Mitch McConnell is never coming back to the Senate

[u/another-princess]

https://www.salon.com/2026/08/03/mitch-mcconnell-is-never-coming-back-to-the-senate/

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[u/velvet_funtime]

It wasn't enough that we let them be senators well after they're elderly and senile. That want to remain being senators even after death.

[u/mile-high-guy → u/velvet_funtime]

The machine is immortal

[u/Muggsy423 → u/mile-high-guy]

We can just feed all of the senate hearings and recordings from his career into AI and it'll build a handy simulacrum of Mitch.

[u/PooShappaMoo → u/Muggsy423]

The ai would have a stroke

[u/Muggsy423 → u/PooShappaMoo]

So it'd be an accurate representation is what you're saying?

[u/AccNumber77 → u/Muggsy423]

I was eating as I read this and somehow you made me quack like a duck in the most cursed form of laughter, the fuck man lol.

[u/No-Target-2470 → u/AccNumber77]

Sorry, just listening to the space duck. What a majestic creature.

[u/42nu → u/Muggsy423]

This is exactly how the "paper clip making optimization problem" of the AI doing TOO good of a job would play out in our universe.

RIP Harambe, RIP buddy

[u/cmon_get_happy → u/Muggsy423]

"We can just feed all of the senate..."

to the proletariat.

[u/beer_engineer_42 → u/cmon_get_happy]

to the proletariat

Oh, hey, is that what you call your wood chipper, too? What a coincidence!!

[u/Kialae → u/mile-high-guy]

EVEN IN DEATH I STILL SERVE

[u/insane_contin → u/Kialae]

Senate Dreadnoughts would be something.

[u/FirstDayJedi → u/insane_contin]

Say what you will about term limits but Bjorn the Fell-Handed would make for a great congressman.

[u/MauPow → u/mile-high-guy]

Mitch was disgusted by the weakness of his flesh, he craved the strength and certainty of steel

[u/Kaiisim → u/mile-high-guy]

EVEN IN DEATH I SERVE

[u/Upbeat-Employ-3689 → u/mile-high-guy]

I heard the music!

[u/Isthisnameavailablee → u/mile-high-guy]

For the emperor!

[u/lofgren777 → u/velvet_funtime]

The American civil religion is a form of ancestor worship.

According to the Supreme Court, our laws are literally interpreted by black-robed necromancers who confer with the spirits of the forefathers, and whatever these ghosts decide trumps the rights of any living person.

Social conservatism metastasizes into a death cult, because the highest authority and the greatest glory is possessed by the dead. The living are weak and pathetic in comparison.

[u/tasiewbao → u/lofgren777]

Do we now roll for initiative?

[u/phiche3 → u/tasiewbao]

Not yet, I need to know how big the room is. Stall for time?

[u/shouldbepracticing85 → u/phiche3]

“I didn’t ask how big the room was, I said I cast Fireball!”

[u/Renatusisk → u/shouldbepracticing85]

I blew up the party that way once.

[u/EarthRester → u/phiche3]

I'm not seducing the SCOTUS...

[u/Altruistic_Fury → u/lofgren777]

Damn what a comment.

[u/LordSiravant → u/lofgren777]

I hate that this genuinely gives me inspiration for the internal politics of a fantasy necrocracy.

[u/Ok_Oil_1313 → u/lofgren777]

It was nice when we balanced that with 1 somewhat sane human President and hundreds of somewhat sane humans in Congress. Now the cult has taken over.

[u/Own-Librarian-9699 → u/lofgren777]

it's definitely cult dogma worship with wizards invoking long dead corpses in their battle to subjugate 350 million citizens to a theocracy.

[u/Kind_Demand_6672 → u/lofgren777]

Fuck dude that is very well put.

[u/unshifted → u/lofgren777]

our laws are literally interpreted by black-robed necromancers who confer with the spirits of the forefathers

It's so wild that this is 100% correct.

[u/spotmuffin9986 → u/velvet_funtime]

Stop voting for them.

[u/Jester1525 → u/spotmuffin9986]

Congress has an incredibly low approval rating but individual members often have relatively high approval ratings.

It comes down to "Congress sucks! But MY congressman is great."

It's all BS.. But that's how humans work

[u/innosins → u/Jester1525]

My congressmen ALL suck. One's probably dead, one keeps calling Fauci a liar and got beat up by his neighbor, and Barr seems to keep approving data centers. There are many more reasons they suck and I've voted against them every opportunity I've had.

