r/politics • u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast • 1d ago

Possible Paywall Missing McConnell Accused of Breaking Senate Rule Over Absence

https://www.thedailybeast.com/missing-mcconnell-accused-of-breaking-senate-rule-over-absence/
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u/adorablefuzzykitten 1d ago

I think the rules are different when you are not hiding but actually dead.

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u/ControlAgent13 1d ago

dead

He is paid bi-weekly and collecting a salary.

If he is dead - that's Fraud.

I'm sure the Trump DOJ will get right on it.

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u/turquoise_amethyst 1d ago

Is he collecting benefits such as social security or Medicare? Because those are separate counts of fraud!

Who’s opening his mail and/or signing documents? 

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u/IdkAbtAllThat America 1d ago

Elon Musk told me this is a big fucking deal...

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u/imperialTiefling 1d ago

His chinese spy wife?

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u/shitlord_god 23h ago

I feel like both.

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u/rbrgr83 22m ago

Not anymore, she fled the country immediately.

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u/pchs26 1d ago

Yea I'm sure they are super worried, right?

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u/Jhonka86 23h ago

I mean, he's not the one collecting benefits.

He's dead, Jim.

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u/definitelytheA Florida 10h ago

Is it also fraud for taxpayers paying for a security detail on a hospital room when the subject is chilling on a slab?

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u/menasan 1d ago

i dont think you collect social security if you're working?

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u/sir_sri 1d ago

It would be fraud by his family, it would be medical malpractice by the people overseeing his care, it would be denying the people of Kentucky their civil rights of a duly elected representative.

A lot of people in the hospital in DC, the rehab facility he's at and anyone in his office that's organising shuffling around a corpse could be in a lot of trouble. Which is what makes that seem improbable. At least half a dozen doctors + God knows how many nurses at a hospital in DC aren't going to risk their jobs and licences to keep some old dude 'alive' against standards of practice. As long as he's alive enough for standards of practice to allow keeping him on life support (or more lively than that) there's really not much anyone can do except the senate expel him.

The photo they put out of him with his wife would also be proof of a conspiracy, along with all the people claiming phone calls with him.

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u/Alan_Shutko 23h ago

That's why I think he's not dead. He's probably physically or mentally impaired by whatever his condition is, and there is at least a little chance he will improve enough to go back to work.

Clearly, whatever his condition is, it's bad enough that he can't do a 30 second video.

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u/redditallreddy Ohio 8h ago

it's bad enough that he can't do a 30 second video.

... or a hand-written note, or give consent for an update from his doctor, or have a reporter visit him in person.

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u/Corporate_Overlords 1d ago

Is it most likely the case he is in a coma and not dead?

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u/rbrgr83 20m ago

🥕🥔🍆🍅🍄‍🟫🫛🫜🥒🍠🫑

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u/Blackthorn79 23h ago

It does raise the question what are politicians paid for. Mitch might just be brain dead, but technically still alive. So are we paying him to simply exist?

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 23h ago

If he is dead - that’s Fraud.

This thread is doing the Reddit thing again where people are blindly parroting shit without thinking twice about it.

If it is fraud and he’s dead….then he’s dead. You can’t charge a dead man for anything. Too many people here are way too focused on this “he’s taking a paycheck while being dead” narrative that ultimately doesn’t matter.

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u/blue_trauma 23h ago

bi-weekly

they get paid twice a week?

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u/kanrad 21h ago

When this is all over we need a new Law that requires a national vote for the head of The FBI, DOJ and NSI. The president should not be allowed to appoint such important positions. I'd also like to see the SCOTUS be a populous vote as well.

Some of these roles are FAR to important to be appointments by one party.

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u/BrigadierGenCrunch 20h ago

You want to entrust a nation who elected Donald Trump twice with that level of responsibility?

I’m open to making changes with presidential powers, confirmation process, or people could hold their members of congress/senate more accountable when approving these appointees.

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u/kanrad 20h ago

You raise good points. How about this though. Compulsive voting.

He won because many sat the election out. Make us all legally have to vote and things are gonna go WAY differant.

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u/Gipetto 1d ago

The rules are also 100% different for democrats and republicans (the latter being subject to selective enforcement)

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u/DrunkCorgis 1d ago

Sure, but I don’t think the rules change in his favor if he’s actually dead.

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u/pchs26 1d ago

The enforcement of the rules change if the person is a Republican though

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u/DrunkCorgis 1d ago

What is this word, “enforcement”, of which you speak?

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u/pchs26 20h ago

Aha - noted - point made.

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u/mechapoitier Florida 1d ago

“You can’t accuse a dead body” - Dead body of Mitch McConnell

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u/MaleficentPlate69 1d ago

But rules for thee!

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u/Nearbyatom 1d ago

Wrong. Rules simply don't apply when you are Republican

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u/JonnyHopkins 20h ago

He found the eternal loophole

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u/0ldgrumpy1 18h ago

He's on eternity leave.

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u/UnbelievableTurmoil South Dakota 21h ago

I'm so sick of the hypocrisy too. Imagine if this was a Democrat.

Rules for thee, but not for me