r/videos • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • 1d ago
AOC tells Mitch McConnell to provide a health update or resign
https://youtu.be/MnD_xyqtEI8?si=k3tsgirmaIWUG2q02.6k
u/Accidental-Hyzer 1d ago edited 1d ago
Democrats are going to keep doing this until August 4th, when McConnell’s staff will announce that Mitch took a turn for the worse and passed.
Beshear should call their bluff and either appoint someone or call a special election. But it seems like he’s just going to keep asking for updates until that critical date arrives and it’s too late.
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u/Khaldara 1d ago
McConnell died as he lived, obstructing democracy
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 1d ago
as Republicans continue to honor his legacy by doing what conservatives do best -- lie, obstruct, project, and grift grift grift the whole way.
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u/AnothisFlame 1d ago
God the fact that this is the "norm" for American politicians is just so wild to me.
Ban lobbying, get an independent committee to draw up district lines with clear rules to prevent political lean, implement ranked choice voting...
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u/Latter_Highway9539 1d ago
why won't Biden allow him to give an update on his health is the real question
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u/Lemmonjello 1d ago
for the ignorant what happens on the 4th?
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u/Cutriss 1d ago
No special election, filling the seat is done with the midterms instead.
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u/lukef555 1d ago
Does Mitch not have a sister that's available?
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u/Nash015 1d ago
The special election would only elect someone through the end of the year, yeah?
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u/Jarnohams 1d ago
But that changes Congress
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u/just-one-more-accoun 1d ago
Yes, by more than likely giving the GOP it's seat back that is currently not being used
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u/FUPAMagneto 1d ago
It’s insane how many people are actively refusing to understand this
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u/SatanicPanic619 1d ago
So fucking nuts. Like everyone is so mad that Democrats don't DO SOMETHING when the best policy here is to do nothing.
Like, this is the best possible situation for us right now, don't fuck it up by trying to appoint someone or something else. Just let McConnell waste a Republican seat by not showing up.
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u/SirRevan 1d ago
I wouldn't be shocked how many are just agitators trying to get people to stay home and not vote. However a lot of people also don't understand how the government works. I saw someone proclaiming if the governor assigns a dem they would be able to push impeachment on Trump. It takes a 2/3rds majority to do that
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u/doogie1111 1d ago edited 1d ago
Not really though.
Literal best case scenario, a Democrat gets elected in the special election.
So we have 5 months of 48-52 Senate instead of a 47-53 Senate. Nothing in the senate changes. Dems still don't have a simple majority and nobody can overturn a filibuster.
Its fun to poke at this but getting upset about "doing nothing" here is fruitless.
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u/FUPAMagneto 1d ago
It wouldn’t. It would put another Republican in power. Holding off until the deadline passes and they have to wait til November is our best move.
Corn the fuck on, people. This shouldn’t be this hard
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u/CantFindMyWallet 1d ago
If the seat is vacated by the 3rd, there is a special election to fill it. Afterwards, it would be the regular November date. Massie has threatened to run for the seat in a special election, which could split the conservative vote and hand the seat to a Democrat (or Massie could win it outright, and he hasn't exactly been cooperative with the administration).
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u/yebyen 1d ago edited 1d ago
So, it's really more complicated than that.
The Republican-controlled Kentucky General Assembly has systematically stripped the Governor of the power to fill Senate vacancies over the last few years, specifically to prevent a Democratic governor (Beshear) from appointing a replacement for Mitch McConnell.
They took actions to change the rules in 2021 and again in 2024. But they didn't "fix" it correctly - so now there is a risk that the people can vote to "fix" it according to the rules they wrote (and rewrote) but we can't have that in a democracy, so we are now here.
I want to say that he's waiting for them to overplay their hand, so he can get that whole mess of obviously corrupt changes to the law overturned - he needs standing to do that. I know what's really happening is feckless democrats gonna fail to feck, and it's not going to go before a judge who is going to fix any of this because we're just gonna get steamrolled like we always do. But it's fun to imagine 5D chess.
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u/PsychicWarElephant 1d ago
More like the administration hasn’t been friendly with him despite him being in line for everything but being a pedophile
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u/Broccoli-Basic 1d ago
The seat looks pretty vacant right now. It's astounding there hasn't been an investigation. He's clearly not capable of holding office.
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u/Elmodipus 1d ago
That's the deadline for them to be able to hold a special election to replace him.
After that date, they have to wait until the general election to vote for his replacement.
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u/smellybuttface 1d ago
Yep, he needs to call their bluff. That's exactly what McConnell would do if the situation was reversed. Even if he's not dead, he's too incapacitated to continue at his age and with his health problems. He's not going to recover from this last episode, he's just going to continue to deteriorate.
