• daggermoon@piefed.world
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    It also pisses me off because you know he has access to the highest standard of care while the people he represents get jack shit.

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    Side note: why is the racist white man with an Asian wife trope so true?

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      There a many extremely racist Asians if you hadn’t noticed. I am sure peas in a pod

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      Right? This isn’t proof at all. The photo is old (He’s looked like a zombie for the past several years). Her hand in the picture disappears, the newspaper is ridiculously cattywampus, and he’s in a dress shirt/jeans laying in a hospital bed. Not to mention even the quote reads like someone desperately covering things up. He fell and was removed from his home by ambulance, but no injuries, complications, or medical issues from that at all?

      Bullshit.

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    Can we just take a moment to admire the absurdity of having to even question whether this man is alive or not as if he’s the goddamn pope and being alive is the only criteria necessary to keep his position. Being a senator is supposed to be a job with actual duties. Any normal job would have at least put him on a LOA and backfilled his position by now if not fired him.

    I want to see us either lean into the absurdity and place polymarket bets on when senators will die (I know this already exists on the dark web but the purpose is to make them see it and sweat) or demand clearer laws/regulations around minimum requirements to hold their position.

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    Inconspicuously holding a newspaper to verify proof of life like a goddamn 90s ransom movie.

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    I strongly suspect that any images of him are AI generated, and this is a psi-op.

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    Obviously he’s not. And he would have relished this psyop, if he were still alive to enjoy it.

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    So he had a fall and mild pneumonia? Those things aren’t scary at all in the broad scheme of things? So they hid it for nearly a month? Don’t buy it at all.

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      At his age, they’re incredibly concerning

      I’m hoping that they wind up being fatal

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    He’s alive because he manipulated Lindsay Graham into taking his place in hell, for now, using some kind of underworld parliamentarian loophole that he learned when he clerked for Satan.

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    “My doctors have confirmed that I didn’t break any bones or suffer a concussion. I didn’t have a heart attack or a stroke. I don’t have any tumors or hemorrhages. But I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital. While receiving excellent care over the past several weeks, I’ve also had to deal with a mild case of pneumonia,” he said in a statement.

    The 911 recording said CPR was being administered. So something is not adding up here.

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      I agree something doesn’t add up.

      How does one administer CPR through a shell?

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      Probably technically correct:

      In 2021, the American Heart Association clarified that “heart attack” is often mistakenly used to describe cardiac arrest. While a heart attack refers to death of heart muscle tissue as a result of blood supply loss, cardiac arrest is caused when the heart’s electrical system malfunctions. Furthermore, the American Heart Association explains that “if corrective measures are not taken rapidly, this condition progresses to sudden death. Cardiac arrest should be used to signify an event as described above, that is reversed, usually by CPR and/or defibrillation or cardioversion, or cardiac pacing. Sudden cardiac death should not be used to describe events that are not fatal”.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiac_arrest

      That is, if he was administered CPR or defibrillation and was revived, he probably had a cardiac arrest but not a heart attack. Or possibly he was having difficulty breathing and didn’t have a cardiac event at all.

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        OK I can see what you’re getting at, but if CPR was performed, it’s very difficult to believe an 84 year old didn’t have rib fractures at least.

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    “My doctors have confirmed that I didn’t break any bones or suffer a concussion. I didn’t have a heart attack or a stroke. I don’t have any tumors or hemorrhages. But I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital. While receiving excellent care over the past several weeks, I’ve also had to deal with a mild case of pneumonia,” he said in a statement.

    McConnell said he’s moved from a hospital to a rehabilitation center to continue regaining his strength. His doctors have run through “every test they can think of” to try to determine what caused the incident.

    Must be nice to have access to good healthcare and be rich enough to just decide to set up camp in a private room at a hospital for a month when “nothing’s wrong.” Totally normal American experience right there.

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    Weird how unlimited time away from work and good, unlimited healthcare can extend a person’s life.

    I wonder if there’s a lesson to be learned there…

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      That and black market human organs. Pure speculation, but it would explain why his wife flew to China just hours after his entry to hospital.

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      A lesson like getting rid of all the mf that oppose all that for others while enjoying it themselves?
      Do you realize how socialist it sounds to want that for all and not only for the best of the best of the best?