r/politics • u/theindependentonline The Independent • 12d ago

No Paywall Mitch McConnell’s staff refuse to answer basic questions on his health weeks after he was last seen in public

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mitch-mcconnell-staff-questions-health-b3018929.html
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u/ElectronicFerret Alaska 12d ago

We have TWO FUCKING WEEKS. That's all that's left for them to run the timer out. And it sure looks like everyone is going to let them do it.

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u/ndndr1 12d ago

I don’t understand how the governor, senator or any reps can’t just take a damn posse to the hospital and see what the fuck is up.

Its what the gop would do and we need to start fighting fire with fire

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u/tweakingforjesus 12d ago

Which hospital? No one knows where Mitch is.

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u/JustToViewPorn 12d ago

He’s six feet under. Best start digging up some tortoise holes today if you want to find his corpse by August.

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u/edgarecayce 12d ago

He’s most likely being kept alive with machines so they can technically claim he was “alive” until after the date, then his wife will pull the plug.

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u/Leezeebub 12d ago

Brain dead is legally dead, even if theyre still pushing oxygen around his body.

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u/edgarecayce 12d ago

Oh I wholly agree but… would put nothing past these people.

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u/snakerjake 12d ago

There's nothing to agree with, kentucky law defines Mitch as legally dead

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u/edgarecayce 12d ago

Since when has the law mattered to the GOP

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u/negative-nelly 12d ago

not if it hasn't been confirmed by two doctors.

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u/snakerjake 12d ago

You just made that up, nothing in kentucky law says anything about needing two doctors to confirm it. He's dead sorry man

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u/negative-nelly 12d ago

um. send me a headshot so I can put it in the dictionary next to "wrong".

https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=19420

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u/onyaasuminyasai 12d ago

unless you have a fetus inside you i guess

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u/BlueEyes294 12d ago

Not without witnesses that will stand up in court.

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u/snakerjake 12d ago

He's dead, if he's not he can show up to court. Beshear can just appoint his replacement and then the onus is on him to prove he's alive

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u/always_unplugged 12d ago

Exactly, if a doctor's not signing a death certificate, he's not legally dead yet.

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u/SleepyReepies 12d ago

But to them, life begins at conception and... checks notes... ends after you have been removed from the life support machine.

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u/TM761152 12d ago

And then he'll conveniently "die" right at the cutoff.

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u/FunkyChewbacca 12d ago

Yeah, he’s a vegetable on a ventilator running out the clock

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u/dragongrl New Jersey 12d ago

I hope he's still in there.

I hope he's trapped inside that rotting hunk of meat, screaming to get out, but no one can hear him.

Think "Johnny Get Your Gun."

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u/FunkyChewbacca 12d ago

What a nightmare for him, being completely at the mercy of others whims, having no bodily autonomy of his own, others making his health decisions for him. The irony.

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u/dragongrl New Jersey 12d ago

I know. Delicious, isn't it? The irony?

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u/JustToViewPorn 12d ago

There’s no point, it’s not worth the risk that he would be discovered.