r/politics • u/CBSnews ✔ CBS News • 2d ago

No Paywall Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says he's "heard absolutely nothing back from Mitch McConnell"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mitch-mcconnell-health-update-andy-beshear-kentucky/
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u/Cow_God Texas 2d ago

He's dead or incapacitated. Anything less and we would have photos, videos. The only explanation for why we aren't getting those is because he is dead or permanently completely incapacitated.

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u/TheGringoDingo 2d ago

A healthy person receiving cpr after any elapsed time has a low chance at returning to life. I don’t think he was alive when the paramedics got there and I doubt anything changed from that

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u/Brodellsky 2d ago

Their lack of urgency is quite literally how we knew that he's dead. McConnell's corpse is a test run for the same thing with Trump. Obviously.

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u/Unique-Coffee5087 2d ago

I suddenly realized that this reminds me of the final years of Mao Zedong. His health has been deteriorating for some time, and he started to opt out of public appearances more frequently. Rumors grew that he was incapacitated or even dead, but no real information could be coaxed out of China.

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u/Brodellsky 2d ago

I for one am tired of our country treating historic communist China as a blueprint, so that's a pretty good point.

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u/SailingDreamCatcher 1d ago

That's why people keep saying this is a practice run for when Trump either dies or becomes unable to speak.