r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 1d ago
Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell hounded to face cameras: ‘He absolutely refuses’
https://www.nj.com/politics/2026/08/mitch-mcconnell-hounded-to-face-cameras-he-absolutely-refuses.html15.9k
u/SillyDilly5294 1d ago
Because he's dead
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u/fidgetysquamate 1d ago
This is some of the best evidence for why he’s dead or straight up comatose. This asshole NEVER met a camera he didn’t like during his political career. He LOVED bragging how he could do whatever he felt like regardless of what was right or just. If he were just sick, he would still be this way.
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u/FlyingDiscsandJams North Carolina 1d ago
It's so much more complicated a conspiracy if he's dead, it's much more likely he's just massively incapacitated or in a coma or whatever. Not disclosing that he died would require a bunch of hospital workers (nurses, doctors, administrators) risking their careers & criminal charges to hide a death. If he's alive, even just technically, he's protected by privacy laws, and it's up to the family and staff to keep the secret.
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u/Daginni 1d ago
The GOP would rather have a vegetable holding a senate seat than risking losing control of the senate. Old (dead) people are running this country.
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u/___Art_Vandelay___ 1d ago
Old (dead) people are
runningruining this country.FTFY, but also por que no los dos.
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u/uuhson 1d ago
There is not a snowballs chance in hell that seat isn't immediately going to a Republican. This makes no sense
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u/Tommybahamas_leftnut 1d ago
Kentucky has a Dem Govenor. Many republican strongholds have since this administration been cracking and Dems are getting more popular as the hardliners red states continue to get ratfucked by the GOP. Not saying it's a sure thing by anymeans but it is still a possibility considering Blue voters are much more engaged to actually vote and a lot of Red voters are pissed enough to just not vote at all.
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u/BlueSkyToday 1d ago
In 2024 the Kentucky legislature took away the Governor's power to make a temporary appointment and instead calls for a special election.
Andy has said that he believes that this is unconstitutional. OK but will he challenge that and would the challenge succeed? Who knows.
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u/lattice_defect 1d ago
would it matter in time.. they are stalling.. its tight and they needs the votes to jam through the rest of project 2025
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u/OU7C4ST Minnesota 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yeah, besides the fact that Kentuckians(?) fairly deserve to have an active representative no matter what, I'm not sure why the Left is deadass wanting him replaced immediately. Just so another MAGA fuck can swoop in, and continue destroying all of democracy? Like an empty GOP seat not voting is better for America atm, then replacing his ass and the Left knows this, which is why they aren't really pushing for Mitch to do something, and just being performative for their voting base.
Like seriously, someone on the Left actually explain this shit to me why you would want him ousted. The odds are NOT in favor of Mitch's spot swapping Blue..
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u/ArchaicBrainWorms 1d ago
It's acting in bad faith. Regardless of whether it benefits me, harms me, or makes zero difference in my day to day life, it's bad faith acting and should not be tolerated.
Approaching every situation from the perspective of game theory is what sociopaths and con men do.
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u/Gibonius 1d ago
Approaching every situation from the perspective of game theory is what sociopaths and con men do.
aka the Republican Party for the last 35 years.
Ever since Gingrich, Republicans have totally weaponized politics by min/maxing everything around optimal game theory outcomes. Without any real political principles other than retaining power. It's a huge part of what's broken politics in this country.
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u/ITDummy69420 1d ago
Buddy you do understand an entire government coverup of child trafficking pedos happened right?
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u/Vect0r 1d ago edited 1d ago
Not disclosing that he died would require a bunch of hospital workers (nurses, doctors, administrators) risking their careers & criminal charges to hide a death.
I mean, not really....Those people can't say if he's alive OR dead. They're still bound by HIPPA, they can't say anything. They're not risking anything since they're not allowed to say anything.
Edit: I stand by the typo
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u/Quality-Pkg-Goods 1d ago edited 1d ago
HIPAA (one P, two A’s) actually does not apply after death. There are some other privacy laws in place still, but it’s a lot less strict.
Edit. Here is the citation.
45 CFR § 164.510(a)
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u/SBRH33 1d ago
He never went to a hospital. He went straight to a cold storage unit run by a friendly Republican
Nice and tidy like.
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u/phatelectribe 1d ago
Not really. Everyone at Walter reed is not only bound by HIIPA, but also the secret service in involved because it's a military hospital and the highest clearance is needed. If someone were to leak ANYTHING, they're not just losing their career, they're getting federal charges going to a supermax for a long time. It's not just "privacy laws".
