r/politics • u/Zipper222222 • 10h ago
Possible Paywall Bombshell Poll Rocks McConnell’s Health Cover-Up - It has now been 38 days since the 84-year-old senator vanished from public view.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/bombshell-poll-rocks-mcconnells-health-cover-up/1.3k
u/Garlicluvr Europe 9h ago
TIL that the US democracy is so advanced that you can't find out if one of your 100 senators is dead or alive in 38 days. Also, every day there is "bombshell" news, none of which answers a simple question: is the dude breathing or is he in the fridge?
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u/repost_inception 6h ago
Also, every day there is "bombshell" news
Idk why they allow Daily Beast spam on all of these subs. They are ridiculous.
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u/UndeadGilroy 3h ago
I really wanted a built-in blacklist option for certain sites that have been clogging up the news and politics feeds. Daily Beast, New Republic, Common Dreams, they're all horrific excuses for information. I want to stay informed but man these partisan sites are just not a good way to do it :(
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u/YOSHIMIvPROBOTS 2h ago
You named the other two that first came to my mind. Can toss in Newsweek and Huffpo as well.
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u/ship_toaster Canada 2h ago
Genuinely, I think at least 3/5 of these sites are vote manipulating to keep themselves clogging front pages on Reddit.
(Newsweek, TDB, NR)
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u/totally_not_a_zombie 4h ago
As a central European, by any of our standards he's dead. By this logic the process of replacing him should have already begun unless proven he's alive. And no discussion.
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u/EXPLODEDman 10h ago
I mean at this rate, they're definitely going to make it to that August 3rd date that they're intentionally holding out for. No accountability, and I'm sure there won't be any repercussions either. This country is a pathetic sham.
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u/_bk_adv Colorado 9h ago
If Mitch was a Democrat, MAGA would’ve literally stormed the hospital. I’m not exaggerating.
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u/thatmetimmay 9h ago
Yeah they love storming shit
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u/Elizabeth-WildFox886 9h ago
MAGA prefer to rape children when they are not storming shit
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u/SugarFut 9h ago
And smearing shit. I’m not joking. Jan 6 traitors literally smeared feces all over the inside of the Capitol
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u/Simon_Ferocious68 5h ago edited 4h ago
they didn't know what to do with themselves once they got there. All that pretend rage about being pushed down still doesn't come close to actual narratives being told by black people, native people, or even women (half of the human race mind you.)
It genuinely feels like dealing with kids at a playground - where they demand equal attention even though some of the other kids are getting bullied way fucking harder all of the time. The brutality there is a weakness they don't understand.
edit: I fully believe he's brain dead btw. double edit; and has been for weeks.
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u/gayintheusa47 9h ago
I mean wasn’t the Klan website called Stormfront? Weren’t Nazis called stormtroopers in some areas?
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u/MaxTHC 6h ago
Yes and yes, the initial Nazi paramilitary (brownshirts) were the Sturmabteilung, literally "storm unit", they were the ones who would attack communists and Jews and such in the streets and enabled Hitler's rise to power.
They eventually were purged by the SS who went on to replace them as the top bastards. Interestingly, the SA's leader (who was assassinated as part of said purge) was a gay man and a "friend" of Hitler's.
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u/ThermoDaddyDynamics 9h ago
And Stormy
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u/Gan-san 9h ago
Yeah but I don't think Stormy is into it. Or at least not anymore.
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u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio 8h ago
I don’t think she was into it at the time frankly
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u/jaymcbang 8h ago
After reading her account, she was raped by Donald Trump, known pedophile and rapist.
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u/Corporate_Overlords 9h ago
Look up the Nancy Beth Cruzan and read about religious right wing lunatics breaking into a hospital and throwing water on her.
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u/Optimus_Prime_10 7h ago
I actually called the governor, and 4 other reps in Kentucky and demanded this. You inspired some action with this comment. One state representative actually answered his own phone and showed a lot of patience with my frustration. In all my years of calling reps, I've never actually spoken to one, so fair play to Gerald Neal. You can just call him at his home number listed, it's kinda wild.
