Comment on He was no friend to the middle class

mrmisses@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Steve@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He’s not dead.
  Comatose, non-responsive, vegetable? Probably.
  But the hospotal isn’t going to keep a rotting corpse for a month.

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  • Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Disagree. They made a corpse deliver a baby against the family’s wishes. The people in charge are pure evil

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    • Steve@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s not physically possable.
      I think you have a different idea what corpse is.

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      • Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Disagree. Disgusting fascist take but ok en.wikipedia.org/…/Adriana_Smith_pregnancy_case

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      • Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Brain death is death. He’s dead en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_death

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.”

    npr.org/…/organ-transplantion-mistake-brain-dead-…

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  • Smaile@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nothing political about it…

      He can be “alive” like Terry Schiavo

      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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      • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        ]Massie](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Massie)

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    • halcyoncmdr@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Every hospital has a morgue. They deal with too many dead people daily, they aren’t going to be moving them out every time someone dies.

      Besides, they won’t leave bodies sitting in beds they could use for living, paying, patients.

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  • bloogoose@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah and the sitting president wouldn’t possibly fuck a child…

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    • Steve@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Those realy are the same thing. You’re right 🙄

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      • bloogoose@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hey, whatever you need to tell yourself to make your perception of reality make sense to you…

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  • decolo@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They aren’t going to let him rot. That isn’t connected to the possibility of him ever regaining consciousness whether a replacement is called for.

    I don’t think anyone here thinks he’s literally just sitting out on a hospital bed flat lined.

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    • halcyoncmdr@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t think anyone here thinks he’s literally just sitting out on a hospital bed flat lined.

      No, but there’s a decent chance he might be laying in a morgue fridge in the basement.

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  • RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They could lie about him being there

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    • Steve@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s certainly true

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lie? The government? Heaven forbid!

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• RestlessNotions@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, isn’t there some law about social security and brain death…

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• teslasaur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  apnews.com/…/mitch-mcconnell-hospitalized-fall-he…

  Stop being like a maga that spins lies.

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  • mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Keep pushing back. Don’t let these disingenuous, self-righteous Lemmy users skate by without addressing the actual argument.

    For the record, I don’t support the Republican Party, MAGA, or Mitch McConnell.

    I just find this kind of rhetoric frustrating because it gets reflexively upvoted. It gives people the warm feeling that they’re standing up to oppression without requiring them to engage with whether the claim is actually true. It’s more about reinforcing the group’s narrative than critically examining the argument.

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