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Fixed that for you.
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2026
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Socialism for me, not for thee. Politicians who vote against social services are more than happy to receive them themselves. You see the same with military members. They are provided so many services from the state they are more than happy to receive but will vote every single time to decrease social services for others.
In my experience in my own country as well as living in other countries (none of which the US, but I believe it equally applies), leftwing policies (such as universal schooling and worker rights) built the middle class and the Neoliberals (which are generally the two major parties in a country) have been destroying it since Reagan's days.
For me this was especially obvious in the UK were almost every single pro-people thing (National Health Service, Social Security, Public Housing) dated back to the years of Labour Party government immediatelly after WWII and every single one of then had been under attack in some way since Thatcher's day, including during governments of New Labour (the Labour party after the Neoliberal faction took it over, most obviously with Tony Blair whom Thatcher called "my greatest achievement").
I think the UK is especially applicable here because it's the country in Europe that, at least for the last 2 or 3 decades most apes the US (in the bad things, rather than good things).
All this to say that I don't expect ANY American politician who has managed to hold to power for so long as Mitch Mcconnell to be anything else than a middle class destroying Neoliberal, no matter what political party they come from.
Thatcher and Reagan were an extraordinary pair for putting the boot on the neck of the working person. Reminds me of a song:
Or he's getting none because he's dead
He's not dead.
Comatose, non-responsive, vegetable? Probably.
But the hospotal isn't going to keep a rotting corpse for a month.
Disagree. They made a corpse deliver a baby against the family’s wishes. The people in charge are pure evil
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Shit, it's Kentucky hospital too...
They're not exactly the best at making that whole "alive or dead" call.
Natasha Miller says she was getting ready to do her job preserving donated organs for transplantation when the nurses wheeled the donor into the operating room.
She quickly realized something wasn't right. Though the donor had been declared dead, he seemed to her very much alive.
"He was moving around — kind of thrashing. Like, moving, thrashing around on the bed," Miller told NPR in an interview. "And then when we went over there, you could see he had tears coming down. He was crying visibly."
The donor's condition alarmed everyone in the operating room at Baptist Health hospital in Richmond, Ky., including the two doctors, who refused to participate in the organ retrieval, she says.
"The procuring surgeon, he was like, 'I'm out of it. I don't want to have anything to do with it,' " Miller says. "It was very chaotic. Everyone was just very upset."
Miller says she overheard the case coordinator at the hospital for her employer, Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates (KODA), call her supervisor for advice.
"So the coordinator calls the supervisor at the time. And she was saying that he was telling her that she needed to 'find another doctor to do it' – that, 'We were going to do this case. She needs to find someone else,' " Miller says. "And she's like, 'There is no one else.' She's crying — the coordinator — because she's getting yelled at."
I guess we should be surprised Mitch isn't an organ donor tho...
They will if they're getting leaned on politically, but you are right in that he's not sitting in a bed, they'll just shove him into the morge if they have one.
Nothing political about it...
He can be "alive" like Terry Schiavo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case
And they can likely keep him like that for years, because it's machines doing all the work.
No one can pressure the hospital to do anything, as long as the checks keep clearing, they'll keep the machines running.
What can (and is) being done, is the Governor requesting proof that McConnell is capable of fulfilling his duties from McConnell's office
They want to stall till August 4th, because if McConnell is declared incompetent before then, it triggers a special election which allows Maise to run as an independent after losing the Republican primary.
On 8/4/26 they can say McConnell is incompetent to hold office, and the normal election will happen which Maise can't run in.
This entire show is because Trump doesn't want Maise to run, because if he does a Dem will likely win and if not it'll be Maise.
But Beshar (KY governor) asking for Mitch's status is what prompted all the Republicans to spend 20 minutes talking at his unresponsive body over a phone. That's why they reacted
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Meanwhile 99% of America would be fired, lose their benefits and be unplugged because they are dead anyway
Except that one woman who was forced to carry her child to term before they pulled the plug and then charged the family.
Considering no one knows what hospital he's in. There is absolutely no way that all the RNs, CNAs, APPs, and MD involved that NOTHING would have leaked. HIPAA doesn't do anything about an unknown anonymous tip.
With all that said. He is absolutely being kept at the house of someone involved in the cover up. Either alive or dead. Most likely dead. Watch for news on August 3rd that he suddenly died.
I'll see you August third sir.
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I used to hate hit so much until the loser liar orange piece of shit stole the show. I didn't stop hating this one. I just had new hate that I never expected.
Clearly their problem isn't with good wages or quality healthcare, it's the "universal" part they have a problem with. And I don't think it's necessarily because they want some people to go without (although that could be the case for at least some of them), it's just that they realize that for everyone to have enough, they have to have less, and that's unacceptable to them.
They believe everything is zero-sum, so they have to be getting less of others are getting more.
The reality is that they don't actually have to have less of these things for everyone to have more. It just has to be done more efficiently, something the current system is terrible at by design so there can be 5 unnecessary middlemen taking their cut.
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The American people should sue if we’re paying for his benefits. They can keep a corpse alive but deny us for every medical procedure
And against privacy.
Also pretty sure he did more than just voting.
I’m sick of this tyranny
"living wage"
Uhhhhh about that one....
Look at the Nazi-publicans , cherry picking science with Schrödingers Mitch.
Idea's true but can't help but push back on this "middle class" as an existing group. There is no such thing just the bourgeois and the proletariat.
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