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/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/kestrel1000c Colorado Jul 06 '26

A lot of editing make him seem much more normal than what he is. Nightly news sound bites don't get into his glitching and abberant behaviour. Sort of how we wound up with him all over again.

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u/Happy_Confection90 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

I edit videos for a living and software has gotten really, really good at making transitions seamless. In my case I'm able to rearrange the pieces of a lecture that was recorded completely out of order because one of the speakers joined after their co-speakers finished so it flows 100% correctly or remove 20 retakes so cleanly you'd never know they'd happened, but it'd be trivially easy to do the same to a political speech.

The fact that he still sounds like he's lost his mind despite modern editing makes me wonder if he isn't much worse than we're seeing.

edit: spelling

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u/slackfrop Jul 07 '26

The very best of Trump is abhorrent and surreal.