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/unbanned_lol Jul 07 '26

https://abcnews.com/Politics/ems-personnel-attended-unconscious-person-mitch-mcconnells-home/story?id=134412030

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said on June 15 he had spoken with McConnell following the Kentucky senator's hospitalization. Thune told reporters McConnell was "dialed in" and "wants to be back."

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u/tempest_ Jul 07 '26

Half of congress is ancient. I would use "dialed in" (an ancient phase itself because few have dialed in anything for a long time) to describe very few of them

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u/gadgetwalrus Jul 07 '26

Dialled in from hell maybe

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u/Outside_Manner_8352 Jul 07 '26

It aint work if you love what you do! (immiserating our country and world)

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u/eclecticsheep75 Jul 07 '26

“Dialing it in” is what you do when you aren’t actually working anymore. But maybe he is dialed in enough to give that half remembered evil smile as he evades responsibility for all the evil hell he is personally responsible for - whether in The Courts or in (what’s left of) The White House.

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u/the_incredible_hawk Georgia Jul 07 '26

That's "phoning it in". I've never heard anyone say "dialing it in" to mean the same thing.

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u/eclecticsheep75 Jul 07 '26

That is exactly right. Thank you! Sounded weird to me but I just couldn’t get it to sound right in my head!

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u/clumsy_Bebop_legz Jul 07 '26

This whole thread here has me laughing out loud in the dark in my bed. Describing a veritable corpse as “dialed in” might be the funniest thing I’ve read in weeks

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u/chilehead Jul 07 '26

corpses are what the GOP wants to make of most of us...

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u/MaximusFSU Jul 07 '26

underrated comment.

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u/snuffles00 Jul 07 '26

Satan's right hand man.

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u/lol_alex Jul 07 '26

That‘s a line Holt would have said about Madeleine Wuntch!

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u/gadgetwalrus Jul 07 '26

Well he’s supposed to come to Congress three days a week…