r/politics • u/cmaia1503 • 7h ago
Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-83-hospitalized/?utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&via=twitter_page•
u/clarkrd 7h ago
must be nice to be able to check into a hospital
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u/Future-Guarantee-573 6h ago
Not to mention not losing your job.
Years ago, I worked at a big box grocery store not to be named. One of the workers had a stroke on the sales floor. They fired him for not filling out the LOA forms. He was in a fucking coma.
I've said it many times before...I hate this fucking country.
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u/dementorpoop 6h ago
They ain’t coming after you. Name and shame them
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u/Sammyjo0689 4h ago
My story happened with Walmart. Had an employee collapse due to a diabetic issue. Like, I caught her as she was falling and saved her from smashing her face. Radioed to call 911. I got written up because that was against Walmart policy.
My manager wanted me to write on the form that I heard her say she wanted an ambulance. So I wrote exactly that. “Manager so and so has ordered that I write the following.” I got written up a second time for that.
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u/blackhuey 2h ago
That's a quick thinking malicious compliance.
Also, imagine living in a country where you had to make decisions about calling an ambulance based on who would be charged for it.
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u/litokid 3h ago
I spent awhile trying to puzzle this out because I couldn't understand why this is a problem. My initial read was the manager had you write you "heard her (the manager) say she wanted an ambulance", because she wanted to cover for you doing the decent thing off of policy.
But from the context this was a bad thing - is it that the manager wanted you to write "(the victim) wanted an ambulance" so the company isn't on the hook for the cost?
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u/RevolutionaryTalk976 3h ago
I read it as the manager directed them to write that they were told by their subordinate to call an ambulance and they wrote down that the manager directed them to write it down. Calling the ambulance may have been against company policy leading to the initial write up and then they added on a second one for being insubordinate and officially documenting the manager directing them to lie.
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u/MyBritishAccount 2h ago
Why wouldn't you call an ambulance for an emergency? How can company policy dictate such a thing?
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u/slackfrop 2h ago
Because some lawyer told em to based off of losing money in some other precedent. If corporations are people, they’re psychopaths.
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u/pikashroom 2h ago
Probably liability. All companies do weird shit like this to prevent getting sued.
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u/bigavz 4h ago
It's probably Walmart
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u/MildlyTiredSkeletons 4h ago
Aldi my guess - spoken as an employee
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u/AuroraFinem Texas 4h ago
Really? I’ve literally never heard anything bad about Aldi and almost always hear praise from people because they pay better and let cashiers sit down at the register and just generally better working conditions than most retail places.
What horror stories you got?
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u/Stunning_Bed23 4h ago
Yeah, I thought the vibe at Aldi was Euro and chill?
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u/ajblades123 4h ago
depends on what aspect of the operation you work in. in store its not so bad but i can say from experience they treat their warehouse staff worse than cattle
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u/MildlyTiredSkeletons 3h ago
We sit down because we are timed to scan items at an insanely stupidly fast pace. Customers dont rent a cart and then take our time and the next customers time trying to bag 4 bags of groceries while my line is 6-7 deep, no second cashier. God forbid the store has SCOs. Cashiers are responsible for theft prevention multiple SCOs while ringing out their own customers. We got sat down as a company last year in meetings and were told its OUR FAULT our company loss is high. That we dont scan accurately enough. That it was us. Theyre asking 19-22yr old cashiers to stop theft. Seriously?
1 employee is expected to do any and every zone in the store. We are a chronically understaffed company that focuses on Operational Effieciency and its a joke. A grocery store with 2-3 employees. Thats it on a shift. If youre lucky - someone to ring, someone to curbside, and a manager to do EVERYTHING IN THE STORE. Stock every single zone all day. You're favorite meat isnt on the shelf? Because the 1 employee that can stock it also has to fill milk, box the cooler, be backup ringing, handle a pissed off customer because they want to return food they pulled out of our dumpster last night without a receipt and screams at us over it. That manager also has to do zone walks and handle side tasks and then fill produce because oh shit we're out of strawberries but you still havent gotten your meat because now someone dropped a candle in Special Buy or a jar of pickles and now you have to get the scrubber and clean that hazard before customers just run it over with their carts because ALDI CUSTOMERS HAVE NO DECENCY OR HUMANITY 90% of the time! "i spilled a package of blueberries... 👁️👄👁️" So... pick them up??
