c/politics · by sanitation@lemmy.today · 53d

Mitch McConnell found unconscious after ‘heart attack’ last month: reports | The 84-year-old Kentucky Republican received CPR and was rushed to the hospital following the June 14 health incident at h…

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/mitch-mcconnell-unconscious-heart-attack-hospital-b3007108.html

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theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world · 108 pts · 53d

Claims to be pro life.....

nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 65 pts · 53d (8 replies)

I can only wish he reaps exactly what he sowed.

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 53d (2 replies)

If it makes you feel better, he absolutely hates trump, because Trump jumped the gun and now it will likely fail long term.

The stress of trump over the last decade, is likely what contributed to his heart attack and combined with Trump's rush job is why he won't live to see his plan come to fruitation.

People forget that, none of what's happening is Trump's plan, he latched onto an existing plan and insisted the timelines were drastically moved up. And that's probably what will save us, because if Paul Ryan had done half this shit as president it would have worked.

vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 52d

I also think COVID and AI have fucked up the planning by putting negative pressure on the stability of the social order. I would not be surprised if they are seen similar to the Antonine plague and economic stagnation of Rome.

Radical_Socialist_t00t@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 52d

None of whats happening indeed isn't the trumpanzees' plan, it is what capitalism produces and revolves around.

Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 53d (1 reply)

I doubt he has enough time left on this earth to reap much of it

nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 53d

We'll have to call it wishful thinking then I suppose

athatet@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 52d (1 reply)

CPR on an 80 year old means his ribs no longer exist, so that’s nice.

TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social · 4 pts · 52d

I wonder if they tubed him. Then it's really over.

treesquid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 52d

It's too late and he hasn't. He's sowed misery, hate and corruption and reaped money and power his whole life and now he's dying at a ripe old age with zero consequences. His legacy won't do well, but he himself has not had to suffer for all the destruction he's caused to our country, our reputation, and to democracy worldwide.

MrSelfDestruct@lemmy.zip · 52 pts · 53d

NM_Gringo@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 53d (5 replies)

They're keeping the corpse on life support to avoid getting clobbered in another special election. I thought the governor appointed them but that changed now it's a special election.

Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 53d (3 replies)

You don’t perform CPR on people who are breathing. He was dead for a while before he was found. No one knows for how long. He probably is still dead, they just don’t want to announce it for purely political reasons.

vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 52d (1 reply)

He could have been resurrected. Happened to my great grandfather, he lived for another couple years after all the way to 92 though he was gone for too long and ended up degenerating for the last couple years. Funny enough he had to be physically stopped from just going at his cake on his 90th.

Let's hope this fuckwit is lacking in my the stubbornness of my great grandfather.

SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 52d

BREAKING NEWS

Washington sources report Zombie Mitch McConnell will return to the Senate...

some_designer_dude@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 52d

They’re saving it for the big 250th so they can use the footage of all the celebrations.

nosuchanon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 52d

That’s been the last decade at least of his role. His staff do everything and occasionally parade him out for photo-ops.

Jhex@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 53d (7 replies)

well let's hope his insurance deductible doesn't finish the job

luisgutz@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 53d (6 replies)

Does Congress still has healthcare paid by the public?

Jhex@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 53d (5 replies)

oh yes, I am certain he won't shed a penny for the absolute best care which may or may not bump people who need it more...

The American tax payers are happy to pick up the tab for Mitch but not for each other (if Mitch have anything to say about it)

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 53d (4 replies)

Just in this one moment, I kinda wish they were right about the democrat death panels

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 53d (3 replies)

Insurance companies are the death panels. I know you know this, but this needs to be a thing said out loud a lot.

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 53d (1 reply)

He doesn’t have to deal with insurance. He gets free healthcare paid by the government.

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 53d

I'm not talking about for him, I'm talking about us.

13igTyme@piefed.social · 2 pts · 52d

During covid, some hospitals had to resort to death panels basically when at ICU capacity with limited ECMO machines.

switcheroo@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 53d (1 reply)

Eighty fucking four years old. You should be in a fucking old folks home, you dirty old bastard.

We need to enact age limits on our government, JFC. I wouldn't trust someone ten years YOUNGER to even drive safely, yet this turtle twat is a senator???

Art3mis@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 52d

And has been for like 40 years

mcv@lemmy.zip · 22 pts · 52d (5 replies)

I never wish anyone dead, but don't expect me to shed tears over one of the architects of the destruction of the US.

T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 52d (3 replies)

I genuinely wish these malevolents death

architect@thelemmy.club · 7 pts · 52d (2 replies)

I feel like anyone saying otherwise (who doesn’t already LIKE these guys) is just lying. How could you not? “Oh just keep destroying the lives of hundreds of millions as long as I’m on my high horse never wishing you death” that’s not the moral take people think it is.

mcv@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 51d

Their death doesn't solve the underlying problem. The problems are systemic. If his death just means he's replaced by a similar asshole, that doesn't solve anything. Wishing each other dead is not going to fix anything.

But I also don't wish anyone dead out of principle. I oppose the death penalty out of the same principle.

