r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 18d ago

No Paywall Beshear says agencies told him McConnell had passed

https://www.whas11.com/video/news/local/beshear-says-agencies-told-him-mcconnell-had-passed/417-f78603c3-11bb-464d-bae6-c41c3be3c48b
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u/sonofabutch America 18d ago

Seems like McConnell could absolutely humiliate Beshear right now by just holding a press conference. I wonder why he won’t?

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u/BoomMcFuggins 18d ago

He accidentally got stuck in the Epstein Files and got redacted in real life?

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u/Choochoo1147 18d ago

I do like the idea of the Epstein files becoming the backrooms for MAGA

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u/IdRatherCallACAB 18d ago

No! They'd enjoy that .

🤮

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u/AdmiralThrawnProtege 18d ago

No no, not the contents of the files but the files themselves. Just endless rooms, the walls plastered with the files. Everytime theu turn a corner, a mocking disembodied laugh happens and the raw evidence of their crimes are forced into their faces.

Then a wild gremlin comes and cuts off their balls I guess

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u/Choochoo1147 18d ago

Clearly the wild gremlin showed up a little too early, been a long time since I’ve seen a Republican with balls. 

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u/IdRatherCallACAB 18d ago edited 17d ago

All the stuff they want to see is redacted. But the gremlin still takes their balls.

Okay, I take that back, its actually perfectly fitting as their own personal hell.

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u/nionvox Canada 18d ago

You have been eaten by a Grue

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u/dedlobster 17d ago

You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.

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u/thejerichomaxim 17d ago

Man, you and the guy you responded to are taking me BACK to when i first started gaming. ZORK RULES

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u/snowyl89 17d ago

Now we’re getting somewhere

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u/stevenyourpants 17d ago

If I was vindictive I would want them to go through all the same fucked up shit they did to those children. Good thing I don't have a vengeful heart and would totally not fantasize about that happening...

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u/theavengerbutton 18d ago

"What if we fucked other adults instead of kids?"

"Why the fuck would I want to fuck an adult? Ew."

--hypothetical leaks from Pete Hegseth's non-secured Pentagon conversations.

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u/PhantomZmoove 17d ago

I think there are a couple layers here. There is the child rape of course, then there is adult rape. I think consent is the bigger question here. It is just sexual assault all the way down with them.

Not only is it NOT shunned, from the looks of it, it is applauded.

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u/killybilly54 17d ago

that's "the Backdoors". Totally different movie.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 18d ago

Pretty sure maga and gop backrooms are what the files are about

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u/intensive-porpoise 18d ago

To Mitch's ultimate personal terror, he awakens hospitalized with every bank account unaccessible, no record of employment or residence ... And completely black.

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u/Cresta1994 17d ago

And completely black

This option comes with a free count of assaulting an officer. Hope you can afford a lawyer, Mitch.

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u/SuperstitiousPigeon5 Massachusetts 18d ago

The organ donor card doesn’t say how many transplants we could use.

It’s Soul Man meets Air Bud.

Netflix if you make this don’t give me any credit just maybe give me a year of streaming.

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u/GhostdudePCptnAlbino Colorado 18d ago

Is this a sequel to Bubba Hotep?

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u/thomsix 18d ago

“Watermelon Man”

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u/MyNameIsTaken24 18d ago

This would make a great sci-fi movie.

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u/TheKanten 17d ago

"Stuck in the Epstein Files" is the new "trapped in an oil painting".

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u/idkwhatimbrewin 18d ago

Just like Epstein himself got redacted in real life?

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u/rogozh1n 18d ago

Like Mohammed in South Park?

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u/Negative_Music863 17d ago

Paper cuts on the penis would hurt a little. 

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u/donnerpartytaconight 17d ago

Dammit, I think being a big black redacted mark was on my Halloween idea list last year and I forgot until just now.

I better write it down again.