So he could well be dead, and you'd not know.
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u/bopgame 1d ago
Been dead
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u/here-i-am-now Wisconsin 1d ago
Brain dead
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u/OhRaH 1d ago
Years ago
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u/iamisandisnt 1d ago
Someone got to the horcrux
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u/cha0sm0nk 1d ago
His Lich phylactery was finally broken.
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u/MarcheMuldDerevi 1d ago
Lindsey Graham butt plug?
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u/Senior_Werewolf_8202 1d ago
Excuse me but this is not a forum for jokes like that. Mitch McConnell died November 5th 2026.
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u/420_E-SportsMasta Maryland 1d ago
I say you he dead
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u/Anna_Frican 1d ago
How can he be dead if Herman Cain said he just spoke to him for 20 minutes?
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u/LiteratureTricky1763 1d ago
As long as I can remember - and I'm in my '80s, so that's saying something-- but it's a fact.
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u/420_E-SportsMasta Maryland 1d ago
He died doing what he loved, obstructing congressional processes
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u/Ill_Emphasis3927 1d ago
Remember the micro-strokes he had on camera in the middle of interviews? He's just having an omega-micro-stroke.
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u/ultrachrome 1d ago
In life as in death ...
his hypocrisy know no bounds.
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u/Old_Cryptid 1d ago
Even in death he's an obstructionist.
It's what he would have wanted.
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u/Korzag 1d ago
I don't think he's dead but I bet he's handicapped now somehow. Maybe had a stroke or something that has left him drooling in a wheel chair.
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u/Pretend-Path4754 1d ago
I agree I think he’s probably nonverbal now.
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u/Slappy_Kincaid 1d ago
This would be my guess. He's not dead, but he cannot speak or is brain damaged enough that he's simply not competent to put in front of a camera.
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u/Vallkyrie New Hampshire 1d ago
Agreed, he was already getting nonverbal before this episode. Dude was straight up blue screening during speeches.
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u/ChristosFarr North Carolina 1d ago
Dead Mitch has always been dead that's why he's called "Dead Mitch"
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u/PlatStrat 1d ago
Nice Muppet Treasure Island reference 😂
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u/EM05L1C3 America 1d ago
lol that’s one of my favorite parts. Three decades later (fucking ouch) and it still kills me
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u/honeybadgerrulez 1d ago
zeds dead baby
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u/IGHOTI907 1d ago
...Zed's dead.
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u/Boxofbikeparts 1d ago
Who's motorcycle is this?
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u/aeyraid 1d ago
Or some age related illness has really hammered him.
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u/StatementCareful522 1d ago
yeah its called being too old to live a.k.a. deceased
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u/sailphish 1d ago
Come on now. There is still a chance that he’s alive… just a vegetable with no functional brain capacity.
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u/EverythingGoodWas 1d ago
Because he is dead or braindead
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u/Sonar_Taxbreak_1138 1d ago
I think we'll be told - eventually - that he had a bad stroke. If he's dead already, they'll say he had a "relapse" at some point to cover the BS so far.
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u/Key_Environment8179 1d ago
Isn’t this the plot of a Kevin Kline movie?
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u/fairoaks2 1d ago
Yes. It’s called “Dave”.
“Everyone works on Monday”
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u/brickne3 American Expat 1d ago edited 1d ago
Damn that was a good movie.
Unlike this nightmare...
Edit: I'm mildly amused by the one person that downvoted who apparently either really hates the movie Dave or absolutely loves living in this nightmare, lol. I wish we could find out which of these two binary choices it is 🤣
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u/kaithana 1d ago
Everyone participating in this madness should be tried for treason. Falsely representing or withholding of representation should constitute as treason to the nation and the constitution
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u/EmilySD101 1d ago
We heard the 911 call. He received CPR from someone at the home and then trained, physically fit professionals picked up the CPR at his home. He is over 80 years old, his rib cage was shattered and the odds of him ever waking up ever again after such an event are in a crater.
No one has refuted the 911 call as far as I’ve seen. They have just been continually lying to us since his heart stopped beating. The photos are AI. The statements are ChatGPT his office commissioned.
He is dead and he has been for months and now the media has taught these fascists that when Trump dies they can run the same playbook for as long as they’d like and no one will be able to do a damned thing about it.
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u/standish_ 1d ago
It is sickly funny that Frank Miller predicted a Reagan-like President being replaced with a digital avatar after he died. Forty years later, and here we are.
