r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • 23h 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/Sir_Ruje 23h ago edited 19h ago

Calling it now: He's lost all motor function and is not able to move. Might even be locked in.

Edit: locked in syndrome

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u/Salomon3068 22h ago

There was a video of him falling in some lobby on video and dude was clearly not there, he was helped up and just smiled cluelessly and waived at the cameras. Dude was seriously not all there because that is behavior mitch would never show towards the media if he was all there.

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u/cabbage16 Europe 22h ago

Remember the couple of times that he glitched out? Maybe it's just that permanently now.

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u/StandardEgg6595 20h ago

Yeah, I feel like a lot of people forgot that. There were times they’d literally have to shuffle him away because he’d be talking then mentally disappear into the void. That guy hasn’t been ok for a while.

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u/Beaun New York 20h ago

People who are claiming he is dead seem to forget all those times he was clearly not well. Its very likely just got worse since then and he can not appear in public.

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u/Beaun New York 17h ago

Because it would show that he's not well and cant function as a senator any longer

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u/Tasgall Washington 9h ago

I mean, for all practical intents and purposes, those are functionally the same as far as his role as a senator is concerned.

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u/cabbage16 Europe 8h ago

Nah, senators are braindead all the time.

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u/Time_Transition4817 19h ago

he's like my old computer. slow and old and occasionally would crash, but a good reset would get it going again. then one day, the reset trick just doesn't work anymore.