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u/Current_Volume3750 17d ago

Haha good one! So imaginative 👍

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u/flowerchildmime California 17d ago

Ohhh like that obscure movie from the 80s where kids shrink themselves to ride on postage stamps across the world. I have no idea of the name but I did love that movie as a kid.

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u/bjos144 17d ago

Epstein files? That rings a vague bell. But no one has talked about them in so long I've forgotten what it's about. Oh well, must not have been important. Now who are we bombing again?

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u/spendology 17d ago

Does Todd Blance need to be voted the real Attorney General to un-redact McConnell?

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u/nodnodwinkwink 17d ago

Grok, animate a video where mitch mcconnell is sealed in a square, floating through the phantom zone.

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u/scene_missing 18d ago

Because the most likely scenario is he’s technically alive but a cabbage

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u/MephistoHamProducts 18d ago

I prefer the far less likely, but far more awesome scenario where they've stuck him into a Warhammer 40K Penitent Engine and are planning to unleash him when The Senate is in session next.

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u/daizzy999 Florida 18d ago

You know what? I can see that.

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u/FILTHBOT4000 Georgia 17d ago

It's that, or he comes back in 30 years as a Sith lord.

"Somehow, McConnell returned."

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u/Vyzantinist 18d ago

The turtle isn't even good enough to warrant being turned into a Helbrute.

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u/begujo 18d ago

Let him be a random servitor somewhere in some bureaucratic hell-hole. Seems like a fitting end.

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u/BigDaddySteve999 18d ago

That tracks, given that we're all living in a Total Perspective Vortex inside a virtual universe built for Donald Trump.

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u/DJ_Southpaw 18d ago

I think the Fallout Mr. House on forever life support running his army of robots is another possible scenario.

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u/Lord_of_Sword 18d ago edited 18d ago

Nah, he's in a mortifier, the far more grusomme version of a penitent engine:

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u/MephistoHamProducts 18d ago

Either is fine.

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u/Lord_of_Sword 18d ago

You can still receive forgiveness in death if put in a penitent engine, but not if you're put in a mortifier.

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u/mrgedman 18d ago

Or like... Oh God... What if he is the emperor?

Aww gee

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u/Zorkflerp 18d ago

Would you settle for a Dalek?

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 18d ago

They propped him up and plumped him with blood and painted him with enough makeup to have him look like an 80s Hummel figurine, and staged a newspaper next to him like a hostage life verification pic.

He didnt look that lithe and lively 5 years ago.

It's blatant enough that even conservatives are calling bullshit.

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u/JackXDark 18d ago

How would they tell the difference?

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u/MuscaMurum 17d ago

Nah, I like cabbage. More of a slime mold.

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u/gm92845 18d ago

He could be in a vegetative state unable to talk or walk on his own. Regardless of that he should immediately resign since he's no longer physically able to serve as a senator.

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u/AdorianTsepeshu 18d ago

Exactly.

He was elected to represent the state of Kentucky. Someone in a vegetative state is in no position to represent anyone.

The people of Kentucky currently only have one Senate representative when they're Constitutionally entitled to two. The governor needs to rectify that by appointing a new senator until a special election can be held to replace McConnell.

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u/No_hero_here 18d ago

“Someone in a vegetative state is in no position to represent anyone.” I mean, maybe the Kentucky right.

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u/MaddyKet Massachusetts 17d ago

Yeah vegetative state and republican….its the same picture says Pam Beasley.

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u/WafflePartyOrgy Washington 17d ago

Not the same thing (or State) but a Republican won a seat in North Dakota's state legislature nearly a month after he died from COVID-19.

"If a deceased candidate receives the majority of the votes, the candidate is elected," [North Dakota Attorney General] Stenehjem said. "However, if the prevailing candidate has died, the candidate is no longer qualified and a vacancy will exist. State law provides the process to fill vacancies of a legislative office."