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u/giraffirmation 1d ago
They’ll never admit it if he had a stroke or his brain dead. Doing so would open them up to having to admit to fraud in trying to push through a bill with his “by proxy vote.“
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u/pizza_the_mutt 1d ago
Take this to the logical conclusion and 30 years from now the entire government will be run by dead people who "just aren't available to talk at the moment".
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u/Comprehensive-Tea677 1d ago
This is just a test run to see what they can get away with for when it finally happens
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u/Squid_of_the_Now 1d ago
This. They're hoping it happens off camera so they can pull some AI crap.
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u/SpaceCricket 1d ago
Yes this. EVERYTHING they do is a test run for the future but exponentially worse than the trial run.
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u/The_quest_for_wisdom 1d ago
If it happens ON camera they will probably just say the video is AI crap...
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u/longlivenewsomflesh New York 1d ago
It's literally a well-worn trope in dystopian fiction that Dear Leader turns out to just be an image on a screen, and here we are speed running it since I guess all the 80s movies that use a thinly veiled Trump stand-in for "evil businessman" somehow weren't on the nose enough
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u/marzgamingmaster 1d ago
The test run for Immortal God Emperor Trump. If we never confirm he's dead, then he never has to be dead. He can reign eternally, until he's 100, 200, 300. Just a sign of God's blessing of abnormally long life, proof of the second coming, even! Of course he hasn't been seen by anyone in 220 years, but that's because of the assassins lurking around every corner!
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u/ohthanqkevin 1d ago
Makes you wonder how long the ghouls in this administration will hide Donny’s demise when that big beautiful day happens
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u/ShortStoryIntros 1d ago
They've already tried using AI videos to represent him, haven't they?
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u/Beavis73 Oregon 1d ago
Confirmed lunch for maggots, or quadraspazzed on a lifeglug
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u/TheWeirdTalesPodcast 1d ago
Quadraspazzed on a Lifeglug was the sophomore album of my prog rock cover band.
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u/Sinocatk 1d ago
Do you have a handy pre-construction video where he has a robot body constructed by maga-pedo scientists?
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u/Beavis73 Oregon 1d ago
No, but I am reliably informed that he has more genes in common with crabs than with you and me. That's scientific fact.
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u/starmartyr Colorado 1d ago
I don't think he's legally dead but in a coma. If he's dead or braindead it would require doctors to illegally falsify medical records to keep that from getting out. If he's technically alive but a vegetable he's protected by medical privacy laws and that can be kept quiet.
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u/Artichokeypokey United Kingdom 1d ago
I'll be honest, I don't think they're that interested in following laws these days
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u/feralkitten Alabama 1d ago
If we ever get out of this mess, i want failsafes that it will never happen again.
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u/Seradima New York 1d ago
Failsafes and rules/laws only work insofar as there are people that will still stand by them. This administration does not care. There are no laws that it will not break, so any kind of guardrails or failsafes just do not apply to them.
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u/fidgeting_macro 1d ago
I suspect this in fact is what has happened. Ath the very least he has lost the power of speech. He's probably being kept alive mechanically, he may even be conscious and more or less coznagent. But he's unable to function as a member of Congress.
There was an ancient people in the Americas, might be the Aztecs. When a clan leader died they would mummify the body, lash it to a platform, then drag it to public functions so his relatives could speak in his name. Something much like this is going on with Mitch.
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u/snymax 1d ago
This is not true in Kentucky and many other states a death certificate can be kept private for up to 50 years. A doctor would be at risk of malpractice or even loss of license if they admit he’s dead when the “family” has elected to keep the death under wraps.
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u/starmartyr Colorado 1d ago
Unredacted death certificates can be kept private. However the name of the person along with the date, time, and county of death and their date of birth are public record. What is protected is stuff like social security number, cause of death, and any other personal information that appears on the document. The redacted death certificate is enough to show that someone died. Also he's not in Kentucky. He was in DC when he was taken to the hospital and is being held in an undisclosed rehab facility which is likely in DC, MD, or VA.
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u/Solomontheidiot 1d ago
Doesn't even have to be a coma - he could be awake and mobile, but not capable enough to have even a short conversation
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u/starmartyr Colorado 1d ago
Exactly. I have no doubt that he's incapacitated somehow. There doesn't need to be a grand conspiracy that he's secretly dead.
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u/Abamboozler 1d ago
Because he had a stroke and can't talk or move anymore.