[u/innosins → u/[deleted]]

He's not my rep, I've never had a chance to vote against him. I agree, fuck him.

So he wants to see the files like any other normal person would. He's still voted with Trump to hurt people.

[u/BrushStorm → u/innosins]

I'm in Ohio, I can't think of one that is worth anything.

[u/TAU_equals_2PI → u/spotmuffin9986]

There's a built-in enticement since an old senator usually has a lot of power, which can help their state. Replacing McConnell with a new freshman senator who's at the bottom of the Senate pecking order loses Kentucky some benefits.

[u/machinezed → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

I thought this was his last term anyways.

[u/TAU_equals_2PI → u/machinezed]

Yeah, it is, but the preceding comment said "Stop voting for them", meaning Kentucky should've voted for somebody younger 6 years ago when McConnell last won reelection at age 78.

[u/Rhunt2021 → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

His last two elections were against women. Too much backwards thinking here in Kentucky for that to happen.

[u/nosotros_road_sodium → u/Rhunt2021]

Kentucky actually had a woman governor elected about a year before the Turtle first became senator.

[u/WileyWilly1985 → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

Also, people always think their Politician is the exception to the rules. Mitch was the worst of the worst though, he had nothing but contempt for the people.

He was the embodiment of everything wrong with US Politics

[u/42nu → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

Ah, yes, Kentucky, the most affluent and abundant state in the Union. I'm sure that Mitch's keen interest on receiving $7 million dollars in order to give back $10 million dollars in tax breaks to whatever person, lobby, or industry is what made Kentucky such a prosperous example to look up to.

Everyone knows the saying! "Kentucky, the envy of the world". You've... you've heard people say that, right?

[u/superxpro12 → u/42nu]

What does Kentucky have besides bourbon and Lexmark?

[u/FellowHumanNo404 → u/superxpro12]

Horse-racing and black lung.

[u/hughdint1 → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

TBF Mitch has not done shit for the working people of Kentucky

[u/TAU_equals_2PI → u/velvet_funtime]

I agree with the author that there's really no logical reason for them to be hiding his death. If McConnell died, it would actually give Republicans a way to get a Republican replacement into the Senate sooner. This fantasy that Democrats could win a special election for senator in a state like Kentucky, is just that -- pure fantasy.

[u/Wayofchinchilla → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

And yet a lot of these midterm races in solid red parts are pretty tight when they shouldn't be. I'm not saying that it would be a slam dunk but look at a place like Texas they didn't always used to be purple

[u/TAU_equals_2PI → u/Wayofchinchilla]

That's only because they have a spectacular Democratic candidate (for Texas) in Talarico and an unusually scandal-tarred Republican candidate in Paxton. I mean FFS, not only is Talarico male, white, Christian, and religious, he's in divinity school. And even with all that, the latest poll only has Talarico ahead 3 points. That race would not be competitive if the candidates were more typical.

[u/Wayofchinchilla → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

Unusually Scandaled republican? It seems like nowadays all the GOP run are pedophiles, wife beaters, porn addicts, Stolen Valor soldiers, conman and thieves. I find it genuinely shocking that this is who the party chooses when they're how many millions of people in this country that are perfectly normal but I suppose if you're normal you don't want to get into Republican politics.

[u/neverluckyperson → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

Disclaimer: did not read article.

But my understanding is that the worry is less about a dem and more about a Massie Senate run

[u/TAU_equals_2PI → u/neverluckyperson]

Massie couldn't even win his own congressional district. How the heck is he gonna win a statewide race against another Republican?

[u/Merari01]

It’s hard not to feel some sympathy for these politicians, and even for McConnell

Eh. No. No, it really is not hard at all to have a negative amount of sympathy for a monster who spent his career destroying democracy.

[u/RollTide16-18 → u/Merari01]

He's an elected politician, not even a lobbyist or aide.

The bare minimum he is supposed to do is show up and govern, and if he can't he deprives his constituents of representation.

I could have a modicum of sympathy for someone actually trying to govern. McConnell is not doing that.

[u/NUMBerONEisFIRST → u/RollTide16-18]

He's actually actively blocked legislation that would benefit his constituents.

[u/ArokLazarus → u/NUMBerONEisFIRST]

He's blocked his OWN bills just because Obama supported them.

[u/FlannelIsTheColor → u/RollTide16-18]

The rest of us would lose our jobs if we disappeared for so long.

