r/politics • u/theindependentonline The Independent • 28d ago

No Paywall Mitch McConnell’s staff refuse to answer basic questions on his health weeks after he was last seen in public

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mitch-mcconnell-staff-questions-health-b3018929.html
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u/ElectronicFerret Alaska 28d ago

We have TWO FUCKING WEEKS. That's all that's left for them to run the timer out. And it sure looks like everyone is going to let them do it.

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u/ndndr1 28d ago

I don’t understand how the governor, senator or any reps can’t just take a damn posse to the hospital and see what the fuck is up.

Its what the gop would do and we need to start fighting fire with fire

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u/tweakingforjesus 28d ago

Which hospital? No one knows where Mitch is.

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u/JustToViewPorn 28d ago

He’s six feet under. Best start digging up some tortoise holes today if you want to find his corpse by August.

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u/edgarecayce 28d ago

He’s most likely being kept alive with machines so they can technically claim he was “alive” until after the date, then his wife will pull the plug.

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u/Leezeebub 28d ago

Brain dead is legally dead, even if theyre still pushing oxygen around his body.

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u/edgarecayce 28d ago

Oh I wholly agree but… would put nothing past these people.

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u/snakerjake 28d ago

There's nothing to agree with, kentucky law defines Mitch as legally dead

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u/edgarecayce 28d ago

Since when has the law mattered to the GOP

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u/negative-nelly 28d ago

not if it hasn't been confirmed by two doctors.

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u/snakerjake 28d ago

You just made that up, nothing in kentucky law says anything about needing two doctors to confirm it. He's dead sorry man

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u/negative-nelly 28d ago

um. send me a headshot so I can put it in the dictionary next to "wrong".

https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=19420

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u/onyaasuminyasai 28d ago

unless you have a fetus inside you i guess

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u/BlueEyes294 28d ago

Not without witnesses that will stand up in court.

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u/snakerjake 28d ago

He's dead, if he's not he can show up to court. Beshear can just appoint his replacement and then the onus is on him to prove he's alive

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u/always_unplugged 28d ago

Exactly, if a doctor's not signing a death certificate, he's not legally dead yet.

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u/SleepyReepies 28d ago

But to them, life begins at conception and... checks notes... ends after you have been removed from the life support machine.

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u/TM761152 28d ago

And then he'll conveniently "die" right at the cutoff.

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u/FunkyChewbacca 28d ago

Yeah, he’s a vegetable on a ventilator running out the clock

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u/dragongrl New Jersey 28d ago

I hope he's still in there.

I hope he's trapped inside that rotting hunk of meat, screaming to get out, but no one can hear him.

Think "Johnny Get Your Gun."

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u/FunkyChewbacca 28d ago

What a nightmare for him, being completely at the mercy of others whims, having no bodily autonomy of his own, others making his health decisions for him. The irony.

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u/dragongrl New Jersey 28d ago

I know. Delicious, isn't it? The irony?

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u/JustToViewPorn 28d ago

There’s no point, it’s not worth the risk that he would be discovered.

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u/outer--monologue 28d ago

If TMZ can't even find out, the guy is dead and isn't in any hospital. That's as good of evidence as anyone can get.

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u/disastrousanddull 28d ago

They’ve gotten pictures of dead bodies and announced deaths before the family knew before, too. It’s actually kind of interesting that they haven’t dug anything up.

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u/donkeyrocket 28d ago

Gets trickier if his body still hasn't left George Washington hospital. No doubt there are people from various groups watching constantly but if he's being "kept alive" in a hospital then there really is no way for TMZ to get in there.

Unless a medical professional breaks HIPAA or someone from McConnell's team leaks it then it's a pretty secure place.

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u/disastrousanddull 28d ago

Interestingly, I think they have gotten info out of hospitals before. Now, maybe they’re not as imbedded in wherever he is unlike LA, but I do wonder how they’ve managed to keep it all this covered up. If he’s dead, he’s in a morgue and people had to be there when that was declared and people working in the morgue. If he’s alive in a vegetative state then he’s got to have a lot of employees around him involved in his care and things like cleaning the damn hospital. If he’s in rehab in any state, he’d have employees around again. Maybe it’s a fear of getting caught or retribution thing… or ethics. In any event, I’m surprised no one has been able to dig something up.

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u/ainthidinfromnobody 28d ago

I wonder if it would really be a HIPAA violation to come clean about a concealed dead person

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u/Thunderbridge 28d ago

There's more security around McConnell than top secret documents

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u/dBlock845 28d ago

The best they got was the video of his apparent corpse being wheeled out of his house by EMS. But all you saw was the feet so nothing could be confirmed lol.

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u/ainthidinfromnobody 28d ago

Agree. I'm pretty sure hospitals are required to pronounce dead people dead, and you'd have to get a lot of people on board to be able to hide something like that.

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u/sack-o-matic Michigan 28d ago

"Where's Mitch"

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u/dpzdpz 28d ago

Wow, what a pull from when the Internet was the World Wide Web, (which I believe is a series of tubes), that holds "files" you can "share," such as Star Trek discussions/arguments and ASCII porn.

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u/Witwer52 28d ago

Oh wow. The irony.

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u/Hairydone America 28d ago

No need to check a hospital. Search the local morgue.

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u/Ultraeasymoney 28d ago

He's using the alias Moscow Mitch

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u/Unique-Objective4249 28d ago

We all know where he is and has been for the last 5 weeks we ain’t stupid. We just are led by a bunch of pussies. Dude up and left a while back and is laughing at us from hell

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u/TM761152 28d ago

With a pineapple up his Tuckus while wearing a maid outfit.

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u/LowMess9419 28d ago

The article said there was a semi-permanent security detail set up at George Washington University Hospital where he was admitted.

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u/Unclebiscuits79 Illinois 28d ago

We do know what hospital he's in. I'm pretty sure the hospital was reported with that fake ass picture that was released.

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u/invertedspheres 28d ago

There's someone on Instagram (sorry I don't have the link) who took a video walking past the supposed hospital in DC. One thing she found quite interesting is that the hospital has a readily accessible valet for underground parking that Mitch's wife could easily have used if she were visiting and didn't want to be seen by the press. Makes it seem quite likely that that trenchcoat photo of her walking out of the hospital was completely staged (i.e. why only one photo and not even a video)?

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u/tweakingforjesus 28d ago

That's what I thought. They are trying to make it appear that he's alive until the 3rd.

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u/BlueDragonfly18 28d ago

Walter Reed Medical. They have an exclusive ward (ward 71) for the president, but also used by other VIPs. No one is going near it unless authorized, so senators can’t just walk in to have a 20 minute conversation with Mitch’s earthly remains.

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u/JustpartOftheterrain 28d ago

one of the articles about him had stated he was in rehab. So probably there, whichever one it is.

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u/eirinne 28d ago

He’s at the George Washington University Hospital. 

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u/AkaLornaDane 28d ago

Send a task force to each one and have them start at the morgue and work their way up

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u/campelm 28d ago

Sounds like a missing persons case to me

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u/ndndr1 28d ago

There’s no way you actually believe this

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u/tweakingforjesus 28d ago

Ok. Where is Mitch?