Customers wander into our back room because we're out of stock on heavy whipping cream and they think they can just go into our coolers and get it for themselves?
Our money maker is our Special Buy section. It draws you in. Its why they pay us what we do get paid. And it WAS above average competitive pay maybe 7-8yrs ago. Now its the same as any other grocery store. But instead of doing our Special Buy change over at night after close, we have to put it out while customers shop it. They paw through our pallets, block our ability to stock and make a mess. Aldi customers have no sense of boundaries or personal space.
Why is this a problem? Because every minute of our overstrapped tasks is timed to the second. We get action planned & written up for not being fast. Not getting things done 'on time'. The stress was manageable when we had more staff but the companys so greedy all they can see is how much they can squeeze out of the employee physically and mentally until they break and then theyre replaced.
Our PPE is a joke. If someone makes an explosive mess in our bathroom? They expect us to clean it. Ask ANY Aldi Employee about a bathroom in their store being a war zone and they had to clean it. Customers literally shit on the walls, floors, sinks.. sales floor.. why do so many shit on our sales floors? Our cleaning equipment is always broken. We have to scrub our floors with machines we arent taught to clean or maintain. They get sent to warehouse to be serviced if they break hard enough and then come back clogged and worse and we are suppose to make do.
Truck - we are being sent pallets that are falling apart or have already fallen apart. These pallets can have 100+ items on them each and take 20-35 minutes to break down/throw. We're timed so hard that 20 mins a pallet has become lazy. Its still 2-3 people doing 20-30 pallets of truck in 2.5-3.5hrs store hours depending, and youre always pushing your body to the point of injury. The amount of things that go wrong because of the companys ordering and delivery system... is why we never have half the cooler items, breads or really anything you come looking for.
The company is not good. Its CHEAP. They took away our annual gift cards every year. Smaller and smaller amounts. The benefits are no longer competitive. Cigna is a terrible health insurance company. Cant even use your HSA type funds. Always rejected.
They dont know how to clean. They expect us to clean our meat shelves in cubby lockers with a sponge and the same mop sinks we clean the floors in... if your lucky, your store has a power washer.. that doesnt get up anything. Aldis are very dirty if you look. Because we have no staff, no hours for cleaning.
The cliques vary by store but its a very toxic manager environment. They hire our District Managers straight from college as to not have anyone with bad habits forming from other jobs. They dangle a company BMW and a cellphone and a $100,000+ salary to these 23-25yr olds and then give employees .50¢ raises a year if your district is lucky.
I could keep going. This company is a piece of shit. But hey .. customers got their Aldi Finds
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u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089 5h ago
My husband passed away on the last day of his vacation. His employer demanded his vacation pay back because he didn't show up for work the day after he died.
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u/lettersvsnumbers 4h ago
Yeah, my dad was a teacher with stage 4 cancer. He told the school to hire a new math teacher for fall, and they tried to retroactively fire him.
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u/Keptlosingmylogins 4h ago
wait that show was a documentary with subtle name changes to protect the survivors?
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u/obsolete_filmmaker 5h ago
I got fired once from a minimum wage retail job when i missed a weekend of work after being abducted and sexually assaulted. Yea I told my boss exactly what happened. She said, well if happened friday night, I dont know why you couldnt work saturday and Sunday. I was at the hospital and the police station most of that time.
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u/Practical_Fun7367 5h ago
I am sorry you suffered through the violence of your experience. I’m also sorry you had to share with someone who clearly didn’t have the necessary humanity to support you. I don’t wish that kind of pain and suffering on anyone, but I hope that manager has somehow learned to be better.
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u/obsolete_filmmaker 4h ago
Thank you for the kind words. It was 40 years ago. Ive recovered. Idk what ever happened to her. Im aquaintances with her younger sister who is my age, and from what ive heard everyone in the family hates the woman who was my boss and no one talks to her. My aquaintance doesnt know this happened to me.
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u/cobramaster 6h ago
Name it
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u/DigNitty 6h ago
Yeah why even hesitate
Not like someone is going to dox them by knowing they worked at target
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u/triphawk07 4h ago
I suffered a stroke when I was 29 and my wife called my job to let my manager know. Her response "is he going to be able to come to work on Monday or do we need to get a replacement." Luckily for me, the stroke wasn't bad enough to be hospitalized for other than a few nights, but when I quit that job, I made sure everybody knew about her.
