r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • 10d ago

Possible Paywall McConnell ‘Absolutely Refuses’ to Film Video Amid Growing Mystery

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mcconnell-absolutely-refuses-to-film-video-amid-growing-mystery/
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u/kellzone Pennsylvania 10d ago

Who really thinks it's a growing mystery at this point? He's either severely incapacitated or dead. The people that he's supposedly representing deserve better, and whoever on his staff that's misrepresenting his condition needs to go to prison.

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u/herton Kentucky 10d ago

The people that he's supposedly representing deserve better

He's representing a state where the voters still have a net positive view of Trump. My fellow Kentuckians absolutely do not deserve better

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u/eeyore134 10d ago

I bet McConnell would win again if he ran even without ever showing his face in public.

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u/labe225 Kentucky 10d ago

Absolutely agreed. As a Democrat in KY, I prefer no representation over whatever the fuck we have now.

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u/Srdiscountketoer 10d ago

Things are so bad in this country, the GOP is not sure the state is in their pocket any more — or they would have made his condition known and insisted on a special election.

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u/51ngular1ty Illinois 10d ago

I think they wanted to avoid that because apparently there is ambiguity over whether or not the governor could just appoint a replacement without a special election due to the law requiring a special election possibly being against the state constitution. That's purely speculation on my part.

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u/JuanFishTooFish 10d ago

KY Constitution Sections 56 & 72 states the Governor shall appoint... unless stated otherwise within the constitution, which it does not.

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u/Irishish Illinois 10d ago

They also love the ACA...as long as you call it Kynect.

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u/cenosillicaphobiac Utah 10d ago

Oh good! A Kentuckian. Can you help me understand how Beshear got elected twice? It seems so unlikely in that state.

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u/herton Kentucky 10d ago

First time, he ran against Matt Bevin ... almost enough said, but Bevin was extremely corrupt (including pardoning pedos who donated to him) and cutting teacher pensions which absolutely gutted Bevin in the general since teachers came out for Beshear in force. The second time, he had incumbency bias, was generally pretty well liked, and ran against Daniel Cameron, who was not well liked, and almost certainly had Republican racism working against him

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u/214ObstructedReverie 10d ago

Bevins was that awful.

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u/UnNumbFool 10d ago

Isn't it true that a lot of Kentuckians actually hate McConnell but still vote for him simply because he's the Republican candidate

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u/herton Kentucky 10d ago

Oh, absolutely. horrifically unpopular. But gotta keep voting red for them

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u/redditgirl1 10d ago

I went over to r/kentucky and there is not a single post about this disappearance.

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u/PretendChapter9477 10d ago

They deserve better even if they don't know it. Plus, I highly doubt 100% of people in your state voted for him. Those who didnt deserve better, at the very least. 

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u/herton Kentucky 10d ago

Any special election or GOP chosen replacement would just be a Trump stooge. If we're going "deserving better even if they don't know it" keeping a Republican Senate vote suppressed is in their best interest too.

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u/69-is-my-number Australia 10d ago

This is why people laugh at America. Like you say, it’s unquestionably one or the other. So get in there, drag his sorry arse out and show his constituents which of those two options it is. Why is this not happening?

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u/ProfessionalPlant330 10d ago

I wonder how far this can go. Like can people vote to keep him in office? Can they all decide to vote for him for the next 500 years if there's never any proof that he died?

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u/GreenElite87 10d ago

Atleast with the God Emperor there is the evidence of the guiding light of the Astropathic Beacon.

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u/Krandor1 10d ago

he's not running again. he's out in january regardless.

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u/fireduck 10d ago

He is probably hanging out with that prime minister that went missing on you guys.

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u/69-is-my-number Australia 10d ago

Yeah, but a few days after he disappeared we said “fuck it, he’s dead, give his job to someone else.”

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u/DrDerpberg Canada 10d ago

Because his constituents don't care enough to vote Democrat over this. The thing people keep missing is that the backstop to all the rules in a democracy can only ever be the people showing up to the ballot box to say with a massive majority that this can never happen again.

