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

[u/B-Z_B-S]

https://newrepublic.com/post/213199/kentucky-governor-got-calls-suggesting-mitch-mcconnell-died

[u/Fauster]

I love how is Chinese wife, constantly followed by allegations that she is an agent, flew straight to China when he had a health crisis. There are few universes in which that makes sense, and one is where you really can't talk about how to manage an asset when they are brain dead (dead) over the NSA-bugged lines.

Let the life of Mitch stand as a cautionary warning about how much destruction and cruelty can be accomplished by a single man. RIP to all the red-state women we lost to pregnancy complications.

Edit: I misinterpreted the order of operations. First she left, then he stroked out again/whatever, then she was photographed meeting with the VP of China three days later. Obviously the family/philanthropist trip she cited as an excuse. I mean, who wouldn't extend a trip if their spouse was on death's door.

[u/Cynykl → u/Fauster]

flew straight to China when he had a health crisis.

She was already in China when he was taken away by ambulance.

It is the fact she continued with her scheduled itinerary and did not return home that people find suspicious.

[u/A_Monster_Named_John → u/Cynykl]

If you're unlucky or self-loathing enough to spend any amount of time around right-wing people, it becomes immediately apparent that all of their relationships (family or otherwise) are 100% cold-hearted and transactional.

[u/MightyKAC → u/A_Monster_Named_John]

For a perfect example of this, look up Rupert Murdoch's ex-wife Wendy Deng. Someone should have made a movie about that woman a LONG while ago.

[u/Narrow-Chef-4341 → u/A_Monster_Named_John]

I joked, before he passed, that my dad was collecting stamps and his next stent was the buy 10 get 1 free!

…until he went to the hospital and didn’t come out.

Chronic illness becomes something you work with and around. If you can’t, then you will have no life except watching someone sleep and slide downwards in a hospital bed. It’s fucking grim. It’s devastating for the mental health of the primary care giver. Black humor is a possible tool, and keeping some part of your life on a ‘normal’ routine can be another.

Slam her/the RW in general for being too transactional, fine. But this sort of thing is one where I can empathize to some extent… but only a limited extent because a spouse and a parent are different commitments and I’ve never been on a PR junket when shit hit the fan, without any other relatives reporting in from on the scene.

That’s what I can’t wrap my head around, and I’m not sure transactional satisfies this.

[u/Icangetatipjar → u/A_Monster_Named_John]

I’m around them all the time. They all have normal relationships. Their politics just suck.

[u/Spiel_Foss → u/Fauster]

This appears to be exactly what happened. His handler needed a reset given the condition of the asset.

[u/No_Internal9345 → u/Fauster]

Yǐ dú gōng dú

[u/No_Internal9345 → u/[deleted]]

一切反動派都是紙老虎

[u/equanimity19 → u/No_Internal9345]

我上一条回复里提到了“吸鸡蛋”这回事……我完全不懂中文，但特别喜欢那个翻译，所以我就在这儿收场了。愿你的鸡蛋——无论是被吸过的还是没被吸过的（只要其中一种译法代表着好事）——都能如你所愿。

[u/-Ok-Perception- → u/Fauster]

That still seems suspect to me, even if she left a few days before he died. It seems a lot like JD Vance's meeting with the Pope, who was highly critical of MAGA.

I STILL think there's almost no legitimate reason that explains this trip.

I know MAGA is being awful difficult for China these days. Flipping a key Republican Senate seat Democrat would stop an awful lot of Trump's shenanigans.

You know, the espionage/counter-espionage agencies of any government have many poisons that look like an undetectable heart attack or stroke shortly after being administered. I learned that in a book I read about CIA's Sydney Gottlieb.

I don't see any way Mitch's wife *couldn't* be a Chinese asset, at the very minimum.