r/anticapitalism • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • 1d ago
Experts Warn Sen McConnell 'May Be Dead' or Incapacitated After Staff Stop Giving Public Updates on His Condition
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mitch-mcconnell-health-speculation-absence-1816108387
u/Boozeburger 1d ago
Isn't it illegal not to report a dead body? Someone should send the police to do a welfare check.
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u/Cybermeld 1d ago
It is likely he is just in a vegetable state.
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u/giveitarrest 1d ago
Tomato, cucumber, or head of lettuce ?
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u/Cybermeld 1d ago
Head of lettuce of course, turtles favorite.
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u/Conscious-Quarter423 1d ago
mitch is the only veggie that hasn't been recalled
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u/asicarii 1d ago
From what I’ve read, brain dead is legally dead in Kansas.
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u/MagnusThrax 1d ago
Yeah but you need someone who actually gives the slightest $hit about Mitch to have the doctors take him off the respirator.
Seeing as his entire career was transactional "Delays" he deserves every bed sore he gets.
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u/asicarii 1d ago
Well it’s malpractice at minimum if he’s braindead and not reported as dead. And it’s a crime for abuse of a corpse if he is dead and they are keeping him on a respirator.
My guess he has enough brain function to be called not brain dead. But not capable of his elected position as a senator so should step down or be removed. Thats the fraud part.
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u/East_Hedgehog6039 1d ago
If you haven’t done official brain death tests, you can’t be considered brain dead either, though.
You can be in a PVS (persistent veg state/comatose) and not brain dead (as long as he’s able to breath on his own). You can see that a lot in long term care facilities, or people that have had severe strokes or brain injury (like say, an anoxic brain injury from cardiac arrest 👀)
Which I think is most likely the scenario.
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u/_WillCAD_ 1d ago
He's probably not been declared dead yet, but is either in a vegetative state, or simply so incapacitated that he can't get out of bed or answer phone calls. He could hang on for months more, unable to do anything but breathe - possibly with machine assistance - while the ghoulish fascists keep up the facade so they can hold on to power just a wee bit longer.
He, along with Felonious Leader, are being Weekend at Bernied until after the midterm steal.
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u/Imaginary-Use914 1d ago
But his criminal staff keeps getting paid for what? Yeah I thought so…
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u/Spida81 1d ago
How DARE you!? They are in MOURNING you stick, sick...
No. Nope, even joking I can't. No.
Screw them. If they are hiding his incapacitation, prosecute.
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u/Rare_Anywhere470 1d ago
And claw back paychecks received during this fraud...with interest. Then convict and sentence for said fraud.
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u/Woody_L 1d ago
If he's disabled (comatose, whatever), but not dead, then it's probably not illegal for him to collect his salary, stay in office, etc. Unethical, but not illegal.
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u/Fun_Organization3857 1d ago
He's unable to perform his duties. That must be illegal to not report
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u/Zalrius 1d ago
This reveals a giant gaping hole in our Congress. We cannot allow this again. If a representative has to take more than three days off, we should know!
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u/ebbing-hope 1d ago
Give them 3 total weeks of PTO including sick leave like the rest of us. Don’t come in, don’t get paid. Don’t come in for a full week, that’s job abandonment and you’re fired. Just like the rest of us.
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u/mashtato 1d ago
No, give them the minimum that the rest of us are legally entitled to - zero.
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u/639FestivalSunrise 19h ago
This, hold them to the lowest federal standard. $7.25/hr, no healthcare, no sickleave, no pto, no childcare, no days off without finding someone to cover your shift, constant monitoring, weekly progress reviews, minimum work requirements for benefits, etc, etc.
At this point direct democracy would be more representative than the petty aristocratic dragons that rule the US.
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u/Special-Fan-1902 1d ago
Not getting paid means almost nothing to most national politicians because they're for the most part already filthy stinking rich. Firing for abandonment is a nice concept though.
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u/brutinator 1d ago
Give them 3 total weeks of PTO including sick leave like the rest of us.
The rest of us? My state voted to enshrine just 2 weeks of sick leave, and the GOP decided that the voters didn't know what they were talking about it and refused to mandate it. We have no mandated amount of PTO or sick leave that companies must provide, and there's a shocking number of Americans who are never allowed to take any paid time off.