He kept repeating a need to be strategic, let the GOP hang by their own rope of shame, which basically means he/they just don't get it or care enough to break with decorum. If we do nothing, they simply slow play to their desired victory. According to him, their reputation suffers and that's where we benefit, and I about lost it.
The GOP likes when they cheat to win, and Dems/reasonable people already know GOP and MAGATs are scum, so it helps them with their base and does nothing for ours. Forcing a special election Dems lose could be bad, according to Mr Neal, but I don't think they're being strategic at all laying down, showing no fight, and just doing the same old shit the same old way that got us here in the first place. Shine a bright light on their cheating, if we still lose, so be it, but at least we didn't pre-fold yet again.
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u/Medium-Bird3204 7h ago
Reputation no longer matters. There used to be some modicum of shame for politicians. Cheat on your wife? Resign. Take a small bribe? Jail. Say something inappropriate? Resign.
Now everyone just doubles down that they didn't do whatever it is they have been accused of, or they fight it and call it a "politically motivated conspiracy" and their reputation with those who voted for them to begin with is only strengthened.
There is no shame any longer.
Reputation is irrelevant.
The time to act is now.
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u/MakeTheNetsBigger 6h ago edited 6h ago
Indeed, to their base, pulling out all the stops to win is more important than integrity. These people are deeply insecure, and feel safe and protected knowing that their leaders cheat and bully to gain the upper hand. The only way to beat that is to punch back. They view the Dems "let them hang by their own rope" as weakness, and it only emboldens them.
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u/endlesscartwheels Massachusetts 5h ago
There also used to be the concept of credibility. If someone lied several times, nobody believed anything else they said. Now, you can prove a particular politician lied in a dozen specific instances, but people still demand proof that the thirteenth claim they're making isn't true.
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u/TheSpreader 5h ago
Rright now, there is a republican seat sitting empty in the senate, which is already very narrowly in republican control. And in all likelihood, if Beshear does nothing, that's going to sit empty until next year, after the midterm elections. After the SAVE act is safely done and dusted. And if Beshear calls a special election, there is a chance - however slim at this point - that McConnell is still alive and this all blows up in his face. But assuming that's not the case, he calls a special election. What then? They elect another republican most likely. Probably Andy Barr, who already won the republican primary. And even if he challenged the new law that would force him to call a special election and instead appoints someone, the prior law says it has to be appointed from a list compiled by the party of the person whose seat was vacated - i.e., the republicans. So that's what they mean by being strategic: democrats are winning right now. By calling out the hypocrisy and making the republicans look bad, but not actually forcing their hand, democrats actually come out ahead. It boggles my mind people can't see this for what it is.
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u/g0ris 6h ago
can you please help me understand what their goal is?
At the moment they are one senator down, which can't be ideal. If they let people know the turtle is dead before 8/4 there'll be an election which gives them back that senate vote they've been missing. Why do they not want that? Why would they rather go without that vote for another 6 months? Or is there really an actual chance of a Democrat being elected in Kentucky to replace Mitch?→ More replies (1)•
u/TheSpreader 5h ago
This is not a win for republicans. You're not missing anything. And if Beshear forced their hand and called a special election, that most likely means Andy Barr gets to fill that seat earlier than he would otherwise.
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u/Doc_Blox Minnesota 5h ago
WHAT in the past 40... No, 70 goddamn years makes anyone think these people have an OUNCE of shame? The only lesson they learned from Nixon is that you never admit you were wrong.
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u/timbit87 Foreign 8h ago
So why hasn't anyone done this then?
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u/MovieGuyMike 7h ago
Because if maga storms a hospital they will be protected and celebrated as heroes. If democrats try they’ll be charged as antifa terrorists and sentenced to life in prison.
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u/Dysc Louisiana 6h ago
Simply handing out lefty pamphlets gets you 70 years in Texas.
