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Weird how unlimited time away from work and good, unlimited healthcare can extend a person's life.

I wonder if there's a lesson to be learned there....

“My doctors have confirmed that I didn’t break any bones or suffer a concussion. I didn’t have a heart attack or a stroke. I don’t have any tumors or hemorrhages. But I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital. While receiving excellent care over the past several weeks, I’ve also had to deal with a mild case of pneumonia,” he said in a statement.

McConnell said he’s moved from a hospital to a rehabilitation center to continue regaining his strength. His doctors have run through “every test they can think of” to try to determine what caused the incident.

Must be nice to have access to good healthcare and be rich enough to just decide to set up camp in a private room at a hospital for a month when "nothing's wrong." Totally normal American experience right there.

“My doctors have confirmed that I didn’t break any bones or suffer a concussion. I didn’t have a heart attack or a stroke. I don’t have any tumors or hemorrhages. But I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital. While receiving excellent care over the past several weeks, I’ve also had to deal with a mild case of pneumonia,” he said in a statement.

The 911 recording said CPR was being administered. So something is not adding up here.

Can we just take a moment to admire the absurdity of having to even question whether this man is alive or not as if he's the goddamn pope and being alive is the only criteria necessary to keep his position. Being a senator is supposed to be a job with actual duties. Any normal job would have at least put him on a LOA and backfilled his position by now if not fired him.

I want to see us either lean into the absurdity and place polymarket bets on when senators will die (I know this already exists on the dark web but the purpose is to make them see it and sweat) or demand clearer laws/regulations around minimum requirements to hold their position.

He's alive because he manipulated Lindsay Graham into taking his place in hell, for now, using some kind of underworld parliamentarian loophole that he learned when he clerked for Satan.

I don’t trust republicans or cnn at all

What is he just hanging out in a hospital bed with a plaid shirt and jeans like he's about to be discharged? After CPR and stretcher into an ambulance a couple days ago?

Dude hasn't looked that good in decades, there's no way he looks like that now.

That taxidermist really put in the work.

It also pisses me off because you know he has access to the highest standard of care while the people he represents get jack shit.

Side note: why is the racist white man with an Asian wife trope so true?

Someone that old getting cpr isn’t going to be smiling.

Inconspicuously holding a newspaper to verify proof of life like a goddamn 90s ransom movie.

This still, posed photograph was released along with a written statement via McConnell's Senate web page. Keep in mind that beyond the word of a handful of Republicans that say they talked "with" him, Mitch still has not verifiably actually spoken to or with anyone since his hospitalization.

He's a turtle. They can live up to 150 years

So he had a fall and mild pneumonia? Those things aren't scary at all in the broad scheme of things? So they hid it for nearly a month? Don't buy it at all.

He's not

If the list of things that are completely fine is true..... Then why would he be in the hospital so long? Is he lazy? Taking weeks long paid sick leave after a minor bump!

Doubtful an unresponsive unwitnessed fall would survive with such minor injuries. Hip fracture is practically a guarantee at the very least.

He's not.

Obviously he's not. And he would have relished this psyop, if he were still alive to enjoy it.

I strongly suspect that any images of him are AI generated, and this is a psi-op.

Tortoises live a looooong time buddy. And I bet you that evil ones live even a little longer