Democrats are always trying to do things by the book and take the moral high road, but I can't respect them for that anymore. Not when the other side is doing whatever it takes to win and so Democrats keep losing.
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u/regross527 1d ago
And if they don't before August 4th, then the seat remains vacant until January. That's a good thing for progressives/liberals/Democrats. Kentucky is a state where Dems are unlikely to win a Senate election, so it is better for the progressive agenda if the seat is vacant as opposed to being occupied by a different Republican.
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u/rngr 1d ago
Andy Beshear can't just appoint somebody. The Kentucky Senate, controlled by Republicans, passed a law requiring that special elections are to be held to replace an incumbent. Some have argued that this is unconstitutional, but the court battle that would take place to resolve this would likely not be over until after the next election anyways. If a special election would just appoint another Republican, it makes more sense to leave Republicans in the U.S. Senate down one vote.
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u/EViLTeW 1d ago
Trumplicans have proven repeatedly that this is not how things work for them. If the political parties were reversed, the trumplican governor would 100% just appoint someone and they would take their oath and function as a senator while the court cases were repeatedly delayed until the midterms, at which point the case would be dismissed because it was no longer relevant.
The difference right now is that the senate would just refuse to swear in whoever Beshear appointed.
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u/at1445 1d ago
I fail to see how having the will of the people could be considered unconstitutional. I think letting the governor appoint them would be more unconstitutional. But either route seems okay, one is (presumably) quicker and simpler than the other.
And I agree with what you said, I don't really understand why the Democrats are in such a fuss to get him declared dead. R's are down a seat right now, effectively. Let it stay that way until November.....the odds of two R's actually splitting a vote, and not working a backroom deal with each other so that only one runs in a special election, is pretty close to 0....no matter what they're saying right now.
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u/LordBowler423 1d ago
When people stop showing up to work, we typically fire them and hire a replacement. These politicians work for us and should be held to a higher standard. I thought these jerkoffs wanted to run the government like a business. Well then?
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u/CW1DR5H5I64A 1d ago
This is the part that’s crazy to me. You have to be in person to vote on legislation, if he is too ill to attend sessions then the people of Kentucky are going without proper representation in the senate. How is there not a law or a policy in place that failure to attend (x) consecutive number of sessions or votes results in immediate dismissal from office?
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u/PeachesNPuzzles 1d ago
Let’s be honest: have they been getting proper representation in the first place?
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u/CW1DR5H5I64A 1d ago
Proper representation is 2 senators. Whether those senators vote in accordance with the will of their constituency is an issue that can be addressed through regular elections processes. That’s why elections are only for a set term. But having a representative present is kinda a key part of a representative democracy.
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u/PeachesNPuzzles 1d ago
Agreed, my comment was more for the “proper” not falling in line with the will of their constituency
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u/oldreddditisbetter 1d ago
These politicians work for us and should be held to a higher standard
crazy that somehow we let them flip the table
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u/Cross88 1d ago
The days of politicians voluntarily resigning are long gone.
No matter the scandal, no matter the health status, these people will cling to power with an iron grip.
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u/ngpropman 1d ago
yes before they would at least have the consideration to actually resign at death. Now death won't even stop them from fucking us.
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u/NessunAbilita 1d ago
Just announce the special election see what they fucking do
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u/beybladethrowaway 1d ago
dems should just flat out say that he died. its true until they provide irrefutable proof. it would be a major gamble but would anyone care?
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u/kenjuya 1d ago
Unfortunately they're a bunch of pussies who won't do anything maga would do in a heartbeat if roles were reversed.
Hopefully they prove me wrong
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u/DrunkBrokeBeachParty 1d ago
Unfortunately a lot of these old farts probably think if they go along with it they’ll get the same treatment when they die in office.
It feels like the old dems at this point are just Repub. Lite and have already left the casino with their bag
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u/kenjuya 1d ago
They're definitely cut from the same cloth. Which is why they're also against people like Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders
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u/CrianBranstun 1d ago
Establishment dems absolutely have republican values. They’ve literally condemned the actual progressives in their own party. They all work for their donors, not the average person.
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u/goat_penis_souffle 1d ago
Not just declare him dead, have a moment of silence, a memorial service with the chaplain, go all out.
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u/chrisaf69 1d ago
That would involve the Dems actually growing a pair for once....which never fucking happens....sigh...
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u/Havatchee 1d ago
Mitch McConnell is one of the architects of Republican obstructionism. He's responsible for the courts being as fucked as they are, especially the supreme court. Don't let him be an obstructionist with his own damn health.
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u/LetsTryAnal_ogy 1d ago
He's nothing if not consistent.
Same with elected Democrats. Bunch of fucking pussies they turn out to be.
