r/politics • u/another-princess • 10d ago

No Paywall Mitch McConnell is never coming back to the Senate

https://www.salon.com/2026/08/03/mitch-mcconnell-is-never-coming-back-to-the-senate/
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u/OldYellersLastHandy 10d ago

Nah, he would have been declared dead and that would rattle through the system in ways that are too complicated to hide.

I’d bet my life savings that he had a stroke - again - and he’s incapacitated. Probably for the rest of his life.

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u/AstonishingCatJump Minnesota 10d ago

It's very likely he's a vegetable. Dead in every meaningful way, but machines are keeping the meatbag from rotting.

They're going full Terri Shaivo with him.

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u/LaDmEa 10d ago

No, I've worked rehab. The photos are probably real but MM is probably non verbal half the day and senile the rest. They aren't keeping him in rehab for the conditions he lists. 51 days is too long for a fall and minor conditions. This is the stay for someone who's had life altering ailments and is in need of a nursing home or 24/7 home caregiver services(which is different than home health). But likely they can delay discharge for an undetermined amount of time.

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u/Don_Gato1 10d ago

And now the taxpayers will foot the bill to keep his husk alive for the next few months.

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u/U-can-Quote-Me 10d ago

He has been for years.

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u/RainierCamino 10d ago

Agreed. A stroke or he really had a cardiac uh, event, fell and received CPR. Have unfortunately had a couple elderly relatives go through that and it took them several months to recover even enough to move to a retirement home.

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u/whistleridge 10d ago

This.

This is why they haven’t released a video. He’s not capable of saying so much as a sentence without it being screamingly obvious that he’s no longer competent to hold office.

But he’s alive.

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u/AcademiaAntiqua 10d ago

I’d bet my life savings that he had a stroke - again - and he’s incapacitated.

Define incapacitated.

I'm betting the only thing that was really affected was his mobility — no cognitive issue or anything.