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

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      As far as McConnell is concerned, I feel like for a long time now even though the lights are on there is nobody home. When he froze up during that press conference in 2023 it was hard to look at. The man was confused, scared and looked like he wanted to cry but forgot how to do so. I absolutely hate the man, but in my book nobody deserves something like that. But still they prop him up, instead of sending him off on retirement, they keep his walking corpse around to keep the power. I’m not sure if McConnell himself is aware of what is happening, or even wants to be part of it. I wouldn’t put it past the old bastard for sure. But at this point his judgement is clearly impaired and keeping him working is elder abuse IMHO.

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

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              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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              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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            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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      That’s what we thought when he was checking out on camera too… Shit Finds a Way

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

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    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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      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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        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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          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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    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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    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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      Whoever has power of attorney should cancel his retirement and make him the first vegetative congress member on a feeding tube to run for reelection.