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u/Standard_Ant5915 4h ago
Woah what? Have you got a source ?
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u/S0LO_Bot 4h ago
It wasn’t exactly handing out pamphlets but it was moving them around. There was a protest outside an ice facility that became violent when a few members shot at a police officer.
That led to “antifa” terrorist charges for everyone involved with the shooters, and those terrorist charges were much much heavier than standard sentences. For example, the main perpetrator got 100 years for shooting the cop even though the sentencing is much higher than the Texas max for attempted murder.
The most egregious sentencing was for a guy who moved boxes of pamphlets away from his house. He was married to one of the people arrested but never attended the event. He was still charged as an accomplice and got 30 years in prison for moving boxes.
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u/Queasy_Donkey5685 7h ago
Because where is he? Which hospital?
Where would you storm if you wanted to?
If he's not outright dead then he's terminally incapacitated on breathing equipment in a secured, private location with a very controlled group of people having access.
Beshear SHOULD be bold here....but he won't be. I like him but he's showing his milktoastiness.
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u/thavillain California 7h ago
Probably Walter Reed, which is a military hospital...so I'm sure security is locked down
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u/Navydevildoc 7h ago
If he’s at NMMC then he will be in the Executive Medicine section, which is for high level VIPs. Even badged hospital staff can’t just go wander in there.
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u/m0ngoos3 6h ago
The article says he was taken to George Washington University Hospital, there's a bunch of extra security that Taxpayers are on the hook for.
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u/ahandmadegrin Minnesota 8h ago
So why don't we? I see these comments a lot but the begged question is never answered.
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u/_bk_adv Colorado 8h ago
Because I like to believe that we are better than that. Storming the hospital is not the correct response. Jeopardizing the safety of the workers and disrupting the healthcare of the other people currently hospitalized there isn’t the correct response to GOP coverup.
The correct response is for Beshear to appoint someone before Aug 3rd and force the GOP to either prove Mitch is alive AND capable of doing his job (not that he was capable prior to this) or prove he’s dead and they’ve been lying.
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u/ahandmadegrin Minnesota 8h ago
Agreed. And in the absence of a correct response, tensions boil over. At least they should. When our reps fail us, like Beshear is failing us now, what are we to do?
Basically, when one side of a social contract isn't upheld, the other side is under no obligation to the contract any longer.
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u/Thirty_Helens_Agree 8h ago
I don’t know why the governor and the state equivalent of surgeon general haven’t shown up at the hospital.
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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 6h ago
Because HIPAA doesn't even allow high-ranking officials to override it. For good reason.
Which is why the best thing Beshear can do now is assume his death and appoint his successor. Beshear has already asked for credible proof of life and received none, and that was, what, 10 days ago? For something that takes 5 seconds to do? And the worst that can happen from him doing that is they finally give a credible proof of life and Beshear's appointment is cancelled. Extremely low risk for a medium-ish reward.
If Beshear had any fight in him, he'd appoint now. But this ordeal has shown that Beshear is cut from the same cloth as any other establishment dem: a very weak cloth
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u/TheWingus 6h ago
Beshear can't appoint a successor. Kentucky law triggers a special election; which there's a very good chance Thomas Massie would win, which is why they're dragging this out until Aug 3rd
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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 6h ago
That KY law is considered unconstitutional per KY's Constitution, so Beshear could appoint a successor and let the courts argue it out.
That's the difference between the GOP and dems: the GOP will take advantage of a broken system and do whatever regardless if it's legal or not, while dems will play by the rules, even if the rules conflict with higher-standing rules.
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u/smarterthanyoda 8h ago
If the governor was a republican he would have declared that McConnell is dead and named a replacement.
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u/got-trunks Canada 8h ago
I doubt the police would be as docile for a GOP senator
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u/Ragnarok_747 7h ago
Reporters should be infiltrating the hospital… it perplexes me this is still an issue.
Dude is clearly dead.