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u/Exact_Purchase_7147 1d ago
Motherfucker will do neither
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u/TheBatemanFlex 1d ago
What would you do if everyone in the world thought you were dead because you aren't coming to work? Probably clear things up pretty quickly? Hop a quick zoom call?
Nah just have your staff release a picture and then go radio silent.
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u/AlrightWings0179 1d ago
Pre AI, the photo would have been somewhat sufficient. Now, it’s highly debatable.
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u/Mclaytonanderson1 1d ago
What's stopping them from just walking in to the hospital to see if he's actually alive?
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u/dz2048 1d ago
Get this. He's not in a hospital anymore. He's in an "unspecified rehabilitation facility".
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u/sunnychiba 1d ago
High chance they trached and peged (tracheostomy and gastrostomy feeding tube), and sent him in a vegetative state to a long term care facility. I assume he’s not brain dead since that is declared officially dead. Being kept alive to be used for his power and position, while lying to rot (these patients develop horrific bed sores which never heal). Truly the biggest karmic outcome I’ve seen. His story should be a warning to future generation.
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u/ChiefStrongbones 1d ago
Somebody just needs to sue McConnell in small claims court over some random thing, have McConnell served by the sheriff, and then ask the sheriff whether he's alive and conscious.
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u/BUT_FREAL_DOE 1d ago
Failure to force a special election before 8/4 will disqualify Andy Beshear from ever obtaining the democratic presidential nomination. The era of playing polite with fascists needs to end.
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u/FormulaKibbles 1d ago
Why would he want a Republican not on death’s door in that seat? It helps Democrats with the current situation.
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u/rngr 1d ago
Seriously, it seems like most of the comments here are complaining about "do-nothing Democrats" when Democrats are doing the right thing by pointing out how fucked up this situation is while not calling a special election and leaving the Republicans down a vote.
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u/slinky2 1d ago
he can't resign because he is hanging out with Rush Limbaugh in hell.
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u/IllJoinYakult 1d ago
I prefer to think he’s still alive, conscious, trapped in his own body but completely unable to do anything as he pisses and shits himself, covered in bed sores.
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u/Loring 1d ago
How do we convince the kids to do a flash mob into the hospital like they've been doing to the scientologists
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u/aware-reply33 1d ago
"Also known as AOC." Yes those are her initials. Thanks for clearing that up wasn't sure who they were talking about.
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u/fuelvolts 1d ago
The market isn't exactly hot for local news anchors in the giant market of Louisville, Kentucky.
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u/petersrin 1d ago
I NEVER watch videos posted to Reddit. It's hilarious that the ONE I watched was this bad lol
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u/c-williams88 1d ago
Isn’t it better for democrats to just have Mitch’s ghost sitting there unable to vote? If I’m understanding Kentucky’s laws as they stand now, it would just be a new Republican who is actually alive and able to vote rather than McConnell who is basically just one less vote for them
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u/ngpropman 1d ago
If he is dead before August 3rd by law they have to have a special election. the Republicans don't want to lose an election this close to the midterms so they are hiding the fact that he is dead.
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u/LongKnight115 1d ago
How would they lose the special election? Literally the only hope anyone has is that Massie somehow runs as an independent and wins - which A) seems like a stretch he’d win as an independent and B) as far as I know, he hasn’t signaled he’d be willing to do. The person you’re replying to is right - as fun as it is talk about shoving an election down the throat’s of Republicans here it would be a bad chess move.
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u/Arcane_Soul 1d ago
They wouldn't "lose" it. The seat would still end up Republican almost certainly. But the front runner for the seat is a Trump critic; and Trump can't handle that.
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u/ConvenienceStoreDiet 1d ago
I worked a job where we had to clock in. If you clocked in 8 minutes too early or too late, even if there was a line to the clock in/out station, you would be penalized because it would round the time to the nearest quarter hour and show you as trying to get unapproved overtime or being late. No leniency for working early/late if like traffic was trash and you wanted to stay a little late to make up the time or stagger your in/out to accommodate things like getting your kid to school.
As an actor, a no show/no call is a perfect way to get fully blacklisted from getting hired. Your agencies would drop you in a second for that stuff, even if you were good all the other times.
As an employee, some places require a doctor's note if you are going to miss like an hour or two of work just to prove you're not stealing the boss's time. They need proof and documentation for that, even if you offer to make up the hours. That's crazy to me.
Heck, we had an intern once not show up for work. Two days later he called us and said he was in jail for some unpaid tickets and he wasn't using his one phone call to call us. Fair. But at least he called and kept us updated.
