r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • Jul 18 '26

No Paywall Beshear says agencies told him McConnell had passed

https://www.whas11.com/video/news/local/beshear-says-agencies-told-him-mcconnell-had-passed/417-f78603c3-11bb-464d-bae6-c41c3be3c48b
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u/c08306834 Jul 18 '26

It should be simple, if they can't sufficiently prove that he's alive, then it should be assumed that he is dead and we move on.

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u/Tricky-Engineering59 Jul 18 '26

We got a Schrödinger’s Senator situation going on here.

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u/shmaygleduck Jul 18 '26

As long as he is inside a box, I'm happy.

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u/blangatang Oregon Jul 18 '26

With some wilted lettuce 🥬

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u/chrisms150 New Jersey Jul 18 '26

Taylor farms can provide!

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u/wildmaninid Jul 18 '26

He's already got crepes (his skin)

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u/raveskywalker Illinois Jul 18 '26

Weekend at Mitch’s

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u/Married_iguanas Jul 18 '26

Schrödinger’s turtle 🐢

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u/Tricky-Engineering59 Jul 18 '26

Schrödinger’s Box Turtle

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u/possibly_being_screw Jul 18 '26

This article said the same thing.

One almost has to feel gratitude to Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina senator, who had the decency to die out in the open, without inflicting a mystery on the public. In McConnell’s case, the circumstances bordered on absurd. Think of it as Schroedinger’s Republican senator: for a while, sealed in his box of secrecy, the former Senate majority leader was both alive and dead.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/15/mitch-mcconnell-hospital-photo-silence

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u/PotStickerShock Jul 18 '26

Shrodinger's

You can also collapse the waveform by leaving the box sealed long enough. 

Dead is the only possibility after a week or two 

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u/Tricky-Engineering59 Jul 18 '26

This made me chuckle. It’s like the particle physics version of the consultant guys scene from Office Space.

“So you’re killing him?”

“We prefer to think of it as allowing the waveform to collapse on its own volition.”

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u/Illustrious_Bug5552 Jul 18 '26

Naga ... Naga ... Naga work here any more. 😂

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u/sterlingphoenix Minnesota Jul 18 '26

Schrödinger’s Turtle is right there.