If he's well enough to sit up and smile for the cameras, if he's well enough to make a statement, he's well enough to call the Governor of Kentucky. If he isn't well enough to make that call, it's time to resign.
I read another article about the room number being inside the room. After spending many weeks with my father in different hospitals, the room number is never inside.
Under Kentucky Senate succession law (which has been recently twice been updated by the Republican legislators), if he is declared dead after August 3rd, no special election to fill the seat (in the current circumstances, might go to non-maga, or even a Democrat) needs to be held, and the seat can be kept empty until January. — https://fortune.com/2026/07/08/mitch-mcconnell-senate-seat-could-sit-empty-for-months/
I'm with others here on the thinking we will find out after the cutoff that he suddenly died. But I have heard that with congresspeople, their death certificates are withheld from the public for a certain period of time?
Flooferdoof
LIVE INTERVIEW OR NOTHING
CelestialSea
It's just an old picture. They didn't even bother to stick a newspaper in this one.
CallMeMcGyver
Okay... so they did a great job embalming him... show video or it's just his stuffed corpse being used as a prop like some 80s slapstick dark comedy.
DeadWhiteMale
Anther fake picture.
shameofslate
When I saw the arrow pointing to her hand, for a second I thought she was playing the circle game and I was about to get slugged on the arm.
Gorgoror
He is taxidermied...
Bystandr
Nah hes dead. Unless he has a full face mask filling in his sallow sunken flesh and a pound of makeup, that is not present Mitch.
HenryLongfellowIII
His right hand looked a bit claw-y in the previous photo, neither hand visible now?
clonedeeznuts
This administration thinks everyone is as stupid as them
WellThereYouAre
AND IT APPEARS THEY ARE RIGHT
KAPTKipper
Zombie!
CallMeMcGyver
His eyes and his wife's eyes are not aimed in the same direction... they should have done a better job posing his embalmed corpse.
thundercactus
pfffff as if they would go through that much effort to fake a photograph.
TheVillageGrouch9000
Zoomed into the image and the arrows. I see no anomalies. I'm on the fence about it being fake and him dead.
LavenderAmethyst
When I zoom in, the ear looks too straight.
curialis
That's just a picture of her holding him back from jumping up and legislating like hell!!! (/SS)
Freak0zoid
He's making the same face, with the same pose. This is not convincing me in any way, shape or form.
rubypilgrim
If he's well enough to sit up and smile for the cameras, if he's well enough to make a statement, he's well enough to call the Governor of Kentucky. If he isn't well enough to make that call, it's time to resign.
michaelfire
Are there any pathologists, undertakers out there? Trach scar, blown pupils- is this a living person or dead? Weekend at Bernie's?
EverNotRelevant
Their faces look almost exactly the same.
bbrown1012
I read another article about the room number being inside the room. After spending many weeks with my father in different hospitals, the room number is never inside.
NVGoddesscottage
I like the one where his head falls off
kimwimgoddess
Has anybody tried prompting ai to come up with the same picture, see how close they can get?
Alistairetheblu
Funny how in the age of easy video recording they're only using pics, huh?
OtisTDrunk
ThatGuyFromJustSouthOfTheMiddleOfNowhere
If you're hiding a corpse until Aug 4 to avoid a special election, you may be committing election fraud.
Larnoc
You're assuming that the laws still matter?
elfoe
I we pretend they don't then we've accepted defeat
GrimleyGraves
Remember folks, he isn't a corpse until they pull the plug, which will happen sometime after Aug 4th.
Sebastopol140
Even if it is a real pic (and I'm not convinced of that) he looks SO fucking ready to work for the american people, yeah!. LOL.
throwaway12345432
Because he was totally working for the American people before.
pres465
Love how the took the placard out of the sign behind him to ensure he can't be geo-located. No shenanigans, I'm sure.
ThatGuyFromJustSouthOfTheMiddleOfNowhere
NVGoddesscottage
His toes said it all. The blanket will either cover your feet or your face.
Elonth
He probable could. Public offices do not get the same regulations and laws like the rest of us.
Coltaine
Isn't that the exact same expression he had in the last pic?
Stefnos87
he has always looked like that thoe
UmmonPrime
the pic looks so damn similar to the last one to me. First thought I had when I saw this one.
LeftRightThere
CallMeMcGyver
Yeah, once you embalm someone, it's hard to change their expression.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
He looks like what my grandmother would have called "simple". My guess is he's alive but completely out of it. Told to smile at the camera so he does.
doctorId
That's rigor mortis for you
curialis
7-8 more days until we find out his real condition and counting down
JinxRocks
One article stated a “mild touch of pneumonia”, which given KY weather, I suspect on August 4th, he will have a “fatal relapse”….
HandoB4Javert
ExTechOp
Under Kentucky Senate succession law (which has been recently twice been updated by the Republican legislators), if he is declared dead after August 3rd, no special election to fill the seat (in the current circumstances, might go to non-maga, or even a Democrat) needs to be held, and the seat can be kept empty until January.
— https://fortune.com/2026/07/08/mitch-mcconnell-senate-seat-could-sit-empty-for-months/
OldnSpicey
I'm with others here on the thinking we will find out after the cutoff that he suddenly died. But I have heard that with congresspeople, their death certificates are withheld from the public for a certain period of time?
KingOfTheImgurians
I'm guessing 5-6 August is when we find out. Just after the cut off.
ThisIsAllYouCouldComeUpWith
At 12:01 a.m., just as an extra 'fuck you' to Kentuckians
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KingOfTheImgurians
Plus, concealing his death to keep an appointment from happening is literally election fraud
curialis
Yeah, you would think that, but I am learning that our government is basically a bunch of suggestions that are only enforced if you are the minority
deaththeunholy
Treason
tentaclefriendly
It's how McConnell would have wanted to go