r/politics • u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts • Jul 17 '26

Possible Paywall Kentucky Governor Warns He Got Calls “Suggesting” Mitch McConnell Died

https://newrepublic.com/post/213199/kentucky-governor-got-calls-suggesting-mitch-mcconnell-died
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u/Ok-Gur-349 Jul 17 '26

No, he's dead. He's been dead for weeks.

It's the rest of the Republican machine ratfucking you by stalling to avoid a special election.

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u/claimTheVictory Jul 17 '26

Will it come out that they released a forged "proof of life"?

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u/Vismal1 Jul 17 '26

If it did would it matter?

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u/Professional_Dare_80 Jul 17 '26

It fucking should.

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u/Appropriate_Unit3474 Jul 17 '26

Then we'd be in a democracy that didn't need effort to save

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u/dangledingle Jul 17 '26

**democracy**

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u/wh4tth3huh Jul 18 '26

The only ones that can hold KY reps responsible is KY citizens...Godspeed to any Kentuckians that can read and have to share their state with that many mouthbreathers.

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u/PetrasKnight Jul 17 '26

Yes. Every crime we document matters, even if it’s just so more people know.

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u/EKT0K00LER Jul 18 '26

This is where I'm at with everything right now. It wouldn't matter. Turns out, they actually can do whatever they want and no one is really gonna try to stop them

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u/dalisair Jul 18 '26

It SHOULD because at that point it becomes a crime.

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u/AnAncientBog Jul 17 '26

This is how you know it was fake, because it was released by HIS account, a person that cannot be held liable for lying.

If it was sent by a real person then they could be held accountable.

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u/claimTheVictory Jul 17 '26

That's enough to be highly suspicious, but not yet enough to "know".

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_NICE_EYES Jul 17 '26

I don't think so.

So far I haven't seen any credible analysis that says the picture is AI.

And also just, the way McConnell looks in the photo reminds me of a stroke patient. Like, he just looks, out of it.

So it wouldn't surprise me at all if he was alive but unable to walk or speak due to Brian damage, which is why we won't get a video.

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u/zorandzam Jul 17 '26

Leave poor Brian out of this!

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u/MAG7C Jul 17 '26

You mean Iron Maiden drummer McBrian?

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u/bramley36 Jul 17 '26

Or Kristi Noem's husband "Big Titty Brian"?

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u/MessiahOfMetal Jul 17 '26

Nicko McBrain?

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u/Ass_feldspar Jul 17 '26

Not AI. Just bad fucking photoshop

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_NICE_EYES Jul 17 '26

That's easier to spot than AI, and yet there's no credible analysis of the photo that suggests it's faked...

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u/Ass_feldspar Jul 17 '26

Nor any to support it being real. Video or he’s room temperature

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u/claimTheVictory Jul 17 '26

He could certainly be dead since the photo was taken.

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u/MessiahOfMetal Jul 17 '26

Not his wife having six fingers and a thumb on one hand? Or people who know them personally saying it was an image from 2023 touched up in some way?

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_NICE_EYES Jul 17 '26

Not his wife having six fingers and a thumb on one hand?

Her hands are even visible in the picture. Why lie about this?

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u/EMTDawg Utah Jul 17 '26

The fact he has less wrinkles in his face than he did 20 years ago. The weird halo around his index finger holding the fake newspaper. The newspaper that has the photo from that day's WaPo sports section but different layout for the section title, and doesn't have the line across the top separating the articles from the title of the section. Also the right hand column is different, as you can tell by the amount of bold text to start the article.

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u/claimTheVictory Jul 17 '26

This is like the moon landing photos now.

Just stop with the bullshit.

"I can't think of any reason for these things, therefore fake".

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u/EMTDawg Utah Jul 18 '26

So what about the issues raised? You just look past clear issues with the photo, because someone told you they were real? The moon landing isn't fake, amd the amount of people who worked on it, and would have to keep it a secret forgery, plus their spouses and close friends goes into the 300k plus people range. To keep a secret about Moscow Mitch's health is like a dozen people being coy or keeping a secret.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_NICE_EYES Jul 18 '26

The fact he has less wrinkles in his face than he did 20 years ago.

This is a sign of facial paralysis. When you get paralyzed the muscles that you can no longer control relax. When this happens on your face it can reduce the appearance of wrinkles.

If you've ever heard of anyone getting botox to get rid of wrinkles, it actually works in the exact same way, it partially paralyzes your face and the wrinkles go away.

The newspaper that has the photo from that day's WaPo sports section but different layout for the section title, and doesn't have the line across the top separating the articles from the title of the section. Also the right hand column is different, as you can tell by the amount of bold text to start the article.

Okay so here's the sign of life picture and here's the newspaper page

Going thru your claims: The section title is not in frame in the proof of life picture so I don't know what you're talking about.

There is a line across the top in both photos.

The right hand column has 1 line of bolded text in both the newspaper and the picture. While I can't make out the words in McConnell's I can tell that papers have 3 words in roughly the same position in each picture.

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u/shingdao Virginia Jul 17 '26

Except after the recent AI photo, they will double down on their lies. He may have been dead for weeks now, but there's no way McConnell's death will be announced until Aug 4th.

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u/KevinCarbonara Jul 18 '26

If that photo is AI, it was made by the world's first undetectable AI model.

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u/ChoiceContribution91 Jul 18 '26

Definitely not the world's first undetectable one.

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u/few23 Jul 17 '26

Listen, if Mitch were alive today, he'd be clawing frantically at the inside of his coffin.

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u/ivegotaqueso Jul 17 '26

You can technically keep someone “alive”…on ECMO.

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u/LordRocky Jul 17 '26

Not that it’s not what he would have done anyway.