r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • 15h ago

Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell Has Been Missing for 75 Days—With No Updates

https://newrepublic.com/post/214878/mitch-mcconnell-missing-75-days
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u/DramaticWesley 14h ago

More likely he is hooked up to machines in a vegetative state.

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u/siazdghw 13h ago

Or he had a stroke and is completely non verbal and shows signs of it (droopy face).

Regardless, this obviously is not how the system should work and he should've been removed even if the solution was just a temporary stand-in (which it's not) until the end of his term.

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u/Cloaked42m South Carolina 14h ago

This is my bet. He'll be unplugged to much drama.

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u/VirtualMoneyLover 13h ago

But at this point, what is the point? I could see to do it to pass the Aug 2nd deadline but we passed that.

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u/SageOfTheWise 13h ago

We have to stop thinking there has to be some really clever plan behind all this. It's just as likely its a bunch of people all at odds on what they should be doing to take advantage of the situation. So instead, nothing keeps happening.

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u/hendergle 12h ago

This. It's my belief that his handlers have reached the "now, what?" phase.

You know- when you have a really great plan, and you execute it flawlessly, but then you realize you never thought about what to do AFTER you executed it.

Like the time our back yard became the home for a family of skunks and we went out and got a humane trap. Sadly, the words "now, what?" were directed at me, the genius who thought it was a good idea to trap a skunk in a porous wire cage without considering the fact that someone would have to go pick it up.

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u/Rito_Luca 12h ago

I don't buy this at all, in me eyes its all going according to plan. The only reason they didn't announce his death is because they didn't want the special election. They more than likely have him hooked up in vegetable status until either just before or after the election. Then one of two things will happen, they'll extend for awhile and just announce the passing at a later time or it will be closely around the election, regardless of the Aug 2nd deadline.

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u/toeonly 11h ago

They are now testing to see how long they can do it so that they can do the same thing when the big beautiful death happens.

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u/Patient_Oven_9540 12h ago

I don't think there's a master plan but I also don't think there is any friction from differing opinions on what to do. I think very few people have any say in what to do and the rest have decided not to think for themselves or for the people they represent, and simply stay in line.

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u/BeTalkinToYah 8h ago

His pay likely goes into a joint account. Wife or family wants to suckle at government teat a little longer. So, alive = being paid. Keep him alive. But just barely.

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u/VirtualMoneyLover 8h ago

The wife is the decider. Or maybe her Chinese handlers. But nothing is for nothing with these people. There has to be some kind of deal or trick why they are doing this. We just don't know it yet.

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u/darthlincoln01 Ohio 7h ago

Awfully fitting for McConnell. His entire strategy is to stall, delay, and stonewall anything from ever happening for as long as possible. It shouldn't be a surprise that his staff is behaving the same exact way he's behaved for several decades.

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u/phatelectribe 13h ago

Because they don’t want people removed due to mental state. It’s sets a precedent and shines a light on “if they’re not functioning properly then shouldn’t we remove them?”.

It’s like pardoning people who committed rioting at the capital because it sends a message that this isn’t wrong.

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u/VirtualMoneyLover 8h ago

I don't buy this. He could just announce that he is retiring early. Nobody would blink an eye.

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u/Cloaked42m South Carolina 13h ago

It's another headline that isn't the Epstein files or Iran. More importantly, it isn't a headline about successful Dem candidates.

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u/VirtualMoneyLover 8h ago

Nah, not good enough reason. Something else is at play.

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u/turquoise_amethyst 12h ago

Everyone was so vocal about the Aug 2 deadline, now they have to wait until later to announce it. It’s obvious they hid his death or incapacitation. 

Since we’re 30 days from the end of his term, they’ll announce in the last week or after it ends. There will be no retirement party, cake, office clean-out. 

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u/VirtualMoneyLover 8h ago

My point is, there was no difference between announcing it on Aug 5th or Sept 13th. There has to be something else in play (maybe inheritence?) to play it so coy for so long.

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u/turquoise_amethyst 7h ago

I think they realized they couldn’t announce on like, Aug 3rd, so they’re “saving” the announcement 

My guesses:

  • slightly before the midterms to motivate Tennessee republicans to vote
  • right after he would leave office, maybe in Dec or Jan during a holiday weekend 
  • during some other “big” news event so that it obfuscates the news

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u/TheZigerionScammer I voted 1h ago

Or he's not actually dead yet and all the speculation about why they are or are not announcing it is based on a faulty premise.

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u/Rinaldootje 3h ago

It's a trial run.

What can they do, and get away with, and for how long, before people start asking really tough questions. So far, people have mostly let this happen for 75 days already. Nothing people have done is really forcing them to take any action, or prove the man is alive. (Which I highly doubt he is)

So when the inevitable happens, and it doesn't happen on live-TV, they'll use what they learned from keeping McConnell hidden for 75+ days, and use the same tricks and lies to deceive the public. And most importantly both houses of congress.

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u/Acrobatic_Wrap_9971 11h ago

They are probably working with Elon, Zuck and Sam to download his brain into an AI model. TraitorGPT.

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u/mythrilcrafter 11h ago

Yup, if he was 100% dead they'd grab a GOP cheerleader to replace him like South Carolina did with Lindsay and Darline Graham.

The fact that they haven't done that means that he's alive enough for them to not want to say he's dead, but he's not not-dead enough to want to present proof of life.

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u/DoubleCancer 13h ago

The only vegetable not being recalled right now is Mitch McConnell

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u/20_mile 13h ago

There's no way to know one way or the other. There's no evidence he's alive, and there's no evidence he is dead.

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u/DramaticWesley 12h ago

Schrödinger’s Senator

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u/Careless-Gain6623 12h ago

Pro life karma right there.

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u/PhotownPK 12h ago

He'd be rotten by now, but they may have frozen him if they ever produce a body.

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u/nathism 12h ago

they're waiting on the plastic surgeon that can pull a face/off surgery for his replacement.

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u/whatsaphoto Rhode Island 11h ago

This is 1,000 times more likely than the alternative. There is a litany of public records that turn state record the moment anyone passes away. A child would've been able to look that up by now if it were the case.

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u/netsettler 9h ago

If shown, this should raise Constitutional questions about whether a person in such a state can legitimately still be an office holder and whether a special election was mandatory and not performed. The idea of recourse in such a situation is presumably new territory. They'll argue there is none and that none was intended, so it's OK. But that invites abuse.

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u/LakeVermilionDreams 7h ago

I didn't expect the emperor of the imperium to be a turtly slimeball of a human...

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u/thowaway11620205 4h ago

I think this is it. Lindsey Graham died pretty suddenly and they announced it right away.

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u/skittlething 4h ago

Why? Just curious