The Adam Mockler Show - UPDATE: He's MISSING!

Episode Date: July 8, 2026

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Someone's already claiming this. is our year. Someone else said that last year too. A round of Jameson, Ginger, and Lime arrives at the table. Smooth enough for kickoff, smooth enough for extra time. New friends pulling up a stool. Debates about whether that was a handball. Cheers rising like a roar around the room. Because match days are about the shared moments. Added Jameson to your match day lineup. Jameson, it's what you bring. Please enjoy our products responsibly. He is still missing. It has been 24 days since Mitch is McConnell has been seen in the public eye and all we have are not even secondhand reports, like thirdhand reports that somebody may have talked to Mitch McConnell. His neighbors have not

seen anybody inside or outside or around his house since he was hospitalized. His wife is currently in China and the reporting is that he is medically brain dead. Now, the way it works is the next of kin is able to pull the plug if somebody's medically brain dead, but if their brain stem cell isn't fully gone. And when Elaine Chow's in China, she's not able to do that because she's is not there. So they are currently in this weird situation where Mitch McConnell seems to be brain dead, yet the entire Republican Party is lying and propping him up as if he is still alive. Kentucky Governor Andy Bashir just sent out a letter. Three weeks after Mitch McConnell's undisclosed hospitalization, Andy Bashir sent a letter that says this. Dear Senator Mitch McConnell,

over the last several weeks, Kentuckians have grown increasingly concerned about the current state of your health, well-being, and ability to hold office in the United States. Senate. As governor, I request that you fully update Kentuckians regarding the current state of your health. As public office holders, we have made a commitment to our constituents to do our best to represent them and always be transparent. I believe this requires clear communication about one's ability to serve. Mike, I want to get you in here in just one second, but these types of coverups are incredibly common in the Republican Party. Donald Trump's health is being covered up as he is over in Turkey, mixing Iran with Japan, in mixing Zelensky with Putin, mixing his left hand for his right hand and vice versa.

This dude does not know where he is, yet the Republican Party will continue to prop these people up because they want to gain power. We're going to talk about McConnell's legacy. We're going to give some updates. But Mike Nellis, how are you feeling about this? Yeah, well, let me just start here, which is to say this is why independent media is so important because this is something that we've all been talking about for three weeks. And for the most part, the corporate mainstream media has not wanted to talk about.

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I mean, look, here's the thing. This is not the first time that a Republican member of Congress has just up and disappeared, and nobody in Washington, D.C. seems to care. Tom Keene disappeared for months, even though he was still insider trading and introducing pieces of legislation, but nobody seemed to care,

comes back and blames it on depression, which I can tell you right now. I feel bad that he had depression. I'm glad that he got the care that he needed. But at the end of the day, you or I or a regular person would not be able to disappear for four months without anybody notice it,

without losing our jobs, without having an impact on our lives. And at a minimum, a regular person would have to bring in a doctor's note and say, I'm sick. When you're an elected official, you have a higher bar for transparency. Kay Granger, who was a Republican member of Congress from Texas,

disappeared at 2024. Nobody even noticed that she was gone. She was in an assisted living facility for people with dementia, okay, and nobody in Washington cared. Now it's happening again with Mitch McConnell, and they can't cover it up because Mitch McConnell is, whether we like it or not, in historic figure in American politics.

People will write textbooks about him forever because he's a consequential figure in American history. I don't like the guy. I don't like what he's done or accomplished, but I think I can acknowledge that. And the brazenness of this lie is so insane to me because the Guardian has a piece up, and I'm not going to read the whole thing.

I will summarize a little bit of it, but, you know, Republican leaders are basically panicking right now, and they're trying to stop this rebellion inside the Republican Party because Steve Bannon is freaking out about this. Laura Lumer's freaking out about this. Even Senator Mike Lee is like, we don't know what's going on, on and on and I think they've got real divisions in their caucus because they think this is politically damaging to them.

And then they pulled this insane ploy yesterday. We're like, you know, Thune, Barrasso, and then Scott Jennings of all people claim they got a 20 minutes, phone call from Mitch McConnell where he was telling them about how he felt about the grand platinum stuff and and Ron and I don't know his favorite episode of Dragon Ball Z. Like it was all just like really stupid weird shit that nobody believes because if he was well enough to be on the phone for two hours talking to people that he knows, he was certainly well enough to pick up the phone and talk to a reporter or shoot a proof of life video.

