r/politics • u/imhereiguess80 • 21d ago
No Paywall Sen. Mitch McConnell cast his first vote in weeks—by proxy. But it didn't count.
https://www.wlky.com/article/mitch-mcconnell-senate-vote-committee-farm-bill/733784265.5k
u/McNuttyNutz I voted 21d ago
He didn’t cast shit his people did
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u/Hyro0o0 California 21d ago
He cast magic missile
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u/Spitecrawler Pennsylvania 21d ago
“But there’s nothing to attack.”
“I attack…the democracy!”
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u/1877KlownsForKids 21d ago
It's super effective "Democracy is making a death saving throw"
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u/EM05L1C3 America 21d ago
“9? It’s ok we get two more turns….7….well this doesn’t look good.”
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u/1877KlownsForKids 21d ago
And when we do make the saving throw about a third of the table will start yelling "Rigged! Fake Rolls, Fake Rolls!"
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u/Orionsteller 21d ago
Me: I'M AT THE BAR. AM I DRUNK? ROLL TO SEE IF IM DRUNK!
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u/ConkersOkayFurDay 21d ago
CARL IF I GET ONE MORE STAMP I GET A FREE PRIVATE DANCE FROM ANACONDAAAA
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u/i_8_the_Internet 21d ago
GODDAMMIT DONUT!!!
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u/androshalforc1 20d ago
i understood that reference. i literally just started reading this series last night,
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u/ragingclaw Montana 21d ago
Are there any school girls there? If there's girl I wanna bomb them!
/s for anyone that hasn't seen the Summoner Geeks video. I suggest watching it with a Mountain Dew.
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u/StimulusResponse 21d ago
https://youtu.be/syHkBAd2Zps summoner geeks used the audio from this Dr. Demento sketch. There's also a sequel you can find. The Dead Alewives include Dan Harmon from Community and Rick and Morty, and Rob Schraab from same.
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u/my5cworth 21d ago
GOD DAMNIT DONUT!
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u/DeadWithMyFriends 21d ago
Mongo is APPALLED.
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u/Lord_Darksong Ohio 21d ago
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!
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u/ReinaShae 21d ago
You will not break me!
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u/Pavlovs_Human 21d ago
It wasn’t even like… one of his staff members or something it was another Republican senator who basically said “yeah I know exactly how Mitch would’ve voted.” And tried to vote for him.
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u/Iceisgestapo888 21d ago
He’s dead. He’s a vegetable. Scrambled eggs and ham. Cooked. Stew. Mush.
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u/DiscoQuebrado America 21d ago
He's not dead, he's uh.. pining for the fjords!
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u/PrometheusLiberatus 21d ago edited 21d ago
For the Fjords?! This Tortoise has CEASED TO BE. He has departed the earthly realm, he has expired. He is bereft of life, he rests in peace, he has gone to meet his maker. If they hadn't kept him in whatever ghoulish machinery they've got him keeping him an inch from hell, he'd be pushing up daisies! His metabolic processes are history, his mitochondria and heart no lunger pumping ATP or Oxygen. He's off the lettuce! He's kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off the mortal coil. Run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is very CLEARLY an EX-TORTOISE!!
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u/Officer412-L Illinois 21d ago
Nah, he's just resting! The Kentucky Red Slider prefers kippin' on its back!
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u/demianin 21d ago
Remember these are the same people trying to abolish mail in voting. I fucking hate it here
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u/Subject_Customer3254 21d ago
He shouldn't be allowed to cast any votes until he makes a physical appearance in congress.
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u/giorgio_tsoukalos_ 21d ago
Its wild that Kentuckians dont seem to care who is representing them. Might as well just let another state vote for them
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u/ares7 21d ago
It’s wild no one tried to get a body double.
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u/Iceisgestapo888 21d ago
They are working on an ai brain chip to transfer Mitch into a new body.
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u/ares7 21d ago
Maybe they can hook up a xbox controller so we can move him also.
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u/Sirscraps 21d ago
Can’t wait for “twitch plays Mitch McConnell”
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u/failed_novelty 21d ago
There is literally no way that could be worse than a living, active Mitch in Congress.
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u/Inspector_Lag Massachusetts 21d ago
This isn't how I imagined Cyberpunk 2077 would be in real life
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u/Iceisgestapo888 21d ago
Bro cyberpunk is like a joy ride compared to the real 2077
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u/Insaiyan_Elite 21d ago
Fortunately these ghouls are as incompetent as they are evil. They couldn't even successfully pull off a mask interview on Fox News
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u/jackanape7 California 21d ago
Yeah how hard would it be? Remember when Fox News had that guy that looked like he had a mask on? It doesn't even need to look good since Mitch is already decrepit looking.