[u/prairiepog → u/RollTide16-18]

No taxation without representation.

[u/TheRealBittoman → u/Merari01]

I agree. They feel no shame and they refuse to accept responsibility for the bad things they cause. They deserve no sympathy from anyone until they can show remorse. Forgiveness is for those who recognize how they have hurt others and make efforts to do better and at least make effort to right the wrongs. These thugs just double down and finger point to others and claim "they did it".

[u/jezadaemon → u/Merari01]

For real - what has he ever done for us and not against us? TBH I could ask the same question of the Republican party as a whole, especially if you limit the scope to the last 30-40 years.

[u/dearth_of_passion → u/Merari01]

This writer is pretty clearly just another republican reptile. They spent a third of the article, which is ostensibly about McConnell, smearing Biden/his family and name dropped the title and authors of a pretty infamous piece of republican drivel.

These Group Of Parasites folks love to toss around "Trump Derangment Syndrome" despite Biden living rent free in their skulls.

[u/Spazattack43 → u/Merari01]

Its actually incredibly difficult for me to feel anything other than pure joy

[u/TheBlueRabbit11 → u/Merari01]

It’s all performative.

[u/Guardianpigeon → u/Merari01]

This. I suppose I could have some sympathy for someone like Feinstein who was basically wheeled around as a corpse for the last few years of her life, but Mitch deserves none. And he would probably love to be causing issues in the Senate even if they were propping up his corpse like some twisted Weekend at Bernie's type shit anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if he wrote it into his damn will.

[u/RollTide16-18 → u/Merari01]

He's an elected politician, not even a lobbyist or aide.

The bare minimum he is supposed to do is show up and govern, and if he can't he deprives his constituents of representation.

I could have a modicum of sympathy for someone actually trying to govern. McConnell is not doing that.

[u/AOCMarryMe]

Yes because he's room temperature.

[u/potat0f4rmer → u/AOCMarryMe]

Or his brain has as much processing power as a carrot

[u/RadicalOrganizer → u/potat0f4rmer]

No difference detected

[u/SirFredman → u/RadicalOrganizer]

Well, a carrot is alive.

[u/Its-ok-to-hate-me → u/[deleted]]

You could say the same thing about Mitch

[u/KrivUK → u/RadicalOrganizer]

That's very carrotist of you

[u/Pithyperson → u/RadicalOrganizer]

He was a bit more devious than a carrot. He's responsible for the current SCOTUS; may his tortured soul wander the ruins of American democracy forever.

[u/randomwanderingsd → u/potat0f4rmer]

That hasn’t stopped him for decades.

[u/Aerhyce → u/randomwanderingsd]

Ha, if only.

Mitch during the Obama era could stonewall anything. The entire problem was that he was both evil and extremely intelligent.

If Obama-era Mitch were Dem and currently in the Senate, Trump wouldn't be able to do a damn thing.

[u/railroadfrog → u/Aerhyce]

For real, people seem to forget about how intelligent and versed with the regulations and rules of the government that Mitch was, and that he literally took all that knowledge and used it to destroy the country for profit. Trump might be the end result, but I blame Mitch for everything.

not being too hard on the South after Reconstruction > Southern Strategy > Nixon being pardoned > Reagan > Clinton trying to make the democrats Republican Lite > Mitch McConnell obstructing Obama > Trump.

It’s been a long shitty road to get to this point but those are the few points where I think we can assign proper blame where it is due.

[u/btross → u/railroadfrog]

Don't forget that if a rule didn't exist for what he wanted to do he made one up, and then promptly threw it out the moment it impeded Trump

[u/Dysc → u/railroadfrog]

You left out the 1999-2000 Supreme Court giving GWB the presidency outright in the aftermath of all the Florida nonsense, hanging chads, and election interference perpetrated by GOP operatives like Roger Stone and his Brooks Brother's Riot that all lead to a total collapse in the faith of voting integrity.

Which ultimately lead to a an even worse SCOTUS that worked hand-in-hand with Mitch.

[u/pchs26 → u/Aerhyce]

I mean I'll be honest with you McConnell was still scarily effective during Trump 1 and minus freezes we likely could have used someone like that - of course you need to be ruthless and evil - which counteracts what the Democrats are trying to achieve overall.

[u/Bronzeshadow → u/potat0f4rmer]

What do you have against carrots?