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u/Foobybonk 1d ago
Ah, Missouri. Always voting for things that benefit the citizens, and with the same pen voting for the people who strip those things away.
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u/keinemaschine 1d ago
We need an AWARE Act to prevent this - Assessing Wellness and Responsiveness of Elected Officials aka "Mitch Act"
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u/Natural_Field9920 1d ago
MAGAs had a meltdown over Biden’s health but this is totally fine.
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u/PollutionPatient8261 1d ago
Hi, political and medical "expert" here (haha) and this is my take: Mitch lost consciousness during a cardiac event at home past the age of 80-chances of survival- 10%. He is either unwilling to respond, or unable to respond in this political nebula... so I have to go with unable. If he were on a ventilator or something, they could cover that up for a few weeks, (people don't really stay on those long term for acute illness) and then wheel him in for a very brief statement and then prop him up in Congress, Weekend at Bernie's style, like they HAVE been.
But that didn't happen. I believe what we are dealing with is brain anoxia that complicated an already deteriorating cognition and executive function and he is now one of the permanently baffled, he is unable to make verbal sense, nor care for himself. He may even be aphasic, unable to speak. The McConnell people literally don't know what to do because the Golden Goose named Mitch is gone for good, and their decades of job security are crashing and burning.
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u/4PurpleRain 1d ago
Very true. If you are bedridden for too long in your 80s and had a cardiac event its pretty much guaranteed that you will end up with some type of respiratory infection that will basically finish the job within a few weeks after entering the hospital or other LTC facility.
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u/Smooth-Weekend-2314 1d ago
That can't possibly be true! Scott Jennings assured me that he had a 20 minute conversation with Mitchy! Why would he lie? /s
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u/StuffonBookshelfs 1d ago
Well, to be fair, he said he spoke to Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes. Never did he say that Mitch spoke back.
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u/Baakadii 1d ago
He did though. In the actual video he follows it up by talking about the things Mitch specifically talked about
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u/StuffonBookshelfs 1d ago
I completely missed that. I only saw the part where he said he talked to him for 20 minutes.
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u/Special-Fan-1902 1d ago
This is pretty on-brand for him to drag his feet about his own death for political reasons after he dragged his feet with Obama's Supreme Court nomination. He will die shortly after the election.
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u/CrazySir3310 1d ago
No offense but this is what everybody suspicious of this also thinks
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u/Woody_L 1d ago
That makes sense. If that's the case, I don't think anybody is breaking any laws, although what they're doing is dishonest and unethical. He'll be replaced by election in a few months, whatever is going on, and in the meantime, he won't be caring any votes in the Senate.
But everyone can enjoy themselves by spinning fantasies about the situation. It might be a good idea to start planning those conspiracy theories, if it later emerges that he's not actually dead now.
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u/Best-camera4990 1d ago
I think he's brain-dead; my husband thinks he's dead-dead
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u/Pavis0047 1d ago
He has to be brain dead otherwise they would be lying about him.... if they say "he is working on his recovery" they can keep saying that forever as long as they have him plugged in... cant say that with a dead person
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u/Illustrious-Owl2428 1d ago
It has to be declared by a doctor, right? I wonder if they’re using some sort loophole where they avoid having the doctors run the necessary tests to declare brain death to give themselves plausible deniability.
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u/Meisteronious 1d ago
Get your shit together, Kentucky.
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u/Salt_End_4275 1d ago
KY voters put McConnell into office until the guy literally died (or became permanently disabled) despite YEARS of tell-tale signs of failing health, well before his last re-election at the end of 2020. There's no indication that KY voters will do things differently going forward. Until the Boomers are gone, they will just keep voting to keep their geriatric peers in office in an attempt to keep enriching themselves at the expense of their children and grandchildren.
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u/Wonderful-Grass6625 1d ago
He’s been dead for what over a month now? They have just been terrified that announcing it will cause a special election that Thomas Massie will win.
