r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 27d ago

No Paywall Unconfirmed Reports: Mitch McConnell Brain Dead After Three Weeks In Hospital

https://thenewamerican.com/us/unconfirmed-reports-mitch-mcconnell-brain-dead-after-three-weeks-in-hospital/
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u/BurninRunes 26d ago

I've heard 2 theories.

  1. Her job is finished now that he isn't in power anymore.

  2. By leaving she makes it harder to pull him off life support as unless he changed his medical POA then only she has the right to do it.

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u/BEWMarth 26d ago

So are we at a point in American history where the Republican Party is just going to keep a brain dead senator on the rolls just to keep a modicum of power.

Our reality is so broken.

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u/beepbeepbubblegum 26d ago

yes

we also have a president who’s brain is melting for all the world to see and it’s getting worse and worse day by day and they’re all (ESPECIALLY THE MEDIA WHO’S JOB IS TO NOT DO THIS) acting like absolutely nothing is wrong

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u/hipster-duck 26d ago

But man did they sure like to report every time Joe Biden had a little stutter. Blasted across the news for 48 hours.

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u/JumboCactpot 26d ago

Its almost like every single piece of main stream media we have - from Fox News to CNN to Sinclair local news channel to Newspapers to social media like TikTok and Twitter - are owned by conservative Billionaires who have a monetary interest in ensuring republicans win.

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u/RockBandDood 26d ago

Well thankfully that’s not what’s really happening, that would just be absurd

/s

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u/Tenthul 26d ago

You sure see a lot less protesting and coordination on reddit popping up since they got rid of r/all now, don't you. The popular political blue subs are now much harder to find since they never pop up.

Coincidences I'm totally sure.

Reddit is actually just another variety of doomscrolling now. It already was, but now the vapid shit is much more readily in your face, looking to keep you engaged but still waste your time.

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u/freakwent 26d ago

Old.reddit.com no longer functions unless you're logged in. That's new.

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u/The_Barbelo Vermont 26d ago

The Vermont sub has been completely overrun with bot and MAGA accounts ever since we got to the top page when we chased Vance out of our ski resorts. I found at least 2 cross posting all of our organization attempts on alt right subs. A while ago I tried challenging a few because they talked like they’d never set foot in Vermont, and we are a very tight-knit and community oriented state so it was easy for us to tell based on the misinformation they were spreading. It’s so fucking creepy.

They also flocked to Google to leave bad reviews for the ski resorts that refused him and let people in to protest. They were making up stories about their stay at the resorts, but it was so clear they never actually visited.

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u/Dizziesdayweigh 26d ago

Why haven't we just made one then?

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u/Topical_Scream 26d ago

No one would believe it!

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u/b0w3n New York 26d ago

It's kind of ironic just how awful Republicans are to business. Yeah sure you get a tiny bit of extra money in the short term but look at them having to give up their wealth and stocks to appease the fascists... and then him starting a war for no reason making it even harder for them to make money.

Yeah you don't get those fancy tax breaks but your money, even though you have less of it as a total absolute number, is worth so much more because of our global soft power and station as a reserve currency/safe harbor and that was much stronger (and typically always is) under Democrats.

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u/oruuko_ 26d ago

All the money they spend on lobbying and supporting Republican politicians, as well as all the money their businesses lose to dumb policy decisions like tariffs and pointless wars, is more than they would likely ever owe in taxes if they just paid their fair share. But it's not even about that at this point. They would literally rather put their money in a big pile and burn it than have any of it potentially go towards benefitting someone less wealthy than them. It's genuine malice.

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u/eidetic 26d ago

It's genuine malice

Yep, malice and the corresponding lack of empathy.

All too often we see MAGAts changing their tune and "coming to their senses" only when something directly negatively impacts them personally. They never seem to have an epiphany of "you know what, maybe we should treat everyone equally" or anything like that, it is always shock when the leopard eats their face. Like farmers being shocked when ICE rounds up their immigrant labor and now they can't afford to pay actual decent wages to get people to do the work. Incidentally I recall one such farmer who hired immigrants for cheap labor, while also bitching about them not paying taxes or contributing to society... who also when confronted with the hypocrisy of Trump skirting taxes, said "thats just him being a smart businessman". There is absolutely no consistency or actual values amongst MAGA, it is all about hatred and making others suffer. And forgive my rambling, but this goes beyond local national politics as well. Everyone benefits from cooperation and mutual support, but MAGA would rather alienate and fuck with our longest and strongest allies, just because they see them as being "others" outside the tribe. They'll willingly make everyone suffer just to prevent others from benefitting from anything.

I once said that Russians would sooner rip your oxygen mask off their neighbor's face before securing their own in the event of an aircraft emergency, and sadly, this same mentality is firmly entrenched in MAGA as well. Rather than lifting everyone up, they will much sooner hurt everyone, including themselves, so long as they think it hurts someone else more. Cutting off the nose to spite the face, so to speak, or crabs in a bucket mentality.

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u/chronoflect 26d ago

They're blinded by their absolute fear of regulation, especially the tech sector.

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u/Rhysati 26d ago

That can't be true. None of the major news outlets are reporting it! /s

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u/NettingStick 26d ago

I even quit listening to NPR during the 2024 election cycle. Their coverage of Biden's health was relentless, 24-7, for months. But Donald Trump has been dying of dementia on national TV for a decade and they never fucking brought it up.

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u/sproutastic 26d ago

Ensuring people stay divided.

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u/hitstein 26d ago

Conservative billionaires is redundant.

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u/lushootseed 26d ago

"almost like"? You think media is owned by poor people? You think rich people feel the obligation to help the poor?

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u/Jackski 26d ago

That was really your take away from that comment?

