the obvious answer is he suffered severe brain damage, probably from a stroke and/or heart attack depriving his brain of oxygen, and now he may be conscious but is incapable of communicating except maybe through blinking or nods. That’s why all of the people defending him after he disappeared used the term “talked to,” which implies but avoids directly confirming that he talked back.
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u/Known-One-66 Aug 28 '26
This should be a wake-up for both parties. Term limits are needed along with health requirements.
If you cannot show up to at least 90% of votes a politician should be automatically recalled and there should be a new election.
With McConnell out Kentucky has lost half of their senate voting rights
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u/Daily_Dose_42069 Aug 28 '26
He's dead.
He died months ago.
Our government has entirely failed. We have a fucking dead man representing a whole state.
When does it end?
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u/teddykaygeebee Aug 28 '26
Does Mitch have a sister to take over since that seems to be what happens with dead senators in 2026 America
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u/mefree1960 Aug 28 '26
Trial run for when Trump finally kicks it, just how long it will take for people to DO SOMETHING!
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u/Pleasant-Ad887 Aug 28 '26
meanwhile GOP having people believe immigrants are committing fraud and stealing from the government.
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u/JamUpGuy1989 Aug 28 '26
And we are just pathetically letting them get away with it.
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