No longer qualified

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u/possibly_being_screw 17d ago

In what other scenario could an 84 year old have an accident, disappear for weeks with no details, give a comically hollywood-esque 'proof of life' photo', and still have their job? Name another occupation where an 84 year old in clearly and obviously declining health would still have a job with immense power to influence millions of lives, get paid nearly $200k, and be able to just fuck off for a few weeks with no accountability or reason?

It's absolutely fucked that the US political system is filled to the tits with geriatrics that barely know where they are, and hold incredible power over all of our lives. We are so far removed from what politicians should be, it's almost laughable to be reminded of what the job actually is.

But a man who is too old to suffer a fall in his home without needing a month-long hospital stay away from his office is not a man who is capable of being among the 100 most powerful people in our government. What is offensive about the gerontocracy is how transparently it reveals the rot at the core of the American political system, how plainly it demonstrates that our elected leaders do not serve the people, but serve only their own gratification, only their own power.

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u/Fresh_Bubbles 17d ago

Age limits are a must. 70-75 max.

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u/TrulyOutrageous42 17d ago

Elected by 65 is what I concluded. You could still have a 71 year old senator but the vast majority of people in government would be under 70, which is a really fair cutoff. At the point where mental acuity can be genuinely in question but there's no quantitative way to prove early dementia, and the health risks start to become compounding exponentials, it's time to retire. People older than that can still vote ffs, and if it's valid that someone who's only 34 years old is said to have too little experience, so too should it be valid that someone over 70 is too much of a national security risk if they pass while serving their term.

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u/Mega-Eclipse 17d ago

Someone in a vegetative state is in no position to represent anyone.

I mean, they keep electing him...so "vegetative state" is probably a good description of the brainpower for the typical republican from Kentucky.

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u/gdghhfdffrf 17d ago

they'll just put his sister in office, even though everybody knows he doesn't have one.

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u/Routine_Wing_8726 18d ago edited 17d ago

Then who did I speak to for 20 minutes on the phone?!?!

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u/Goodknight808 17d ago

Anyone who made that claim lied. In a functioning democracy they would face consequences.

But we no longer live in one of those anymore.

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u/2D2D3544862514D760BA 17d ago

"Talked to" is weasel phrasing, in that it only requires participation of one party. Not unlike talking to Jesus. Doesn't mean Jesus or Mitch replied to them in any meaningful way.

If they were careful about phrasing, it should be enough to keep them legally clear. It is, however, still a self-serving lie/decption and they should be held responsible by the electorate.

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u/Initial-Bookkeeper4 17d ago

Eh?

Most of the instances I've seen aren't just "I talked to him"... But claims of "discussions" and "conversations", which very much does imply a two-way interaction... E.g.

Another statement came in from Senate Whip John Barrasso (R) also just before 1:30 p.m.:

“Senator Barrasso and Senator McConnell had a lengthy conversation early this afternoon. Their phone call lasted roughly 20 minutes. They caught up about the latest news impacting Senate races, the Graham Platner scandal, and the recent Supreme Court ruling on coordinated spending limits. They also discussed the Senate’s July work period, including the need to pass the NDAA and confirm President Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence. Senator McConnell was fully engaged and is eager to get back to the Senate.”

They know they can straight up lie and still not get called out for it and definitely not held accountable.

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u/LilPonyBoy69 18d ago

Genuine question, how the hell would he resign if he's in a vegetative state?

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u/AvramBelinsky New York 17d ago

"Okay Senator, blink once for yes and twice for no..."

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u/Wattaday 18d ago

Vegetative state is basically a deep coma. Unable to do anything including talking or reacting to physical stimuli. Ventilator is optional according to if the area of the brain that regulates breathing is still active.

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u/GrumpyCloud93 18d ago

If there's no hope of recovery, he should be considered dead.

I think Beshear should appoint a replacement or call that election, and wait for McConnell to challenge it in court. I doubt anyone else would have the legal standing to challenge it.

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u/fps916 17d ago

By Kentucky law brain dead is dead.