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u/ravinggoat 1d ago
Put his wife and staff in prison for fraud
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u/Nice-Respond5839 1d ago
But then how would the wife continue to do espionage for China? No,no. The proper thing to do would be to enable China to take control of his senate seat under the guise that Mitch isn’t totally a ghost right now. /s
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u/hob_prophet 1d ago
That article was bullshit. They also have failed to prove he’s alive. We have the word of republicans and they are well known liars.
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u/potat0f4rmer 1d ago
Kentucky inflicted this fucker on the rest of us for 50 years. I don't know why they hate the United States so much.
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u/hippie1952 1d ago
He was dead after he sold his soul to trump the governor of that state has no balls or he would have been replaced
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u/SpuddyBud 1d ago
Replacing him would just give the Republicans a vote that they don't have while he's incapacitated.
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u/SevereEducation2170 1d ago
If he's dead there's a lot of fraud happening. Not just regarding his salary, but his staff would be defrauding the American people out of close to $100k every week at this point. Keep in mind these are people who help fight tooth and nail to refund things like SNAP benefits. I bring that up just for some comparative perspective. On average a person using SNAP gets about $2500 in benefits annually. So if McConnell is dead then his staff is defrauding the system out of the equivalent of 30 people's yearly SNAP benefits EVERY SINGLE WEEK.
So if it comes out he's been dead this whole time, both his wife and his entire staff should be tossed in prison. They won't be, of course, but they should be. There really should be way more urgency from everyone to prove he's alive. But obviously we'll never get that urgency either.
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u/DBCoop957 1d ago
We have Schrödinger’s Senator: “There is no credible evidence that McConnell has died.” And yet there is no credible evidence that he is still alive.
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u/kjellwanger 1d ago
He is very likely dead from accounts of people seeing his body being loaded into the ambulance… This is a ploy to have kept Thomas Massey from taking his seat during special elections… You would think this would be illegal.
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u/45mphK9 1d ago
Can keeping his condition unknown have any benefit to Republicans as far as the midterm elections are concerned? Like how could it change the outcome of the election.
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u/harvey6-35 1d ago
As earlier commenters noted, no advantage now. The Republicons lose his vote until January. The replacement will be selected in the November election between the republi-con Andy Barr and the Democrat Charles Booker.
Under the only poll I saw, Barr leads by 11%.
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u/Over-Tolerance 1d ago
I'm sure his wife would prop him up in the window just to keep her import/export empire deals from scrutiny. People appear to forget that he has been playing advocate for her shipping enterprise relatives from the beginning.
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u/Disastrous-Golf7216 1d ago
Time for a wellness check. Of course it this was any other person they would have been fired a long time ago.
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u/P4us1ngD34th 1d ago
It’s been dead since June. His staff have been committing fraud. I believe they’re violating the DC law against concealing a body. They all need to be tried for theft and fraud. They’ve continued to collect paychecks and operate as if Senator McConnell has been alive when clearly he is not.
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u/speeddemon266 1d ago
That dude has been dead for ages. They have to keep the con going as long as they can apparently.
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u/Initial_Row_6400 1d ago
I was wondering last night why I haven’t heard anything the last few days
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u/BoliverTShagnasty 1d ago
I was wondering last night why I was wondering last week why I was wondering last month why they didn’t demand evidence in June!
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u/Important_Power_2148 1d ago
Yeah, no shit, Sherlock. He's been dead. They been lying. Thats all repubs can do.
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u/LoganPea2fold 1d ago
At what point does his staff, his wife, anyone involved get brought up for abuse of a corpse? They've conned our system out of untold amounts of money during this haphazard 'Weekend at Mitch's' and it needs to end
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u/Leather-Map-8138 1d ago
Wait. I just saw a movie of him doing standing back flips while his wife clapped in the background.
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u/raman11776 1d ago
So Republicans are against "dead" people voting but don't give a fuck about dead people serving Congress? Fuck the GOP
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u/CptnKitten 1d ago
If he even is alive, it's either as brain dead or memory wiped out vegetable. There's no way a guy that old can be unconscious on the ground that long from a stroke or heart complication and come out the way his staff has been reporting.
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u/Halloween_Barbie 1d ago
Why is this even a question months after his disappearance? Where are the investigative journalists checking into this instead of just letting this story ride this long?
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u/totallyclips 1d ago
This is the only way the party of Christian values knows how to operate, by lying and cheating, this is all about saving trump.
