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Show a video and prove hes more than a drooling vegetable
He is constantly in a wheel chair so how did he fall? Do they need to add a seatbelt to his wheelchair?
Why a photo? Video is cheaper than chips: record a 10 second video where he says "hello."
"We said he was alive, not that he wasn't nonverbal..."
Fuck off already, scumbag. The world will be a better place without you in it!
One of his phylacteries was discovered and destroyed. That's why he passed out, it was part of his soul returning to the body.
Didn't a report say the EMT's were performing CPR?
Im sure performing cpr on an 84 year old leaves them withou any injuries/bruising/broken ribs...
When I was taught CPR they said that, if you do apply the needed amount of force that you will almost certainly break a rib. Ain't no way in hell a 84 year old will survive CPR without a broken rib
Thats what I remember from the CPR classes I took, including one where I broke the dummy. 😬
I looked into the timeline and there are still some unanswered questions. McConnell was hospitalized after his fall on June 14, 2026. Elaine Chao reportedly left for China on June 17, 2026, and the “proof of life” photo with her was posted on July 12, 2026.
when was that photo actually taken? The original photo file and metadata haven’t been released, so nobody outside his team can verify the date or time it was taken.
when was that photo actually taken?
Does this help?
If it's such a big fucking deal you'd think there'd be a very simple fucking way to verify it.
In EITHER CASE, is he fit for office? I don't fucking see him in it!
No idea, and you're right: more questions are raised than answered, IMO. The photo was released along with a written statement via McConnell's Senate web page.
Yeah, I don't believe he is well. At his age, a fall and CPR aren't going to let him live that much longer if the news reports are correct.
Then again, in a fascist country, we can't trust the news, so who the hell knows.
You know how I know it's fake? Because he's smiling.
Well, he's in a hospital. Maybe he just saw a little kid die and it lifted his spirits.
It's a good thing lindsey graham died, or else the collective disappointment over this fucker living would've sent the U.S. into open revolt
...shit
Is much rather the US just openly revolt. Get it over with already and stop dragging everyone through this shitshow with them
OMG, can he just die already? Like seriously, c'mon.
He’s dead Jim. See Monty Python’s dead parrot sketch. Button down shirt in a hospital?? Where is the IV that everyone has in a hospital. Angles are all wrong. That photo is Ai as hell.
He looks fresher and healthier than he's been in the past twenty fucking years.
NOTHING SUSPICIOUS ABOUT THAT.
Then meet with the Kentucky governor
In a word? Bullshit.
If there was ever a time to use AI to cover the truth, it would be now.
I'm only casually following us politics but what would the advantage of delaying announcing his death be (and why wouldn't the same apply to Lindsey Graham).
It's about trying to maintain as much control over the senate as possible before the midterms hit. If he really died there would have to be a special election for a temporary senator. If it were a Democrat win, it might be hard to displace them as there's rarely movement of who sits in a senate seat.
I've seen posts all over from people using AI to generate similar photos.
it can't be ruled out.
Graham happened to fast and unexpectedly for them to weekend at bernies him, but they've had plenty of time to prep for McConnell.
Say what you will about Lindsey Graham, but it was fucked up for them to drain his life energy to revive McConnell like that.
If that picture is genuine, then Mitch McConnell has had a stroke, and it's severe enough that he's still unilaterally paralyzed. Maybe he wasn't found for some time.
Look at his face. His left side (the side toward the woman) is sloughing. It also explains why she holds his left arm so inconspicuously. Old turtle face would fall over, if she didn't support him.
I wouldn't call this proof of life.
Inasmuch as this is only a single still, posed photo that was released along with a written statement via McConnell's Senate web page I wouldn't put too much stock in it.
Beyond the word of a handful of Republicans that say they have talked "with" him, McConnell still has not verifiably actually spoken to or with anyone since his hospitalization in mid-June.
They say they talk to God too.
I just want to step back and appreciate the absurdity that, regardless of the cause, voters have absolutely no way to even initiate a replacement process for a senator that has failed to even show up in public (let alone do his job) for a month.
Yes, and McConnell's not the only one. Thomas Kean, a Republican representative for NJ, just came back after four months of total silence about where he was or why he was gone, for example.
We're only hearing from McConnell now because if he had not done something to end the speculation about whether he was even alive, Gov. Beshear would have called a special election to fill his seat out from under him.
What REALLY grinds my gears, though, is that the ones doing it are Republicans, the ones repeatedly voting against those same protections for any one of us that might also have cause to be absent from work: they vote against universal healthcare, they vote against minimum paid leave, they vote against the entire social safety net at every chance they get.
The bastard smiling in that bed might as well be holding a piece of paper in his hand that says fuck you I got mine because that's exactly what it's a picture of.
What the fuck was his wife doing in China meeting with the top CCCP leaders?
Who believes this? Wasn't his wife in China?
She was so concerned about her husband's health she left the country.
DOUBT!
In the days of AI I'm not sure a photo counts. How about a live interview?
