WEBVTT 00:00.777 --> 00:06.399 [SPEAKER_00]: The liberal globalist order is on its brink and awakening a new conservative age. 00:06.639 --> 00:17.482 [SPEAKER_00]: Dr. Steve Turley, join me every day as we discover answers to today's toughest challenges and explore the re-bondalization of conservative civilization. 00:18.102 --> 00:19.783 [SPEAKER_00]: This is Turley Talks. 00:21.622 --> 00:24.103 [SPEAKER_00]: King, it's me, Dr. Steve, your back porch professor. 00:24.123 --> 00:32.966 [SPEAKER_00]: I hope you're having a wonderful weekend and a great start to the month of August, but I can tell you who most certainly is not. 00:33.486 --> 00:40.748 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's none other than the 84-year-old icon of the Washington Establishment Mitch McConnell. 00:40.828 --> 00:50.852 [SPEAKER_00]: We've got some pretty stunning updates on the condition of McConnell who was reportedly hospitalized back on June 14th and has not been seen since. 00:51.512 --> 01:16.246 [SPEAKER_00]: his office has been virtually silent the whole time they've given almost nothing no updates just a line about him receiving excellent care no condition no prognosis nothing no public appearance no statement no proof of life literally he he is effectively our own version of most of a community or I suppose it's a preem leader of Iran that literally no one 01:20.668 --> 01:28.795 [SPEAKER_00]: But we do have some breaking news here, and it actually goes all the way back to July 12th, nearly a month after he was hospitalized. 01:29.235 --> 01:42.366 [SPEAKER_00]: So as many of you know, McConnell's team officially released a statement and a photo saying a fall left him briefly unconscious and that he was also dealing with a mild case of pneumonia. 01:42.886 --> 01:54.875 [SPEAKER_00]: and alongside that statement came this photo with McConnell and the hospital bed smiling with his wife Elaine Chao holding up a newspaper to prove the date as if he was a hostage or something like that. 01:55.195 --> 01:58.858 [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's the oldest trick in the proof of life playbook. 01:59.578 --> 02:09.484 [SPEAKER_00]: And of course, almost immediately, there were accusations all over the internet that the image was AI generated for the record for there. 02:09.665 --> 02:10.525 [SPEAKER_00]: I have no idea. 02:10.625 --> 02:12.727 [SPEAKER_00]: I just, I don't have that kind of expertise. 02:12.927 --> 02:18.050 [SPEAKER_00]: I have red digital forensics analysts who reviewed the photo. 02:18.830 --> 02:21.252 [SPEAKER_00]: They found no evidence of AI manipulation. 02:21.312 --> 02:23.333 [SPEAKER_00]: At least that's the ones that are being reported. 02:23.393 --> 02:25.255 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, I don't know, but. 02:26.015 --> 02:28.977 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not where the real story is. 02:29.798 --> 02:36.222 [SPEAKER_00]: Three days after that photo on July 15, Chow's photograph leaving the rehab facility, okay? 02:36.623 --> 02:41.766 [SPEAKER_00]: Find no problem, but then nothing, more silence from us two weeks. 02:42.947 --> 02:46.970 [SPEAKER_00]: And then right on cue, just days before critical political deadline, 02:48.186 --> 02:58.914 [SPEAKER_00]: A second proof of life photo resurfaces supposedly taken on July 26 and you can see both these photos online and this is where it gets interesting when you look these up. 03:00.015 --> 03:12.724 [SPEAKER_00]: When you look at these photos side by side, the one of Chow leaving on July 15th and the one supposedly taken two weeks later, she's wearing the exact same outfit, same shirt, 03:14.703 --> 03:38.117 [SPEAKER_00]: Even her hairstyle lines up with the earlier date, not a later one, and this is it's being widely recognized even by left-wing outlets, like the Daily Beast and TMZ, in fact, child reportedly appeared with a noticeably different, more reddish hairstyle at a public event on July 29th, just three days after the photo she supposedly took on July 26th. 03:40.033 --> 03:42.334 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, could a wealthy woman repeat an outfit? 