Reports citing emergency dispatch audio said responders were called to McConnell's residence on June 14 for an unconscious patient and later discussed "CPR in progress" for a possible cardiac emergency.

Oh! So, we've escalated from him being found unconscious and rushed to the hospital to active CPR? Wouldn't it have been something if the Republican stance of allowing doctors to decline giving medical care on moral grounds ended up being applied against the interests of the long-term cancer that is McConnell?

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[–] 99 points 4 months ago (3 children)

He’s lived a long life and had no consequences for anything he’s ever done.

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Right? He and others like him is all the proof I need there is no cosmic karma system.

    …I’m not saying such a system should’ve killed him by now, but he at least shouldn’t be dying with this much dignity.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    He’s still alive, there’s still time for you to be the manifestation of the cosmic karma system!

    (In Minecraft, of course)

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    My retirement plan/my plan for if I ever get a life-threatening illness and a timeline on my mortality is to pretty much be that harbinger on any McConnell-equivalent beings within my resources (in Minecraft of course).

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  • [–] 74 points 4 months ago

    These people are literally white knuckling power to their dying breath. It should be classified as a mental illness.

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  • [–] 135 points 4 months ago

    I have had this saved on my device since February 2021

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  • [–] 57 points 4 months ago (15 children)

    Wow this is getting exciting! CPR at his age means, even if he survives on the ventilator, he will wake up in horrendous pain and probably won't be physically capable of harming his country any further until at least the midterms! So he's basically out.

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  • [–] 46 points 4 months ago (12 children)

    he will wake up in horrendous pain

    don't you do that. don't you give me hope.

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  • [–] 29 points 4 months ago (11 children)

    CPR breaks ribs. It means his heart was stopped, so you gotta squeeze to get blood to the brain.

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    I've heard EMTs refer to the result of CPR on elderly people as "bone soup." Almost every time it's described in detail, you get people saying they'll definitely get a DNR order when they get up there in age.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

    Yeah most doctors refuse CPR. Very few people receive CPR and then have a good quality of life afterwards.

    Edit: Relevant article https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/05/29/1177914622/a-natural-death-may-be-preferable-for-many-than-enduring-cpr

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Well, it's "preferable" until the time comes. Then they probably have second thoughts.

    It's like the people who survive suicide by jumping and say, "I realized when I jumped that everything could be fixed, but jumping."

    I think it would take an extremely poor quality of life for me to consider death preferable. Look at what some people endure when they know the alternative is literally nothing.

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  • [–] -3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    No. Just because death is quiet and painless doesn't mean it's not always inferior to the experiences of living.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    My dad had a Do Not Resuscitate order on file with the home he lived in for the last two years of his life. It was ignored. CPR got him to the hospital where he died a couple of hours later.

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  • [–] 50 points 4 months ago (11 children)

    Maybe Mitch and Trump will have one of those dual deaths where they're only holding out for each other.

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  • [–] 38 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Thatd be so cool if they went on the 4th like jefferson and adams

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    If Trump died on the 4th I would be sooooo happy.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    He says he's going to make a long speech on the night of the 4th when it's going to be 107 degrees to prove he can. Yes, please, and of course you must wear a suit jacket and tie because you're the President. Bitch will probably step outside for 3 minutes and chicken out though.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Rule of threes, you're going to need to pick a third

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  • [–] 33 points 4 months ago

    He was one of the key politicians, along with Paul Ryan, who were all aboard gutting the ACA (Obamacare) before it was passed. He's probably receiving top tier medical care right now at little or no cost to him.

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    No, no, CPR hurts like a motherfucker. Let him enjoy that for a while.

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  • [–] 28 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

    He dead and they don’t want to tell us.

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  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Or worse, he’s brain dead and they have him hooked up to life support while they figure out their plan

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    True, but he can't vote, and while he's alive and in office they can't replace him.

    He can stay in that bed forever, IMO -- as long as he can't participate in the further dismantling of democracy.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    His staff have been doing all the work for the past few years. They just have to figure out a way to roll him out on a wheelchair with his eyes open somehow so he can press the yea or nay button to any kind of legislation.