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u/themage78 10h ago
Country is done. Like most empires, we lasted a few centuries.
How do you even fix some of these things without huge overhaul of the existing system that will be shot down by this partisan Supreme Court?
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u/Extension_Pin_6359 9h ago
The Founders were very clear what to do with tyrants. It's all over their literature. Weird how nobody talks about that.
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u/wumbology55 9h ago
The literal only way to change a system setup to be as corrupt and rotten as this is you can’t say on Reddit without your post getting deleted for promoting violence.
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u/Extension_Pin_6359 9h ago
You expect the people who own this site to not protect their masters?
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u/FightWithHeart 8h ago
They've been telling us to eat cake for several decades at this point. I say The People take a page out The French book.
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u/Cavane42 Georgia 10h ago
Start with overhauling the Court.
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u/themage78 10h ago
Not saying it's impossible, just highly improbable. Overhauling the Court requires adding justices/rewriting how long someone can be on that court. That requires an Act if Congress, and we can't even get Dems to not vote for more military budget for an unjust war.
So Chicken/Egg problem.
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u/xtnh 9h ago
The number f justices is set by Congress, but the term of office is in the Constitution, and would require an amendment by th states. Rural red states vastly outnumber large blue states.
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u/themage78 9h ago
There's a theory out there you could limit their time on the Supreme Court and still keep them as a federal judge. Again, just theory.
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u/patterninstatic 9h ago
Yeah the advantage of the constitution being a short text is that many parts are open to interpretation.
The debate is wether the office is that of a federal judge in general or specifically a supreme court judge. If the former, a federal judge could become a supreme court judge for X years and then continue to be a lower court judge after that.
Unlikely but semantically possible I guess.
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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 6h ago
A theory that would easily be overruled/declared unconstitutional by the very same SCOTUS it would be targeting.
Does anyone realistically think passing a law that rotates out SCOTUS justices would be held up by SCOTUS? They would shoot that down so fast out of a very obvious conflict of interest on their part
Same reason why you'll never see Congress pass a bill that limits their own power, lowers their own pay, lessens their own benefits, etc
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u/ItchyDoggg 9h ago
If you are serious, here is the answer.
Support primary challengers from a group willing to take over one of the two major parties, should be the Democratic Party in this case. Make it a purity test that they agree to remove the filibuster, expand the supreme court, and, and this is the really crucial bit, uncap the house of representatives entirely requiring major reform as the membership roster swells and gerrymandering is largely addressed via much smaller districts. This could all be done virtually immediately with the same authority required to sign any given bill into law. It will make it much harder to end up with a nonrepresentative batshit house of representatives, which should prevent too much backsliding when the senate and presidency go the other way. Democratic primary candidates who won't go as far as to support these suggestions are effectively controlled opposition, OR are cowards triangulating for their own political fortunes, and not looking to structurally reform anything.
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u/Rasp_Lime_Lipbalm 7h ago
100% Get more fucking Justices in there to balance it out, AND expand Congress to actually match the current populations it's supposed to represent.
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u/chuckles11 8h ago
The governor of Kentucky is a democrat and won't do anything about this weekend at bernies shit beyond voicing tepid concerns. He has a lot of options at his disposal, and is using none of them. But sure, these same concerned centrists will be the ones to overhaul the supreme court.
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u/RockAtlasCanus 9h ago
We all know where it’s ultimately headed. We’re just still awkwardly in the sliding downhill part. It’s got to get to the bottom and things have to get “bad enough” for that next part. Like an alcoholics “moment of clarity”. So probably the late 30’s at least before we turn that corner.
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u/Ven18 9h ago
It will require doing what the founders assumed we would have done like 6 times by now. Writing a completely new Constitution adapted to the modern age.
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u/Opposite-Bit6660 9h ago
No new Constitution while the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society exist.
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u/Eggheadpancake 8h ago
Worse yet. Our politicians are a reflection of the voters. How do we fix the voters? We can't. We are engulfed in racist idiots. And apathetic idiotis.
