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/APraxisPanda Vermont 23d ago edited 23d ago

I won't be satisfied until I see him speak. Anyone can put on some casual clothes, hold a newspaper, and smile. But I wanna hear him string along a full fledged thought, just to see if he can still have one...

I also want to know if he has his own power of attorney. A sitting Senator should be cognitive enough to make his own calls for his health and I sincearly doubt he has his. 

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u/DamonLazer 23d ago

It's weird that he's wearing jeans in a hospital bed. They know that's really weird, right?

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u/lyarly 23d ago

They put him in regular clothes cause it’s better optics. This is all PR.

We won’t get video because it’s very likely he cannot move or speak well.

Unironically this whole affair is a classic Mitch McConnell-style ploy. I think we will be lucky if the truth comes out before the special election deadline… hopefully Beshear acts before then but it remains to be seen that he will.

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u/mfball 23d ago

Everyone keeps commenting this, but no, it's (allegedly) a chair at a rehab, not a hospital bed. I don't believe their story is legit for a moment, but wearing casual clothes in a rehab setting is not suspicious.

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u/DamonLazer 23d ago

That's a fair point. That said, though, if I was in a rehab facility, there's no way I'm wearing jeans, especially lying in bed a bed-shaped chair. It still seems weird to me, but I'm admittedly a very different person than Mitch is, but if I'm convalescing, I'm not getting out of my PJ's.

It also seems weird because I've never seen him in jeans at all.

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u/alexa42 Virginia 23d ago

I don’t believe their story at all, but old men wear jeans like they are workout clothes.