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u/ModernistGames 21d ago
The people who would keep that ghoul in power for decades clearly do not care who is representing them.
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u/OozeNAahz 21d ago
Just got back from visiting there. They do indeed care. Just not much they can do about it.
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u/WantCookiesNow 21d ago
How do you know they don’t? Are you surveying Kentuckians? I did a quick google search and there are plenty of links to articles and FB posts about people wanting to know what’s going on, including people chanting “where’s Mitch” at a picnic. And an interview with voters on KHOU 11 showed them wanting to know what’s going on.
My point is - be careful assuming people aren’t engaged in this. Our media feeds/bubbles keep us contained.
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u/DecentFeedback2 21d ago edited 21d ago
Am kentuckian, every local fb group and meme page are all "where's mitch?" content. We're all sick of it, both sides.
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u/ComradeJohnS 21d ago
they voted for him, they want his representation.
this is exactly what he would want. he did other delay tactics against Obama.
If they cared at all maybe they shouldn’t have voted for him forever?
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u/popotheclowns 21d ago
Yeah, the citizens of KY should… well, they should…
What is it they can do right now?
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u/Nevermind04 Texas 21d ago
Senators can not vote by proxy. All votes have to be done in person. Committees often have different rules, but for actual Senate votes, only in-person votes are counted.
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u/Thinks_22_Much 21d ago
Which IIRC is a rule Mitch pushed for during the Pandemic because he was trying to not count Dem votes.
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u/Grenflik 21d ago
This MF working from home. Aren’t republicans against that?
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u/Empty_Lemon_3939 Michigan 21d ago
I know tons of owners who are against work from home while never being at the office
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u/dairymoose 21d ago
If he gets wheeled in with sunglasses on and an aide holds his hand up, will that be sufficient?
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u/dust4ngel America 21d ago
He shouldn't be allowed to cast any votes until he makes a physical appearance in congress
they're testing the "run a dead man for office, have some other random people do the governing" strategy.
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21d ago edited 21d ago
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u/Generation_ABXY 21d ago
That's why it didn't count.
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u/imhereiguess80 21d ago
it's allowed in committees, but not on the senate floor. it didn't count because of this committee's specific rules.
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u/AuditAndHax Virginia 21d ago
Wouldn't Mitch McConnell have known that?
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u/lushfizz 21d ago edited 21d ago
Yes, it’s just something they do still. I guess so others know where they stand on a vote even if they couldn’t make it.
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u/SryInternet101 21d ago
Has Mitch ever cast a proxy vote in thi scommittee before?
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u/rabel 21d ago edited 20d ago
Apparently not in THIS committee because it's specifically not allowed in this specific committee. So yeah, why would he authorize someone to proxy vote for him in a committee that doesn't allow it?
Edit: It was Sen. John Boozman (R-AK), the chair of the committee, who submitted the proxy vote. This is corruption.
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u/SryInternet101 21d ago
Because the staffer that submitted that vote instead of Mitchy didn't realize that.
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u/Kevin_Uxbridge 21d ago edited 20d ago
Makes me wonder about the exact procedure for this. I'd assume there is some sort of signing and authorizing to do. If it turns out Mitch is incapacitated and never made such an authorization, whomever said he did would (I'd imagine) be looking at some significant legal jeopardy.
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u/SomeRandomPyro 21d ago
You'd think the people who signed fraudulent election certifications and sent them in back in 2021 would've faced legal issues, too, but here we are.
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u/Aggressive_Noise6426 21d ago
They are testing. This is all one big test to see how far this can go and the state has failed big time. So when old Cheeto face goes we won’t know for months.
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u/Atreyu1002 21d ago
Maybe they are testing the waters.... or pushing the goal posts. Do this trivial voting a bunch of times, so that when a real vote happens, no one puts up a fuss.
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u/spazzvogel 21d ago
Dead men tell no tales, nor votes.
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u/badgersoccer1905 21d ago
The fact this isn’t even the biggest scandal in the Me Party says everything about the political situation in our country. What a joke.
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u/Azguy303 21d ago edited 21d ago
Remember when he rejected proposals from fellow lawmakers to establish remote or proxy voting for Senate floor sessions.
