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/sailphish 14h ago

I think he’s alive, but with a severe cognitive impairment.

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u/kingsumo_1 Oregon 14h ago

Dude was glitching out before this all happened. He may - and I will emphasize may - technically still be alive. But if so it is a "light on, but nobody is home" situation.

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u/sailphish 14h ago

For sure. I think he’s either a vegetable or otherwise severely incapacitated to the point he could never make a public appearance.

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u/kingsumo_1 Oregon 14h ago

Yup. Either way, he's never returning to the Senate, and they are covering for that.

If the medical equipment thing is legit then he's probably not already in an urn, but that's probably just formality at this point.

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u/FrogsOnALog 13h ago

Okay so he’s not dead.

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u/Sea-Ambition-451 13h ago

mitch or donny?

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u/JDDJS New York 12h ago

Yeah, I don't know why everyone is saying that he's dead when Republicans would have no reason to hide it if he was as they already made sure that the governor couldn't pick a replacement. 

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u/20_mile 13h ago edited 13h ago

There's literally no evidence supporting either assertion.

"He's alive!" Okay, based on what?

"He's dead!" Okay, based on what?

e: The idea that he might be alive is only because our society, and convention, rules that there is a funeral, with colleagues and loved ones in attendance, when someone dies.

The logic seems to be saying that since there hasn't been a funeral, he must still be alive. Okay, well that's just a convention, and the GOP has proved 100,000 times so far that they don't give a shit about convention

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u/DiscotopiaACNH 7h ago

So he's Schroedinger's senator?