He's not dead. I talked to him this morning. He's just stuck in Alaska right now. I had to wire him $5,000 for a plane ticket, he promised to send me $20,000 as soon as he gets back to Washington.
Hasan Piker and I did an Eiffel Tower with him the other day. Say what you will about McConnell's politics, but he's a goddamn hungry banshee in the sack; a sexual tornado. Dang, I'm still sore.
Republicans will have it completed .0008 seconds after the cutoff for the special election, confirm he's dead, and then laugh in everyone's face as they get called cheats and start pouring tens of millions of dollars into a campaign for the election.
you cannot call for a welfare check for an adult who is in the hospital. you cant just deploy the police to do your bidding. they are for people who cant be contacted and are not under the care (however lucid or with it) of medical professionals.
If he was dead I would think there would be a record somewhere as there is a whole legal process the hospital goes through to report it. More likely just in a vegetative state.
The wild part is 891K views in a day. People share first, fact-check never. I’ve started googling before I repost anything now because I got burned sharing something false last year.
No they took away his power to appoint a replacement, which is still dubious because that’s in the KY constitution. The method he can use is calling a special election.
Exactly. Here’s where democrats really need to take a page out of the GOP playbook. Do the thing anyway, let the Kentucky GOP file a lawsuit, and make the courts determine if it’s within their power to do it without amending the state constitution.
YES, this is what needs to happen. I'm not saying we should stoop down and play dirty like the GOP but Democrats need to at LEAST start playing the same fucking game!
If this was a state with a GOP Governor and a Dem Senator I can promise you the Gov would've already done EVERYTHING he could to appoint a new Senator.
WHYYYY are Democrats so weak and ineffectual? The GOP has gotten where it is because Democrats REFUSE to do anything except try to keep the status quo, we are WAY beyond status quo at this point and they still do nothing. This is why I'm voting straight DSA from now on.
Incorrect. Vote for candidates that do not take corporate dollars. Mamdanis and AOCs.
And then stop worrying about the ad money. What candidates need is travel money and the ability to connect supporters. We can be the infrastructure to help that. The only reason the rich win the money game is because they make you think it takes money to win.
We have way more people power than they have money.
This is the most defeatist and frankly bot sounding post ever. Vote against big money in politics. We need to dismantle citizens united. Money isn't speech and corporations aren't people.
I think the whole "why doesn't Bashear appoint someone" line is being pushed by people who want to make the Dems look bad.
Bashear won't appoint someone because it's bad for the Democrats plain and simple. The new appointee is required by law to also be approved by the republican party of Kentucky so you're functionally giving republicans an extra vote in the United States senate while also breaking the law.
But because people want to portray the democrats as Weak reddit comments that act confused as to why he isn't doing this get upvoted.
Like seriously, what do you gain if Bashear appoints a republican senator to congress?
"Make the dems look bad" hahaha christ this country is cooked.
The GOP is run by a fcking pedo cult destroying and grifting this country into the ground and you idiots are worried about the Dems "looking bad" by actually doing what needs to be done.
Ask for forgiveness, not permission. That should be on the GOP's 'coat of arms' in Latin - Veniam pete, non permissionem - (used a translator for this so it may need tweaking).
Appointing a new senator would actually end up hurting Democrats more than Republicans.
The way the appointment process would work is that the Republican party would give the governor a short list of 3 candidates and the governor picks from those 3.
So the governor would have to appoint a republican to the senate, which functionally gives the republicans an extra vote (since McConnell hasn't been voting).
And in the long term, the next governor of Kentucky is probably going to be a Republican, having a special election makes it much easier to get a democratic senator in in the rare even that the next senator from Kentucky passes.
He should appoint someone anyway, make a whole media story about it, get Republicans on the record saying he cant do that so he can call on them to call a special election. He's losing the momentum and the Republicans are going to get away with this because of more Democratic fear of confrontation
which is still dubious because that’s in the KY constitution.
Not exactly. What's in the KY constitution is the ability to fill statewide KY offices. It doesn't specifically mention federal office, like US Senate.
Didn't Colorado or Wisconsin or something do something similar? Republicans took away power from the office as soon as they knew it was going to a Democrat.
Beshear was supposed to be on the short list for president, a popular red state Democratic governor, but i think his handling of this McConnell situation is disqualifying. We need a fighter who is going to hold the criminals of this administration to account, not a do-nothing hack
Wait, wait, guys, come on, the nation just needs to heal, none of this prosecuting our “political enemies,” history will be the judge (in 100 years), let’s not rush to hold people accountable
The dems need to undo the "norm" mentality -- its failing them dramatically since mcconnel took over the senate. Every time the dems give reps the benefit of anything reps use it to their advantage 10x.
"Should I drive to the hospital and do a wellness check? NAH! That would never work."
Just fucking replace the dude. If he is alive then he'll show up and contest it. If he's alive but unable to show up and contest it then he's unfit for office anyways and the replacement is valid.