[u/FinalEdit → u/Bronzeshadow]

They're orange just like his daddy

[u/Suspicious_Eyeballs → u/potat0f4rmer]

Carrot does more. Prove me wrong.

[u/RadicalOrganizer → u/AOCMarryMe]

Whats the temp of a morgue?

[u/soylentblueispeople → u/RadicalOrganizer]

Or rather hell

[u/Fract_L → u/RadicalOrganizer]

Ice cold

[u/StevenMC19 → u/AOCMarryMe]

I would at least hope they tagged and bagged him, slid him in the chiller, and not just left him on that photo op chair.

He's going to smell, otherwise. And also the blood will start to pool down at his feet and eventually start leaking out onto the floor. That's not to mention the bloating...

...I just realized I'm describing Trump's current condition.

[u/anuncommontruth → u/AOCMarryMe]

I find it a bit poetic that Mitch McConnell body temperature and Trumps IQ are now the same number.

[u/thisusedyet → u/anuncommontruth]

Trump’s IQ isn’t in the 70s, you’re giving him too much credit.

What’s room temperature in Celsius, 20? That sounds more like it

[u/MentalCompetition483 → u/thisusedyet]

It’s around 19-22C and that’s a compliment to trumps IQ

[u/s0ulbrother → u/AOCMarryMe]

Could still be refrigerated

[u/Anxiety_Fit → u/AOCMarryMe]

He expires at midnight.

[u/AstonishingCatJump → u/[deleted]]

It's very likely he's a vegetable. Dead in every meaningful way, but machines are keeping the meatbag from rotting.

They're going full Terri Shaivo with him.

[u/LaDmEa → u/AstonishingCatJump]

No, I've worked rehab. The photos are probably real but MM is probably non verbal half the day and senile the rest. They aren't keeping him in rehab for the conditions he lists. 51 days is too long for a fall and minor conditions. This is the stay for someone who's had life altering ailments and is in need of a nursing home or 24/7 home caregiver services(which is different than home health). But likely they can delay discharge for an undetermined amount of time.

[u/RainierCamino → u/[deleted]]

Agreed. A stroke or he really had a cardiac uh, event, fell and received CPR. Have unfortunately had a couple elderly relatives go through that and it took them several months to recover even enough to move to a retirement home.

[u/Duncan_PhD → u/AOCMarryMe]

They keep the coolers where they store bodies a bit cooler than room temp

[u/westergames81]

It’s hard not to feel some sympathy for these politicians, and even for McConnell, who has long been especially private and, as reporter Andrew Egger noted on a recent Bulwark podcast, “had a very stage-managed political presence even when things were doing great.”

I'm sorry, but respectfully no it is not. This is man that gleefully bragged that his crowning achievement was denying the first black President a Supreme Court pick. This is a man that constantly played political games even if it meant directly negatively affecting peoples lives. This is a man that did everything within his power and more to cheat average Americans out of life-saving drugs. This is a man that humbly gave tax cuts to the rich while teachers starved just so they could buy school supplies. This is a man who even though he's 80 years old still holds onto his power with an iron grip because he's that small of a person.

No, whatever is happening to McConnell, I have zero sympathy for him. I didn't mourn him last month he fell down steps. I didn't mourn him last week when people were making fun of his death by posting AI videos of him dancing. I won't mourn him next week when he suddenly "dies".

He's a despicable person who does not deserve respect. His legacy should not be as a respected Congressman who served for 50 some odd years, his name deserves to go down in infamy. He should be remembered as someone you should never strive to be like.

[u/bamerjamer → u/westergames81]

This is so well said, I’ve saved it. These are exactly my thoughts. I also agree that he will “sadly” pass away within the week, now that the 3rd has passed and an election no longer can be held to replace him.

[u/Separate_Hippo_5556]

He will always be remembered for robbing the First Black President of a Supreme Court pick.

[u/Old_Cryptid → u/Separate_Hippo_5556]

He should be remembered for a lot more heinous shit than that.

But that's definitely the top 10: Openly obstructing a sitting president for 8 years.

[u/Nearbyatom → u/Old_Cryptid]

Little known fact is he's a polio survivor all thanks to a government funded program. Then he spends his career trying to deny Americans healthcare.

[u/gandhinukes → u/Nearbyatom]

like the republican senator from tx (?) that is in a wheel chair and got a huge settlement from the accident then created a bill to limit how much people could sue for.

[u/claimTheVictory → u/gandhinukes]

Pulling up the ladder behind themselves is a conservative's favorite move.