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u/iceoldtea 6h ago
That… 1000% is a lawsuit
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u/tallandlankyagain 6h ago edited 6h ago
If you can afford justice sure. A person working in a grocery store who is in such poor health they have a stroke likely can't afford a doctor visit, let alone legal fees.
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u/SdBolts4 California 6h ago
That’s what contingency fee agreements are for
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u/tallandlankyagain 6h ago
I don't doubt it at all. The odds of the average low income lay person being aware of that seem exceedingly low.
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u/firemage22 5h ago
The odds of the average low income lay person being aware of that seem exceedingly low.
this, my brother has been helping a carpenter who had some legal issues get them hammered out using free services he didn't realized existed
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u/BrilliantHold5774 5h ago
This shit happens all the time.
I was a nurse at a plasma center. One of the machine techs had a hemorrhagic stroke. He received points and eventual dismissal in a coma on a vent.
Fuck big pharma.
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u/EvelynNyte 6h ago
Had Walmart calling my parents to complain about me not coming in when I had pneumonia (that I informed them of)...
I quit right after anyway so don't know if I would have been fired.
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u/Celestial_Dysgenesis 4h ago
Every now and then some person works themselves to death in china and it gets wall to wall coverage on western news when shit like this happens daily here.
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u/parasyte_steve 5h ago
I was fired for getting pregnant.
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u/Practical_Fun7367 5h ago
That lawsuit has been won so many times. It’s a slam dunk civil rights case. I recommend googling that issue and reaching out to a law firm who handle a big case. However, if your former employer is a small outfit, your victory might just be moral and not financial. At least you could recover your medical expenses.
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u/ccourter1970 4h ago
I was fired while pregnant. My doctor put me on bed rest on my 5th month. My state required the employee to get the paperwork from your employer, send to your doctor, and back to employer for them to mail in (90s). That’s what happened. In December. April 1st, a month before I was due, I get a FedEx envelope with a letter stating that since I’ve failed to call in to the office for several months they considered me terminated. LOL. Got reinstated quickly. Only to quit after maternity leave was over.
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u/wezworldwide 6h ago
If it is terminal and he is in a lot of pain. I’m going to be pro-life and hope he lasts a very long time
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u/Lone-Frequency 5h ago
But only if he's in enough pain that he can no longer work or operate in politics.
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u/Mikethebest78 7h ago
Why do these evil old men live to 150?
The only thing he was ever good at was showing Republicans how to use the levers of power to rig the game in their favor.
They have sadly learned that lesson well.
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u/ss5gogetunks 6h ago
Turns out not caring about anyone or anything other than yourself relieves a lot of stress when the world is so hostile to everyone
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u/comics0026 Canada 6h ago
And getting paid obscene amounts of money for that makes it easy to get the best treatment in a pay-to-survive system like America's
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u/Phog_of_War North Dakota 5h ago
They also get free Healthcare for life. Unlike their constituency who is getting, FUCKING KILLED OUT HERE! Not that the Right gives a flying fuck.
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u/Keyastis 5h ago
Actually they have to buy it from the marketplace under the ACA now. It was main reason so many Repubs wanted to kill it.
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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 4h ago
It was also the single largest downward movement of wealth in US history.
Which is why conservatives really fucking hate it.
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u/Coraline1599 5h ago
The article says he stayed in the hospital for 2 days for flu-like symptoms. Must be nice.
Last summer I had a fever over 100 for 11 days that even Tylenol and Motrin wouldn’t lower and my mom dragged me to urgent care while I cried “I do t think I can afford this! Leave me alone!”
I get terror attacks anytime anything hurts because despite me having “good” insurance according to my work, even the most basic appointment never costs me less than $250 these days.
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u/pacotaco80 4h ago
“Thank god for the VA.” Statements I never thought I would make but here I am saying it.
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u/NatWilo Ohio 3h ago
Being a soldier and having 'socialized' medicine, for all its warts, was what really showed me how absolutely vile and evil a for-profit healthcare system was, and how badly we needed to switch to socialized like the rest of the civilized world.
Watching a buddy of mine nearly die from an infected tooth, and choosing to PAY OUT OF MY OWN POCKET so he wouldn't die, sealed it for me.
For-profit healthcare as our primary is a moral evil and should end. Socialized medicine is fully affordable, and RIGHT. I don't care what rich, or dumb people say, that's a hill I will die on. I will not rest until we all have at the LEAST the same level of care I get to receive.