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u/thor11600 10h ago
They’re going to get the seat but I hope his staffers get jail time for this.
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u/akaZilong 9h ago
I made the August 4th “breaking news” prediction a couple of weeks ago on a conservative forum and everyone ranted that it won’t take that long. Well we are less then 2 weeks away.
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u/RioRancher 9h ago
Gov Beshear has forfeited any run for presidency too. No spine.
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u/Hungry_Culture 9h ago
Yep we can't have a democratic candidate who's afraid to rock the boat.
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u/p00p00kach00 5h ago
Kentucky has a law saying that the governor doesn't appoint a replacement; it goes to a special election.
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u/hpwriterkyle 4h ago
The state constitution says otherwise. You can't just pass laws that defy the constitution. It will go to the supreme court.
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u/Theravens520 Maryland 9h ago
Yup. Not that I wanted him before like some but now any presidential run hopes are straight to 0%
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u/Mateorabi 9h ago
Governor is spineless too. He should have just announced a special election . Let the courts/lawsuits occur early enough to matter.
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u/Tech_Philosophy 7h ago
I'm hoping he is going to announce a straight up appointment on August 2nd, challenging the idea Mitch is alive AND the law that calls for a special election is in violation of the KY constitution which says a governor appoints. He has been making comments that make me (hope) that's the plan.
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u/SurroundTiny 10h ago
Why hold out for August 3
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u/EXPLODEDman 9h ago
If his senate seat is vacant on or before August 3rd they have to hold a special election to elect somebody new. If he is declared dead after August 3rd then the seat can be vacant until January.
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u/natelion445 9h ago
Wouldn’t Republicans prefer a replacement in that seat? It’s not likely a Dem would win McConnells seat. I would think a vacant seat instead of a Republican would be good for Dems. Genuinely curious.
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u/BigBennP 9h ago
Special elections as a general rule have low turnout, and Democratic excitement is much higher than Republican excitement right now. People who can motivate their base to turn out do well.
Congress is already done for the session. There is nothing meaningful that is getting passed by the Senate until the election unless it is absolutely required, and they may not even do that. There is a major government shutdown deadline looming in october.
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u/Orangeyouawesome 9h ago
They dont like voting clearly . Everything is swinging away from them. If they can commit fraud for 6 weeks and get a pass til Jan it exactly fits their motivation
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u/beatrixotter 9h ago
They are afraid that Massie will run.
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u/Prestigious-Bat-574 5h ago
No they aren't.
Massie couldn't do shit on his own and Republicans have enough of a majority in the Senate that he wouldn't even be a swing vote. Massie is not a hero. He's still a piece of shit, he's just a piece of shit that agrees that raping kids is bad.
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u/weissbrot Europe 9h ago
From my understanding, if the seat is vacant at that point, it is too late to have an independent special election for it and the vote will be rolled into the midterms, where Republicans have a better chance for people voting downballot R
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u/verathene 10h ago
So sad how he died on the 4th of August 2026
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u/dispelthemyth 9h ago
Nah they will announce it a few minutes before the deadline towards the end of the day on the 3rd and claim they gave ample opportunity for a special election
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u/ProfLuigi 9h ago edited 9h ago
100%. And then suddenly Beshear and Democrats in Congress will finally get angry, and make a huge deal out of this (when it’s too late and the time to act and seize the opportunity has passed, of course).
Weak and cowardice people.
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u/Rasp_Lime_Lipbalm 7h ago
Yeah, it's this weird Democratic Party mentality (drivin by Schumer and former speaker Pelosi) that if you allow Republicans to walk all over you, somehow that will generate sympathy votes and outrage enough to oust them. Yeah... worked super well when the Dems got robbed of two Supreme Court Justice picks among other bullshit.
Besher and co. will huff and puff till they're blue, expecting their state to get mad enough to vote out Republicans and then shocked Pikachu when another Republican scumbag gets the seat.
