McConnell was rushed to the hospital in mid-June for an undisclosed medical reason, with his spokesperson David Popp issuing a vague statement regarding the reason for the hospitalization. It wasn’t until last week that media outlets learned McConnell had been discovered “unconscious” at his home and had to be administered CPR for potential “cardiac arrest.”
It remains unclear why McConnell’s staff refused to share details, but some, including independent journalist and crypto commentator Adam Cochran, have a theory.
“In Kentucky, a special election to replace a Senator will NOT be called if it’s closer than 3 months till the next election,” Cochran wrote Saturday in a social media post on X. “If McConnell’s condition is clearly unfit for office, they’d hide that to avoid being forced to submit a resignation letter until after that date.”
“So all they have to do is drag their feet until [the second Tuesday in August], then tell you that he didn’t make it,” Cochran continued. “And in turn block Massie from disrupting an otherwise safe Republican seat.”
David Morris, a journalist and author, also appeared to endorse the theory with a brutal jab at McConnell and his legacy.
“Mitch McConnell remaining technically alive for an extra three weeks because of a manipulative procedural maneuver is exactly how he would have wanted to go out,” Morris wrote in a social media post on X.
I say we see how long we can keep someone alive on machines.
What’s silence! He’s the fucking crypt keeper.
Old! He’s old!
The guy who stole 3 seats on the Supreme Court is going to wait out the clock on his own replacement even when he’s likely not even breathing on his own. Fuck everything about this timeline.
Hey hey, be fair, he stole two supreme court seats. The third was pretty solidly in the middle of Trump’s term.
So, what are you going to do about it? America used to be great because Americans used to actually get out there and be the change…or fight for it. Now y’all just whine on websites.
So, what would you do about it?
Vote, and get people to vote in the primaries, because that’s where your real voice is.
dO sOmEtHiNg says the European who is likely also having their government bought by far right corpos
First of all, America was never great. That’s a MAGA lie.
Second of all, anybody in the USA who posts about “fighting for it” is either being deliberately vague about decorating cardboard signs, or won’t be posting anywhere for much longer.
It’s easy to romanticize an armed rebellion when it’s not actually your own family at risk. Half of the people who realize what’s happening are leaving, like Einstein did.
And violent revolutions are kind of a roll of the dice. Sure, you could have a glorious outcome. But you are just as likely to have a bunch of scared people turn to whatever warlord promises them security.
There has been only one truly revolutionary movement and that was Haiti. We see how that turned out. The rest of the revolutions are just money fighting wealth.
If by rolling the dice you mean never in history getting the results you want in the end, then yes. Totally rolling those dice to crap out again.
Laura Loomer has said that he’s brain dead
Decide for yourself how much credibility you give her
She speaks from experience.
It is exceedingly difficult for a medical professional to differentiate between brain death and just being a republican representative.
points at Fetterman
But he’s always been brain dead.
Yes, but what about his current state?
Takes one to know one.
lil’ bitch clung to power until he died. And every decision he ever made was to further his own self-interest, or hurt others. A true piece of shit. May he never know peace. May his soul remain forever fragmented and separate from the eternal ethereal coexistence we all will one day share. May he wander forever alone and afraid.
I’m voting for the Prometheus ending.
On repeat. Every day. Forever.
At least Prometheus did something useful…
One of the finest posts I’ve ever seen on the internet
he could be technically alive. just enough. he might be kept technically alive for a while yet.
it’s probably hell in whatever remains of his mind. a nightmare two months long.
In my opinion if an elected official can’t respond to a request for physical proof of fitness for the job by those they supposedly represent then they should automatically be removed from office and elections for a fit replacement is called.
What you are suggesting is the norm in every western country in the World.
However, in the US anything goes.
You might consider fixing that.
Kentucky does gubernatorial appointment, but I agree with the sentiment wholeheartedly.
They switched to special election in 2024, so the Democratic governor would not be able to choose a senator.
Because of course they fucking did
The article has a point. His death being manipulated and leveraged politically to keep a seat for the Republicans is exactly what he would have wanted.
And republicans have no shame or morals so they would absolutely do something like that.
We need to call the long slow coup out for what it is.
The entire goal of Republican efforts has been to subvert the Constitution for a long time.
I cannot wait until the Republicans and the dumbfuck Murc’s Law types find a way to blame the Democrats for them doing it.
“If we didn’t protect his legacy then Barack HUSSEIN Obama would have taken his seat and sold your children into slavery. Your sexy little children…”
To the point it wouldn’t be shocking if he made it part of his will
Mitch McConnell remaining technically alive for an extra three weeks because of a manipulative procedural maneuver is exactly how he would have wanted to go out,
Bruh.