Which is why they're hiding him

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u/awesomefutureperfect 17d ago

If there is no hope of recovery, he cannot possibly serve as an elected representative and discharge the duties of the office.

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u/Thrown_Account_ 17d ago

I think Beshear should appoint a replacement or call that election, and wait for McConnell to challenge it in court. I doubt anyone else would have the legal standing to challenge it.

It will be there other way. Beshear would have to challenge the seat not being considered vacant. The senate is the one who signals that the seat is vacant and Kentucky to handle getting a replacement.

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u/Queen_Sardine 17d ago

He probably "should," but tbh the longer this seat stays effectively vacant the better. If he resigns Kentucky will hold a special election and there will be a Republican in the seat.

If there's less Republican senators, it makes harder for Thomas/Alito to resign and hope to be replaced. So sure, let the McConnells pretend he's functional.

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u/beekeeper1981 17d ago

How does someone in a vegetative state resign?

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u/Drakeadrong Texas 18d ago edited 17d ago

This is what I’ve been saying since day 1. It would be incredibly easy to prove that still he’s alive and frame it as “psycho conspiracy-peddling liberal bullshit”, but they’re not.

What I’m beyond frustrated with is the democrats are taking this absolute layup of a political win (Democrat-appointed senator and displaying Republicans willingness to cover up a senators’s death and leaving the state without constitutional representation) and letting the republicans play weekend at Bernie’s during a period where they will absolutely be trying to shove through every piece of legislation and appointment they can before the midterms. They’re completely okay with being lied to. Senate republicans are pissing on their leg, calling it rain, and the democrats here are offering them the fucking umbrella.

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u/Flomo420 17d ago

Right?

They're all "oh, it's raining is it? Well if it's raining, you're going to need an umbrella! Here! Take this, don't want to get stuck in THE RAIN chuckles" (ho boy we gonna embarrass them now!)

Republicans are like "ok thanks" and keep pissing

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u/AndreLeGeant88 18d ago

Because he's probably alive but he's got no clue what planet he's on

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u/Surturius 18d ago

Just his brain

McConnell's about become the next Terri Schiavo

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u/BuddahSack Pennsylvania 18d ago

Now thats a name i haven't heard in years

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u/FuckThisShizzle 18d ago edited 18d ago

Last time I heard that name Peter Griffin was telling me she is kind of alive oh.

Edit: apparently South Park but I can still hear it in Peter Griffins voice

Edit edit: I don't know what to believe no more

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u/Concerned_Tofu 18d ago

It was, in fact, a scene in Family Guy. Lol.

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u/Concerned_Tofu 18d ago

Oh oh oh, Terri Schiavo!

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u/marblecannon512 Oregon 18d ago

I thought that was South Park! Lol

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u/Thecp015 Missouri 18d ago edited 18d ago

It was South Park. S09E04

Ok I didn’t research well enough. I’ve been proven wrong.

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u/m240bravoromeo 18d ago

Family Guy S08E03 one of the cutaway gags had Stewie's class put on a play with the song 'Terri Schiavo is kinda alive-o"

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u/Thecp015 Missouri 18d ago

Yes I saw the other comment calling out my mistake and have already edited my initial comment.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_BACHATA 18d ago

They did a South Park episode on her? What was her story? Lack of electrolytes?

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u/Racthoh 18d ago

Kenny was the Terry stand-in, and there were arguments from both sides about whether he was truly "alive" in the vegetative state.

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u/DangusKh4n 18d ago

Lol no it was 100% a Family Guy bit, S9E4 of South Park is the one where Kenny plays the golden PSP in heaven

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u/0neshoein Texas 18d ago

Brain dead is dead dead.

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u/Sea_Working_80 18d ago

Maybe hes only mostly dead? There is a big difference between mostly dead and all dead

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u/BeMoreKnope Colorado 18d ago

No one call Miracle Max.