I make one exception for Putin. He is the problem. His death would immediately prevent thousands of unnecessary deaths every day, in a way that Trump's or Netanyahu's death wouldn't.

saigot@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 50d

I would prefer a prison cell, with locked in syndrome a close second.

tigermountain@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 52d

I wish plenty of people dead.

BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 20 pts · 52d (2 replies)

It's likely he's dead and they're hiding the fact. Can you imagine the jubilee that would happen today if it was reported he died, especially on Trump's birthday?

cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 52d (1 reply)

Dead mitch is dead.

BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 52d

I hope it was painful, this man is as responsible as Reagan for all this misery and suffering.

MrEff@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 53d

*best read in the voice of sir David Attenborough

As EMS arrived they found McConnell had been flipped onto his shell, with his legs flailing the responders were able to flip him back.

Controversy surrounds his age of 84 years old, but others of his species have lived in captivity up to 150 years old.

His Kentucky Republican breed is well known for not only surviving on the typical Republican diet of banks, oil and gas, and occasional telecommunications companies, but also has a diet supplemented from his wife's income streams of insider informed stocks.

HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 52d

"Mitch McConnell found unconscious" ... How could they tell?

BeUnique@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 53d

I got all excited til I saw the part about "last month". I don't wish death on many, but boy will I be happy once all these geriatrics in my government kick the bucket.

dektep@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 53d (1 reply)

so he’s either already dead or just braindead mush with a heartbeat

if they hide his death until less than ninety days before election he can’t be replaced until mid-terms

zd9@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 53d

of course you know they're gonna try that shit

borkborkbork@piefed.social · 14 pts · 52d (1 reply)

he's not going to die until they find all the phylacteries

ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 52d

I know this trick!

Someone go blow up the moon.

0ndead@infosec.pub · 14 pts · 53d

Just let go Mitch

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 53d (3 replies)

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has said that McConnell "sounded good" and "wants to be back" when they spoke the day after McConnell was hospitalized.

"He is clearly dialed in to what's going on. He's following along with stuff we are doing this week up here. Very much so," Thune said June 15, ABC News reported at the time.

Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 53d

Bro has been freezing up like a YouTube video on dialup for years now. There is simply no way that he is "clearly dialed in".

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 53d (1 reply)

Gross

Zombiepirate@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 53d

Groß if true

Grass@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 53d (1 reply)

More than just a couple decades too late

TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id · 6 pts · 53d

About eight decades.

lemmyng@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 53d (2 replies)

If only they found him late.

Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 53d (1 reply)

If it helps, proper CPR breaks the ribs andis very traumatic. Being old as fuck, Bitch Mcconnel is guaranteed to be in a lot of pain

SupraMario@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 53d

Not only that but CPR...is less than 10% success rate. I think it goes up a bit if you're in a hospital already, but if you're having CPR done, you're chances of survival is not super great.

artyom@piefed.social · 12 pts · 52d

Rest in piss, shitbag

cy888@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 52d (3 replies)

2nd cardiac event Elderly Required CPR.

Actual chance of coming back to work is low single digit percentage points. Time for new Senate majority leader.

flagpole268@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 52d (1 reply)

Much lesser chance than that. Survival rates after CPR are less than 10% for adults.

LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 52d

Yeah, movies make you feel like if you have a heart attack, they'll get you back, but in reality 90% chance you don't survive. Sometimes they can get your heart beating, but you still don't come back, because no oxygen to the brain for too long.

SanicHegehog@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 52d

Not to mention that if an 84 year old man received chest compressions, he absolutely has at least one, likely several, broken ribs.

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 52d (1 reply)

All these people act like kings, barons, and counts wanting to die on the throne.

TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 52d

counts *

cyclonedusk@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 52d

i'm so fucking tired of this bastard.

he's responsible for a lot of my misery and i want him out of it.

Taleya@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 52d (1 reply)

Shoulda happened 20 years ago

FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 52d

Yeah, I agree. But better late than never

osanna@lemmy.vg · 8 pts · 53d

rushed

damn. ambos should have taken their time.

Pacattack57@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 52d

I am extremely confused because I could have swore this happened previously and I guess I was right. Second heart attack in a month. The police need to be called as well as the FBI. They are torturing a senile senior senator for political gain. The fact that his family is allowing this is extremely telling about the type of people they are.

With that said I hope they’re water boarding him too

tigermountain@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 52d

And remember a few years ago this fucker also made so that if he left office for health reasons they have to appoint a Republican to replace him instead of having the choice to put either a Republican or Democrat in office.

lemmylump@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 52d

These fucks are going to life support this fuck until after August 1st.

I hope he suffers every bit as much as he has caused.

JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 52d (4 replies)

Soon

AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 52d (3 replies)

Too little, too late, unfortunately.

YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 52d (2 replies)

Na man. You gotta have some kinda faith in the future. Yeah he set us back decades, but it's never too late to be better.

lemmylump@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 52d (1 reply)

In 1976 I was painting fire hydrants in American flag themes for the bicentennial, 50 fucking years later we have zero progress and we've in fact actually gone fucking backwards. So, what was it Ben Franklin said about hope and dying farting?