Journalists float astonishing theory around silence surrounding Mitch McConnell’s health

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.

This statement is truthful if you know McConnell.

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.

And republicans have no shame or morals so they would absolutely do something like that.

To the point it wouldn't be shocking if he made it part of his will

"I thought i already got him?? Must have forgotten to visit."

He's a Republican. He's been brain-dead all his life.

Hopefully, he's conscious and in horrible pain and they're keeping him alive with all sorts of fucked up shit.

He hasn't been fit for anything in years, physically or mentally.

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.

Truth needs to be found then told to all so seat can be challenged

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.

Hey hey, be fair, he stole two supreme court seats. The third was pretty solidly in the middle of Trump's term.

I'm voting for the Prometheus ending.

On repeat. Every day. Forever.

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.

They need to add at least 2 more now. That article is old.

I wouldn't stop with his ribs

She speaks from experience.

It is exceedingly difficult for a medical professional to differentiate between brain death and just being a republican representative.

But he's always been brain dead.

Yes, but what about his current state?

Takes one to know one.

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.

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In Kentucky the governor no longer has any role in filling vacancies, replacement is only by special election: https://apnews.com/article/kentucky-legislature-governor-f4d0ab8ffaec1a435ac52515c67d8f0e

He may have been elected for another job, but the jobs he was paid for was to screw the average family for generations and destroy democracy.

In practice, the local pd would get shoed away by federal security before they got anywhere near the turtle's room.

Feel sorry for the regular nurses that have to work the floor and keep silent about it. They probably forced them to sign NDAs with massive damages for disclosing the truth.

The problem is the integrity of the people doing the wellness check

They would freeze him and say "not technically dead yet" given the opportunity.

Conservatism is ultimately an exercise in collective selfishness. One subset of the population decides, "we're going to vote together to give ourselves special rights and privileges and suppress everyone else." Everything else is just window dressing. Progressives actually try and believe in real principles, which is why you don't see such rat fucking behavior. If you're ultimately at least trying to be a good person, winning through cheating kind of takes the fun out of it.

The conservative movement and their party is just full of awful scheming dirtbags.

When conservative voters make it clear they have no standards the worst of the worst of our society know they can move in and setup shop.

This is all on braindead amoral bigoted conservative voters.

We'll have to ask the Supreme Court...

Ahh, 5 to 4, huh?

The primary elections for the normal election cycle have already happened. Massie did not run for a Senate seat in those because he ran for his House seat, and lost.

This special election would be a different electio under different rules, and now that he knows he's not going to his old seat he is available to run.

So, if they delay, they leave no opportunity for that special election, and Massie has nothing to run for. It definitely seems fitting that Republicans would scheme to leave a seat vacant, rather than there be a chance of it going to a Republican that Trump doesn't like.

There is no justice or rule of law or single truth in this world anymore so yea he should go for it

Lol, no.

I mean yeah, it's the weakness party. They're afraid of women, afraid of melanin, and of course very proudly afraid of God.

No, the GOP loved Mitch. He's a big reason they have the power that they do today. He was willing to always be that guy behind the scenes keeping things in line and doing the unthinkable just for the power. He set the record for longest time refusing to confirm a supreme court justice because it was a democratic pick. Then he turned around and also set the record for fastest confirmation when in the opposite situation. His party loved him.

North Dakota elected a man who died of covid in 2020 a month after his death. GOP dont vote with their brains. They look for GOP and vote for that. Its like a rat learning to push the red button.

A sane GOP?

even a sane GOP voter

Read that aloud. 😉

who the fuck keeps voting for him him ?

Conservatives, I mean Regressives, I mean traitors.

SCOTUS be like: "Are we talking democrats ore republicans here?"

Ironically, the law that specifically was put in place to deal with this exact scenario was put in place in 2024 because the KY legislature didn't want a Democrat governor appointing McConnell's replacement. So they're cheating both ways, and changing the laws to suit themselves. Typical Repuglicunt things

“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.”

According to Kentucky election law, independent candidates have until “the second Tuesday in August preceding the regular election” to file to run in the case of a vacancy that occurs after the state’s June filing deadline.

Massie lost the primary last month, in June, for the Kentucky house seat. He is not eligible to run in the standard election coming up as he did not file before June to run for McConnell’s position since you can’t run for two positions at once.

If McConnell is dead or incapable of holding office, a special election will be held and Massie could make a play for his position.

If he is declared dead with less than 3 months to go before the standard election they will just leave his seat vacant until that time.

So basically they are buying time until the 2nd Tuesday in August to block Massie from running.

Well, now he’s unconscious and brain dead according to Loomer and has been the past 3 weeks. His party is allegedly keeping him on life support to obstruct an emergency vote to replace him as they would loose the majority.

He didn’t previously retire because he’s always been a piece of shit who loved obstruction and slowing everything to a crawl. In addition to his looks, this is why people frequently refer to him as a turtle.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/28/2226395/news/The-17-worst-things-Mitch-McConnell-did-to-destroy-democracy/

Tell them that. Pretty sure they’re not above lying and covering it up.

What's the August 2nd date about? Do we check yearly whether a senator is dead or something?