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Mitch McConnell announces discharge from rehabilitation center
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One notes he still has not been personally seen or heard from, yet if he's well enough to travel to go "home" -- "home" still remaining carefully undefined -- he's certainly well enough to appear in a 30-second video, IMO.
Factually speaking, whichever way you choose to interpret it, this brief ChatGPT-sounding press release from his office comes just after the deadline for calling a Kentucky special election to fill McConnell's Senate seat; he still has not offered any kind of live evidence that he is compos mentis or even conscious; he is still just as personally absent in every way as he has been since June in an unbroken streak of total non-verifiable communication; and his Senate seat is now legally and permanently locked until its new occupant is elected in November and sworn in later in January.
My personal take, and it is just my opinion, is that he is not expected to live, never was, and this is what we were all expecting to see. Instead of being a death notice it's a pre-death notice, if you will. He has been moved to a longer-care facility, wherever that may be, and his handlers don't want to deal with the rightful backlash of the rest of us knowing the truth.
Or, you know, he could just get up and do a happy little jig for TikTok and prove us all wrong, lol.
Why the hell is there a deadline? Just for malicious antidemocratic parties to exploit?
The whole existence of said deadline was an exercise in antidemocratic bastardry on the part of the GOP state government orchestrated by McConnell himself to frustrate the Democrat governor's ability to appoint his replacement.
I personally believe he's been dead, or at least brain dead, ever since or shortly after the incident in June.
Same here. When the video by his DC neighbor came out showing the ambulance, the EMT was standing in the back with the doors open, McConnell's feet clearly visible behind him on the gurney, and the EMT was casually doing something else in no hurry to get going. Other witnesses also mentioned that when it left there were no sirens.
So yeah, dead or brain dead like you say, but clearly not coming back.
Personally I think his people are gonna give it a bit of time, anywhere from a couple days to a month, and then announce some kind of downturn that has now resulted in his "sudden and unexpected" death. But he's been gone all along, IMO.
EMTs are actually trained not to rush things. If you consciously slow your pace you can prevent an adrenaline dump in hectic scenarios. Also he could be stable after being resuscitated. I wouldn't characterize what the EMT did as indicative of him not being... salvageable (that doesn't seem like the right word?).
I'd also doubt he was clinically dead if they are still formally reporting him as alive. There is going to be a lot of paperwork that needs to fall exactly in line if he had been dead all this time but not being reported. There's a lot of people involved that would need to remain silent on the truth and be willing to post date/fudge information. I just don't see them wanting to roll the dice on that.
Yeah, the saying is “slow is smooth; smooth is fast.” Basically, slow down and make sure you’re doing things intentionally. That will be faster in the long run than needing to redo things because you rushed, or doing things wrong and making the situation worse.
You're probably right about the "stable after resuscitation" thing. I assume that means independent breathing and heartbeat. I don't know much about emergency medicine, though I have always heard a body can maintain independent life support with only minimal brain health. (This is probably before your time but I was around when the Karen Ann Quinlan thing was going on with all its endless debates.)
But it's not just that. In an interview with Katie Couric last month, Gov. Andy Beshear said,
That's McConnell's governor himself saying he got calls "suggesting" that McConnell was already dead, not from individuals but unnamed and "not state" (presumably federal) agencies.
Most importantly, McConnell himself still hasn't ended the speculation when to do so would be easy enough if he were conscious and alert. Instead, AI press releases come out of his office with "proof of life" photos that are both problematic in their own right, strongly suggesting that his people are already going to extreme lengths to keep his actual condition a secret, already remaining silent on the truth, already creating false evidence to support a fraudulent pretense of not just life but ongoing improvement. Yet he personally never shows.
So for me, I don't think it's a stretch to consider that people already committing that kind of fraud on the public would stop short of a job well done. But that's not a slam on someone that doesn't want to go there; I can understand why anyone would want more proof. It's not like a hearty set of lies has never come out of the US govt before, lol.
The president is a rapist felon mafia boss. They can do whatever they want, because who's gonna stop them?
Some kid in a Demolition Ranch t-shirt, if he can keep the scope level
How safe is his seat? If it's even close, I'd reason this is being held back so the Republicans don't have to run someone new until after the upcoming election cycle. "Emergency temporary appointment" or some BS because "it's too close to the election".
McConnell announced his retirement in February 2025 and was not seeking re-election this year, meaning that Kentucky was always going to elect a new senator for his seat this November anyway. Otherwise your point is well taken, and it was McConnell himself who pulled that "too close to an election" shit with Obama's Supreme Court nomination.
The governor is a Democrat. Take from that what you will.
Senator Teri Shaivo
He was probably braindead on arrival IMO. Kinda both legally dead but also you can drag out the official date for ages
It would also explain why the videos of the ambulance looked so unhurried and why his wife immediately left to visit China
I prefer to say that he is fillibustering his own obituary....
Lol he is
I think they moved him home for hospice. Though it should also be noted that nobody has seen him at his home, even just transported from "rehab"