Mitch is still alive I swear!
McConnell has been absent for weeks recovering from a fall and pneumonia. Because he cannot vote remotely, the Republican voting majority on the Senate floor is essentially gridlocked at 52 seats.
If McConnell passes away or resigns before his term ends in January, a major political and legal fight will trigger.
The governor of Kentucky must select a replacement of he's not alive, however the current governor of Kentucky is a Democrat, thus the conspiracy theory that turtle boy is secretly dead.
Why do we care as libertarians? We don't. It's just funny inside baseball politics we can point and laugh at from the sidelines.
u/Anen-o-me — 3 months ago