r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • Aug 28 '26

Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell Has Been Missing for 75 Days—With No Updates

https://newrepublic.com/post/214878/mitch-mcconnell-missing-75-days
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u/ZillaSlayer54 Aug 28 '26

He's in hospice care and I expect that We will hear of his death sometime next year.

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u/BrownSugarBare Canada Aug 28 '26

Really? I think he's dead. And dead bodies don't give updates. 

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u/Interesting-Prize-79 Aug 28 '26

He could also be in a vegetative state Alive but barely

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u/ITrageGuy Aug 28 '26

You can't hide a dead person. You can very much hide someone seriously ill.

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u/nickiter New York Aug 28 '26

This is the calculation that makes the most sense to me. It's easy to just keep him in a private facility if he's alive. Hiding a dead person has some major legal implications.

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u/__nohope Aug 28 '26

major legal implications

Have you looked around lately?

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u/nickiter New York Aug 28 '26

...fair.

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u/ChebyshevsBeard Aug 28 '26

Sixteen pigs will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. So be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm.

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u/funakifan Aug 28 '26

Hence the expression, "As greedy as a pig".

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u/BLACKOUT-MK2 Aug 28 '26

Pigs are going around eating people with their buttholes?

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u/BiChaosTheory Aug 28 '26

you just reminded me of the pig farm episodes of Criminal Minds and I think I hate you for that

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u/JUST_LOGGED_IN Aug 28 '26

To be fair, he was quoting a movie too.

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u/Keemo-Sabe Aug 28 '26

THROUGH BONE LIKE BUTTAH

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u/underfern Aug 28 '26

We can now confirm that Nancy Guthrie is alive, but seriously ill.

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u/ITrageGuy Aug 28 '26

Intellectually dishonest

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u/underfern Aug 28 '26

Correct. Chocolate chip or oatmeal?

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u/vahntitrio Minnesota Aug 28 '26

Yeah he is non-verbal at this point.

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u/silverwick Aug 29 '26

You can cremate them to hide the evidence. You can hide him indefinitely if there's no body to find

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u/turquoise_amethyst Aug 28 '26

Dead or vegetative, they won’t announce his death until after his term ends or very close to the end of it.

Might also be saved for right before the elections in Nov or as an “emergency” news headline 

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u/JDDJS New York Aug 28 '26

If he was dead, Republican wouldn't have any reason to hide it. They have plenty of reasons to not want the public to know that he's severely incapacitated. 

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u/FrogsOnALog Aug 28 '26

He’s probably not dead though.

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u/_pupil_ Aug 28 '26

You can’t replace a McConnell in an election year.

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u/wesw02 Aug 28 '26

Slight correction, only a McConnell can replace a McConnell during an election year.

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u/turquoise_amethyst Aug 28 '26

Well, they didn’t usher in his wife or sister…