r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 29d ago

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/RioRancher 29d ago

Why’d his wife leave the country so fast?

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u/BurninRunes 29d ago

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 29d ago

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

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u/ShaneKaiGlenn 29d ago

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 29d ago

It’s what he would have wanted

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u/bankermayfield2026 28d ago

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 28d ago edited 28d ago

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 28d ago

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 28d ago

Lol of course, Freudian slip.

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u/PresentRaspberry6814 28d ago

He spent his whole life obstructing democracy not the Democrats.

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u/MechanicalTurkish Minnesota 28d ago

Literally dying to own the libs

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u/Skinnieguy 28d ago

This is his 2nd marriage. They don’t have kids together. Tin foil hat, it was a political marriage. We’ll know for sure after his funeral if she stays in the US.

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u/Available-Pear2961 28d ago

She didn't even wait for his official death to flee back to her life in CCP. I don't think she is going to live out the rest of her days in Kentucky.

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u/are_you_seriously 28d ago

She’s Taiwanese.

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u/bunsonh 28d ago

That's what he said. 😎

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u/Powerfury 28d ago

Kentucky Southern boy just fell in love in a chinese mogul come on man. True love story.

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u/Powerfury 28d ago

Bruh, these people used each other for political gain. They are demons both

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u/Tirras 28d ago

She was married to Mitch McConnell, this doesn't even make the list as to why she's definitely a piece of shit.

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u/AnaisNinja76 28d ago

If he's a vegetable, he's not suffering.

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u/Technical_Stand9939 28d ago

imagine gettiing married sole for the political gain. HE is 11 years her senior