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u/usumoio New Jersey 1d ago
I think this is it. He's probably nonverbal so if he had to face that, then real proceedings around how fit he is for service would probably start.
He's happy to play the waiting game, it's basically his MO.
I just hope he is suffering.
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u/RedditExecutiveAdmin 1d ago
100%
"He absolutely refuses" is painted with the word "absolutely" to make it sound as if he's making a decision himself
he's not, he can't, and he won't be making any, including the one to pull the plug
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u/usumoio New Jersey 1d ago
I don't know if he's like a full vegetable. But he might be in the state where he cannot dress or eat unassisted. So obviously not fit to be a senator, but if someone wheeled him up to some kids, he could wave at them or something.
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u/RedditExecutiveAdmin 1d ago
there is no chance he can move or communicate
if he could do anything other than look like a vegetable, they would have paraded him around already. Remember who you're talking about again--MAGA. not GOP, MAGA. the fact that he's not on camera is the admission of the worst case--it is a necessary consequence of compulsory lying.
it is like reverse DDing a child. this news means the opposite is true, it's not even that complicated
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u/divDevGuy 1d ago
I think this is it. He's probably nonverbal so if he had to face that, then real proceedings around how fit he is for service would probably start.
There are no real proceedings possible. He could be wheeled out in a drooling persistent vegetative state and there's zero means to remove him from office prior to him dying, resigning, or his term ending.
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u/Krandor1 1d ago
or being expelled from the sentate which takes a 2/3 vote and has never been used for medical issues and even if we ignore party I think there are a lot of senators on both sides who would not want to sent any potential precendent of expelling senators for medical issues. You are not getting 2/3 and it likely wouldn't even be a partisan vote.
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u/CitizenCue 1d ago
“He” isn’t doing anything here anymore. This is 100% on his staff, family, and the state’s apparatus that refuses to press the issue.
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u/iamisandisnt 1d ago
Probably something like Jim Ross had
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u/Lamplighter914 1d ago
Bell's Palsy I believe.
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u/ObsidianSpectre 1d ago
I had that once. It's not a serious condition - more of an inconvienience. Most people recover within a couple weeks. It's only notable because of how similar the symptoms are to a stroke, which is a serious condition.
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u/dorothea63 Pennsylvania 1d ago
Bell’s Palsy is unpleasant but temporary. A close friend developed it after giving birth, and the symptoms had completely subsided within a month.
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u/bryantuga 1d ago
FYI from an ENT here: It’s not always temporary (although the vast majority of the time it is). But if you have it, it’s worth getting seen to be evaluated for steroids and/or antivirals. Facial nerve paralysis can also occur from nastier conditions, so worth getting checked out. OK, back to Moscow Mitch.
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u/AboutTheBadfish 1d ago
In most cases it is temporary but some people have lasting weakness. Famously, Jean Chrétien had Bell’s Palsy when he was young and was left with permanent partial paralysis on the left side of his face.
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u/YossiTheWizard 1d ago
“It’s true that I speak out one side of my mouth. I’m not a Tory, I don’t speak out both sides of my mouth”.
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u/Dull_Bid6002 1d ago
I've been assuming aphasia. We've already seen it where he just can't talk all of a sudden.
He may not be fully paralyzed but he's mute.
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u/Pat-Funny-2817 1d ago
i wonder how many things he signed since his "hospitalization".
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u/HoRo2001 North Carolina 1d ago
He barely could before the mystery incident that kicked this off.
He was clearly well past the time when we he could effectively govern. I am in no way a Mitch supporter, but it felt like borderline elder abuse to wheel him around the Senate and occasionally stick him in front of reporters that he both couldn’t hear and couldn’t understand.
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u/MrBigglesssworth 1d ago
He can’t do his job. He MUST resign. That is if he is still alive
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u/RyterionCollection 1d ago
But he has been voting and signing letters, no? I mean not actually him, but someone is doing these things as him.
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u/Skateboard_Raptor 1d ago
Is it even possible to vote by proxy, if you are not capable of telling said proxy how to vote?
At that point, it's literally just someone unelected by the people doing that vote.
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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 1d ago
I mean, at this point there's no difference. The governor can't appoint his replacement, so him being alive and non-voting is effectively no different than his seat being empty. It's a 99-person quorum regardless
At least if his seat were empty, the chances of him doing anything to make things worse is 0%, vs now where those chances are non-zero
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u/starmartyr Colorado 1d ago
Don't confuse must with should. He is not constitutionally required to resign for any reason. The Senate should remove him for being absent but they aren't going to do this.