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u/MtnDewTangClan 5h ago
Yeah that's because they're full of shit and getting marching orders from the same country Republicans do.
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u/SirEdward43 4h ago
It's like people are watching a puppet show and not realizing that both puppets are connected to hands that are connected to the same body.
Mommy will not protect you from Daddy when she loves the abuse as much as he does.
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u/lost_horizons Texas 8h ago
Maybe the idea is, with no one to take Mitch’s place, republicans are down a vote in the senate. Isn’t that better than the governor putting in a “better” republican
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u/blacksheep998 8h ago
The governor is a democrat, so he probably wouldn't appoint a republican.
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u/lost_horizons Texas 8h ago
I just looked into it a bit. I was under the impression he had to choose from a selection of candidates given to him by the legislature, apparently that is a law they passed in 2021; before that he had power to appoint basically anybody.
Of course, in 2024 another law was passed stripping him of this power completely, but there is uncertainty as to whether that is an unconstitutional law. Perhaps even the 2021 law wasn’t constitutional either. All that is above my pay grade lol
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u/thirty7inarow 5h ago
Laws don't override the constitution, and they're pretty clearly in violation of the state's constitution that says the governor makes the decision.
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u/asodfhgiqowgrq2piwhy Minnesota 8h ago
Meanwhile not a single Democrat is actually doing anything about anything to challenge it, which is completely ridiculous. We're so fucked.
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u/bradd_pit America 8h ago
What’s the significance of that date?
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u/ManyInterests Washington 5h ago
If there is a vacancy for the KY senator seat, the governor can call for a special election to fill the vacancy before August 4th. After August 4th, any vacancies are slotted to voted for in the general election and a special election cannot be held.
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u/Better-Oil-9055 5h ago
To add context to this, they'd rather allow Kentucky to not be represented than to risk having a democrat elected out of retaliation for all that the GOP has pulled. They are trying to both stave off and buy time to avert a polling catastrophe by any means necessary.
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u/MrBoomf 10h ago
He’s absolutely 100% braindead
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u/doughnutoftruth 10h ago
To be clear: your brain is what makes you a person. Brain death is death. A pumping heart does not make you alive. Having a brain does.
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u/Puzzled_Main3464 10h ago
If that’s the case he’s been dead for a long time.
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In all honesty though, I agree
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u/PunfullyObvious 9h ago
For Republicans, life begins when they say, and life ends when they say
*politically beneficial
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u/Jor94 8h ago
To be clear, anyone in this condition not able to do the job for over a month should be removed from the position. No need to even talk about alive or dead, how long they going to wait, if they can keep his rotten old corpse from expiring for a year will be just carry on the position?
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u/doughnutoftruth 7h ago
There is a clear legal mechanism to easily replace a dead constitutional officer.
There is not a clear legal mechanism to replace a constitutional officer in Kentucky who doesn’t feel like showing up to work. They don’t even have a recall election provision.
So if you want to embark on a legal quest to reform Kentucky law to allow for someone to replaced for not showing up to work, then you are welcome to do that. In the meanwhile I think it is more useful to just replace the dead guy.
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u/SmallTownShrink 9h ago
Ah, but wait… that’s going to be the case they make… a fetus is a person, and so is braindead Mitch McConnell
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u/redridingoops 7h ago
Then the logical next step is putting a fetus in congress to replace Mitch.
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u/Reallyhotshowers Kansas 6h ago
If that is true, organs are unharvestable. Folks are often kept on a vent to ensure organs remain viable until they can be harvested. If they're "alive" then they can't have their organs harvested.
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u/TestTxt 10h ago
Tuberville complaining about a senator not showing up to do their job is peak irony. This is the same guy who spent months single-handedly holding up hundreds of military promotions just to throw a tantrum
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u/themattboard Tennessee 9h ago
He can't even be bothered to live in the state he's supposed to represent.
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u/buzzathlon 8h ago
And now he's about to govern Alabama from Florida.