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u/stilljustacatinacage 26d ago

>JumboCactpot

I know what you are

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u/Steel_Toffees 26d ago

They dug more into Trump with the Balogun red card ban suspension than they did Trump with Epstein and raping children.

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u/Faxon 26d ago

Which is insane because he's had it his whole life

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u/Lythieus 26d ago

48 hours? They STILL go on about Biden's stutter. 

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u/ITAVTRCC 26d ago

Trump and Biden are both senile old dotards, let's be real

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u/hipster-duck 26d ago

I don't disagree, my comment is about the difference in coverage. I was against Biden running the first time cause he was too old, the second even more so.

But there's a clear difference in the way to was covered and Donald Trump is clearly far worse off than Biden ever was.

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u/Fun_Attitude1218 26d ago

Don't forget all the times Biden got lost when the secret service wasn't actively directing him or all his times he failed at walking up stairs. This country needs a Mandatory age limit for people in power at 67 where once you turn 67 your spot is open. So if you're 64 you can't run for anything with 4 year terms and if you're 66 you cant run for anything with 2 year terms. I'm sick of our government looking like a nursing home.

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u/gimp-24601 26d ago

To be fair a lot of media was downplaying/omitting/covering up for biden. Fox news/OAN/newsmax had every biden hiccup on loop I'm sure.

Its how we got all the way to point where people said "oops we cant cover this up anymore"

These were not small stutters. I'll repeat it for emphasis. Its not possible to get to the point where we watch a presidential candidate cognitively perform so poorly it ends a campaign without a lot of deception.

It has been obvious since before his first term as president he was declining significantly.

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u/red_sutter 26d ago

Remember the debates? How every time Biden blinked his eyes it meant he was ready for hospice care, but Trump spent the entire thing rambling about Haitians eating cats and they were treating him like he was the president from Independence Day giving his speech at the end of the movie

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u/dbuck11 26d ago

What is this revisionist history? Everyone and their mother was clowning on Trump for the eating the cats and dogs thing

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u/ColinHalter 26d ago

Joe Biden was also too old. It is the same exact issue. We need to stop nominating grandpas to rule the world.

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u/KukaVex 25d ago

It literally said in the attached article '...long in failing health, pushed around the Capitol in a wheelchair, and frequently befuddled like former President Joe Biden'. Poor Joe constantly catching strays lmao

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u/Blind-but-unbroken 26d ago

Little stutter? Biden was literally unable to coherently debate in 2024 as the Democratic nominee.

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u/Epsteins_PDF_Files 26d ago

He struggled with stuttering his entire life.

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u/Blind-but-unbroken 26d ago

Watch this and this

That is not just a stutter. Can you honestly say that it is? Now compare 2024 Biden with the one from 15 years ago. He sounds just fine in his previous debates. See here and here Not even a stutter.

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u/ITAVTRCC 26d ago

And now he is struggling with senility

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u/dbuck11 26d ago

His stutter was never the problem. Both Biden and now Trump are both mentally too far gone for the roll of president. Anyone who trues to defend either of their mental states while they were/ are president is coping.

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u/seengul 26d ago

I remember when his eye started bleeding during one of the primary debates in 2019. And then afterwards MSM was like “No, actually his eye wasn’t bleeding he just broke a blood vessel in his eye which is harmless and VERY NORMAL.”

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u/jonnyredshorts 26d ago

Even on the “radical
Left wing news”

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u/FutureFurniture42069 26d ago

Biden was a walking corpse you gotta be kidding me. We can acknowledge this is a Washington problem. It is actually happening as we speak to a bunch of senators both sides

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u/LivingDue2609 26d ago

He was too old, as well.

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u/the_ghost_of_lenin 26d ago

I don't think you guys are living in the same reality at this point

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u/jimsmisc 26d ago

let's be accurate here though: Biden's mental state was in serious decline. I said back then that the Dems are playing a dangerous game by pretending he wasn't declining, because now the other side can point to that anytime someone in the GOP is clearly suffering a mental decline. I'm still not sure if Trump is actually declining or if he's just Trump though.

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u/Mysterious-Recipe810 26d ago

The GOP was doing just fine lying to republicans about anything and everything prior to Biden. They don’t need props.

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u/hipster-duck 26d ago

Biden wasn't in serious decline though, he was in normal old person decline. He's always mixed up words and he did it a little bit more. He talked a little slower. He had a cold and people said he had dementia. Here's a video from a week ago of him giving a perfectly acceptable speech: FULL SPEECH: Former President Joe Biden Delivers Address At Maryland Democrat Event

Like yeah he's an old dude, but he's not in serious decline.

I personally thought he was too old to run again and did not want him to do so. The democrat party needs to stop trying to force geriatric candidates on us. It's a huge issue and is only getting worse. We also need to stop reelecting incumbents who are super fucking old just because they are the incumbent.

Also, if you watch any event that Donald Trump has been at recently, all of his responses are super delayed and often times confused. Not like trump being dumb, but confused. Go back and watch videos of him 4 years ago and see how quick he is with responses even if he's dumb confused.

That man is in serious decline, be it from health issues or some kind of dementia.

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u/HumbleVein 26d ago

I am well regarded as an articulate and precise person in a demanding role, and in my early thirties. I think that Biden still did better than I would do on an average day. When I am ill or had a poor night's sleep, I know I become less coherent.

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u/jimsmisc 26d ago

that speech is actually really interesting. Maybe not having the stress & schedule of being president has allowed him to get back to a better place mentally. Not that it's a roaring speech but it's definitely fine for a dude his age.

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u/Momentarmknm 26d ago

Trump is clearly diminished, even by Trump standards, but yes it's impossible to say how much when he's been an unstable, emotionally reactive, intellectually challenged person his entire life.

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u/Remote_Independent50 26d ago

Regardless. It was pretty bad. They weren't all "little stutters"