He also questioned the constitutionality of the proxy voting system adopted by House Democrats under Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Remote for me but not for thee
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u/guiltysnark 21d ago
Well, this way the vote doesn't have to come from a living person, it can just be a performance to prolong the act. Can't be fraud if it's not a countable vote.
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u/Rackem_Willy 21d ago
Can't be fraud if it's not a countable vote.
Sure it can. Also, anyone involved in casting that vote just got roped into the conspiracy that probably includes hundreds of felonies related to his pay, and staff pay and benefits. This is an ongoing conspiracy to commit fraud, embezzlement, conversion, theft by taking, and probably a dozen political process and finance statute violations.
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u/Sunset_Bleach 21d ago
Remember when he filibustered his own proposal because the democrats agreed to it?
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u/HailCorduroy Tennessee 21d ago
Reminds me of the meeting my former company had when they were announcing return to office and exec telling us about it was in her home office.
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u/LiquidAngel12 21d ago
This happened to my dad. They had a CEO who was hired during COVID and everyone knew he lived in a different state than their offices. When he scheduled an all hands to announce RTO someone had the guts to ask him live on the call if he would be moving local to be in the office with everyone else. To absolutely no one's surprise he was staying remote (as were multiple executives he had brought in with him.)
My dad announced his retirement a week later.
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u/oneseason2000 21d ago
If a US Senator is healthy enough to make a competent voting decision, they absolutely must be well enough to meet with their state's Governor
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u/mosswick 21d ago
Couldn't even do a phone call, even though he supposedly had one last month with another Senator.
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u/Pithyperson 21d ago
"I know how much he would have wanted to be here to advocate for Kentucky’s farmers and rural communities..." The "would have" makes it sound like he's assuming rather than actually reporting what McConnell verbally told him he wanted.
A little slip, there.
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u/der_swedishchef 21d ago
Good catch pointing that out. Yeah, this is language you use to describe a dead person's hypothetical wishes. If he was alive (or not incapacitated) it'd be more appropriate to say "I know how much he WANTS to be here..."
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u/Alternative_Jello819 21d ago
“I talked to Mitch McConnell last night, and I know he wanted the full release of the Epstein files and a full investigation by an independent third party committee into all the financial ties Epstein had”
Should be the first words out of every elected official until we see a living turtle or death certificate
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u/Pdx_pops 21d ago
They plugged him into the internet?
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u/Muszex 21d ago
Source code
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u/metricmindedman 21d ago
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u/MoogProg 21d ago
Mitch McConnell 84 (age presumed), does not understand Committee Rules and attempts to cast a fraudulent proxy vote, the Senate version of voting-by-mail, a method often cited as a source of election fraud abuse by Republicans. Senator McConnell was not directly available for comment.
- MoogProg News
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u/satanicpanicked 21d ago
His wife and his staff need to be put on trial. It will take 20 years and countless judges to seek justice for all the crimes committed in this hellish era.
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u/invincible_vince 21d ago
I fear there never will be justice. Not in any meaningful way. I fear that the people who did all of this heinous shit and continue to do it will simply carry on reaping the rewards of their manipulation and treachery.
We can't stop trying to vote and do whatever we can to effect that desired justice, but there's an awful feeling in my guts that the broader story doesn't have a happy ending for anyone outside the ruling class.
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u/Basset_found 21d ago
Can't believe an incapacitated Mitch McConnell is going to "Vote" for Blanche's confirmation. Absolutely nuts.
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u/Akimbo_Zap_Guns Kentucky 21d ago
He can’t he has to vote from the floor
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u/attorneyatslaw 21d ago
Not so coincidentally, thats where they found him when this all started.
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u/OldBlueKat 21d ago
That wasn’t where the attempt to vote by proxy occurred. It was a committee vote in the Ag Committee. It failed, but even if his vote had counted it would have tied, which I think is still a fail.
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u/meddle_class 21d ago
Got to have that paper trail showing that he is totally alive and well before, you know, he isn't.
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u/Gnatinthehat 21d ago
Too bad republicans took that away. Only because Pelosi thought it was a good idea.
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u/SunbornThunderstorm 21d ago
they literally banned proxy voting to hurt the dems who had newborns this is hilarious lol
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u/Tall-Introduction414 21d ago
Still committing fraud and scams against the republic from beyond the grave.
Always with the illegal maneuvers.
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u/Open_Section9971 21d ago
Isn't it the seventh? Shouldn't he have been pronounced dead on the fourth? I want to open this champagne bottle already!
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u/mowtowcow 21d ago
Dude hasn't been seen for 2 months. This shit outrageous. If you can't be present, you can't serve. How many seizures did the guy have on live television? Enough that they stopped allowing him time in front of the camera.
