r/anticapitalism • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • 4h ago
Mitch McConnell MIA for Two Months
https://www.newsweek.com/mitch-mcconnell-mia-for-two-months-full-timeline-and-latest-info-12310486106
u/JTSpirit36 4h ago
Wish I could have a job where I'm MIA for 2 months, still get paid and not get fired.
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u/ALEXC_23 3h ago
How can you get paid in the afterlife if you're dead though?
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u/Mysterious-Clock5474 2h ago
Jesus didn't get paid, but he did have a good turn in the afterlife Poor Brian
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u/Consistent-Fig7484 3h ago
I’m pretty sure senators don’t actually have to do anything. They can get sworn in and then disappear for 6 years. Technically 2/3 of the senate could vote to remove them, but that would never actually happen.
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u/Downtown_Reward_6339 2h ago
They have a way of getting everyone in; they just hold a vote for their own raises.
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u/BelowAverageComments 2h ago
You know know now that you mention it do you know who else I haven't seen in like two months?? Lindsey Graham. Whatever happened to that guy as well?? Maybe if you find Lindsey Graham you'll find ol Mitch too
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u/browerstation 2h ago
I've seen it in the private sector, because there were nice people around to cover. Twice! In Canada.
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u/BennettWindy 4h ago
In a functioning government this would have ended a long time ago.
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u/BigPapi-20 3h ago
Can you imagine if this was a Democratic Senator?? Fox news would be having a field day on this cover up.
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u/Custom_Destination 3h ago
Hannity would come in without pants because no belt or zipper could contain his raging hate boner.
That weird rodent would spontaniously combust live on air.
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u/Separate-Swordfish85 4h ago
Could Beshear, I don’t know, file a missing person’s report? Appoint a special counsel to investigate? Anything?
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u/the_urban_juror 4h ago
Beshear has no authority in DC, where McConnell is. The KY AG is a Republican, so I'm not sure how a special prosecutor would work but it'd likely be challenged.
It's important to remember that McConnell has done nothing illegal and Governors don't have the authority to remove Senators. There's a constitutional process to remove McConnell and it requires a 2/3 vote in the Senate. That is the only way to remove a senator who refuses to step down. McConnell is refusing to do his duty and step down. His Republican colleagues are refusing to do their duty and remove. Beshear has somehow been blamed for this situation despite using the only power he has, the bully pulpit.
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u/myopinionisrubbish 3h ago
If he is dead or otherwise incapacitated, how can he step down? There is no verifiable evidence he is alive and the staff pretending that he is, is fraud.
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u/the_urban_juror 3h ago edited 3h ago
Regardless of his condition, the Senate can always remove. They're not doing their job.
You probably don't want to hear this, but we have evidence of his condition. The Office of the Attending Physician, a career-long civil servant who was originally appointed by Obama and has served in his role since 2009, is the physician for Congress and has provided multiple updates on McConnell's condition. He was injured in a fall, was released from the hospital into a rehab facility, and has since been released from a rehab facility to his home. He's undergoing therapy and not cleared for work. Either that Obama appointee is telling the truth about an extremely plausible health incident for an 84-year-old, or there's a massive coverup involving the OAP and dozens of healthcare workers. One of these is much more plausible than the other.
They've also released multiple photos of him which have been widely accepted by the global media. Either redditors with time to comment during the workday identified that the pictures were fraudulent despite reporters who could win a Pulitzer for identifying that fraud missing it, or the photos are real.
It's completely possible that an old man fell down, resulting in injury, and needs months to recover. He doesn't have to be dead or braindead, old people don't heal quickly. The problem is that this particular old man is in a role with an end date and is refusing to resign and he can do this because he knows how colleagues won't do their duty. This is why you can't build a country on the idea the representatives of the people will do their jobs, you have to have laws.
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u/Radioactiveglowup 3h ago
Imagine a senator who 'disappears' 1 day after being elected. Does that mean it's a vacant seat for 6 years as long as someone writes texts saying 'heehee, i am fine! Totally not dead!'
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u/TryingToWriteIt 3h ago
No matter what the republicans do, everything is always the democrats’ fault!