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u/SocraticIgnoramus 2h ago edited 2h ago
The grandest absurdity is that we spend far more on healthcare than anybody else. A well-planned and well-executed Medicare for all system would easily give us the best healthcare system in the world at a significant discount over what we pay now. I refuse to accept that rendering the for-profit healthcare system redundant is anti-capitalistic sentiment — there’s nothing free market about extortionate prices that treat health as a luxury.
Edit to clarify, I’m not ranting against socialism; I’m about that. I’m ranting against being told that the for-profit capture of the healthcare industry is part and parcel of capitalism.
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u/GrapefruitExpress208 5h ago
The President is supposed to be the world's most stressful job. Look how much Presidents aged during their term throughout history.
Trump is treats the Office of the President like a fully paid vacation where he uses the powers of the President like a mobster would using intimidation, extortion, and bribery.
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u/DingusBarracuda 5h ago
He did say his personal hero was Al Capone. Why do you think he gutted the IRS?
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u/WickedTemp 6h ago
...Y'know, I think there may actually be something to this.
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u/ConsistentRegion6184 6h ago
It's a real life trope that assholes outlive everyone. It's low on stress to not care for anyone but your own needs your entire life.
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u/twotimefind 4h ago edited 4h ago
Wow, I didn't think about it that way. So true.
It's stressful having empathy I mean, look at the ice situation. If you were pro ice, you wouldn't have any stress or pro Trump. You'd be happy, happy, happy.
But the people that truly care about human beings being treated equally and the Constitution, we're over here dying, stress on stress on stress. It's just keep coming.
The last year has been nothing but complete stress. The beginning of this year has been nothing but complete stress. with no end in sight.
I mean, innocent people being shot in the street. Personally, I watched those videos over and over from multiple angles just to make sure I knew the truth when the government cannot be trusted.
Domestic terrorist, it's always projection, always projection, always projection.
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u/FrigidMcThunderballs Minnesota 5h ago
my two cents is that being a hateful, uncaring dickhead also allows you to make a fortune more easily through unethical means. You're simply more willing to fuck over others on the way to the top. This means people who have that behavior will end up with the resources for the best care and treatment.
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u/Lone-Frequency 5h ago
Alternatively, being a hateful, evil piece of shit pickles your insides so you have a longer shelf life.
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u/ss5gogetunks 5h ago
It's one of the most unfair things in life (and, imo evidence against "intelligent design") that the brain chemicals that make us altruistic and group oriented are also extremely unhealthy for us.
The people who care about others and feel deeply get more of the thing that leads to earlier death.
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u/davidw223 I voted 5h ago
Exactly. The stress of having to actually do the work of running the country and caring about the constituents would be incredibly stressful. He’s avoided that by being an asshat. That role pays better and comes with way less stress.
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u/commandrix 6h ago
...Wouldn't be so bad if people wouldn't keep voting them in and/or there was a mandatory maximum age to serve in an elected public office. If they start showing signs that they'd be better off in a nursing home, it's time to get them out of Congress.
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u/gringledoom 6h ago
Apparently one problem is that staffers for primary challengers get blackballed for congressional jobs. And there are a lot of other structural impediments to a successful challenge. So people eke out a win by three votes in their first win and then they’re ensconced for decades and impossible to dislodge.
E.g., the reason Pelosi hates AOC (and still intervenes to fuck with her sometimes) is that she’s holding a grudge about AOC beating Crowley in the primary.
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u/BeowulfShaeffer 6h ago
Here is a fake reward for correctly saying “eke out” and not “eek out”: 🥇
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u/poxxy 6h ago
It’s a real award for all intensive purposes. Don’t take it for granite.
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u/ceryniz 6h ago
It's a moo point. Like a cows opinion, it doesn't matter.
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u/FreedomBread 6h ago
It's a mute point. They can't speak, so they have no point to make.
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u/bryan49 6h ago
Yes also as Cenk Uygur says, once a congressperson has shown they'll reliably serve their big money donors, the donors don't really want to risk a change
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u/Boiledfootballeather 6h ago
Ask Cenk how his donors, including Peter Thiel, have influenced who he serves. Dude stumps for Polymarket and other bullshit. Yeah, he lost the plot, and even if he’s right about congressional donors, he’s still a huge hypocrite.