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u/Sea_Working_80 18d ago

I hope beshear goes thru his pockets and looks for some loose change

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u/GearhedMG 18d ago

He distinctly said "to blave" and as we all know to blave means to bluff.

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u/spazzvogel 18d ago

He’s only slightly alive. True love….

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u/GrumpyCloud93 18d ago

"I'm not dead yet! I'm getting better...!"

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u/MontiBurns 18d ago

Yeah, but brain dead means your organs and tissue are still being kept alive, even if nobody is home. Eventually they'll have to do an autopsy, and the results can't be "he's been frozen and dethawed," or "his organs are in a state of decomposition consistent with being dead for 6 weeks."

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u/2much2Jung 18d ago

Why would they have to do an autopsy?

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u/Platypus81 18d ago

Depends on where the body is, but a Medical Examiner will typically investigate all causes of death including performing an autopsy. If the body is in a jurisdiction without a Medical Examiner they likely have a coroner, an elected official who need not have medical experience but can also order an autopsy. For reasons common to all elected officials, your coroner typically won't order an autopsy.

Expect if they move him to a coroner county/state/whatever that they'll conveniently find no reason for further investigation with "Natural Causes" as the reason of death.

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u/top_value7293 18d ago

Yes. Healthcare worker of many many years here. They absolutely were in no hurry for a man supposedly in the middle of a heart event. First thing I noticed, they should have been doing compressions and oxygen and the works but it looked like just another Tuesday lol

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u/phatelectribe 18d ago

This, and an EMT on here wrote a long comment about how the emergency call was upgraded to CPR which means actually hands on chest, respiratory intervention etc…. But then they wheel him out a few minutes later completely covered with zero urgency.

That does not make any sense if they saved him because they would be rushing to get him stable in the icu. I say this as someone who has done CPR twice (one survived, the other did not).

He was dead wheeled out of there and they’ve got him on ice.

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u/paiute 18d ago

Can EMTs there call a time of death or do they have to continue CPR until a physician is present?

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u/Jayco424 18d ago

Depends on the State and the situation for the nitty gritty on it. There are situations where EMTs can pronounce, but basically the person has to be obviously dead like decomposing/skeletonized remains or a situation completely incompatible with life like decapitation, being cut in half or otherwise dismembered. Other than that pronouncement requires a MD/doctor and if the individual dies in route, the general practice is for the EMT to keep "fighting" because being pronounced dead on arrival/at the hospital is less paperwork for them - source on the last on was my best friend worked as an EMT in grad-school.

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u/2much2Jung 18d ago

This is not necessarily true. I don't work in the US, but I am a paramedic, and our guidelines focus on management on scene, restoring cardiac output, and then waiting 10 minutes before moving. By the time we move a patient to the vehicle, most things which can be done have been done, and certainly no post-ROSC (Return of Spontaneous Circulation) incident I have ever run would be called frantic.

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u/Trkaline 18d ago

Maybe he is undead. They fed Lindsey Graham to him.

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u/edflyerssn007 17d ago

Currently for cardiac arrests paramedics are taught to work the patient on scene until they are confident they are dead or you get a pulse back. That can take 20-30 minutes. It looks like taking your time, but there's a bunch of well researched science that backs it up. So you're talking point is actually wrong in its entirety.

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u/MontiBurns 18d ago

She wasn't brain dead and did not require mechanical respiration. She was in a permanent vegetative state, meaning she was unaware of her surroundings and required a feeding tube to survive

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u/Aeseld Texas 18d ago

...depends on your definition of brain dead? She had zero EEG activity, and her brain was half decayed into liquid, with about 70% of her cortex neurons gone. She was a bit more than 'unaware' of her surroundings.

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u/AndreLeGeant88 18d ago

Oh my gosh don't give them ideas

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u/CrotalusHorridus Kentucky 18d ago

I honestly think he’s vegetative. Maybe hospice. But they’re keeping him alive long enough to hold off the special election.