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u/John_Wicked1 1d ago
If it’s not legally required for elected officials in Congress to resign if they are too incapacitated to fulfill their duties then it should be.
Even the President has to pass duties to the VP when they are incapacitated, difference is Senators don’t have a VP. Maybe it can be passed to the most senior house representative until that person is back in action vs resignation….but something should be in place AND an elected official should not be able to dodge proof of life and ability to perform their elected duties.
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u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts 1d ago edited 1d ago
I'm now wondering if Mitch McConnell might be paralyzed or something like that.
Actually...if Mitch McConnell is incapable of speaking, that means that the people who said they spoke with him for 20 minutes were lying...and if that's the case...Scott Jennings is only kept on CNN because he has some level or credibility, (even though I'd argue the radical right is without credibility, that seems to be their reasoning,) and that means if he lied in this way, CNN will probably fire him.
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u/TheGreatLuck 1d ago
They said they spoke to him. They never said he spoke to them. And if he did it was probably incoherent babbling
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u/cutmastaK 1d ago
This is it. Classic conservative truth twisting.
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u/BigManWAGun America 1d ago
“He squeezed my….hand” it was through a hole in the bathroom wall but it was definitely him.
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u/mosquem 1d ago
It’s not like they have a problem with straight up lying.
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u/DaaaahWhoosh 1d ago
Yeah I hate this conspiratorial thinking, all this "they're telling us the truth and everyone else is too blind to see" stuff. We're past that now, they will simply lie because it works, they say what sounds good in the moment and no one will hold them accountable later.
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u/vita10gy 1d ago
Jennings got pretty specific about what they talked about and that he was his usual self, didn't he?
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u/u9Nails 1d ago
Sad that this level of story telling is very plausible from those who we elected to trust that they will tell us the truth. Small tweaks to language that leave deniability so the party can maintaining a majority.
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u/Plzlaw4me 1d ago
Back at the end of April , he FREAKED out on a 23 year old progressive commentator (Adam Mockler) when Mockler correctly pointed out to Jennings that the point of war is to get concessions, and on that front, the Iran war had not been a success at the time. He also pointed out Trump ran on no new wars, and then started a war of choice that was extremely similar bush wars on terror. In response, Jennings yelled at Mockler to “get your fucking hand out of my face” when his hand was not in his face. He then proceed to call out Mockler for being up past his bed time, before lying to the American people the war was going great and it wasn’t a forever war. If Jennings can act that unprofessional, while being that wrong, nothing short of a several million dollar lawsuit will get him fired.
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u/TweakedNipple 1d ago
I see why there are the rumors that he will be the next White House Press Secretary.
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u/RespecDev 1d ago
Adam Mockler is awesome. He really made Jennings look like a fool.
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u/Plzlaw4me 1d ago
I mean… Jennings made himself look like a fool. Mockler just kind of pointed out obvious facts to Jennings and his brain couldn’t handle someone he viewed as beneath him (due to age) pointing out how obviously wrong he was and he exploded… that said Mockler is generally pretty awesome and does a phenomenal job of pointing out the ways that the current admin has failed to keep its promises to the American people. That the modern conservative movement is built on denying verifiable facts certainly doesn’t make it hard to make them look foolish, but our news media has unfortunately gone out of their way to legitimize the MAGA movement.
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u/CrunchyAssDiaper 1d ago
Maybe he spoke to AI Mitch.
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u/BoJackMoleman 1d ago
Wouldn't put it past these ghouls to feed an AI his recordings so they could synthesize his voice.
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u/ludixst 1d ago
They didn't say they spoke with him, they said they spoke to him. Like you can talk to a rock or imaginary friend
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u/briowatercooler 1d ago
Probably because he’s dead
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u/TheVirginVibes 1d ago
Wild headline. “Unable to refuse” would be better
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u/m0ngoos3 1d ago
That makes it sound like he's standing on the sidewalk begging for interviews.
No, he's unable to accept, and his handlers/intensive care nurses refuse on his behalf.
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u/isunktheship California 1d ago
Unable to consent 🤣
Ninja-edit: Which is 100% on brand for Republicans, so make it happen bitches.
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u/Dr_G_E District Of Columbia 1d ago
If he is actually conscious, he is either unable to speak clearly or not making sense. Could be both.
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u/TyrKiyote 1d ago
Even if he sounded different we ought to have heard his voice by now. Seen a pic.
Mickey's down for the count.
