r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • Jul 07 '26

No Paywall Unconfirmed Reports: Mitch McConnell Brain Dead After Three Weeks In Hospital

https://thenewamerican.com/us/unconfirmed-reports-mitch-mcconnell-brain-dead-after-three-weeks-in-hospital/
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u/BurninRunes Jul 07 '26

I've heard 2 theories.

  1. Her job is finished now that he isn't in power anymore.

  2. By leaving she makes it harder to pull him off life support as unless he changed his medical POA then only she has the right to do it.

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u/NocturnaIAnimaI Jul 07 '26

It's likely 2. She'll return after the 3rd when the special election deadline passes, conveniently

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u/ShaneKaiGlenn Jul 07 '26

Good grief, imagine how gross you have to be to purposely let your spouse suffer as a vegetable for political reasons.

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u/BarbarianDwight Jul 07 '26

It’s what he would have wanted

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u/bankermayfield2026 Jul 07 '26

This isn’t even a joke. This is literally what he would’ve wanted, and I wouldn’t be shocked if he explicitly told his wife to do this if he were to become braindead.

He wouldn’t want his death to help Dems. He spent his whole life obstructing them.

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u/avantgardengnome New York Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

He regarded the stonewalling of the SCOTUS replacement for Alito Scalia as the peak of his political career, there’s contemporary reporting of him talking gleefully about it. Being able to do a similar thing one more time is exactly what he would have wanted. Ceding his senate seat to a Democrat would be such sweet poetic justice, though.

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u/BarbarianDwight Jul 07 '26

Scalia. Alito is unfortunately still on the bench and making some of Scalia’s opinions seem sane.

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u/avantgardengnome New York Jul 07 '26

Lol of course, Freudian slip.

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u/PresentRaspberry6814 Jul 07 '26

He spent his whole life obstructing democracy not the Democrats.

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u/MechanicalTurkish Minnesota Jul 07 '26

Literally dying to own the libs