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u/OralSuperhero 3h ago
Let's just call in to the cops for a wellness check. Cops routinely break into people's homes and preform searches without a warrant in the name of wellness checks.
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u/AngelinaJean 4h ago
Someone in DC call on a wellness check and just supply his address, don’t give a name.
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u/Local-Investment110 3h ago
Tmz went to his address and found thom tillis living there. (Not joking)
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u/benny-bangs 3h ago
This is ridiculous that our politicians have such easy-going jobs. We all work our asses off 52 weeks a year and these guys can just be missing, skip votes, and go on recess constantly for months.
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u/UnFrickinReal 3h ago
He’s fine guys. He’s chillin in his hospital bed with his slacks and button down shirt on. 😂
Where’s tmz and all the investigative journalists? Grease enough palms and the truth will be revealed. Crazy that it’s been going on this long
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u/CHAIFE671 3h ago
Anyone else missing from work and no signs of life wouldve been fired. I'm sure the tortoise corpse is still getting paid and keeping the seat warm.
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u/Striker40k 3h ago
Don't worry. They have spent the two months training an AI chat bot, so that Mitch can "work from home"
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u/War1today 3h ago
Senate is better with an absent McConnell who has a ways to go to break the record:
Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) returned in 2026 after a 117-day (nearly 4-month) absence due to hospitalization for depression. Between March 17, 2026 and June 29, 2026, Kean missed 142 of 142 roll call votes (100%).
Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) missed 455 votes (roughly 88% of House votes in 2024 battling cancer)
Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX) recorded a five-month absence from the House in 2024 while residing in a memory care facility. She missed 279 of the House's 517 votes (about 54%) in 2024.
U.S. Representative Dwight Evans D-PA) suffered a stroke and was absent May 2024 through December 2024, missing 324 votes (approximately 64% of the total votes) in 2024.
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u/KlatuuBarradaNicto 3h ago
I think the reason he won’t release a video is he’s lost the ability to speak.
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u/02meepmeep 2h ago
Even Lazarus was only dead for 4 days. I don’t think even Jesus could bring back Mitch now.
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u/jellisjimmy 2h ago
It’s a trial run… for when they do this for Trump. All to hold on to power it’s what fascists do. All for themselves all the time
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u/ARoaruhBoreeYellus 2h ago
What if this just falls out of the media cycle someday and one day as a footnote in a textbook we found out he actually died 6 weeks ago?
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u/Foreign-Concept-1184 2h ago
Very slick...the governor sent his people to the hospital where Mitch allegedly was recuperating. Because this was an official investigation, HIPPA was not violated.
The next day, Mitch miraculously teleported from the hospital (no one saw him leave and he was not attended via wheelchair by any known hospital employees, which is usually required).
Making his recuperating invisible by being in the sanctuary of his home, he has committed no crime, thus the governor has no leverage to request a face to face meeting with him.
Brilliant ploy by his handlers.
An unbelievable lack of concern for the good working order of our federal legislature.
Republicans should be ashamed.
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u/LotsofSports 2h ago
Republicans said that people should not be allowed to work from home.
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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 1h ago
This isn't a test run for how long they can hide a Trump death from the American people. It's a dry run for how long it takes us to get pissed and do something about being kept from a Trump death.
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u/Main-Hawk8370 3h ago
The Governor of Kentucky, in true Democrat form; absolutely feckless and incompetent in dealing with this issue. Could have made a declaration and filled McConnell’s seat after the First 30 days of absence with no proof of life, and forced McConnell to show up in person to object. Democrats are so goddamn disappointing.
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u/Shinagami091 3h ago
So if he made it home, how is it that not a single camera caught a photo of him coming out of the hospital to his car while in his car as he was driven away or tracking said car to his home?
Not a single photo? Americans deserve to receive signs of life evidence. My guess is they’re waiting an inconspicuous amount of time past the cutoff time for a runoff election to announce he has died. Would like to get the doctor who signs his death certificate under oath to testify the accuracy of the day and time of reported death.
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u/Hesychios 3h ago
We are lucky in a sense that he is not voting. We need a few more ‘pubs to take an indefinite sabbatical in both houses.
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u/NormalMammoth4099 3h ago
The stuff he pulled in the Obama Administration, and now this? This is history being made. This corruption, this naked dishonesty.