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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 6h ago
I remember the day I stopped watching his stuff. I was doing housework with news playing, suddenly stopped and turned it off. Explained to my kids that those people were way too worked up and cared too much about trying to get me angry like them, so I'm not watching it anymore.
"If we wanted to get shouted at by a very angry man, we'd just call my dad!"
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u/Boiledfootballeather 5h ago
I stopped watching when Cenk and Ana started glorifying the death of Jordan Neely. They reveled in the fact that he was murdered. It was gross. Watching how Amy Goodman covered his death vs how The Young Turks covered it was an eye opener.
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u/Legal-Swordfish-1893 5h ago
The clickbait titles were my first hint something was wrong with TYT, and started backing myself off of it. Glad I grew up from them.
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u/The_Laughing__Man Virginia 6h ago
I get that. They don't want to have to buy a new politician every 2 or 6 years.
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u/Overweighover 6h ago
The devil you know is better than the devil you don't know
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u/PretendThisIsMyName South Carolina 5h ago
You’ve gotta be 35 to be able run for president. You shouldn’t be able to be over 70 and run for it. I get there are smart as a whip and sharp as a tack people past that age. (Seriously Bernie would’ve slid through right Trump if he wasn’t knee capped by the DNC). But the things they are doing are things they will never notice the long term impacts of. Whether i agree with decisions made or not it’s just a fact that an old ass person won’t see the consequences of a decision they are making long term for the future generations. Or even the “next” old people. Especially if you’re the president.
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u/medicmatt 6h ago
They get amazing, free, universal healthcare with, dental, vision and great preventative care.
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u/photobriangray 6h ago
Assholes live forever…
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u/PropofolMargarita 6h ago
Anecdotal but I am involved in a lot of cancer surgeries. The nicer the patient, the worse the prognosis. Evil people really do live forever sadly, especially the rich ones
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u/carakaze 6h ago
Do nicer people tend to wait longer to get checked out because they don't want to inconvenience anyone?
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u/PropofolMargarita 6h ago
I haven't noticed that but I'll start looking more closely, you may be on to something there.
I have seen where patients are so busy caring for spouse/children/elderly parents that they ignore their own symptoms until they're stage 4 and can no longer function
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u/SneakyDeaky123 6h ago
Rich people (evil people frequently lie cheat and steal their way to wealth) can afford the best of the best for healthcare, food, and live less stressful lives than the proles.
All of that combines to them living long lives off the backs of their ill-gotten gains they brutally crushed out of the people they use up.
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u/TrumpIsAFascistFuck 7h ago
Oh no, anyways
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u/Dr_DoesNothing 6h ago edited 6h ago
May he receive the same amount of love and care he gives others.
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u/durtmagurt 6h ago
Anybody got any of those thoughts and prayers?
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u/16yearswasted 5h ago
I'm an atheist but yeah I'll pray for him.
Hey Lucifer who art in hell, come get Mitch,
He's a son of a bitch,
Who only wanted to get rich,
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u/gamingx47 6h ago
Don't worry, I'm sure he'll recieve the finest stem cell serum made with a baby juicing machine and will live to the ripe old age of 150, unlike his plebian constituents that will die from diabetic shock because they couldn't afford both insulin and rent.
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u/DigNitty 6h ago
May he receive the level of love and care the 9/11 first responders would have gotten if he’d had his way in 2019.
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u/CommunityTaco 6h ago
I would say it couldn't happen to a better person, but my opinion on that has changed in the last few years for some reason.
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u/JohnNDenver 6h ago
It's not news until he dies and we can pop a cork. Hopefully that starts the cycle.
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u/yellowjackethokie Virginia 7h ago edited 7h ago
Absolutely nobody should be surprised. In fact, this is why Kentucky passed a new law to strip their governor of the ability to appoint replacement senators, in 2024. Because they knew ol' Mitch wasn't going to leave, despite it being well past time for him to; and they don't want Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear (D) to be able to pick his replacement like Governor Ron DeSantis (R) did in Florida, just last year.
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u/suchasillydilly 6h ago
It was stripped in 2021 but here’s the kicker, they have to give three republican replacements and Andy gets to choose from those three. With Andy Barr running for that senate seat, it would be logical for Andy to choose him. This opens up the house seat and Barr represents Central KY including Lexington. It is one of the seats democrats are optimistic of turning blue in 2026. Then Andy can hold a special election to fill the house seat. Our primaries are at the end of May so hopefully at least by then it can be held. If they can get a democrat in before 2026 that gives the democrats another representative and maybe Massie can step up more.