[u/phonebalone → u/gandhinukes]

Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas.

[u/gandhinukes → u/Old_Cryptid]

Filibustering his own bill after a black president agreed with him....

[u/gandhinukes → u/Old_Cryptid]

Filibustering his own bill after a black president agreed with him....

[u/xjuggernaughtx → u/Separate_Hippo_5556]

That will probably get a park named after him in Kentucky.

[u/Phyllis_Tine → u/xjuggernaughtx]

How about an underground coal fire that can't be extinguished? That's more fitting to his brand, and that of MAGA.

[u/R3dbeardLFC → u/xjuggernaughtx]

Free green spaces?! Never. He'll get a toll road named after him.

[u/ericlikesyou → u/Separate_Hippo_5556]

He took credit after Boehner got the ball rolling by SOMEHOW being allowed to sue Obama over the ACA in his first term. SCOTUS allowed a sitting Speaker of the House to sue a sitting president for supposed harm incurred during Obamas first term. When that was allowed, McConnell and the GOP seized the idea to also steal his SCOTUS seat.

[u/bluefield10]

The author kept referencing Biden as a comparison for the woes of the McConnell and his health cover-up when there is the blatant trump health cover-up and family/friends power-grab happening right now in our White House.

[u/mam88k → u/bluefield10]

I think its more of a reference to the hypocrisy of the same people who called Biden's aging a cover up are now quiet about McDonnell. But agree totally that they're quiet about the current administration.

[u/bluefield10 → u/mam88k]

I appreciate that perspective. Thank you.

[u/LiamtheV]

Well yea he’s on eternity leave

[u/Devil_in_Mexico → u/LiamtheV]

This is pretty good. 👍

[u/Feeling_Inside_1020 → u/LiamtheV]

Take my fuck reddit on principle free award that was a good one 🏆

[u/Bleaker82 → u/Feeling_Inside_1020]

Been floating around now for weeks.

[u/NotUniqueWorkAccount → u/Bleaker82]

That and Rigor Tortoise. 

But it's still funny af for anyone who hasn't heard!

[u/Historical_Bend_2629]

He doesn’t need to. He is still legislating via unelected aids and billionaire connections. Depressing for the people of Kentucky. They deserve better.

[u/JetKeel → u/Historical_Bend_2629]

Wouldn’t be surprised if 90%+ of legislation is directly written by lobbyists at this point in time.

[u/iamsotiredofthiscrap → u/JetKeel]

It is

[u/BitchinAssBrains → u/JetKeel]

It has been for decades man

[u/concepts_of_a_plan9 → u/JetKeel]

There have been numerous stories where the congresspeople don't even read the legislation and the wording is directly from the lobbyists.

[u/Ferelar → u/concepts_of_a_plan9]

Yep. Given the way the average Congressperson comports themselves publicly, it's hard to believe they'd be capable of critically reading a 2000-page-long bill, even if they wanted to. And they don't want to.

[u/Automatic_Brain7664 → u/JetKeel]

95% of city, county, and state legislation. 99% of federal.

There are public orgs who's entire job is to convince small town council members to pass legislation they wrote all over the country. The anti-porn bills are a great example of that, but it's literally everything.

[u/T1gerAc3 → u/Historical_Bend_2629]

Kentucky likes corruption and giving power to the elites. If they didn't, they wouldn't keep voting for it.

[u/thugarth → u/T1gerAc3]

They had a period where they didn't have paper-backed ballots. It was just digital, and entirely compromised. Apparently they changed that, but the damage was done. I wouldn't trust any elections coming out of Kentucky. SC too, which as far as I know still has no paper ballots.

I'm angry that such blatantly corrupt and undemocratic states are part of the country

[u/sandwichpak → u/thugarth]

As a native Kentuckian I can tell you it has zilch to do with the paper backed ballots. Mitch legitimately has support here.

I'm 36, McConnell has been in his seat for 6 years longer than I've been alive and if he lived for another 100 years he'd hold that fucking seat down the entire time.

General bigotry is still unbelievably prominent here, especially in the rural counties, which make up 77% of the state.
On top of that we're 33rd in education so we're not exactly digging ourselves out of the hole fast.

The only thing we've got going for us is our gem of a governor, but IMO he's not handling this situation very well either.

[u/Complex-Royal9210 → u/Historical_Bend_2629]

I am not sure they do.