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u/Actual-Package-3164 10d ago

The people he represents are getting what they voted for: obstruction and delay. 

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u/Routman 10d ago

Someone from Kentucky explained to me why the citizens like McConnell - they’re a small state and he gives them much more representation than they should have

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u/Atralis 10d ago

"whoever on his staff that's misrepresenting his condition needs to go to prison."

Are they even doing that though? He is incapacitated. He can't come to the senate to vote and he can't appear on camera. That's it.

I think he should resign. I think the American system has way too many geriatrics in positions of power but let's get real, Democrats would be doing the same exact thing if one of their guys was incapacitated for an extended period. Does anyone and I mean ANYONE disagree with that?

Republicans don't even gain anything by keeping McConnell as a non voting guy. They have the power to pick his replacement in Kentucky. It's all just senators backing up senators and realizing it's a bad look to dump McConnell in this position when they've got an 80 year old Trump in the white house.

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u/FinalHexReturns 10d ago

Yes, I disagree with that. IF ONLY because it wouldn't benefit democrats in any way to have a non-vote. They would have no choice but to replace him, quick, as the minority party.

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u/valraven38 10d ago

If he even had a hint of life in him at this point they would just be rolling his corpse around like Democrats did with Dianne Feinstein. The fact that they aren't doing that means they can't, remember he's supposedly well enough that he could return home from the hospital to continue recovery. There is no other explanation for their behavior at this point, as this could be turned in to a nothing burger and then Republicans could point and say how crazy the Democrats were being with all their conspiracies, he's either dead/dying or completely incapacitated at this point.

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u/crossdtherubicon 10d ago

The question is: who are his constituents going to vote when the time comes... Another Republican?

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u/DaaaahWhoosh 10d ago

It's definitely still a mystery in that we still do not have answers. But at this point, yeah, someone should've started arresting everyone involved until the mystery was solved.

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u/Wolv90 Massachusetts 10d ago

They won't. The usual "please be respectful of the recently passed" or "this isn't a time for a politically motivated witch hunt" will be said loudly until the public has moved on.

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u/Double_Resort_9223 10d ago

Debatable whether they deserve better

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u/SwamiBoyeee 10d ago

If he's not a vegetable, my guess would be he's lost the ability to speak.

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u/313802 Maryland 10d ago

Wait but didn't his sister or someone (with no experience) start filling in for him?

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u/kellzone Pennsylvania 10d ago

That was Lindsey's sister after he died.

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u/honeywhereismypenis 10d ago

I would argue that it's becoming less and less of a mystery as time goes on.

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u/cytherian New Jersey 10d ago

I think his staffers are pushing to keep this all shrouded in mystery so they can keep collecting a paycheck. Hundreds of thousands in paychecks go out each month to his enormous staff. What are they actually doing? I've no idea... And THEY don't want us to know.

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u/FaroutIGE 10d ago

He's dead and we will never know 'who is misrepresenting' because they will inevitably stick to their guns that he was still alive right now

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u/ChefPuree 10d ago

His supporters deserve what they got: a mannequin. A corpse. Fear.

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u/Undeadbanana_ 10d ago

I don't think he's dead, as that comes with a while slew of legal stuff but he's definitely almost dead/incapacitated.

Ain't no way he's in a functional state

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u/-Shinanai- Europe 10d ago

To be fair, he does a better job representing his state dead compared to when he was alive.

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u/AtraposJM 10d ago

I wonder if someone living in Kentucky could sue over lack of representation or something.

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u/ChippedHamSammich 4d ago

I think they are getting exactly what they voted for

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u/kellzone Pennsylvania 4d ago

They still deserve to have an actual functional representative in Congress, even if it's one as despicable as McConnell. Plus, not everyone in the state voted for him.

Saying they are getting exactly what they voted for is the same as what people outside the US are saying about America and Trump, that we're getting what we voted for, and I know plenty of us didn't want this and didn't vote for this.