And this is just proof to me of how broken our government is. The fact that we have so many people that are hanging on for dear life. to stay in the Senate to what? Get one more crack, get market manipulation and insider trading to make one more deal for their corrupt friends in the billionaire class. Like, I don't know why they're sticking around. We need term limits. We need age limits.

We need full transparency for their health. I don't care if the Democrats are Republicans because by the way, what, like eight Democrats have died in office in the last year and a half? It's embarrassing for everybody. This is not a partisan issue. We got to fix it. Yeah. You call them a consequential figure.

And I want to talk about the consequences of what he did in just one second because I agree he was very consequential and we can run through the legacy that he's going to leave. But regarding those tweets from Scott Jennings saying, I talked to him for 20 minutes, I really like the parody one from that Representative Jack Kimball parody account. It was like, I spoke with Mitch McConnell for 45 minutes. He didn't say anything. He just listened as he always does. We then had a staring contest and he won.

He didn't blink once for 45 minutes, like implying that he just... Did you see that CNN accidentally broadcasted that too? Yeah, yeah. That was rough for them. But I mean, it all comes down to the... incentives that politicians have at the end of the day, the incentives that parties have, and we have a perverted political system right now where it feels like the incentives aren't to help your constituents on a state or local level. The incentives are just to get reelected

or to stay in power, cling on power for as long as you can. That's what we're seeing with Mitch McConnell and the likely weekend at McConnell's like a situation that we're seeing right now. Terrible reboot. Worst reboot ever. Worst reboot ever. Really quickly. Oh yeah. Regarding the consequences of Mitch McConnell's legacy, I think that's an important thing, Because, you know, I have older family members. I'm not going to sit here and, like, celebrate or wish death about anybody. That's not what we do. We're not like that.

We don't operate like that. But I think it's really fair game to talk about the legacy that Mitch McConnell is going to leave behind and what he spent his political career doing. He spent his entire political career breaking the very institutions that are foundational to America. He blocked many of Obama's judges, including Merrick Garland, from reaching the Supreme Court, citing it's too late in Obama's presidency. Then, during Trump's term, when, um, Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, he allowed ACB to be pushed through.

This led to Roe v. Wade being overturned. He reshaped the entire court in the far-right MAGA image to overturn Roe v. Wade. It allowed that awful Voting Rights Act decision to take rights away from black Americans, minority Americans. He tried to push back LGBTQ rights and said he wanted to turn Obama into a one-term presidency. He backed the 2008 bailout that ended up increasing wealth inequality in every single thing he has done since he's taken power has been to screw over vulnerable Americans, screw over working Americans, supporting large Republican tax cuts throughout every single

presidency, including those that many view has just egregiously skewed towards the richest of the rich. This is somebody who constantly fought for the donor class, the rich old white men, no offense to any watching, but I'm just saying he constantly was only fighting for one group And that group has now accumulated so much wealth that many other Americans are struggling. He's taken rights away from women, minorities. This is not a good man. And on top of all of that, there's just an institutional rot and decay that was caused by him. Politics used to be played, obviously, in an intense manner.

But the institutions used to be functioning. Congress is basically at a halting standstill because of the way that Mitch McConnell tried to reshape the filibuster and the ability for both sides to just continue to stall. It's disgusting. And I made a video about this with Brian Tyler Cohen yesterday. He's releasing a new book. And he basically said, he was like, I hope Mitch McConnell is still alive to see the day that Democrats wield power in the same way that he introduced.

I hope he's alive to see us retake the Senate and wield all this power. It was really powerful. Well, I don't think he's going to make it to that day. But we're going to remember him when we start using power the way that they have done it to hurt people and steal from the American people. His brain stem cell might make it to that point. lame shout never flies back. I mean, listen, I'll tell you, I'm just going to go up at a side on that is like, I love my wife. And if there was something wrong with my wife, if she went into cardiac arrest,

I would drop everything no matter how important it was to go be with her and be with my son and be with my family. The fact that she's not there, it creates just so many more questions. And I don't want to question somebody else's marriage, but like that is disturbing conduct to me. And if it's just because she won't be able to be asked the question about pulling the plug. That's weird to me. I know a lot of people also speculate that she's like a Chinese spy and she had to go check it with her handlers. I don't know about any of that.