03:42.394 --> 03:44.475 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, of course, sure, no problem. 03:44.595 --> 03:49.858 [SPEAKER_00]: But the Daily Beast owned editor and she flagged something interesting here. 03:49.978 --> 03:51.879 [SPEAKER_00]: The outfit was an off-brand. 03:52.659 --> 03:59.162 [SPEAKER_00]: It was from Chico's, right, which apparently is an inexpensive mid-range casual woman's clothing brand. 03:59.482 --> 04:01.203 [SPEAKER_00]: But chow is a multi-millionaire. 04:02.524 --> 04:06.666 [SPEAKER_00]: And she's known for wearing very luxurious, very expensive clothing. 04:07.638 --> 04:33.528 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, the point that Daily Beast editor was making is that it seemed unusual for someone with child's wealth and reputation for careful presentation in public to be photographed twice in the same casual budget brand outfit, which added the suspicion that the second photo wasn't actually taken on a different day as claimed, but was possibly the same photo session just reused or an older photo relabeled. 04:34.268 --> 04:41.713 [SPEAKER_00]: And also it's being widely reported that the photo carry no verifiable metadata and it wasn't taken by any neutral press photographer. 04:42.761 --> 04:51.443 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, of course, that's not proof of fraud, but it's exactly the kind of detail that raises legitimate questions, not conspiracy's legitimate questions. 04:52.083 --> 04:55.184 [SPEAKER_00]: So here's why this isn't just a tabloid curiosity. 04:55.564 --> 05:04.926 [SPEAKER_00]: The reason why McConnell's mysterious absence matters is because in the end, it is a major constitutional problem. 05:05.226 --> 05:06.526 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so if you don't know, 05:07.952 --> 05:12.234 [SPEAKER_00]: The Kentucky legislature, which is dominated by Republicans, they have a super majority there. 05:12.395 --> 05:14.256 [SPEAKER_00]: They deliberately change their Senate. 05:14.296 --> 05:23.121 [SPEAKER_00]: They can see law back in 2024, specifically stripping the Democrat, Governor, Andy Bashir, the power to appoint a replacement senator. 05:23.881 --> 05:32.226 [SPEAKER_00]: Instead, any vacancy has to be filled by special election, which will, of course, go to a Republican, and most likely a hardcore, mega Republican. 05:33.387 --> 05:35.528 [SPEAKER_00]: Here isn't what they are not telling you. 05:36.741 --> 05:39.602 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a catch buried in Kentucky's Constitution. 05:40.582 --> 05:54.568 [SPEAKER_00]: If a vacancy happens too close to a regularly scheduled election, and the conical seat is already up in November of 2026, the seat may simply sit vacant until the winner of that election is sworn in, come January. 05:55.368 --> 06:00.110 [SPEAKER_00]: That deadline is widely cited as following right around August 3rd, meaning. 06:00.790 --> 06:13.413 [SPEAKER_00]: If McConnell's office can produce just enough proof of light, life to get past that date, right, a photo here, a statement there, the entire question of who replaces him and how it gets punted away from months. 06:14.654 --> 06:20.015 [SPEAKER_00]: Thus denying the Senate a key pro-magavote that would be enough to pass the save act. 06:21.645 --> 06:30.668 [SPEAKER_00]: We're just one vote away from getting the save act past by reconciliation and put on President Trump's desk with a simple 50 vote plus one, right? 06:31.149 --> 06:33.089 [SPEAKER_00]: Then I think is what's really going on here. 06:34.390 --> 06:38.791 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's why there have been four Republicans who've consistently voted against the save act. 06:38.831 --> 06:42.873 [SPEAKER_00]: Markowski, McConnell, Tillis and Susan Collins. 06:42.953 --> 06:45.914 [SPEAKER_00]: Collins may be persuadable in the end, but in the meantime, 06:47.085 --> 06:53.987 [SPEAKER_00]: It seems that McConnell's anti-Trump infatuation is going beyond his old bones. 