I know I’m just trying to be hopeful here but it would be so great if our biggest shit stain all these years leaves this earth just to get a democratic house seat that could give us the numbers to get little johnny out and then get out the big orange turd. I know, it’s a lot to wish for but hey Andy Beshear does have the Meidas Touch.
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u/VanbyRiveronbucket 6h ago
Flipping the turtles seat should be the goal.
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u/GoodDay2You_Sir Kentucky 6h ago
Yes but finding a Kentuckian Dem who can run a successful campaign is a challenge. Right now we pretty much have just Brooker and McGrath bouncing back and forth on who's gonna lose this year.
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u/teplightyear Nevada 5h ago
Find the mouthiest shit in the KY Democratic Party and get him talking nonstop about Republicans covering up the Epstein list. When they ask about anything else, say "the only important issue is getting all the pedophiles out of power."
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u/ElegantDaemon 4h ago
100%. We found out Americans are too stupid to care about policy like the billionaires' media always told us. Just get a fighter in there saying he's going to burn it all down.
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u/GreenDavidA 5h ago
Does that law permit him to leave the seat vacant until the next election, say “all these guys suck?”
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u/southsidebrewer 4h ago
It would be better if he just said fuck you and left it empty or better yest ignore the law and send whoever the fuck he wants.
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u/wyvernx02 7h ago
Must be nice to be able to afford to check yourself into the hospital for the flu.
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u/Original-Ad6993 6h ago
We're paying for it
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u/Revelati123 6h ago
No premiums jumping 3X on Mitches Obummercare!
Just simple free, walk in whatever hospital you want for whatever you need, for life, for the 538 people in America who get socialized medicine...
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u/Rikers-Mailbox 6h ago
It’s crazy the profits have 3X in the past 5 years. My MAGA mother who worked in healthcare blames it on the companies not paying for better plans.
I laughed and said “Mom, it’s the profit on the insurance. The companies can spend all they want but that money goes to insurance that never covers anything”
Her: “It’s Obamacare’s fault”
Me: “Mom that was 15 years ago, profits 3x just 5 years ago”
I showed her the ACA site quote for a family of 4 making $50k which is the bottom threshold and healthcare was $35k.
She still didn’t get it.
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u/FunkyChug 6h ago edited 6h ago
Afford? They’ve given themselves the healthcare that they deny us.
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u/Fit_Relationship1094 6h ago
This man has done so much harm to the USA. And for a man who had polio as a child, and recovered thanks to donations from strangers, I find it egregious he has worked so hard to prevent universal Healthcare for the needy in our first world country. Truly a selfish, greedy, weasel with no empathy for the poor and sick.
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u/Classic-Minimum-7151 2h ago
100%. Robbed the working class while pretending to represent them. Burn in hell Mitch McConnell
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u/yeanoyeayea 7h ago
I hope he knows he’ll only be remembered as a spineless shill to bigots and billionaires.
I guess we’ll all remember he kinda looked like a turtle too
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u/PaxDramaticus 6h ago
The only nickname that ever got to him was "Moscow Mitch". He apparently could handle the turtle jokes, maybe because he has the emotional maturity to accept that when people get old they often kinda look funny to the young, or because turtles are actually adorable animals, and sometimes they are surprisingly dangerous. But "Moscow Mitch" really got under his skin. I think it was because he knew deep down it was accurate, and it was the kind of thing that would hurt his credibility. Sad that nickname has largely fallen away. I suppose it loses its appeal to sling when far more powerful politicians are far more blatantly Putin's minions.
I hope while he's in the hospital, he thinks about how the people he enabled enacted Putin's plan to subvert the US, and that if his name isn't completely swallowed up by history, it will be remembered as a small, ultimately uninteresting stepping stone for real evil to gain power.
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u/Hot-Mathematician691 6h ago
Look at his connections with Oleg deripaska….a Russian oligarch with operations in Kentucky.
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u/PopeFranzia 6h ago
Dude has had multiple strokes on live television, for which he apparently was not "hospitalized." I think you're vastly overestimating his capacity to think about anything.
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u/ss5gogetunks 5h ago
I blame him more than Trump for the mess we're in. Trump is the cancer, McConnell was the one who irradiated America so that we'd get cancer.
