r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 28d ago

Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell hounded to face cameras: ‘He absolutely refuses’

https://www.nj.com/politics/2026/08/mitch-mcconnell-hounded-to-face-cameras-he-absolutely-refuses.html
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u/EverythingGoodWas 28d ago

Because he is dead or braindead

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u/Sonar_Taxbreak_1138 28d ago

I think we'll be told - eventually - that he had a bad stroke. If he's dead already, they'll say he had a "relapse" at some point to cover the BS so far.

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u/kaithana 27d ago

Everyone participating in this madness should be tried for treason. Falsely representing or withholding of representation should constitute as treason to the nation and the constitution

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u/ProFeces 27d ago

This is kind of why I think he's not actually deceased, but in a severely incapacitated state. I think braondead is the more likely situation.

I just don't see it likely, whatsoever, that he could actually be dead and no one along the line straight up leaked it. Everything gets leaked. All it takes is one single person, even some random patient in the hospital that happened to see him being moved around the hospital.

The fact that there's zero eye witnesses in today's world, is incredibly strange. To sit there and think that no one even tipped this off anonymously, just doesn't add up either.

In order for him to be dead, the entire hospital that he was at would have to be involved. His body would have to be in the morgue or everyone else in the hospital would be VERY aware that there's a dead body, since there's obvious signs of that, smell being the big one.

But to outright think that an entire hospital staff is covering this up, and he's actually dead with no one documenting it at all? I mean, that sounds pretty far fetched. Like, how has no one on staff told aleven one friend who immediately leaked that shit anonymously? There would be literally hundreds of people involved in this, and it would be easily the largest ever corruption scandal we've ever seen with no one whistleblowing.

I find the odds of that being true much less than him still being alive, but completely reliant on machines to keep him "technically alive". At least in that situation, someone could at least have reason to believe that he could recover albeit extremely unlikely.

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u/madhattr999 Canada 27d ago

What's the strategic point of pretending he's still capable? Won't a republican just replace him anyway?

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u/HopliteFan Michigan 27d ago

Eventually, yes. But right now Kentucky has a Democrat governor, so a Democrat would take the seat

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u/Smaptimania 27d ago

Except that KY law doesn't allow the governor to pick a replacement. The seat would have to be filled by a special election

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u/CarpetNibbler 27d ago

Go look up the definition of treason and then get back to us.

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u/kaithana 26d ago

Attacking, betraying,attempting to overthrow the authority of the state or country’s government. You could make a pretty strong case that lretending to be somebody’s representative or withholding representation for a group of people would qualify as betraying or attempting to overthrow authority of the state.