06:54.367 --> 06:59.068 [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever his condition, he's clearly in no condition to represent the people of Kentucky. 06:59.789 --> 07:02.929 [SPEAKER_00]: And his office should announce his immediate resignation. 07:02.969 --> 07:09.471 [SPEAKER_00]: But again, because he and what's left of the Republican establishment are so anti-Trump. 07:09.491 --> 07:11.112 [SPEAKER_00]: They're so bitter towards you. 07:11.572 --> 07:14.052 [SPEAKER_00]: The Magical Edition for stealing their Neo-Con 07:16.560 --> 07:25.346 [SPEAKER_00]: that they'd designed it, that they would rather drag the shred out, pass the August-3 deadline than to give President Trump a victory with the say about. 07:27.067 --> 07:28.588 [SPEAKER_00]: It's absolutely despicable. 07:28.608 --> 07:36.814 [SPEAKER_00]: And I think it underscores just how important it was to completely revamp the Republican Party as a nationalist populous 07:37.146 --> 07:46.088 [SPEAKER_00]: for the people party and crush the insufferable donor and advisor class that sold out the people every chance they got for their own benefit. 07:47.048 --> 07:49.989 [SPEAKER_00]: So when all is said and done, August 3rd is the deadline. 07:50.149 --> 07:58.311 [SPEAKER_00]: If there's going to be a special election to replace McConnell, his seat would have to be declared vacant by August 3rd. 08:00.512 --> 08:01.792 [SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately, I wouldn't hold my breath. 08:03.557 --> 08:12.670 [SPEAKER_00]: It's just yet another reminder, a precisely why we so desperately needed someone like President Trump to come and remake. 08:13.527 --> 08:21.950 [SPEAKER_00]: the Republican party to serve the interests of the people rather than the interests of a pathetic and corrupt elite of which McConnell was a key figure. 08:22.590 --> 08:23.470 [SPEAKER_00]: So what do you guys think? 08:23.610 --> 08:25.451 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you even think he's alive, right? 08:26.191 --> 08:29.212 [SPEAKER_00]: Is he our most of a Mitch put the comments down below. 08:29.252 --> 08:41.196 [SPEAKER_00]: But bottom line, you have to understand that if there is no seat vacancy declared by August 3rd, that seat can remain vacant all the way to the midterms and all the way. 08:41.716 --> 08:49.220 [SPEAKER_00]: to the new senator who is ever going to replace Mitch McConnell since he's not running for reelection until he gets sworn in January. 08:49.240 --> 08:53.403 [SPEAKER_00]: It seems to me that is why they're playing the silly picture games. 08:54.083 --> 09:06.150 [SPEAKER_00]: He's in no condition to be senator but he doesn't want to admit it because that would replace him with a pro maga senator who would give us the 50th vote for the save act and give Trump a big win. 09:06.750 --> 09:08.371 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what this is really. 09:08.871 --> 09:10.472 [SPEAKER_00]: ultimately trying to stop. 09:10.812 --> 09:11.852 [SPEAKER_00]: Very, very sad stuff. 09:12.172 --> 09:18.095 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me know what you guys think in the comments down below and as always make sure to smack that bell and subscribe button for breaking news and analysis. 09:18.555 --> 09:19.675 [SPEAKER_00]: You're not going to get anywhere else. 09:19.895 --> 09:20.415 [SPEAKER_00]: Love you guys. 09:20.756 --> 09:21.136 [SPEAKER_00]: God bless. 09:21.196 --> 09:21.896 [SPEAKER_00]: Enjoy your weekend. 09:23.035 --> 09:26.576 [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks so much for listening this episode of the Turley Talks Podcast. 09:26.897 --> 09:31.518 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't forget to subscribe, leave us a five star review, and share this episode with your friends. 09:31.939 --> 09:38.941 [SPEAKER_00]: Help us defeat the fake news media and rank us the number one news and commentary podcast all over the world. 09:39.362 --> 09:44.744 [SPEAKER_00]: Come back again tomorrow for another episode celebrating the rise of a new conservative age.