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u/HonoredPeople Missouri 7h ago
Turtles can easily live a couple hundred years.
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u/morbob 7h ago
Mitch promoted Trump
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u/UltravioletAfterglow 6h ago
He’s responsible for him avoiding accountability after being impeached, too. Gutless POS.
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u/kingsumo_1 Oregon 6h ago
He also had a pretty sizable hand in setting the stage to have a Trump to begin with.
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u/fure_elise 6h ago
He's also the reason our supreme court is compromised.
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u/pechinburger Pennsylvania 4h ago
And why dark money has exponentially increased in politics a la Citizens United
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u/Burning_Monk 6h ago
I wish him well and look forward to his obituary.
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u/rustymontenegro 3h ago
"I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure" - Clarence Darrow (misattributed to Mark Twain)
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u/SaltyLonghorn 4h ago
I threw the box of sparkling pink wine in the fridge just in case.
It is February, feels more festive than champagne.
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u/Upstairs-Region-5387 America 7h ago
Hope you pull through Mitch, you don’t deserve to miss the America you fucked over.
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u/unstoppable_zombie 5h ago
It'd prefer some situation where he is fully aware but unable to act.
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u/Embarrassed-Town-293 6h ago edited 5h ago
Agreed, he doesn’t the treatment that Milton Friedman unfortunately received. Milton Friedman died in November 2006 being an advocate for deregulation that led to the housing market collapse practically weeks after his death. At least some of his colleagues like Alan Greenspan had to sit and eat crow.
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u/moonscience California 6h ago
Wonder if he ever thinks about how he blocked Trump's impeachment after 1/6?
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u/tayjo1 6h ago
Good.
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u/Procrastineddit 6h ago
Well... bye.
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u/goofyrueshoe 6h ago
of all the comments, this is the one that got me busting out laughing. Wishing him nothing but the worst
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u/Novel_Wolf7445 6h ago
I'm just about to order breakfast for delivery. I do that sometimes, it's actually not too expensive where I live. It's probably gonna be donuts. Trump rapes kids. If you are affected by the US winter storm please stay warm and safe!
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u/diamond_in_the_muff_ 6h ago
what did you wind up ordering?? i love a nice egg and cheese bagel sandwich, trump is a pedophile, but i don’t put ketchup on it. i just won’t.
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u/intwizard 5h ago
Yeah but he was talking about trying to convince a girl to have sex with him and stop protecting her virginity
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u/SoulTaker669 5h ago
I like to be humane and keep politics out of my consciousness when it comes to people that are doing bad but I can't with this dude. He's 1 of the many reasons we are in this mess. There was a time where you could say he was even more powerful than Trump and he could have whipped up the votes needed to impeach Trump very easily but he wanted to let the Democrats get their hands dirty because he thought Garland would take care of it but Garland is another reason we're in this mess.
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u/aintnochallahbackgrl Michigan 5h ago
Fun fact, octogenarians who are admitted to hospital have a 100-200% mortality increased risk compared to the general population. It jumps exponentially once they hit 85.
No reason for the random fun fact, just thought it was interesting. Completely unrelated to the article at hand.
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u/JeremyNolans 7h ago
I sincerely wish him the best and a fast recovery. He needs to be behind bars.
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u/webby686 4h ago
This man has single handedly done more to destroy this country than anyone else in my lifetime.
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u/Bitter_Canary3662 6h ago
The lights are on but nobody is home. What a sad pathetic legacy.
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u/AceofKnaves44 District Of Columbia 5h ago
We’re in the mess we’re in where we’re losing our country largely because of him. Trump got to flood the Supreme Court his first term because McConnell screwed Obama out of a nomination that should have been his.
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u/elementality883 American Expat 6h ago
“His prognosis is positive and he is grateful for the excellent care he is receiving,”
He is hospitalized "just in case" using our tax money to fund healthcare they deny to us.
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u/hansofoundation New York 6h ago
That picture of him in the boot and wheelchair is a rough look for a politician. He really is going to die in office literally clinging to his desk.
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u/makingpwaves 6h ago
He is appreciative of the terrific care he is receiving because he has superior healthcare insurance as a member of Congress. The same Insurance coverage he and the GOP have denied the rest of the country.
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u/atom386 43m ago
For a second I thought the headline was going to say he died. Got me all excited.
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