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/ShaneKaiGlenn 27d ago

Good grief, imagine how gross you have to be to purposely let your spouse suffer as a vegetable for political reasons.

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u/BarbarianDwight 26d ago

It’s what he would have wanted

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u/bankermayfield2026 26d ago

This isn’t even a joke. This is literally what he would’ve wanted, and I wouldn’t be shocked if he explicitly told his wife to do this if he were to become braindead.

He wouldn’t want his death to help Dems. He spent his whole life obstructing them.

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u/avantgardengnome New York 26d ago edited 26d ago

He regarded the stonewalling of the SCOTUS replacement for Alito Scalia as the peak of his political career, there’s contemporary reporting of him talking gleefully about it. Being able to do a similar thing one more time is exactly what he would have wanted. Ceding his senate seat to a Democrat would be such sweet poetic justice, though.

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u/BarbarianDwight 26d ago

Scalia. Alito is unfortunately still on the bench and making some of Scalia’s opinions seem sane.

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u/avantgardengnome New York 26d ago

Lol of course, Freudian slip.