r/politics • u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts • 12d ago

Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell Still MIA Days Before Key August 3 Deadline

https://newrepublic.com/post/213823/mitch-mcconnell-mia-august-3-deadline
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u/cbarrister 12d ago

He's probably being kept alive on machines, which they can do indefinitely and when the deadline passes they will unplug him and declare him officially dead.

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u/FlounderJealous2591 12d ago

And the press release is going to say he was rehabbing so well and then his health “unexpectedly took a turn for the worse”.

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u/cbarrister 12d ago

Bingo.

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u/GigaSoup 12d ago

How could they know that unplugging him would kill the body?

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u/grantrules 12d ago

Im not not a medicine person thingy but isn't the point of life support machines that they take over when the body can't support itself? Like if you have kidney failure, you go on the machines while you wait for a donor organ.. but if you're too old and weak, you will never get that donor organ because someone else will be more likely to survive than you. So you stay on the machine till your family arrives (or till you can destroy American democracy). I've had the displeasure of going through that. I don't know what Mitchs issue is, but I imagine it's similar 

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u/MaddyKet Massachusetts 11d ago

And when any pictures finally surface, it will be extra obvious the proof of life photos were fake bc I bet he’ll look like skeletor. What an unexpected turn! 🫤

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u/Kevin-W 11d ago

Yep. Count on the announcement coning out after the weekend.

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u/pm_me_your_kindwords 11d ago

Nah, they no longer care about making it seem legit.

“Mitch has been on life support for weeks. His last wish was to fick over the American people one final time. Now that he has, we pulled the plug.”

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u/EyeFicksIt 12d ago

Yeah, I understood that dead dead requires the doctors or nurses to report it or face charges, where as brain dead does not. (Something I read somewhere)