And there will be a huge social bullying movement to only say kind things about him. And people will be fired if they say anything honest about him. And then people will celebrate that people were fired.
Don't care enough to track down if AI is correct, but this is what it showed.
If accurate then they are indeed legally lying, if he has been pronounced brain dead by two physicians. If only one and they are avoiding / preventing a second opinion, it would still be considered fraud.
I believe he’s alive, but only technically. My guess is he’s a vegetable hooked up to life support until they’ve stalled enough. Then they’ll pull the plug and let him die.
If he were as able-bodied as those doctored PR photos make him look, a quick press conference, or a zoom call with the governor would quickly put the matter to rest. But they aren’t doing that and it speaks volumes.
Personally I think he's awake, but his brain is toast to the point that he can't form a sentence. If he were in a vegetative state hooked up to machines then that would mean the photo they released was fake, which no reputable organization is claiming, and in my opinion would have been a wildly unnecessary risk for them to take. Not saying it's above them to fake a photo, but I just don't think the risk vs reward calculus was there for something so likely to blow up in their faces.
I’m guessing they’re afraid he’ll say something like “Bin Laden is alive and living in Podunk Arkansas” and now the press needs to investigate and it turns out it’s a Taliban spy living there who just got outted
that still doesn't make much sense because even if that did happen, whoever wins the special election will be out of office on January 3rd 2027. and whoever wins the November 2026 general election would take over at that point. whoever would win special election like this would not automatically be awarded the next term as well. they would only fill in till the end of the current term.
Considering how fast the current administration moved last year after Trump's election I think you're ignoring how much could get done in that time with a noncorpse in office.
I mean Even if the special election was filed today, it would take about 60 days for the election to happen and then there's also the few days it takes to get seated. So whoever would win and given the recessed Congress takes in Q4 they would likely only attend about 40 days of actually being in Congress. And from there it's just a single senate vote so assuming that a progressive Democrat is elected, which is very unlikely considering that senatorial seat is up for election in the 2026 election and currently the Republican candidate has an 11-point lead over the Democrat candidate, there's still little that candidate can do. Especially given senate Democrats are not exactly one seat away from having a majority or being able to pass their own legislation. Republicans do need mitches vote to help get things passed but while he's in the hospital he's also not able to actually vote in the senate.
The weekend at Bernie's game seems to be a weird one to play here at it comes with all the consequences and basically no benefits because even the worst case scenario for Republicans has no effect on this session of Congress but being caught playing hide the dead senator comes with a lot of consequences.
This shit reminds of the days of the USSR when Andropov and his successor Chernenko “ran” the Communist Party from hospital beds for months at a time until their deaths were announced.
What are Democrats going to do about it? This is McConnell's legacy, he revealed that you can violate norms, customs, laws to consolidate power and the Democratic party will do fuck all to oppose you or hold you responsible. Democrats get my vote because they're not the fascist party, they otherwise get only my contempt.
Why hasn't any Democrat Senator just gone to visit their co-worker in the hospital? At this point, I think they're complaisant in this election fraud scheme.
I thought the logic was to wait until a certain day then it would trigger an election, but if he died now e.g. it was announced he was dead, the governor would appoint a replacement. Mark Aug 4th on your calendars ad McConnel day.
I wouldn’t be surprised (we’re talking about trump Republicans) if the hospital and staff was told that if any word about McConnell leaked out that the trump administration would destroy the hospital and the medical careers of everyone who worked there.
I remember seeing an episode of Drunk History about Woodrow Wilson and how they figured how the First Lady was just pulling the strings and how much of a bad ass she was. Biden was very clearly not fit to lead but people just pretend and said, no everything is great. He is healthy as ever.
Politics has always been about power and manipulation. There needs to be a drastic change, not just Part A instead of Party B
Just curious. When do Americans do the "THIS is why school shootings are necessary" thing? Yous have consistently told us that the guns are to stop all of this and that the daily school shoot ups are necessary for that ability to stop a government takeover. So... When's that starting? Or... Is that not actually a thing and you've just accepted school shootings for no reason...?
Proof is in the fact that we haven't seen him in person in weeks. Even if he is stuck in the hospital, if he was in a condition to retain his office, they would have gotten a video of him talking out by now. And you should NEVER, EVER stop demanding that your representatives do their fucking jobs.
mcconnell did the same thing when he stole Obama's SCOTUS nom in 2015 after Justice Scalia died, so the turd could force Gorsuch through. Now the turd is doing the same thing to McTurtle's fetid corpse. This is just yet another full circle moment for the guardians of paedophiles
This shit happens often. RGB was deadile 2 months before they tried to do anything about her position. I bet he is on hospice care and just slowly dying on his couch or something
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He's not dead. I talked to him this morning. He's just stuck in Alaska right now. I had to wire him $5,000 for a plane ticket, he promised to send me $20,000 as soon as he gets back to Washington.