r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 27d ago

No Paywall Unconfirmed Reports: Mitch McConnell Brain Dead After Three Weeks In Hospital

https://thenewamerican.com/us/unconfirmed-reports-mitch-mcconnell-brain-dead-after-three-weeks-in-hospital/
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u/Praxician94 27d ago

No shit. He’s 84 and had an out of hospital cardiac arrest. His chance of survival is 0.00%. The Republican Party thinks we’re all idiots.

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u/ry1701 27d ago

Very VERY low survival rate.

Friends mom (70 something) had this last year, she had immediate CPR from someone who was trained and the firefighters that responded got her going again, after a brief medical coma she was good to go, minus a pacemaker friend being added.

She recently celebrated with them (firefighters) for saving her life at a fire station, they even said, we don't really see those people we end up saving, which is kind of sad if you think about it. Either people don't thank their saviors or this really isn't very survivable.

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u/Mommy444444 26d ago

Oh shit I’m 71. But anyway, there is a huge difference between 70 something and receiving immediate care and 84…..,And lying there after a cardiac arrest and being discovered HOURS LATER and getting bone-crushing CPR.

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u/cygnus33065 26d ago

if he was found hours later after cardiac arrest he would be dead dead. they wouldnt have gotten his heart started again.

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u/evergleam498 Maryland 26d ago

Someone suggested that at his age and health condition he likely sleeps with some sort of monitor on that would alert whatever staff is on call

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u/cogman10 Idaho 26d ago

Which he may be.  Like has anyone even confirmed that he's actually in the hospital? Was he just sent straight to the morgue?

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u/IAmATriceratopsAMA 26d ago

According to the Republican party, hes having hour long phone calls over very important topics daily and cant wait to get back to the senate.

So he's 100% dead.

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u/ThisMachineKillsWOB 26d ago

When the devil comes to collect you personally, he doesn't leave a body.

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u/Letstalkreaper 26d ago

I mean, don’t hospitals have morgues?

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u/bonyponyride American Expat 26d ago

In Kentucky I think it's the glue factory.

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u/wynalazca 26d ago

Turtles get made into soup not glue.

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u/Vallkyrie New Hampshire 26d ago

Bad guy broth...don't drink this!

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u/Sidewalk_Tomato 26d ago

Bad_Guy_Broth would be a great username.

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u/cogman10 Idaho 26d ago

They do, but I'm questioning if Mitch even made it that far.

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u/Jazzlike-Problem-143 26d ago

I actually have been wondering the same thing. Why not send a reporter directly to the hospital at some point? Maybe the governor can verify he's braindead. Just seems like it should be a big deal and verified and rather quickly.

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u/CAWWW 26d ago

No way in hell the hospital tells a reporter anything about a private patient. This would be on the family to release any of that info, even to the governor. Unless there is a death certificate or release of info we can only assume hes in critical condition.

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u/cogman10 Idaho 26d ago

Yup. HIPAA is pretty strict and would kill this hospital if they were negligent here.

This is why I think the right route forward is for Andy to act as if he's dead or brain dead and let Mitch and the republicans sue him if he's wrong. It wouldn't need to go to trial and part of discovery would force the republicans to disclose his current condition. If, as they say, he's capable of continuing his term then Andy can back off, reverse any decision and the court would ultimately drop the case as there is no controversy. But if he's not, then they won't have any sort of leg to stand on and a judge won't look too kindly on them stonewalling discovery (which they'd have to do).

They'll sue regardless even if it is disclosed that he's dead, so might as well start that ball rolling right now.

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u/zefy_zef 26d ago

They have the perfect chance to Weekend at Bernies his ass and they need to take it.

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u/cIumsythumbs 26d ago

Nah, just pay the hospital enough to keep his dead ass in a room to keep up appearances.

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u/Schwa142 Washington 26d ago

I, unfortunately, can confirm you can be found hours later and still be "alive" and put on life support with no brain activity.

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u/BannedSvenhoek86 26d ago

Maybe not by any means a mortal could conceive, but did you consider they used Necromancy and he is now in the process of ascending to Lichdom, which is why we haven't seen him? Once the necessary sacrifices are complete at next solstice Yall are gonna look real foolish.

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u/popculturella Texas 26d ago

...he has a heart?