I don't believe that. I don't know. I mean, Adam, at this point, though, it's basically patriotic to be a little bit of a conspiracy theorist. So, like, I'm open to the possibility. But I want to make one more point on McConnell's legacy because you articulated it really, really well. But one of the things that I think people forget is McConnell held up

Merrick Garland's appointment to the Supreme Court in 2016, predicated on the idea that they would have a chance to win the presidential election. In the wake of the access Hollywood tape, where Donald Trump very clearly outed himself as a sexual predator, where a lot of people turned on him and it was going to look very difficult for Trump to win, McConnell was a big part of the reason the Republican Party did not abandon him fully because he knew that Donald Trump would appoint the justices that he wanted. So McConnell in that moment made a judgment that it was more important to make the Supreme core more conservative, that it was more important to preserve that power and expand that power so they could get rid of Roe v. Wade and they could hurt unions and they could hurt women and they could

hurt everybody in this country. And so he put up with Donald Trump the sexual predator. And compare that now to the Democratic Party, which is taking down Graham Platner, whether people like it or not, like he's gone, he's going to step aside. We police our own, they don't. And McConnell is the poster child for that. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, the entire Republican Party is just full of the least moral people ever who want to break these systems. And then when we try to do something in a reciprocal manner, they cry and whine in the most fragile manner possible. It reminds me of these people that you and I debate all the time. You went on CNN last night, which was really great to see. And you went on Newsmax, you want a news nation. You're doing the media circuit. We debate these folks who will

use their platform and their show to relentlessly screw over the other side, lie, like try to basically steal rights away from minorities. And then the second that we try to push back, they pretend as if we broke some rules. Mitch McConnell is the person who literally mainstreamed this type of, like, this type of playing. He, again, blocked Obama's Supreme Court nomination in the most slimy, worst way possible, and then allowed ACB to be pushed through in the same exact time frame. He is a cry bully. All the Republicans are. And the fact that they're covering this up is the least surprising thing possible. I think, no, this is how Mitch McConnell would want to go. Like, let's be clear about that. I'm not celebrating anyone's death. Life to me is very sacred. Like,

you're not going to find me, even when Trump dies, I'm not going to be like doing a dance or anything like that. But like, this is exactly how Mitch McConnell wants to go. Like the idea of dragging out his life, keeping him alive on a ventilator to prevent a special election to fuck over the Democratic Party one more time is the most, it's the most Mitch McConnell way he could possibly go. He's currently in hell going, we did it. Yeah, we did. Yeah, we did. He's celebrating. with, I don't even know, but I think at the end of the day. He's celebrating, no, listen, Ronald Reagan is down there,

okay, the H is down there, as they like to say. Like, there's a lot of bad people down there. There's a joke from Scrubs where they're listing people that are in hell, and I think the Dr. Cox goes, Captain Kangaroo, what are you doing here? Like, that's what I imagine Mitch McConnell showing up the hell is. He's chilling with Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh. Is Dick Cheney dead? I never remember.

I don't know. I actually didn't know if Rush Limbaugh was dead either. Rush Limbaugh is definitely dead. Rush Limbaugh? Not only is Rush Limbaugh dead. He may have at this point just. taken over hell himself. Yeah, he's the new devil. RIP King. We are Charlie Kirk.

I think at the end of the day, this type of cover-up is not something that surprises me. This entire administration has been defined by covering up the Epstein files and using that to continue to accumulate power. Covering up strikes in the Caribbean Ocean, when they likely killed people with no due process that weren't even criminals, they're covering data. ICE has refused to show up to like 10,000 different court.

They violated 10,000 different court orders just this year so far. They're covering up the ICE operations. Even when Renee Good and Alex Pruddy died, what ended up happening was the DOJ spiked the joint investigation between the state and the federal level. They want to continue to cover things up. And this is the ultimate version of it. This is the version of it where they get to continue to accumulate power. And they do not want to hold a special election if Mitch McConnell is announced that.

Now, it is Kentucky, so you don't know what's going to happen, but Kentucky Governor Andy Bashir does not get to just appoint anybody. He doesn't get to. What ends up happening is they have to hold a special election during a blue wave. They'll have to spend money on it that is very risky. They're likely to continue to cover this up, which is why we have to continue to ask these questions over and over. The stream isn't done yet, but if you're watching the stream or the YouTube,

please make sure you drop a like and you're subscribed because we have to keep people's attention on these Republican coverups. We have to continue talking. about things that Republicans are covering up. Hell, even the great American state fair that just took place was a big cover up for Donald Trump to launder money to his close allies and friends. So they're all covering things up to accumulate power

and the onus is on us to call this out. It's also worth noting that independent media was the one to break the story that he was hospitalized in the first place, break the story that he was likely brain dead, break the story that his neighbors haven't seen him in three weeks, maybe even four weeks now. Independent media has been on this over and over and over. and it's just sickening that the Republicans are doing this.