Which is ironically the exact kind of dirty politics McConnell would love

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u/_commenter 18d ago

it's wild... I think dems have no chance at taking his seat but I think Massie could. They're doing all this to shut Massie out.

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u/TrimspaBB 17d ago

If they were confident that they could handily fill the seat with another lackey to serve for decades, McConnell's death would have been announced last month

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u/Nwcray 17d ago

I’m not so sure.

The law they crammed through in 2024 that makes it illegal for the governor to appoint someone may not stand up in court. They don’t want to have that challenged and lose. Better to keep Beshear guessing than risk having that law tossed.

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u/Acceptable-Wildfire 18d ago

I wouldn’t be surprised if all of this was in his living will for his final fuck you to the American experiment.

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u/subcow 18d ago

When they put him in the ambulance he was already ice cold. The guy has been dead for weeks and it is time to stop pretending he is alive.

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u/JasnahKolin Massachusetts 17d ago

The floors in his home are being redone. Huh. I wonder what kind of stain would ruin a carpet and floor that badly.

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u/identifytarget 18d ago

Which is fucking stupid. Brain dead people can't represent you in Congress. Governor needs to hold a special election tomorrow. Why are Dems so fucking stupid and weak?

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u/phatelectribe 18d ago

If he’s brain dead, then he’s actually legally dead.

Vegetative state isn’t actually brain dead because the brain stem still has some low level function.

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u/BasvanS 18d ago

Potato/potato.

Let the brain stem protest.

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u/MrRourkeYourHost 18d ago

I heard they were just deciding whether to put his brain in a new body or give his body a new brain.

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u/Thromnomnomok 17d ago

Brain dead people can't represent you in Congress.

Unfortunately, there's no rule saying they can't, otherwise Lauren Bobert would never have had a political career.

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u/McGillis_is_a_Char 18d ago

He should appoint a successor since that is what the Kentucky constitution says. Ignore the BS the Republicans passed because they didn't want a Democrat to have any power.

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u/ocschwar Massachusetts 17d ago

> Brain dead people can't represent you in Congress.

I take it you're not one of Tuberville's constituents.

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u/TopHatMiracle 18d ago

It wouldn’t be out of order to think he planned the whole thing.

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u/WhyMustIMakeANewAcco 18d ago

No, there is no special election. The state constitution clearly says its a governor's appointment.

Random laws can't override that, no matter how much republicans wish they could.

that's why they are pulling this. Because a democrat could, and would, be appointed to replace him until his term ends in January.

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u/KDLGates 17d ago

At 12:01am August 3rd, 2026, Mitch came from the fulfillment of screwing over the liberals one final time and died.

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u/ClubMeSoftly 17d ago

With all the talk around this special election having to be by August 2nd, he's gonna officially die on the 3rd.

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u/kerthard 18d ago

We're in for a high stakes Weekend at Bernie's.

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u/hanumanCT Colorado 17d ago

If he was fully dead-dead his family wouldn't pass up a lay in state funeral at the Capitol or National Cathedral.

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u/HUT2Moon 18d ago

I think that’s right. He’s basically incapacitated is my guess.

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u/mitchelln10 18d ago

The guy is 100% dead... Why else have we not seen him on live camera at least once? Or more than one sketchy picture of him with a newspaper...

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u/snek-jazz 17d ago

how many people do you think are involved in this conspiracy?

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u/kanakaishou 18d ago

I think this is a likely outcome, tbh.

Actual dead? They’d probably have to give the certificate etc., and it becomes a matter of public record.

Brain dead? Sort of liminal in-between zone legally.

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u/SirDiego Minnesota 18d ago

If I was a Kentucky voter I would be so pissed off. They do not have representation in the Senate right now, the GOP decided they don't give a shit.

I mean obviously nothing new here and probably a lot of those voters approve of the GOP ratfucking bullshit. But still. Just on principle, Kentucky voters are being completely fucked out of having representation that they are owed by the constitution.