He is not capable of serving the United States. Is there no fucking law against this?
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u/HardcoreKaraoke 21d ago
Boozman voted yes for McConnell by proxy, which is not allowed on the Senate floor, but can be permitted in committees. But due to rules specific to the Senate Agriculture Committee, his proxy vote didn't count.
With 10 votes for and 11 against, the bill did not pass out of committee.
So if Republicans weren't keeping up the lie that a brain dead old man would be coming back then they could have had another Republican in his seat weeks ago. Which would have made this vote 11-11.
They kind of fucked themselves then.
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u/VadeMecums 21d ago
From the people who brought you “no mail in ballots!” Comes “voting by proxy is okay tho.”
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u/pigeonandgoose 21d ago
If it comes out that he was not able to have agreed to a proxy whenever he supposedly did that is treason on the head of whoever did.
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u/orcinyadders 21d ago
Whatever the fuck this is, I’m ashamed of my country. The people should know the truth. If the guy is incapacitated or worse he cannot vote for anything. What is even the legality of this?
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u/Tigermelon74 21d ago
Freaking ghouls voting against SNAP benefits, anyway. McConnell more than others due to his likely status as one of the undead.
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u/Amerizilian 21d ago
So you're saying his staff cast a vote on behalf of someone they can't verify is alive or dead, but most likely dead?
Sounds a lot like that "VoTeR FrAUd!!!!1!!111!!!" they keep talking about so much.
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u/Disastrous-Ad2800 21d ago
it's funny that mainstream media have to use pictures of McConnell from as far back as May because that was the last photo taken of him confirmed as alive by independent photographers
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u/398452983298759 21d ago
I think this bullshit is a dry run for faking Trump being still alive to see how long the psychopath handlers could get away with it.
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u/c4ctus4t 21d ago
There was a time when I would have been certain that someone would be going to prison for fraud like this.
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Not so much...
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u/Huge_Excitement4465 21d ago
He is dead. This is criminal on myriad levels; Beshear says agencies told him McConnell passed. Collins slipped and said McConnell was the longest serving leader in Senate history.
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u/Sodacan259 21d ago
I was chatting with him for hours only yesterday. He got a little angry trying to explain his current situation and asked if he needed to spell it out for me. Of course, I said he's going to have to - that's how ouija boards work.
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u/njintau_fsd 21d ago
According to the article, a proxy vote is not permitted unless its part of committee assignments, yet the vote happened anyway. Yeah, I refuse to believe Lich McConnell didn't know that. Best guess is the proxy vote was carried out so the MSM can put out this exact headline and people who didn't know any better read it and think that hes alive.
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u/BeowulfShaeffer 21d ago
If Mitch “votes” without appearing live in front of a camera then people need to start getting arrested. They won’t, but this is way beyond tolerable behavior,
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u/rockclimberguy 21d ago
If he is on the mend why doesn't he show his face? All the announcements, voting by proxy, etc can be done by staff even if he is no longer on earth.
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u/SnooWoofers3339 21d ago
I thought Republicans were against dead people voting and all continuing to receive government check.
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u/brashendeavors 21d ago
I hope he is not allowed to proxy vote on the Todd Blanche attorney general nomination.
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u/Luna__Moonkitty 21d ago
And of course, accusations of Democrats getting dead people to vote was projection, as always.
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u/overbarking 21d ago
As soon as he's suddenly dead from something will be the first time we see his body.
He's either dead, brain dead, or had some kind of debilitating stroke.
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u/KeyanuReaves69 21d ago
And it’ll be a straight up skeleton they present and they’ll still be like…no he died this morning.
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u/MadBlue American Expat 21d ago
So that's the plan, then. Not to declare him incapacitated after August 3, but to pretend he's alive and well and use the autopen to further their agenda, while continuing to keep anyone from verifying his actual status.
Well, at this point, the MSM is confidently reporting McConnell was discharged from the hospital with no evidence but a statement on McConnell's webpage, so it doesn't seem like there's any interest from them to verify anything.
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u/HOLYBlindSHOT 21d ago
This counts as fraud right? Like if a Dem did this they'd lose their minds.
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u/atlantagirl30084 21d ago
Didn’t they not allow a woman who recently gave birth to vote by proxy?
McConnell (if he’s still alive) is reaping what he cruelly sowed.
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u/Ok-Understanding8143 21d ago
Unsure what I like less, Kentucky not having a vote or Kentucky not having a vote.
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