Well, and it's just, it's the perfect example of what, what's been broken in Washington for a long time, but is certainly now easily exposed and just so hard to deny in Donald Trump's Washington, which is that the rulebook simply does not apply to anybody who has enough money or enough influence or enough access to power. And like, you can get away, apparently, with covering up the potential death or brain death or incubation, whatever you want to call him. I joked he was frozen in carbonite right now.

We don't know his state, but you can cover that up, and there'll be no consequences for it. You can be Scott Jennings. And like that Scott Jennings tweet is a lie. Like, it's what it is. I called him out on CNN. He wasn't on the show last night, which was a huge bummer to me. But like I, he had called him out for lying, and I believe that he's lying. I don't think anybody really believes that tweet.

And there's no consequence to that in this environment. And same thing with Tom Keene. You disappear for four months. Like maybe he'll lose his reelection, but he's still probably in a 50-50 shot here. and nobody got in trouble for Kay Granger disappearing. And there is something about this that's insidious because there's one thing is like the candidates are in these compromised positions and they're unwell. But the staff are also like propping these people up. They're protecting their meal ticket.

They're protecting their access to power because they want to go off and become lobbyists and do favors for other people. And that's fucked up too. And like Eleanor Noames Horton, who is a Democrat. Like she was trying to run for re-election. I don't think she knew she was running for re-election. Her staff were propping her up. she's the DC representative in Congress. And it was a huge scandal like six or seven months ago.

This stuff has got to stop. And like we need people of good moral fiber and character who stand up and say it's time for you to go. And we can implement term limits. We can implement age limits. I'm a little bit hesitant on an age limit because I do think there are people that are 75 years old that are still kicking and useful. So maybe that's about a cognitive test and full transparency. But we got to do that. And again, to me, these things are not, they're not partisan issues.

Like the Democratic Party is not clean here, okay? The way we handled Biden towards the end was bad. We've had eight Democratic members of Congress who died in office. It's just, it's not great. But we can't keep living in a world where there's no gravity for our politicians. Let me end this off with some of my favorite parody tweets from Scott Jennings' tweet. So Scott Jennings' original tweet was like, I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning,

the senator from Kentucky for 20 minutes about Iran, Ukraine, the situation in Maine. I hope he comes back to work. So we had Thomas, Matt. Massey, who then said, I spoke, he's joking around. He said, I spoke to McConnell for about 20 minutes this morning. He said we should end the war with Iran, quit giving aid to Israel, stop spying on Americans without a warrant. And he's really sorry about how my primary turned out. We have Hassan Pikers.

Wait, before you do Pikers, can I say something about Massey? Because another reason that they're covering this up, I think, they don't want a special election. The deadline is August 3rd. So if McConnell dies before August 3rd, they have to host a special election here. I think they're worried about two things. they're worried about Bashir getting in because Bashir is a Democrat is one statewide and Bashir might be tempted to do it, although he wants to run for president. It's the worst kept secret in Washington.

But the other thing is I think they're worried that Thomas Massey might run for Senate and take that seat, which that would be, I actually objectively think that would be the funniest outcome. I don't like Thomas Massey, but I agree with him on some things like Epstein, but that would be objectively funny to me. Hassan Piker, you're not ready for this one. He said, just got off the phone with Mitch McConnell. We had phone sex. That's all he said.

That's all he said. He's good, man. You know, I want to hate him, but I just... Peter Twinkled said, I just got off while on the phone with Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes. Good one. Yeah, I didn't go dirty with mine. I'll pull mine up.

You keep reading him, but I'll pull that one. Those are funny. Someone was like, I just got off the phone with Mitch McConnell, and he finally wants Medicare for all free school lunches, all of this stuff. People are just dogging on Scott Jennings, and I find it to be hilarious. Did you write one, too?

I wrote one. I can't find the exact one, but it was something along the lines of like, I just got off the phone with my dear friend Mitch McConnell. He told me that he's actually a Nigerian prince and he needs $5,000. True. Out of the hospital.

Yeah, that's a really good one. That's a really good one. I felt good about it. I had written another one, that Dragon Ball Z joke I made at the beginning of this. I had written one yesterday like that, and then I scrapped it because I didn't think it was funny enough. Yeah.

Well, thank you guys for watching. Independent Media is incredibly important. You can rewash this on YouTube or Substack. We're going to continue to push the truth out every single day, and we appreciate all of you for your support. Mike, I'll see you on Saturday. and let's go get some food of the taste of Chicago. Let's do it.

Love you guys. Bye.