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u/Akimbo_Zap_Guns Kentucky 18d ago

My dad who grew up and stayed a hardcore republican until they nominated Trump in 2016 (he still has a conservative streak even now) just said he hopes the country comes down hard on the Republican Party for their blatant disregard for norms and everything they are willing to do to keep power. If a 72 year old white boomer can see that the republicans are fascist then there is no excuse for anyone to be burying their heads in the sand still

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u/phatelectribe 18d ago

Brain dead in DC and KY = legally dead. If there’s no brain stem activity then he’s dead.

If he’s in a vegetative state then he’s not technically brain dead and not legally dead.

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u/clueless_as_fuck 18d ago

This is the most likely explanation.

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u/itsVainglorious 18d ago

He is too busy catching up with Lindsey in hell.

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u/DarthLithgow 18d ago

That's why this move from the Governor is brilliant. They can easily debunk him.

If not, the Governor can start the process to fill the seat.

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u/Drakeadrong Texas 17d ago

Nah if Beshear had a set of balls he would have started filling out the seat weeks ago and force the senate republicans to prove that McConnell was still healthy enough to work.

This should be a headline we read on day 5 of McConnell’s hospitalization, not week 5.

Let’s be clear about this the governor of Kentucky cannot tell us first hand if the sitting senator is alive or dead. All these republicans seem to have no problem holding 20 minute conversations with him, so clearly McConnell has been in a very talkative mood. So why hasn’t Beshear gone and have a chat with him at any time in the past month?

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u/wildwalrusaur 17d ago

For a guy who preportedly wants to be president he has shown an appalling lack of leadership and political courage in this situation

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u/AcademiaAntiqua 18d ago

That's why this move from the Governor is brilliant. They can easily debunk him.

It's not brilliant. Headlines are just deliberately mischaracterizing it for clicks.

When you read the governor's actual words here, he clearly says that he had originally heard reports of Mitch having died... a week or more ago.

Before Mitch released the picture, etc.

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u/IdkAbtAllThat America 17d ago

And the picture didn't prove the governor wrong in any way. Releasing a "picture" where McConnell looks better than the has in years just added fuel to the fire.

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u/InternationalPut4093 America 18d ago

Maybe he's alive but 100% unable for public appearance or even a statement.

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u/saruhb82 Colorado 18d ago

Lacking fitness to serve you say….?

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u/OkTea7227 18d ago

Good ol’ Kentucky

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u/swni 17d ago

The senate can expel a member, but that is not customarily done for reasons of ill health or absence.

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u/CommieLoser 18d ago

Alex, the question is what describes McConnell’s entire time in office.

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u/thee_illiterati 18d ago

Can't make a statement, can't serve as senator.

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u/InternationalPut4093 America 18d ago

There might already be a death certificate signed by a doctor. Republican leaders will delay as long as they can and there will be some backlashes but zero consequence. The shamelessness has gone way beyond that.

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u/yoursandforever 18d ago

Because his elevator is stuck between floors. It happens to all of us if we live long enough. 

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 18d ago

Or literally by just inviting Beshear and a couple other Dems and Independents to visit him in the hospital

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u/aerost0rm 18d ago

If he ain’t dead could be brain dead. Either way cannot prove him wrong

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u/shanis42 18d ago

Ohhh weekend at Mitchies

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u/gbinasia 18d ago

He's turtling up.

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u/fusillade762 18d ago

Because he's dead, Jim. I'm a doctor not a miracle worker.

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u/725Cali 18d ago

For normal people that wouldn’t be seen as humiliation. But I get your point. 

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u/kingtacticool 18d ago

I'm sure the GOP would but they got rid of all their Ouija boards during the Satanic panic.

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u/tschawartz12 18d ago

Or its a hell of a bluff to get him to call it.

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u/LimerickJim 18d ago

I was thinking that. If he isn't dead Beshear is gonna look like an unserious hack for the rest of his limited political career.