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago

    If he passes, does his body automatically get relinquished back to Moscow, or does Russia need to request it first?

    I assume Russia would bury him with the highest honors

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    He’s dead. Or braindead. They may hide the death until less than ninety days before mid-terms to prevent a special election or appointment by KY governor before then

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago

    Hell is patiently waiting.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Bitch McConnell makes the Crypt Keeper look sexy.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago

    I’ve been voting against this fucking prick for over 35 years. I hope to be the first to piss on his grave!

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago

    That bitch is dead

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  • Kentuckians are so fucking stupid.

    I say this as one of them.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago

    On Thursday, McConnell's office told Newsweek via email, “Senator McConnell appreciates the outpouring of support he’s receiving while he continues his recovery in the hospital. The Senator continues to improve, and is working closely with his staff on Kentucky and Senate matters while the Senate is out of session.”

    Translation:

    On Thursday, McConnell's office told Newsweek via email, “[We believe that] Senator McConnell [would, if he were conscious and aware,] appreciate the outpouring of support he’s receiving while he continues his recovery in the hospital. The Senator continues to improve [not be dead, technically], and is working closely with his [ICU medical] staff on Kentucky and Senate [respiration] matters while the Senate [brain] is out of session.”

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago

    P'raps there's some good in the world mister Frodo

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago

    I wanna watch them parade his rotting ass around like Bernie and make up excuse after excuse.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    Good thing they have equipment, without that you wouldn’t be able to tell dead mitch from a live one.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    No wonder we have an insane heat wave happening, the gates of hell have been opened to welcome him.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    He's either dead or a human turnip on life support. The Regime will keep it hidden until the election.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    If Mitch was found unconscious and the paramedics had to do CPR on him before they transported him to the hospital, then I think he's either dead or brain dead. I think his handlers are going to play "Weekend at Bernies" with him until it's <90 days before the midterms to prevent a special election or an appointment by the KY governor to replace him. Once they figure out what to do with him, his health will "suddenly take a turn for the worse." I'm guessing by October.

    If Mitch is conscious but "locked in" he HAS to know by now that his condition is hopeless and that he's only being kept alive for political reasons. What a kick in the ass that must be.

    May he burn in Turtle Hell.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    KY is a special case, they are a deep red state that elected a Democratic governor. So, the Legislature took away the Governor's ability to appoint Senators (over his veto) and now in the event of a vacancy, it can only be filled with a Special Election.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    This feels like a practice run for covering up when Trump eventually dies.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    "Questions" when the guy has been a walking corpse for YEARS. Fuck a bunch of softball headlines.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    So he's moved on from shitting his pants? This guy can't fuck off from this mortal coil fast enough.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    Moscow Mitch: You'll never truly experience the equivalence of the pain and damage you've done to this country in the name of corruption and blind party loyalty. Still, I'm glad you'll be gone soon...

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Let's give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe the CPR was performed on one of his victims instead. I just assume his house is full of slaves and hostages because that's the American GOP way.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    What does it matter? His whole life he's been a demented asshole. Nothing has changed. He's still a demented asshole and a perfect representation of the republican party. I hope they broke his ribs during CPR.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    I hope he survives. I hope he continues to live a long, long time. I hope this happens to him frequently during that time.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Hopefully he'll get fitted with one of those hellish automatic home defibrillators. You know, because every life is worth fighting for till the very end, for as long as humanly possible. Mitch's life is especially worth it.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    But think of all the damage he can continue to do

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    They call him Mitch the Cocaine Turtle for a reason.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Big question: Why'd you save his traitor ass?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Just fucking retire already!

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    When the KY Governor went Dem the KY Cons tried to strip his ability to appoint vacant Congress seats. This was overturned in court.

    However they did add a rule that the Governor could not replace someone within 95 days of an election.

    95 days before 11/3/2026, the midterms, is 7/31/2026. I imagine they will use the "he's recovering" line until 8/1/2026 so the Cons have tighter control over congress. Or at the very least, they are trying to chew up as much time as possible before he gets replaced.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Why won't these evil fucks just die?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Rest in gender neutral piss

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I was unaware piss was gendered....

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago

    Don't deaths come in threes?

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