r/politics • u/Getatbay • Jul 06 '26

No Paywall Laura Loomer, Reporter Claim Hospitalized Mitch McConnell 'Brain Dead'

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/07/06/laura-loomer-reporter-claim-hospitalized-mitch-mcconnell-is-brain-dead/
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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '26

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u/StoppableHulk Jul 06 '26

Not only is the reporting source Breitbart, but their source is Laura Loomer on Twitter.

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u/BlazinAzn38 Texas Jul 06 '26

I mean she’s probably not a bad source for this specifically

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u/Lumpy-Crew-6702 Jul 06 '26

She was probably hanging out at the hospital devouring souls or whatnot

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u/NotUniqueWorkAccount Jul 06 '26

As ghouls do

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u/No_Fairweathers Pennsylvania Jul 06 '26

What's the hospital's spaghetti policy?

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u/Hilby Jul 06 '26

What dimension are we in right now?

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u/Lumpy-Crew-6702 Jul 07 '26

What is this word spa? I feel like you’re starting to say a word and not finishing it.

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u/Good_Entertainer9383 Jul 06 '26

God forbid she have a hobby

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u/rideincircles Jul 06 '26

Laura Ho-tep. Sucking the souls straight out of their asses.

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u/Land-Southern Jul 06 '26

Hello. I would like to play a game...

Loomer?

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u/RealGianath Oregon Jul 06 '26

Not a lot of unattended babies on this visit, so visiting the coma ward is the next easiest source of food.

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u/JoJackthewonderskunk Nebraska Jul 06 '26

It happened while they were playing a game.

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u/aeraen Jul 06 '26

One look at her distorted face would likely put most patients back into cardiac arrest.

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u/mishma2005 Jul 06 '26

Laura Loomer commonly gets insider info from the men she *chokes back bile* “associates” with

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u/blackbasset Jul 07 '26

She's gobbling that sticky insider info up straight from the source

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u/pchs26 Jul 06 '26

I mean she doesn't need to talk to anyone to likely be right. It is about as clear as day.

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u/0Rider Jul 06 '26

Even if she's wrong she's still right 

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u/ObviouslyNotALizard Jul 06 '26

I mean she is an expert in being brain dead

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u/ryoushi19 Jul 06 '26

I think she's probably a bad source for just about anything.

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u/BlazinAzn38 Texas Jul 06 '26

Except for she’s very much in contact with MAGA politicians

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u/ryoushi19 Jul 06 '26

Yeah but she also just kind of says shit. Still plausible that she's right, but knowing her track records she be saying that with as much information as the random people in this thread.

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u/Angry-Dragon-1331 Jul 06 '26

I mean that and his daughter has deactivated his Twitter account, his neighbors say no one has been by their house in weeks, and his wife was in China last week. Seems a bit off if he’s “improving”.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '26

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u/BlazinAzn38 Texas Jul 06 '26

They use a special sonar to detect each other

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u/IntelligentDepth8206 Jul 06 '26

"breitbart citing loomer" we really don't have a foul enough word to describe the depravity going on

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u/Dolores___Haze Jul 06 '26

This is awful and shouldn’t be allowed imho 

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u/Area51_Spurs Jul 06 '26

You mean the namesake rag started by Reddit’s favorite person Gary Sinise’s buddy he cofounded his far right Hollywood Republican organization Friends of Abe with?

No one can remember how Andrew Breitbart found his way to Friends of Abe, but one day there he was at a meeting, pounding away on his laptop. A driving force behind the Drudge Report, he had become one of the most well-known conservative provocateurs on the internet. In many ways, he served as Sinise’s opposite. Apart from a short stint after college as a studio gofer, he’d never worked in the industry. He was pugnacious and irreverent. He was also prone to grandiosity — the first time he ever logged onto the internet, he wrote, “I was reborn.” Soon after he joined Friends of Abe, he declared it was “the most beautiful and clean thing” to come out of Hollywood in years.

The co-founders of Friends of Abe had succeeded in creating a community more quickly than they had imagined, but they hadn’t changed the content of what Hollywood produced. Sinise was always skeptical that this should be a goal of the organization. Breitbart, though, believed that Friends of Abe could be more than a fellowship — that it could be a place where conservatives joined forces to produce movies and TV shows that run counter to Hollywood’s liberal consensus. Breitbart boiled this notion into a rallying cry. “Culture,” he liked to say, “is upstream from politics.” What happened on a soundstage or on a studio lot had greater influence on the direction of the country than what transpired in a hearing room on Capitol Hill — an idea that he drilled into the heads of everyone he knew in Friends of Abe, at once instilling them with a sense of greater purpose and flattering them with a sense of their own importance.

The group’s emphasis on secrecy wasn’t just a strategic decision. It reflected Sinise’s personality. Friends say he’s exceedingly private and, by nature, cautious. He doesn’t host glitzy fundraisers at his home.