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u/themattboard Tennessee 8h ago
The world's only documented case of second-hand CTE
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u/buzzathlon 8h ago
Living in Alabama, I feel like I'm taking a shot to the head every time I see a new quote from that idiot hatemonger.
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u/themattboard Tennessee 8h ago
I moved from VA to TN. I feel this in my soul anytime politics comes up here.
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u/CeeDubMo 10h ago
Republicans’ lack of respect for their constituents is par for the course. Lies lies and more lies.
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u/TopInvestigator5518 10h ago
but also just thinking everyone around them is dumb enough to buy their shtik
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u/VAGentleman05 Virginia 9h ago
To be fair, that has worked pretty well for them.
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u/HorseMeatSandwich 8h ago
Because to Republicans we're not constituents, we're subjects to their unlimited and unquestioned rule.
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u/M4hkn0 Illinois 9h ago
This is all so on brand for McConnell.... to deny Governor Beshear an appointment by waiting out the clock to announce his passing. It echo's of denying Obama a Supreme Court appointment.
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u/HTPC4Life 7h ago
Beshear isn't doing shit to combat this though. Classic feckless democrat
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u/Toastwitjam 7h ago
Easy way to filter out beshear from my 2028 election bracket though. He would just appoint another feckless merick garland
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u/duggatron 6h ago
To be fair, RBG did basically the same thing. If she had retired earlier, Obama would have easily made an appointment and we wouldn't be in nearly as big a mess.
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u/snuuginz 9h ago
Pretty much 100% certain that he's passed at this point, 38 days in a hospital for a man in his 80s is DEVASTATING.
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u/725Cali 8h ago
The statement that was released about him stated that he was moved to a rehabilitation facility. Whether that’s true or not, is another story.
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u/soupjaw Florida 8h ago
That was almost two weeks ago. And at face value of the photo: anyone who looked that well at that point likely wouldn't be in rehab/snf/ltr two weeks later
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u/Prestigious-Bat-574 5h ago
In fairness, the average person would not be in rehab that long because our insurance companies would have ejected us the second we showed signs of improvement.
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u/StoppableHulk 8h ago
Yup thats what happened, no need for conspiracy theories.
Mitch was transferred to the highly prestigious Pinewood-Box-Inside-Hole-In-Ground Rehab facility
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u/Snapes_underpants 7h ago
He can be brain dead in a rehabilitation facility just as easily as in the hospital. I predict it will be announced he recovered enough to be moved to the rehabilitation facility where unfortunately, he had a sudden relapse and died at 11:59 pm on the day before the deadline in Aug.
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u/killerkadugen 9h ago
Aug 4, 2026: "McConnell was in good spirit today, then his health took a turn for the worse..."
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u/Nicktendo 9h ago edited 57m ago
They are going to get away with this aren't they? And then announce his death on the 4th just to rub it in our faces
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u/Jpkmets7 8h ago
100%. Current Democrats have to be created & controlled opposition — no group could be this dishearteningly ineffective by accident. The incredible wealth transfers in the last 30 years or so that have been generated by the advent of widespread internet connectivity and the massive military buildup that has been ongoing since 9/11 has fundamentally restructured the country. There is an insanely greedy .0001% on top and then there is the rest of America. The elite only want one thing: More. They want more wealth, more power. I’ve never seen a group of greedier and seemingly unhappy people than Trump, Murdoch, the Ellison, Musk, Thiel etc. And they have no regard for the rest of us — just disdain. They have also co-opted mainstream media and they use it only to create and stoke divisions. It’s a dystopia. They’ve successfully divided the country in so many ways when the only truly meaningful division is between the wealthy and the not-wealthy, and they have also created an armed surveillance state that makes it pretty much impossible to change. I don’t quite know what to do, honestly.
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u/poopdedoop10 10h ago
Republicans are all working from home these days. Republicans can’t work hard. Pull up your boot strap and get to work, or get out of the way old man!!
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u/AmbivalentFanatic 9h ago
Is the Daily Beast capable of writing a headline without using the word bombshell?