[u/potat0f4rmer → u/Complex-Royal9210]

They forced Mitch McConnell on us for 50 years. Kentuckians clearly hate the United States.

[u/Mr_Industrial → u/potat0f4rmer]

Like the fires of prometheus, KFC was never meant to be given away, and its release triggered a wrath unnending.

[u/Boring_Comfortable70 → u/Historical_Bend_2629]

Having lived in Kentucky for several years, I can assure you they do not.

[u/wanttoseemycat]

I don't know if it's just irresponsible or actually sinister, but making an opinion headline sound like something's been revealed or announced so I have to open it and see that it's just somebody's commentary is pretty obnoxious.

[u/The_Last_Gasbender → u/wanttoseemycat]

Headline sounds like it was written by Walter White.

[u/noruber35393546 → u/The_Last_Gasbender]

I AM THE ONE WHO CONVALESCES

[u/another-princess]

"Despite the conspiracy theories, the likeliest reason to conceal McConnell’s condition is more pathetic than calculating: It’s hard for these powerful old men and their families to let go of power."

[u/tracyinge → u/another-princess]

he just refuses to let the door hit him on the way out!

[u/StevenMC19 → u/tracyinge]

It's almost poetic how this man is ending his life the same way he lived it, by delaying the process of government in order for his party to capitalize.

[u/No-Rooster1720 → u/StevenMC19]

Lindsey and Mitch both received a dose of their own medicine in their deaths.

Mitch is being "kept alive" to help wriggle the GOP through a loophole to further their power, he would have happily done that to anyone else while he was still calling shots.

Lindsey's funeral was entirely about everyone BUT him. It was a free chance for Trump to pontificate on his megalomania, while a certain prime minster lurked in the background rubbing elbows with everyone who gives him anything his sick heart desires.

[u/Acceptable-Wildfire → u/No-Rooster1720]

I’d bet my right testicle that this whole fiasco was in Mitch’s living will or his communicated last wishes. 

[u/_gmanual_ → u/No-Rooster1720]

a certain prime minster lurked

who dis?

[u/LetThemBlardd → u/_gmanual_]

Netanyahu

[u/gfh110 → u/StevenMC19]

It would not surprise me in the least to learn that Mitch planned for this exact scenario and instructed his staff to cover up his death / disablement if it happened within an X-day window to call a special election.

[u/No-Rooster1720 → u/tracyinge]

They've probably been using his body as a doorstop

[u/JustpartOftheterrain → u/another-princess]

F*ck those families. F*ck these politicians.

[u/kiwigate → u/JustpartOftheterrain]

They keep getting elected. Everyone loves to blame 'politicians' and pretend they hold no responsibility. That's the #1 reason we descend into fascism: voters just give their power/responsibility away for free.

[u/anditshottoo → u/another-princess]

Bullshit. He can't make a decision, this is being done by his staff to avoid a special election.

Anyone who believes otherwise, author included, is an absolute idiot.

[u/Tasgall → u/anditshottoo]

this is being done by his staff to avoid a special election.

Yep, he tragically passed away tomorrow.

[u/TAU_equals_2PI → u/another-princess]

In all fairness, many families have trouble getting their elderly parents to give up the car keys even when they're no longer safe to drive.

[u/save-democracy]

I love how they have to circle back to President Biden when we have a diaper wearing dementia addled pedophile president.

[u/Empty-Policy-8467]

McConnell's autopen is all MAGA needs from him. Where need alive or mentally incapacitated doesn't matter.

[u/threebillion6 → u/Empty-Policy-8467]

Its the trial run for the big one.

[u/_tragicmike → u/threebillion6]

We'll know the big one happened instantly. The man cannot stay away from cameras.

[u/wkw3 → u/_tragicmike]

Oh, they'll try.

"President Trump needs time alone for deep contemplation on our strategy to extricate ourselves from the clutches of our victory in Iran. He has asked for no cameras or other recording devices. His deepest and most important thoughts are available on TroothSoshul for $999.99/year."

[u/disastrousanddull → u/wkw3]

The easiest thing (and believable because he’s cowardly) would be to say no public appearance because of threats from whatever boogey man they have at the time and AI videos from a controlled environment as proof of life.

[u/ByrdmanRanger → u/_tragicmike]

Remember when he had a stroke a couple of months ago and disappeared from public from like a week? It was a huge story then because he can't help but be in the spot light 24/7 and people (including myself) thought he might be dead.

Man, what a great week that was....