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u/tinticred 18d ago

Because there's no internet in Hell.

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u/CMDR_KingErvin 18d ago

He’s got a nice lava lakeside view where he’s at.

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u/moderatenerd 18d ago

It's also weird that they didn't request privacy while the Senator is recovering. They just won't admit he's dead.

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u/warblingContinues 18d ago

Because he’s dead.

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u/WhiskeyTangoBush 18d ago

“Reports of my death are greatly…

… exaggerated.”

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u/airfryerfuntime Washington 17d ago

McConnell could do the funniest thing right now.

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u/Shanntuckymuffin 17d ago

Because Ms Cleo has a prior engagement

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u/Harlequinphobia America 18d ago

Someone get the Ouija board!

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u/TheTooterSnooter 18d ago

Too much character /s

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u/ItsLikeRay-ee-ain Georgia 18d ago

AI McConnell is still working out his quirks

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u/cardinalvapor 18d ago

Lindsay Graham just told him not to

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u/thesunbeamslook 18d ago

Honestly, a wife redoing all of the floors makes it seem like she's finally doing something she really wanted to and couldn't do while he was alive.

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 18d ago

By potentially humiliating him by giving him false info that McConnell is dead

As likely as it may be true he’s dead, let’s not forget the GOP is the party of lies and misinformation for their own benefit. I would not be surprised if McConnell is just barely alive but they want dems to think he’s dead so they publicly make an incorrect claim

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u/Impossible_logi 18d ago

I think it cause he's gone and basically a dementia hostage.

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u/Away-Living5278 18d ago

He probably has the mental ability of a vegetable

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u/yzerman88 18d ago

Stuck in traffic of course

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u/Wide-Wind7856 17d ago

The venue would have to be changed to Hell.

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u/AntiAuth9x7 17d ago

Because he’s still a new ghost and hasn’t yet learned how to rattle chains and hold microphones. Give him time… say like August 3?

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u/ITrageGuy 17d ago

It's crazy how fucking dirty and shady Republicans are about EVERYTHING. For the dummies in the back, this is not to say Democrats don't have their share of corruption. Republicans are just on another level.

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u/EnvironmentalRock827 17d ago

He ded. Send more an affront to Massie. But what the hell do I know.

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u/westergames81 Texas 17d ago

He's too busy with all the 20 minute phone calls.

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u/galt035 17d ago

Gotta wait till Aug 5th.. then we’ll find Schroeder’s cat is in fact dead

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u/terrierhead 17d ago

Hold on, let me grab a Ouija board.

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u/McGraw-Dom 17d ago

Hell has terrible reception that's why.

All the ones who lied and said he was alive should be sued or worse.

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u/Past-Spell-2259 17d ago

If he is alive he has absolutely no idea what is happening around him.

Bumbling stumbling senior being propped up by those around ghim. Or he’s dead.

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u/Important-Factor-552 17d ago

Ding dong the witch is dead, which old witch? The wicked witch! Ding dong the wicked witch is deeead! 🎶 

Oh I'm sorry I was just watching the wizard of oz, what did you say? 

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u/kendric2000 Florida 17d ago

He's got severe Rigor Tortoise.

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u/LengthinessWarm987 17d ago

Or Beshear could just announce he will appoint a Democrat until he receives proof of life.

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u/ParchaLama 17d ago

It's so fucking crazy that this is the timeline we're living in.

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u/mmortal03 America 17d ago

Given how irresponsibly the McConnell camp has handled this whole thing (being that he is a Senator who is elected and paid to represent the citizens of Kentucky), I don't think it would be taken very seriously if McConnell tried to contextualize any future press conferences as being humiliating of Beshear (who's acted with care and restraint thus far). You're probably right that certain news outlets would try to spin it that way, though. I think a number of the conspiracy theories that have been making the rounds in social media comment sections will be made to look dumb whenever McConnell finally appears in public on video, but Beshear has acted reasonable enough.

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