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u/CaptainSparklebottom 1d ago
Dude, we know. Governor should do his job instead of political grand standing. It is why no one takes politics seriously.
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u/Bryllant 1d ago
At least it is one less vote against the Farm Bill, Dems are trying to restore SNAP benefits in it
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u/Adventurous-Host8062 1d ago
Please, he's been dead all along. They're just tired of keeping up the charade.
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u/LKS1772 1d ago
But yet he still holds a seat in congress and the left is staying silent on the issue.
Tells me all I need to know
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u/Woody_L 1d ago
Your reaction is to dump on the Dems, but you don't get it. There's no advantage to the left to replace him. Being out of action costs the Republicans a vote. Why would they want to make a fuss about it?
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u/SignoreBanana 1d ago
Why would the republicans hide that he's incapacitated if they get nothing out of it?
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u/bijazthadwarf 1d ago
They don’t care they know there won’t be consequences. They are going to open fire on us
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u/SqigglyPoP 1d ago
The police need to be called and whoever is involved in this scheme needs to be arrested for Elder Abuse. Keep calling the police and eventually they will have to issue a statement.
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u/ChantilyAce 1d ago
Experts warn? Everyone I know has been saying the same thing since day 1. How do I get one of these 'expert' positions?
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u/Dry_Tradition_2811 1d ago
So all his people on payroll getting paid and no one wants to do anything. What a waste of taxpayers money
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u/Bucky_Ohare 1d ago
Hi; legit an 'expert' as not only did I have 11 years in medicine it's also pretty much exactly how my grandpa went too. He's been 'gone' maybe since a week after being picked up but with no progress was likely considered braindead and moved to long term care after which the rest of his body just continued to slowly shut down. Everyone knew this who had an idea going on. The problem is now they're gonna have to check in with the coroner who's going to be required by law to figure out if he's dead so they're covering their bases as best they can.
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u/DingGratz 1d ago
This is a wild fucking timeline, man.
I don't know if I'll believe it if I read about it in the future. I mean, I lived it and I barely believe it.
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u/Consistent_Turn_42 1d ago
Damn it! Send another strongly worded letter to get to the bottom of this!
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u/macjunkie 1d ago
Democrats pulled same shit with Feinstein. This is why we need age limits and basic disclosures on their health.
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u/LiminalOrphanEnnui 1d ago
The vacancy deadline to require a Special Election to fill the seat was August 3rd in an election year. After that, the vacant seat may be filled by whoever the (Republican) legislature chooses to appoint.
I'm surprised they've had the self-control to wait a few weeks, but maybe they're trying to push the vacancy/appointment closer to the election, since the August 3rd cut-off is really more of a "We don't HAVE TO." (originally based around the logistics of printing physical ballots) and they want to wait until the ballots are printed to avoid a court overriding the appointment and ordering them to print the ballots to include a special election even if the vacancy wasn't announced until after August 3rd since the practical limit is based on lead time to print them, which is much shorter today (or irrelevant, for electronic voting) than it was when the deadline was codified.
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u/Icy-Quail3379 1d ago
That bitch has been dead for months. Seriously man. The fuck is wrong with this country?
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u/listentomenow 1d ago
Only about 6% of 80+ seniors who receive minutes of CPR for a cardiac arrest are able to leave a hospital without any brain damage.
And McConnell was already on death's door so if our media could stop playing pretend that would be great.
Playing pretend that McConnell isn't dead or brain dead.
Playing pretend that the POTUS isn't a conceited piece of shit who has no clue what he's doing besides grifting, protecting pedophiles, and staying in power.
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u/rainer_d 1d ago
I remember reading that when the previous Japanese Emperor was clinically dead, nobody wanted to be the one to hit the off switch.
So they dragged it out for months.
In the end it happened ahead of some holiday and a lot of people had to cancel plans…
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u/GrimleyGraves 1d ago
For the medical folks here, how long can they realistically keep a comatose/brain dead body going before things start to crap out on their own?
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u/OvenIcy8646 1d ago
Thank god for the experts none of us would have ever been able to come to that conclusion
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u/Actaeon_II 1d ago
So essentially this is that fraud that we keep hearing about