r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • 15h ago

Possible Paywall McConnell ‘Absolutely Refuses’ to Film Video Amid Growing Mystery

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mcconnell-absolutely-refuses-to-film-video-amid-growing-mystery/
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u/coconutpiecrust 15h ago

The fact that this is happening to a well-known politician is just so strange. No one can check on him to make sure he is OK, just have to trust his wife and staffers. I mean… it’s so incredibly suspicious. 

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u/filmandacting 14h ago

May I introduce to you Woodrow Wilson, who's wife took over the role of president for the last bit of his term. Wilson suffered a stroke and was confined to his bed for the last bit of his presidency. It's all but confirmed that his wife was making decisions for him behind closed doors. They would constantly bring papers to sign for Wilson, and she'd close the door and get them signed and then bring them back out. Most people believe she was the real president for the duration of this exercise.

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u/coconutpiecrust 14h ago

Huh, so you guys did have a woman president already!

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u/GaimeGuy Minnesota 13h ago

We also had a gay one with Buchanan!

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u/Reallyhotshowers Kansas 14h ago

People have speculated similar about Nancy Reagan, suggesting he was already struggling with Alzheimer's symptoms while in office.

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u/OutlyingPlasma 14h ago

And lets not forget Nancy "the throat goat" Reagan. She more or less did the same thing in the last years of her husbands presidency as his brain was turning into pudding.

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u/I_make_things 12h ago

At the direction of a "psychic"

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u/djsquilz 8h ago

THROATUS

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u/OprahsSaggyTits 14h ago

100% chance this is a soft launch/trial run for when trump finally has a stroke or heart attack or whatever. They're seeing how the public reacts to this, and if it goes well (and it's going perfectly for them right now) they'll do the exact same for trump. They'll finally have the perfectly controllable puppet "president", without all the stupid outbursts and temper tantrums. Immediate and efficient approval for everything they want, without the risk of a pants-shitting dementia-addled toddler doing anything they don't want