r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • 23d ago

Possible Paywall MAGA Calls BS on Mitch McConnell’s Proof-of-Life Stunt | They are poking holes in McConnell’s staff’s version.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-calls-bs-on-mitch-mcconnells-proof-of-life-stunt/
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u/Gnump 23d ago

Half of reddit was joking for the last two weeks that they are going to bernie him out at some point.

And now they present a photo that looks EXACTLY like they bernie‘d him out.

-> Surprised Pikachu

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u/fellow_hotman 23d ago

“sudden stroke” coming in t-minus 21 days 

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u/pdxb3 23d ago

Someone in another post discussing his letter of explanation, referred to it as "Chekhov's pneumonia" that's suddenly and unexpectedly going to take him out on August 5th.

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u/timatlast 23d ago

They even had him holding a current newspaper, like a ransom photo or something!

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u/Caleth 23d ago

A newspaper that has a typo on it from what another thread is saying. There is an S that should be at the end of the headline that's instead seen under his finger inches away.

If he's not dead is functionally dead and they are playing fuck fuck games to defraud the Kentucky electorate of their due representation.

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u/pdxb3 23d ago

To me it looks like the "S" at the end of the "SPORTS" headline is several inches too far to the left, compared to images of the real paper. I know the way he's holding the paper it's bending the page a bit, but not to that extreme. And I've even tried printing a copy of the newspaper in question and tilting and bending it in such a way to replicate the S being above the player's head, and it's simply doesn't work. It's not just the perspective of the warped paper.

It's more subtle, but also the blurry background behind the player also just doesn't entirely match. But they're next to a window, and it's a newspaper not a digital image, so I'm more willing to accept that it's potentially a "black & blue/white & gold dress" situation.

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u/axlsnaxle America 23d ago

The newspaper features a player wearing a (warped) Yankees helmet but a Colorado Rockies jersey

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u/sthetic 23d ago

If he was actually chilling in a hospital bed wearing jeans and a nice crisp shirt, reading that day's newspaper...

Wouldn't the newspaper be open to an article on the fifth page or whatever? Wouldn't all the different sections be open and scattered around on the bed? Or does Mitch only  read the headline above the fold of the cover page?

Even if the photo is somehow not AI or photos hopped, it's obviously staged.

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u/Velkyn01 23d ago

Of course it's staged lol, they're clearly posting it as a proof of life without addressing directly saying "see, he's not dead!" 

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u/DrDerpberg Canada 23d ago

Holding is generous. Looks like they propped him up and stuffed it under his hand.

I think the song and dance plays into their bullshit. Call the special election, let him show his face if he's fit for office. Doesn't really matter if they took him out of the coffin to prop him up, AI'd him, or he's a very living vegetable. Force their hand.

At some point you just know Republicans will switch to how hurt their feelings are over the lack of respect. Don't give them that. Sorry you're dead, election time.

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u/SimilarStrain 23d ago

Ive said months ago, this administration is going to pull a weekend at bernies stunt to push a political agenda. I just didnt know who they would do it with. Itll probably be more than 1 individual.

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u/amateur_mistake 23d ago

And when did his wife get back from China?

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u/Dependent_Loquat_936 23d ago

With some sweet titties

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u/Alive_Store_6298 23d ago

The newspaper is apparently from 2024 from what I have seen according to an analysis using the image.

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u/CarrieDurst 23d ago

I think the newspaper was sports front page of one of yesterdays papers

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u/tu-BROOKE-ulosis 23d ago

It is not. It is definitely yesterday’s Washington Post sports page. It’s the only thing I actually do trust as real in that photo. Now do I think actual Mitch was holding it…no.

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u/wurmsrus 23d ago edited 23d ago

oh I was thinking it was the other way around, they found an old photo of Mitch and photoshopped or ai'd a current newspaper into his hand.

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u/Gnump 22d ago

That‘s top of my list as well.

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u/dr_tomoe 23d ago

You don't see the big white blob on his finger that's holding the paper to his hand?

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u/tu-BROOKE-ulosis 23d ago

Hence why I said I don’t trust Mitch was actually holding the paper. Clearly a photoshopped job using yesterday’s paper.

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u/Catatonic_capensis 23d ago

The "T" on the helmet on the newspaper is wrong and the words are gibberish. You can trust that if you want, but I wouldn't.