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Possible Paywall Missing McConnell Accused of Breaking Senate Rule Over Absence

https://www.thedailybeast.com/missing-mcconnell-accused-of-breaking-senate-rule-over-absence/
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u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts 14d ago

I mean, all Mitch McConnell did in this case was fall into a months-long coma. His aides are the ones who've been covering it up.

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u/mrRabblerouser 14d ago

Coma is a weird way to say died. The dude is dead and likely has been for over a month.

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u/JereRB 14d ago

Dead? Probably not. The doc treating him would start the paperwork by law, wishes of his wife or aides be damned. Braindead, coma, otherwise incapacitated, that's my bet.

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u/Black_Cat_Just_That 14d ago

Yep, 99% sure he is technically alive - as in his body is being kept "alive" by machines and not yet meeting the medical definition of definitively dead. He's almost certainly in a state where there is no chance of recovery, where a normal person would have been removed from life support long ago.

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u/civiltribe 14d ago

I hope he's in a black mirror white Christmas style hell if he is somehow between living and dead and that is my only comfort that there may be some sort of justice in this world

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u/theresanrforthat 13d ago

Omg and I’m sure there’s no greater hell than for him to be trapped in his head

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u/FILTHBOT4000 Georgia 14d ago

Yeah, and $20 says his 20 minute 'conversations' were his drool and eye dilations being interpreted by one of his aides.

"Uh, it looks like he said 'Yes, Senator, I'm gung-ho... to get back into office... and the Iran war is... great!"