Shiloh is mentioned in the Acknowledgements
Shiloh's photos, and those of three of his counterparts, are being exhibited on Cape Cod at the Osterville Public Library, June 1st through August 29th. Wil and listener are going to the reception being held Wednesday evening, July 8th.
Mitch McConnell is reportedly brain dead. The journalist who broke his cardiac arrest is at the hospital waiting for them to move his body. Her name is Desirée Townsend.
ReplyDeleteShe's the independent reporter who obtained the EMS scanner audio confirming paramedics performed CPR at McConnell's D.C. home on June 14. NBC and CBS spent a week catching up to her.
Yesterday she tweeted that she's physically at the hospital, that multiple sources have told her the 84-year-old senator has been declared brain dead, and that his Capitol Police detail was still there as of 3:39pm ET.
Laura Loomer posted the same claim, citing a White House source. McConnell's office will not confirm or deny. They insist he is "continuing to improve."
The brain-death claim is not yet verified. Here's what is.
McConnell has been hospitalized for three straight weeks with no public explanation.
His office has never said why he was admitted. His last vote was June 11.
His wife Elaine Chao was photographed in Beijing meeting the Chinese vice president three days after her husband collapsed. She has not come home.
His daughter deactivated her X account.
Neighbors of his D.C. townhouse say no one has come or gone since the ambulance took him away. Not family. Not staff.
Kentucky's Democratic Governor Andy Beshear says McConnell's office is not returning his calls.
Now the politics.
Kentucky Republicans quietly rewrote the state's succession law in 2024. If McConnell's seat opens, Beshear cannot appoint a replacement. A special election gets triggered instead.
And the timing matters. If he can't finish his term after August 3, the special election just rolls into November. Before August 3, the GOP has to hold a standalone race.
They’re watching the calendar.
The election they're trying to avoid is the GOP's nightmare. Thomas Massie, the Republican congressman who has become one of Trump's loudest critics, would be a heavy favorite to run and split the red vote wide open.
Every day they hide McConnell's condition is a day they don't have to hold that race.
Whatever is actually happening in that hospital room, this is the picture from outside it: a senator who has not been seen in three weeks, a wife who left the country, a family that has gone dark, a governor being frozen out, and a party racing the clock on a succession law they wrote themselves.
Townsend is still at the hospital.
I don't care who it is or what his politics are. This situation is immoral. His constituants and the broader public should be apprised of his condition. Now, I realize there are people who feel heroic measures and prolonged life support are appropriate. I don't agree with that, but if that's the senator's wishes, then say so. If he is being kept "alive" on a deadline, for political purposes then, you know what? I see no difference between that and the young woman in Georgia who was braindead but was kept on life support until her fetus was judged to be viable. At that point, they took the baby and finally let the poor girl die in peace. Both cases are immoral and abusive and should, in a sane world, have never come about. Keeping a body breathing for a blatantly political end is a sin and ought to be a crime..
DeleteI'm the first to admit my grasp on geography isn't too sound. But I just heard, from President Trump's own lips, of a country previously unknown to me: The Islamic Republic of Japan.
ReplyDeleteTrump may be ambulatory, but he is also braindead. Susan 5th
ReplyDeleteShiloh looked a lot like Wil. I didn't realize it until I saw this photo. Susan
ReplyDeleteThis is true! He and his older brother look a lot like Wil. Very keen eye have you!
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ReplyDeleteThe Guardian is reporting that Elaine Chao is back in the states:
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, McConnell’s wife, former cabinet member Elaine Chao, reportedly returned to the US on Tuesday after a trip to China. Some observers had seen her willingness to travel abroad as evidence of McConnell’s stable condition. -- nordy
Brain dead is very stable. -- nordy
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Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has two Black Haitian children who she adopted.
Today she ruled to expel 700,000 Haitians who were here legally. 😐
A reminder that proximity to white supremacy is not protection from white supremacy. And that proximity to Black and brown people is not exemption from being a fascist and racist.
Just a silly comment, but does anyone remember the movie Dave with Kevin Kline? I imagine a team hard at work finding a Mitch McConnell doppelganger to fill out his term...
ReplyDeleteI love that movie! In fact, we have it on DVD!
DeleteI love that movie! In fact, we have it on DVD!
DeleteTonight's Reception for the photography exhibit was sooo good. More about that when I'm not exhaustified.
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