Everyone wants to maintain the privacy of their health. But when you hold public office and public power (like Mitch McConnell), you have a clear responsibility to sacrifice some of it to keep the public informed.
When my husband entered the ICU, he was a Congressman and had announced his re-election bid. Of course we wanted to keep everything private but we authorized the hospital to provide updates to media and provided our own because the people who he represented him and were supporting him had the right to know what was happening.
We only stopped doing so once we withdrew his re-election bid and his term in Congress ended. But these DC relics stay in office so long that they see themselves as royalty with obligations to nobody. That Tom Kean's silent disappearance was tolerated for months was absurd, as is the utter lack of information about McConnell.
Independent journalist Desiree Townsend is reporting that 84-year-old Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, who was mysteriously hospitalized last month after suffering an apparent episode of “cardiac arrest” and has not been publicly seen since at least June 14, is on life support and “brain dead,” though nothing has been officially confirmed by the family or office of the Kentucky Senator.
If Trump and JD Vance are truly standing up to Israel and putting American interests before Israel, pray for them because I’m pretty sure Israel would rather do literally anything besides watch an American President try & restrain them.
leftist twitter is just people going "This guy supports higher wages and doesent like big corporations, why doesent he support mass immigration and transgenderism??? is he stupid?" forever
I’ve been highlighting this for weeks, and Israeli sources are now confirming it.
Right-wing social media influencers and television and radio pundits should be required to disclose any relationships with foreign governments seeking to influence President Trump and other U.S. officials.
PS: I’m aware that Israel isn’t the only country doing this, but this is the most consequential example at the moment. We need foreign influence out of our political commentary, or at the very least, far stricter disclosure laws!
The $300B is a private investment fund and will, according to Reuters “not include any govt money or grants”. The $25B the US has given to Israel since 2023 to commit genocide is, however, from US govt coffers but mysteriously Klobuchar never talks about it in these terms. Odd!
If you tell a progressive white person who lives next to a whole foods 45 minutes outside of the nearest city that a group of black teenagers took over a Chipotle while you were there, they will picture 8 copies of the kid from Finding Forrester, sitting down at a table, laughing, studying, drawing, cleverly rap battling while someone at the table beatboxes.
If you tell anyone who lives in a city that a group of black teenagers took over a Chipotle while you were there, they will go "Oh fuck, did you make it out in time?? Are you okay??"