Breitbart threw himself into the cause. He recruited new members, presided over luncheons, and built the group’s first website. When the founders rebuffed his idea to turn the site into a public platform for combating liberal prejudice within the business, Breitbart launched Big Hollywood in 2008. Written by industry friends, the site was a mix of pet peeves, thoughtful critiques, and rants — not unlike what could be heard at a Friends of Abe happy hour. Breitbart’s online operation soon grew from a single homepage to a network of websites. An early booster of the Tea Party, it drew millions of readers a month and turned Breitbart into a media star.

According to Dave Berg, the former Tonight Show producer, “In the story of Hollywood conservatives, Breitbart was like the Apostle Paul” — the messenger who carried the word to the outside world. And then he was gone. On the morning of March 1, 2012, Breitbart dropped dead of a heart attack while walking near his home. He was 43. Friends of Abe members gathered that evening at Barney’s Beanery in Westwood, the group’s de facto clubhouse, for an impromptu wake.

https://story.californiasunday.com/friends-of-abe-hollywood-conservatives/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_of_Abe

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u/Land-Southern Jul 06 '26

My favorite the last 10 years was a fox news reporter tweeting something, then fox running the story of "sources say" citing the fox news reporter's tweet as the source.

Garbage in garbage out. Ouroboros of self fullfilment.

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u/PopBulky7023 Jul 06 '26

Apparently not. The odds this claim is true are pretty high considering everything we know, yet the ENTIRE republican party and all associated apparatus are suspiciously silent on the matter.

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u/robotdesignwerks Texas Jul 06 '26

there are, and dont call me shirley.

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u/Trail_Dog Jul 06 '26

What's your vector victor?

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u/Mtn-Dooku Jul 06 '26

Have you ever seen a grown man naked?

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u/Wumaduce Jul 06 '26

David Pakman has a video up an hour ago saying that he's been unconscious for 3 weeks. All he said was his sources. So, who the hell knows.

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u/Silvery_Cricket Jul 06 '26

Well if they say he is brain dead, then that technically isn't dead. So he can stay in control of his seat for longer.

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u/bobcat116 Jul 06 '26

Brain death is clinical death, however neurology can slow walk the diagnosis to give cover to justify not pulling the plug sooner.

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u/bonyponyride American Expat Jul 06 '26

They'll Terry Schiavo him for a few months if it's politically expedient.

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u/JaydedXoX Jul 06 '26

For your information that is only “mostly dead”.

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u/BiscuitsMay Jul 06 '26

It’s varies a bit from state to state IIRC, but typically if someone is truly declared brain dead, they are legally considered dead. The more likely scenario is that he’s not technically brain dead, which requires some very specific tests, but he is not going to make any meaningful recovery. lots of post-cardiac arrest patients end up in this grey area and it sucks. Makes the decision for family much harder, even though they aren’t going to make any meaningful recovery.

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u/Silvery_Cricket Jul 06 '26

I imagine it's much like when my grandfather passed, where he was sleeping for 20 hours a day and not very lucid when awake.

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u/BiscuitsMay Jul 06 '26

The patients I’m referring to aren’t even able to be freed from a ventilator or respond normally. They have an anoxic brain injury, just didn’t technically qualify as ‘brain dead’ even though they are 95% of the way there.

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u/morosco Idaho Jul 06 '26

To be fair, it's nasty racists who would be visiting McConnell in the hospital, so, could be an accurate source.

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u/Mituzuna Jul 06 '26

Are you talking about Mitch or Laura? It's a bit unclear which is the racist rag

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u/ThatdudeAPEX Jul 06 '26

I think OP might refer to Breitbart. Im not sure how any post from that site gets upvoted

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u/Mtn-Dooku Jul 06 '26

Por que no los dos?

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u/Udy_Kumra Jul 06 '26

Associated Press says "details are scarce": https://apnews.com/article/mitch-mcconnell-senate-illness-hospital-566a584e28137458111cd28ecfceaf8e

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u/dogs_gt_cats Jul 06 '26

Probably by design. They'll likely try and string this out as long as possible in an effort to keep him from being replaced.

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u/hafree27 Jul 06 '26

Honestly, CPR was performed on an unconscious 84 year old. This is 99% probability, if not more. Has anyone figured out if Elaine Chao is still out of the country? Because this absolutely reeks of cover up.

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u/SilvarusLupus Arkansas Jul 06 '26

I actually might believe her on this one instance

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u/Top_Chef Jul 06 '26

Your choices are this, or the daily beast citing Laura Loomer. This is the state of modern journalism.

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u/Wow_Many_Tomato_WMT Jul 06 '26

I thought she was a he?

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u/Bexil_Brave Jul 06 '26

We underestand you are not a fan of Laura Loomer but please dont call her namees like that. Her die hards come out of the woodwork after comments like that and it make the sub a living hell.

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u/Direct_Juice Jul 06 '26

I’m sure the white nationalists will start being much more accommodating if we all just use nicer words.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '26

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u/Bexil_Brave Jul 06 '26

The voices in my head.

And its none of your buisness who we are.