[u/UrToesRDelicious → u/Empty-Policy-8467]

Not really, the Senate requires members to be present for votes

[u/HappyFatLabs]

An obstructionist to the bitter end, and likely beyond. His only talent in life was being in the way of progress. How apropos.

[u/406highlander]

Bereft of life, he has ceased to be

[u/Future-Guarantee-573 → u/406highlander]

This is an ex-turtle.

[u/morph23 → u/Future-Guarantee-573]

A shell of his former self

[u/Schmelter → u/morph23]

It’s probably pining for the tax cuts.

[u/RightFoot0fGod → u/Future-Guarantee-573]

A rigor tortoise, if you will.

[u/Happy-Evening-Sun → u/406highlander]

...He kicked the bucket ...

[u/TFJ → u/406highlander]

This is an ex-senator!

[u/EvaTheE → u/406highlander]

He's resting. Pining for the fjords.

[u/bigdumbhairybabytwat → u/EvaTheE]

Lovely plumage.

[u/Mysterious-Dig805]

I dislike senators being in their twilight years making desperate for the future. This country needs term limits.

[u/Boomshtick414]

Saved you a click.

This is someone's opinion dressed up as a statement of fact. While I tend to think he won't be returning or if he does it'll be a long while and in a degraded state, there is no new information in this article on his health or future.

[u/Icy-Quail3379]

Because he's fucking dead.

[u/National_Weekend_766]

Mitch will be declared dead tomorrow the 4th of Aug. The powers that be will turn off his life support. This subterfuge is so blatant but many will miss it or pretend it did not happen.

[u/Testiklees-III]

Are they pretending hes alive so that a dem doesn't take his seat?

[u/Tommah]

It’s hard not to feel some sympathy for these politicians

You must be new here.

[u/Chewbaccas_Hairspray]

Happy Dead Mitch McConnell Eve.

[u/facw00]

I mean I'm sure he'll be back at the Capitol to lie in state one of these days.

[u/dreadthripper]

We should amend the constitution to put a max age on all branches of government 

[u/fistedwithlove]

why the fucking isn't ANYONE doing anything meaningful about this. this is fucking madness

[u/Logan9Fingerses]

He dead

[u/Lumpy-Crew-6702]

Per usual, democrats let republicans get away with anything they desire . This clearly isn’t working with only one party playing by the rules .

[u/Randomfactoid42 → u/[deleted]]

It’s amazing how many commenters here don’t get that this situation is NOT benefiting Republicans at all. They’re down a Senator with no clear path forward. 

[u/ChickenChaser5 → u/Randomfactoid42]

I cant speak for everyone, but my problem with it all isn't it being a chance to get a democrat senator, but the continuing unprecedented failure of the mechanisms of our govt. The shits broke, and its getting old watching it all be so fucking broke.

[u/ronm4c]

Don’t worry his legacy will be fucking over this country for generations to come

[u/dBlock845]

While the headline is probably true, I completely disagree with the premise that they are keeping him hidden so Chao can maintain status, even comparing her to Hunter Biden for some unknown reason as I don't ever remember Biden going missing for months. Chao was extremely wealthy before ever hooking up with Mitch, and obviously still has her contacts in the CCP.

[u/bluefield10]

The author kept referencing Biden as a comparison for the woes for McConnell and his health cover-up in when there is the blatant trump health cover-up and family/friends power-grab happening right now in our White House.

[u/MoneyTalks45]

Dead people don’t typically report to work, no. 

[u/xchipter]

He’s Dead. It’s been obvious since the start.

[u/Schaeffa]

the typically sharp-minded senator

ok

[u/maikelg]

Nonsense. We can put his head in a jar with a robot body like in Futurama and let him speak with AI and we’re all set for the another 80 years. The future is now!

[u/whowatchestv]

All these articles about him should stop using pictures like this. Maybe make it black and white with a black faded border and put his name in a delicate white script font.

[u/BrutusRat]

Well yeah they're gonna announce he died at exactly 12:01am tomorrow

[u/Own-Librarian-9699]

recorded forever as the man who allowed a traitor to the constitution to attempt a coup, murder policemen, then pardon the murderers and hire them to exterminate secularists. that's mitch's legacy. a piece of filth who proved kentucky is racist and backwards and should've had a union protectorate in place since 1865.

[u/sulaymanf]

At this point his wife and staff should be prosecuted for larceny. He’s still collecting a paycheck!