This statement is truthful if you know McConnell.
Well now… I still do think you can tell a lot about a person from how they speak of the dead, but under the circumstances this is a level of restraint I would struggle to achieve.
Republicans cheating? No way.
Anyways, it sucks we have to wait for traitors to die of old age in this country.
On the bright side, the fact they’re this desperate smells of weakness. Does America have the stones to exploit this to actually mount an offense against the barbarians raising America to the ground?
I mean yeah, it’s the weakness party. They’re afraid of women, afraid of melanin, and of course very proudly afraid of God.
Their entire psychology is built on a foundation of fear demanding power to feel safety it can never deliver. They are violently delusional.
Lol, no.
Americans have always been loud mouthed cowards.
Subverting democracy to the bitter end.
Rest in piss, you evil turtle.
If we had a free independent press any more, all reputable news outlets would be writing about this every single day to apply pressure for proof of consciousness, so they can’t drag this out until the deadline.
They would demand that his office, which released a statement saying "The Senator continues to improve, and is working closely with his staff on Kentucky and Senate matters while the Senate is out of session”, prove that they weren’t outright LYING.
They would go around asking his spokespeople to answer questions on camera and hound them, “is McConnell conscious?”, “Will you release a photo of him with his eyes open?”, “Why did his wife go to Beijing?” etc etc.
But they won’t. Because we don’t have a free independent press any more. A few journalists will speculate. None will keep demanding answers until they get them. Just the talking heads speculating.
Good time to mention that Reagan gutted the FCC protections that kept companies from owning more than six radio stations across the country.
Read up on the Fairness Doctrine
Screw the national “independent press” let’s all keep using people-owned independent press instead. Because the majority stock companies and owned by wealthy individuals aren’t cutting it.
Because we don’t have a free independent press any more.
I’m not sure the last time that we had that. I’m Gen X, so it must have come before. The “liberal media” I was always told was so damned liberal always seemed to be hosted by people with suits and ties and working as part of some megacorp, and that mostly spouted corporate compliant things. In any case, pre-internet, things were pretty tightly gate-kept by a small set of corporations.
And Ronnie Raygun worked to make that even worse - the decades since has been a long march toward the right, at least on cable and the airwaves…
Maybe I’m too young, though if I watch something like Network, it seems the boomers didn’t really have an independent press either. Chomsky is much older and seemed to make reference to a lively press in his youth.
These days, I like that Meidas Touch sends people in to ask questions. Mostly you get to see Maga Mike Johnson fleeing the scene while trying to avoid answering anything, LOL.
I’d say the downfall first started around the time 24-hour cable news came along (starting in 1980 but it didn’t happen right away) along with things like the abolishing of the fairness doctrine (1987). That and the need to fill 24 hours with “news” led to the shift to more op-ed content than news. More and more of these opinion news cable channels followed.
Then the deterioration really began to snowball with the internet and proliferation of “news” outlets tailored for specific audiences, culminating with the rise of social media (I mean, what hasn’t been negatively affected by the rise of social media/oligarch-owned web 2.0) and the purchasing of all media outlets, including newspapers, by corporations and later by the rising oligarchs.
All this meant the “news” became just another type of profit-driven enterprise, with a need to compete for ratings, that shifted it from hard news to entertainment and nothing more than parroting of press releases with no independent investigation. Ultimately leading to the demise of the last bastion of independence, print journalism.
That doesn’t mean there aren’t still some journalists doing good investigative work, just that they are pretty much on their own now. I don’t know much about Meidas Touch, but if they’re actually out there asking questions and reporting, instead of just sitting around spouting opinions and outrage like most political podcasts, that’s a good thing.
I wish they’d confirm it so I can celebrate already.
His wife was also meeting with Chinese officials in china just 3 days after he was found unresponsive. Shes def his handler. This shit is all just so fucking corrupt
The public has the right to know McConnell’s medical fitness for office at any time.
Rep. Tom Kean was missing for four months without much explanation and there have been no consequences.
Even Speaker Mike Johnson suggested Kean should have said more sooner at a news conference Tuesday: “If it were me, I would have been more specific about that, and I encouraged him to be.”
Dude won his primary unopposed while he still missing.
I wonder if he went missing before or after the filing deadline for the primary. It’s not uncommon for an incumbent to be unopposed in their primary.
The filing deadline was March 23 and he returned to the House last week, a little over 3 months after that, so I think he would have been MIA for a few weeks before the filing deadline.
He hasn’t been fit for anything in years, physically or mentally.
Truth needs to be found then told to all so seat can be challenged
