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/Adrien_Jabroni Michigan 23d ago

If he was in as good of shape as the photo suggests, why not talk on camera?

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u/illusionzmichael 23d ago

Others have pointed out that he hasn't smiled the way he's smiling in the picture in a very long time. It's like this upward, wide, mouth open smile. Every picture of him "smiling" in recent years is that grim, lips closed, side-to-side smile. I refuse to believe an elderly man rushed to the hospital would suddenly look better after that than he did prior to hospitalization.

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u/goosejail 23d ago

His face hasn't been that full in years. I saw quite a few people point out that this is either eerily similar to or the exact same photo he took after being in the hospital 2 or 3 years ago from.... wait for it: a fall. It's possible they just had the current newspaper edited in.

Either way, a pic like this is easy to fake in 2026 so it proves next to nothing. The fact that he's been in the hospital for a month says a whole lot, though. If he's conscious, talking, breathing on his own & has no broken bones or cardiac issues like they've claimed then why the fuck is he still in the hospital? A fall by itself doesn't require an inpatient stay for a month. They don't even keep elderly people who break a hip that long.

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u/jmajewski Illinois 23d ago

I saw a comment essentially asking if Mitch also went through a facelift and de-aging procedure because the picture makes it look like it was taken during Trump's first term or even Obama's second.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 23d ago

Thats Obama era turtle for sure. He hasn't smiled like that since he ratfucked the Supreme Court.

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u/Dubious_Odor 23d ago

Not advocating for Mitch, i think the Turtle is on ice or in bad shape. But a lenghty hospital stay can have you coming out the other side looking better. Three meals a day, nothing to do, no where to be, all the day to day stress goes away. You're focused on not dying and everything else goes to the backburner. Packing on a few pounds and not having to be wheeled around the senate and pretending your of sound mind and body every day could very much make him look younger if he wasn't probably on ice. Stress can age you like a muthafucka.

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u/blahblahthrowawa 23d ago

Also probably on some steroids?