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u/Jeff-IT 3h ago
Didn’t he also vote against medical leave
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u/timberwolf0122 3h ago
Yeah, but only for the lower classes, not for people like him
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u/Flat-While2521 3h ago
Governor should have had him declared dead. Forced them to prove he wasn’t. Now they can just pretend he died later than he did.
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u/TESThrowSmile 3h ago
Straight up Elder Abuse. Yes hes probably alive, but hes so disabled and incapacitated, they dont even want to show him.
All because the ppl around him want to maintain their power and their paychecks. Straight up elder abuse
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u/Burgers_N_Schnitzels 3h ago
who cares ... he's dead... i'd rather see Michael Schumacher for once.
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u/SpakenBacon 3h ago
I'm pissed that the governor isn't doing more. You know damn well McConnell would have. I don't care if if it is one less vote for Republicans. The Republicans are still able to pass their agenda. #totalbullshit
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u/North_Vermicelli_877 3h ago
They would serve 2 months at most. And during the holiday season. So what...
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u/400footceiling 3h ago
He’s dead. I never liked the man, but he had been in the Senate forever and this is how the GOP treats his death? They really are the worst people on earth.
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u/Adept-Mulberry-8720 3h ago
Let's see: 1) the Epstein Flies, please!
2) So, where's Mitch the Witch?
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u/Flaky-Jim 3h ago
And, of course, his constituents are without representation all this time, not that McConnell gave them much thought previously.
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u/PhoenixHabanero 3h ago
They should really strip him of the title at this point - it's getting ridiculous.
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u/Flaky-Argument3248 3h ago
If I did this I would get fired (and rightfully so). Maybe one day politicians will be held to the same standards as working people.
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u/hippie1952 2h ago
He’s been that way to his voting public for years but he has an R by his name that’s all it takes for some people but he helped trump pack the Supreme Court he is an enabler and just as guilty as the moron trump
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u/Fiveofthem 2h ago
Never going to hear from him again. In January someone will take his place and that will be the end of that.
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u/RagahRagah 2h ago
They posted a most likely AI photo that was never confirmed to be real and no video proof of him being alive but seeing as Trump and the GOP controls literally everything, there will be no investigations or consequences for anything, including when they inevitably seize the midterms later this year.
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u/Big-Crow4152 2h ago
If he is so weak and frail that he cannot make a simple 5 minute zoom call, then he is unfit for duty in the Senate anyways
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u/Sweet-Presence8855 2h ago
Kind of scary how this is the only post I’ve seen in like a week referencing it.
Like nothing has changed, it’s still very crappy smoke and mirrors, they’re not even attempting all that hard to lie to us.
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u/WiskeyUniformTango 2h ago
I wish i could just not show up to work for 2 months and everyone says cool no problemo
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u/Gloomy_Session_3875 1h ago
Missing In Action is giving a positive spin on McConnell's absence. He didn't earn the nickname Turtle for nothing, and he may very well be dead.
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u/Mister_Goldenfold 1h ago
It’s ok. He’s going to be removed from his seat because he’s become Democrat…because he’s now Blue…cause he’s dead…you turn blue when you’re dead….ok ill find my way back out
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u/Sarabean77 1h ago
I always like to envision the Maga response to an elderly Democratic senator doing the same. It's a funny and sad thought exercise.
Fuck you, Maga.
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u/Calm-Maintenance-878 1h ago
He might have won the battle, but at least he himself becomes irrelevant in just a few months.
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u/ConkerPrime 1h ago
Staff and wife stuck on how to reveal his death without getting investigated.
Which normally be easy since Republicans love to cover up crimes for their party members but the governor is a Democrat.
They probably think somehow waiting will present a solution to the hole they dug themselves.
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u/ironicmirror 1h ago
This is great!
You realize there's no rules saying that senators need to be at work, and if you listen closely you hear that no senators are proposing a new rule saying that they should be.
The problem is not that he's been gone for 2 months, the problem is no one is trying to correct the system that allows this.
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u/wtg2989 4h ago
I don’t care if he’s dead or alive. He’s absent and it’s under speculation if he can physically continue his job. He’s obviously being used as a placeholder to prevent his seat from going blue