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So, Thune and Barasso had productive 20 minute convos with pre-corpse Moscow Mitch according to them.
I say both are full of shit because I know how my dad degraded due to the subject line in the OP.
Turtle is AINO, alive in name only.
Wiz Imp
(10,994 posts)Aviation Pro
(15,911 posts)I say theres plenty of evidence.
BannonsLiver
(21,152 posts)Thats a fact. Im just not seeing a path back to consciousness in that scenario for Mitchell. That theyve successfully concealed his condition for a month doesnt mean alive which seems to have some folks confused.
Wiz Imp
(10,994 posts)There is no benefit for Republicans to lie about this. But so many people here are so sure they are lying because everything must be Republican conspiracy - even when the consequences of the conspiracy provably harm Republicans more than help them. Unbelievable.
For the record, Republicans gain NOTHING by keeping an incapacitated McConnell in the Senate. If he were truly brain dead Republicans would be racing to try to set up the special election. Otherwise, they will be down a Trump supporting vote. It's all but guaranteed a Republican would win a special election. But from this point forward until that position is filled, they only have 52 votes in the Senate, not 53. McConnell can not vote if he's not present. For example, now Democrats only need 3 Republicans to vote against confirming Blanche as AG to kill his nomination. With that position filled with a Republican, Democrats would need 4 votes.
lame54
(40,489 posts)That's pretty good proof
wcmagumba
(7,112 posts)Myself and another tech had to go fix the printer in the private suite nursing station and rubber necked to see him lying there. That printer had stopped working for "some" reason. We saw him and the blonde daughter who was on the TV show was sitting in there too, she gave us the evil eye...
BannonsLiver
(21,152 posts)This is an 84 year old man already in ill health whose heart stopped beating for an unknown length of time. He aint coming back from that shit, not at 84. I dont think delirium enters the picture here given that hes not conscious. Nah, Jennings and Thune are doing what they do best - lying. And as is almost always the case, they will face literally no accountability for those lies.
31j20b3
(206 posts)to them. A close reading is that they say conversations took place in which Thune and Barasso spoke to McConnel.
The conversations were about current events and politics. But it was THEM speaking to McConnel who could even so be brain dead.
I wouldn't trust a member of the PARTY of LIES.
I think we very likely have carefully parsed narratives to give an illusion. This is how the R's TRUMP, VANCE and others have behaved for many years.
Just get a video camera in McConnel's room and show him responding coherently to friendly conversation "Hi Mitch!, How you feeling" "Is there anything we can get you?" "Need a book?" "Will they let you eat candy? What's your favorite?"
obamanut2012
(29,799 posts)Aviation Pro
(15,911 posts)Not happening.
31j20b3
(206 posts)No body NEEDS to know medical information.
All of us need to see McConnel awake, moving under his own power, and speaking.
THAT IS NOT HIPPA. It;s fulfillment of a public servants need to reassure his constituents
erronis
(25,133 posts)We'd get several applications from large corporations and even some healthcare organizations that misspelled the acronym.
Health Information Portability and Accountability Act
Not a female hippo (hippopotomous.)
City Lights
(26,194 posts)claims the conversation lasted 20 minutes. That is difficult to swallow.
wcmagumba
(7,112 posts)City Lights
(26,194 posts)They are pathetic.