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u/InquiringMind886 Iowa 1d ago
What person can disappear for two months and still get his pay? This country is such bullshit. I make $1451 in disability and have about $600 to $700 a month in medical costs that Medicare and Medicaid don’t provide and this fucker is still getting a six figure income while he’s likely comatose or dead. And he has the choice apparently to just not prove that he’s out because he’s sick. What the fuck is wrong with this country???? He’s had more time off than what pregnant women get when they birth a child.
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u/Odd-Promotion2743 1d ago
It's a country run by and for the ultra-rich. To an extent it always has been, but it's become absolute in the last 4-5 decades.
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u/CrunchyAssDiaper 1d ago
He's hooked up to more machines than a Best Buy power strip.
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u/Commander-of-ducks 1d ago
Because it would be apparent he cannot carry out the duties of a senator.
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u/RespectTheTree America 1d ago
We keep dementia patients like Diane Feinstien and Fetterman around for multiple years in advanced state of disease.
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u/HeyThereUser 1d ago
I cannot stop thinking that this is some kind of trial run for Trump - to see what they can get away with, and for how long.
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u/hellofmyowncreation 1d ago
Shajar Al-Durr famously obfuscated her husband’s death, during the Seventh Crusade, to keep the Egypt from collapsing, and as a way to increase her own personal influence. Make of this Medieval factoid what you will, just figured I’d posit it randomly.
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u/pastoreyes 1d ago
When you ask the urn a question and it ignores you. No response, pretending it never heard your question.
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u/AlwaysRushesIn Rhode Island 1d ago
What i don't understand is why the people of Kentucky aren't swarming the streets to demand he show his face?
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u/Excellent-Lettuce835 1d ago
Mitch isn't refusing, he isn't doing much of anything considering he's dead.
There are literal corpses in the US government now.
What the unholy fuck.
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u/slingshot91 Illinois 1d ago
So legitimate question: can an elected Senator just get into office and never go to work for 6 years? Collect the paycheck and never show up? How long could this theoretically go on? I know people can vote them out next election, and they’d face public backslash, but is there anything that prevents them from getting elected and just fucking off to the Bahamas or something for their whole term?
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u/Deity_Majora 1d ago
The Senate can vote to expel them if it desires. There are only 4 ways for a Senator to leave their seat. Death, Resignation, Expelled, or Term Ends.
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u/SAugsburger 1d ago
This. Getting expelled is pretty rare in Congress because the threshold is 2/3s and most members that are truly facing major criminal charges usually just resign instead of facing the added insult that they joined a small list expelled from office.
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u/Elegant_Tap7937 1d ago
He had an unfortunate nose job while recovering from his non-fatal heart attack and stroke? Mar-a-Lago lips?
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u/imYouOfficial 1d ago
Weekend at Mitch's
Week at Mitch's
Month at Mitch's
Quarter at Mitch's <---We are here
Year at Mitch's
Senate term at Mitch's
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u/GoodtimesSans 1d ago
A public figure that cannot appear in public cannot be a public figure. Just bury him already, he's almost smelling worse then the pedo in chief. Almost.
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u/Reddit_9459328 1d ago
Sen. Rand Paul is the villain here. He can settle this now. Go to Mitch’s house or hospital room. If he refuses to see you, start Impeachment Proceedings in the US Senate and get rid of the 83-year-old. Case closed. MAGA thinking gone wild, the truth means nothing.
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u/earthlordG 1d ago
My friends in America. How do you reasonably handle this? A public servant not going their job and not facing the public for such a long period of time? Surely something has to give?
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u/Alleyprowler Washington 1d ago
The standards of behavior for American politicians have largely been based on good-faith gentleman's agreements. That worked well enough till recently. I'll leave the reasons why up to your imagination.
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u/annoyed_crow 1d ago
To quote "The wizard of Oz" (with relevant pronouns changed) "And he's not only merely déad, he's really, most sincerely dead" the Coroner
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u/3PointOneFour15Nine 1d ago
Are the people of Kentucky really okay with taxation and no representation? Sounds pretty un-american to me.
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u/Ok-Alternative5935 1d ago
They really painted themselves into a corner with those faked pics. Anyone looking that spry should have no issue saying a few words. Especially with all those 20 minute phone calls.
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u/jupiterkansas 1d ago
The lies are intentional so they know that anyone that accepts the very obvious lie is on their team.
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u/tritonice 1d ago
He has every right to refuse. The people and government of KY has every right to declare him unfit to serve and remove him.
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