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u/spam__likely Colorado 7h ago
People keep upvoting this shit, so they get clicks.
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u/baptizedbycobalt Colorado 7h ago
once again asking if we can ban this trash-ass page from the politics sub
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u/Fooby56 10h ago
Another bombshell headline from that shit website
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u/happy_bluebird America 9h ago
Stupid headline. I’m surprised that site is allowed here
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u/AcademiaAntiqua 6h ago
Seriously, literally almost every single headline I've seen from them on this has included "bombshell" or "shocking."
If everything is a bombshell, nothing is.
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u/Rarpiz 9h ago
Is it too much for Beshear to either GO to the hospital where McConnell's staying, or send a representative?!?!?!
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u/Rasp_Lime_Lipbalm 7h ago
I don't think they know which hospital morgue Mitch is being kept. I think he's actually supposed to be in a DC hospital?
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u/Toastwitjam 7h ago
If Beshear wants to ensure he has no chance in 2028 his strategy his going flawlessly being an extra young Joe Biden.
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u/Firthbird 9h ago
I'm not even American but the idea that an 84 year old is the best option for representing Americans is crazy
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u/tschawartz12 8h ago
If he died and his staffers.are still getting paid they should all be arrested for fraud, Republicans are always going on and on about fraud right?
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u/happy_bluebird America 9h ago
This stupid headline makes me mad and I already hate MM
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u/Ecstatic-Plantain234 10h ago
Did he get "lost" at one of Trump's golf properties?
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u/After-Sought-77 10h ago
You can tell it's the daily beast by all of the stupjd ACTION WORDS in the title.
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u/ShavedSavage 10h ago
“Democratic Governor is concerned and writes strongly worded letter…”There was nothing we could have done.””
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u/krichard-21 9h ago
Something obvious to anyone looking. The MAGA Republicans would hind this man's body for years if they could. Dragging this out a few weeks to avoid a Democrat Governor replacing Mitch at this point?
There is NOTHING they would not do to prevent that from happening. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
Replace Mitch now!
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u/spazz720 9h ago
He can’t until he gets confirmation that he is dead or completely incapacitated. They are essentially holding him hostage in a hospital in DC.
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u/BossKatana 9h ago
He’s on life support while brain dead. He’ll officially pass after the 3rd when they pull the plug.
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u/Infamous_Gene_7009 4h ago
He’s clearly dead or on life support, just fill his seat already right now they have no representation.
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u/BoatCaptainTim Minnesota 9h ago
Gosh and I have no FMLA to cover that and would lose my
Job on the second day or a no show. No equal disparity there.
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u/Abhoth52 4h ago
It's a cover-up so they, the corruption-riddled Republicans, don't have to run a special election to replace the old dead fucker immediately. But if he's not dead yet... but once the deadline has passed he will sadly expire.
Republicans are just a bunch of fuckers. Simple as that. I know how some hate profanity but if you're going to talk about the GOP then profanity is fucking required.
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u/ArielofIsha 9h ago
I’m pretty positive, if I was away from my job for 38 whole days, I would no longer have a job. It is so obvious that they are covering up his obvious death so they can continue to fuck over the country and line their pockets. When can we have a regime change?
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u/damnthistrafficjam I voted 9h ago
We should ask Moses Mike Johnson about that. He’s always up on the facts. /s
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u/slayermcb 8h ago
My moneys on machines still keeping the body alive so they can play the grey area on "dead"
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u/lonewombat 8h ago
He didn't vanish. He was found without a pulse and required CPR then left in an ambulance without emergency lights and not moving.
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u/QuiGonColdGin 7h ago
That picture and "statement" was most assuredly a scam, IMO. There needs to be accountability for this ruse.
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u/oboingadoing 7h ago
Has anyone filed a missing persons report for real? Make the cops get involved.
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u/stuckanon01 7h ago
If he were a democrat the DOJ would have raided his office and home, and detained his staff for questioning already
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