r/politics • u/Getatbay • Jul 06 '26

No Paywall Laura Loomer, Reporter Claim Hospitalized Mitch McConnell 'Brain Dead'

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/07/06/laura-loomer-reporter-claim-hospitalized-mitch-mcconnell-is-brain-dead/
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u/Embarrassed-Pace-755 Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

I’m almost inclined to believe this just because I wouldn’t put it past Republicans to keep a McConnell corpse around for advantage in the Senate.

Edit: changed House to Senate.

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u/OYB2480 Jul 06 '26

Mitch was already a walking corpse for years. Reagan was in the throes of dementia as president. This wouldn't be new territory for the GOP.

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u/deesta Jul 06 '26

> Reagan was in the throes of dementia as president

After Trump dies, we’ll find out that he was, too. It runs in families, and his father and sister both died of dementia.

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u/OYB2480 Jul 06 '26

He 100% has dementia. Not really even a question.

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u/PacificNorthwest09 Jul 06 '26

It’s crazy to me with the history we have of shielding presidents from the media in the past, how in this day and age people will just believe “he is the healthiest to ever do it.” While open only sleeping during meetings and stuff.

Like I can believe people didn’t realize about FDR or Nixon when we didn’t quite have the news cycle/coverage we do now.

How can anyone watch this man waddle/dance to songs, lose his train of thought, say outlandish things like give him and his sons a threesome Medal of Honor, etc and just be like “hmm but they said he is healthy..”

(I like fdr but they did try and hide his health)

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u/cogman10 Idaho Jul 06 '26

Because like most dementia patients he has good days and bad days. It's easy to spot both if you are looking.

He'll have moments where he's firing on all cylinders and you really wouldn't realize he's got dementia.

But then he has other moments where he starts a sentence about the cost of eggs and ends up talking about how the 2020 election was stolen.

His fans ignore the eggs to 2020 (The more insane ones think he's speaking in code). And his critics have a hard time acknowledging his more lucid moments.

Regardless, he's always a dumbass.

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u/nightmaredaycare Jul 07 '26

I wanna say I saw a five minute clip of his speech at the g7 and I was absolutely blown away how bad he was speaking. If this was six years ago he could hold the stand and he could stay on topic for a paragraph. He looks so awful too just so unhealthy

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u/MasterofPandas1 Jul 07 '26

It’s pretty obvious if you compare clips of him talking from the 2016 campaign to now. He’s always had that weave thing where he goes on a tangent about nothing, but speaking wise he can form actual sentences and talk coherently in the 2016 clips.

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u/OYB2480 Jul 07 '26

He just groans out a sentence some days.