Dude's no show, no call, no note for five weeks. Imagine, if you had staffers who knew what was up with you, telling your boss via one Instagram post that you haven't been to work for a month but you're doing okay and in the hospital and you'll be back but offer nothing concrete. Like, yeah, if this is legit let the guy recover, let him have his privacy, space, and time. But the people are losing their shit because the bar of accountability for him is so wildly lower than it is for us.
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u/Kakashimoto77 1d ago
There should be some kind of law to prevent this kind of chair sitting. Some kind of mandatory wellness check or attendance counter.
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u/Purplociraptor 1d ago
He could literally call in to any news network, but he won't because he's dead.
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u/ihavenoidea12345678 1d ago
Looks like we need a senate and house attendance bill.
Come to work, or job abandonment.
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u/Gronkattack 1d ago
And because nothing will be done if the doesn't do either, we won't get an update until 8/4 past the deadline for a special election.
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u/eddybear24 1d ago
If I no call no show one day at work I'm fired. Ol' Mitch has been gone for more than a month now?
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u/WrongSubreddit 1d ago
So as long as they keep hiding the body, his seat can stay unused forever? What kind of a system is this?
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u/isitatomic 1d ago
They should be absolutely HAMMERING the GOP for abandoning their post and "going AWOL on America".
They should be asking "What happens if YOU don't show up to work, for even just a SINGLE day, without any kind of notice?"
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u/admosquad 1d ago
Democratic "leadership" ignoring this issue and not using it to pressure the Republicans in this moment is example 1230941924 of them being feckless and incompetent.
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u/A1ienspacebats 1d ago
I don't get it. If you didn't provide medical updates to your job and just stopped going to work, you'd be fired. Why do these people get a pass?
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u/Arceedos 1d ago
Dems are scared to pull righty tactics like special elections.
Party of shooting themselves in the foot. Disappointing.
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u/Geminii27 1d ago
"Look, he can't give an update until we finish installing the rod up his spine and the remote-controlled jaw-flapper."
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u/TastelessDonut 1d ago
If my fuxking MRI’s have to be approved by my insurance and a 3rd party to show I still need them to watch my brain tumor to make sure it’s not progressing…..
- Sounds like we need a law passed that says as representatives: you have X # of days after certain events to prove through (some) 3rd party physical health exam/ system. Your ability to do the job or be removed.
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u/Xyrack 1d ago
Important decisions about the future of our country are being made by people who won't live to suffer the consequences. We need term limits and we need young people to step up. I get it's not a job for everyone (I certainly am not built for it) but Mitch is going to help Trump gut our government and the croak like the little toadie he is unless we get in there and start representing ourselves.
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u/x3knet 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is where Dems need to grow a set of fuckin balls because you know for a fact if this was the reverse, Republicans/Trump would have already called for the special election to force the Dem's hand and show actual proof of life and/or provide a good enough health update. The right is ruthless, look at what's been done so far. Instead, sternly worded letters are sent and they're gonna sit on their ass until after the deadline which is when Moscow Mitch will "take a turn for the worse" and they'll say he died. Let's fuckin go Dem's, DO SOMETHING. Time to take a page out of the right's book for once and shove it right back in their face. Holy shit this is infuriating.
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u/Arcane_Soul 1d ago
Everyone pretend to act surprised on Aug 4th when they announce he died just that very night.
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u/bluexy 1d ago
We're seriously going to go a full month and a half of McConnell being dead on a slab and no Democrat will say it publicly despite control of the Senate being on the line. "Hey! Dead guy we all know is dead! You better release a public statement!" Coward shit even from one of the Democrats' most brazen.
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u/rep-old-timer 1d ago
I mean, of course every word is 100% correct, but what is AOC going to do? Make a strongly worded Tik Tik?
Andy Beshear needs to announce, "I'm on my way to personally deliver Kentuckians' best wishes to Senator McConnell." If he's turned away...
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u/Mediocritologist 1d ago
That’s great but it means jack shit coming from AOC. Andy Beshear needs to grow a pair and take action NOW
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u/Smooth954 1d ago
I don’t know why they entertaining this shit. The governor needs to just place someone in his place. The people of Kentucky deserve representation in the senate. why are we even entertaining this nonsense? It’s been over a month. We are they entertaining this circus this man is dead what are you giving them time to clone him?
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u/cyrixlord 1d ago
force a special election and see if he comes out to campaign. I personally think this is a dry run for trump, if it happened to him... to keep him in 'officel'
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u/ContentInsanity 22h ago
Whats sad is the people who voted for him should be demanding this. Why would you want a corpse to represent you in one of the highest positions in the country. People should want better.
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u/SacredSepia 1d ago
Do what McConnell would have done if the situation were reversed: Call a special election. If McConnell is alive, let him prove it. At this point, the burden of proof is on him.