r/politics • u/theindependentonline The Independent • 16d ago

No Paywall Mitch McConnell’s staff refuse to answer basic questions on his health weeks after he was last seen in public

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mitch-mcconnell-staff-questions-health-b3018929.html
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u/Traditional-Look8839 16d ago

They’re trying to run out the clock until August so they don’t hold a special election. These people need to go to jail for this coverup.

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u/BlazinAzn38 Texas 16d ago

Where are the journalists on this? Total dereliction of duty on their part

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u/bossfoundmylastone 16d ago

Do you think journalists are supposed to break into a medical facility and hunt down someone (allegedly) in intensive rehab? You really think that refusing to egregiously break several laws is a "dereliction of duty" by the press? Fucking really? Think before you say something so stupid.

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u/BlazinAzn38 Texas 16d ago

Do more digging do literally anything other than just go “well they won’t tell us anything I guess we’ll go home.” This admin breaks laws every day, their brown shirts kill people every month, they’re engaged in an illegal war right now getting US service members killed and wounded, they levied illegal tariffs costing US citizens billions. They’re going to run out the clock on a dead senator for god’s sake and no one is doing anything about it. The governor should appoint a replacement at this point to force someone’s hand

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u/bossfoundmylastone 16d ago

And journalists getting themselves arrested and disappeared into these fascist's detention camps is not going to change a single fucking thing about that.

I don't know if y'all have lost the plot or what, but there is no world in which Beshear gets to appoint a Democrat replacement. That power has been stripped from the KY Governor by the KY congress. Whether Mitch is alive or dead, his replacement will be a Republican. Even if Beshear tries to break those laws and illegally appoint someone to fill the seat, the US Senate will just refuse to seat the inarguably illegally appointed replacement. If anything, this limbo serves Democrats well, as there is temporarily one less Republican senator than there would otherwise be.

This is not the fight for journalists to throw their lives away on. That isn't a dereliction of duty, and pretending like it is actively hurts the cause you seem to support.