- Zeroisanumber
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any news about his suffering
I mean you've got to imagine that with all the geriatric ghouls shuffling around the Senate it got to smell crazy in there.
My professional medical opinion is that he probably had some sort of blood pressure thing happening and went into a bit of a spell. Off chance that he shat himself.
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- Zeroisanumber
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so basically mitch was on blood thinners for a while. We know this because a couple years ago he was seen just covered in ecchymoses. This was very likely from a fall, likely in the bathroom or something in the middle of the night. That's how old people get hurt; they wake up and trip on something in the dark, or they stand up too fast and get light headed, or they just loving eat poo poo for no reason at all
most common reason for people to be on things like xarelto or eliquis or whatever is cardiac issues. if you have had a heart procedure, or have a fib, or have had a cardioembolic stroke (meaning something from somewhere got into your heart and was pumped into your brain and got stuck in an artery) you are going to be on a blood thinner.
downside of these is that you bleed like hell, and mitch is not a healthy person. he's always looked like complete poo poo and wouldn't have survived childhood without the kind of programs he's spent his whole career destroying. He doesn't walk very well and he catches his foot over anything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSiKsMN44go
So in march this year mitch fell and had a "concussion" that required like 10 days in the hospital and an extended stay at an inpatient rehabilitation facility. The news didn't pursue this because the DC press are gutless but this is horseshit. He didn't make any public appearances for months. That's not just a concussion. What almost certainly happened is he fell, hit his head, and had a brain bleed. Basically some vein in the brain gets torn and bleed into a closed space which pushes onto the brain and causes damage. Or it bleeds directly ON to the brain and is very painful and at his age would necessitate a very long recovery. anyway he's on blood thinners, we know this. So he would have bled like a stuck pig.
So at this point patients are faced with an option: you're on blood thinners for some reason. However, you can't stay on your feet anymore because of how lovely you are at walking. Do you...
a.) fall and risk dying of a subdural hematoma before you can reach your life alert or
b.) go off the thinners and risk a stroke/cardiac arrest
comedy option
c.) use a scooter/wheelchair and stay on thinners but mitch would never do that because he's a politician
mitch probably transitioned off blood thinners and is using something like aspirin monotherapy (blocks platelets, not the clotting cascade which you have to learn in school exactly once unless you're a sicko that goes into heme/onc)
now, what's a TIA? This is a transient ischemic attack where for whatever reason, small blockage or vasospasm, an artery in the brain stops pumping blood and there is a brief stroke like event. think all the symptoms of a stroke but they generally resolve within an hour. TIAs are a huge blinking red light that you are about to have a bigger stroke. 1 out of 5 will die from a stroke or heart attack within the year.
Did he have a stroke? Know your signs!
Now mitch has poo poo balance at baseline, but you can kinda see him wobble to his left and he is gripping that podium for dear life with his right hand. Sure looks like a loss of balance.
https://twitter.com/RaquelMartinTV/status/1684263785542844433?s=20
He also clearly loses the ability to speak. 99% of strokes hit either the right or left side. right side of the brain is going to cause deficits to the left side, but also to speech. At the very least, that's transient aphasia, and is a textbook "stroke like symptom." Strokes don't have to impact the entire side (called dense hemiplegia), they can impact only the face, or the arm, or speech, or sensation etc. This was clearly not a massive stroke, but it was definitely something that warranted an immediate trip to walter reed. can't have that though.
https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1684262849361608784?s=20
mcconnell is a huge fall risk on a good day and his face looks awful, but loss of the nasal labial fold (facial droop) is not that sensitive of a stroke symptom. but look at that left hand just shoved in a pocket. doesn't that look just desperately intentional? doesn't that remind you of john mccain walking around holding a single pen?
and of course plenty of former cowards are smelling blood and coming out to knife him.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/27/politics/mitch-mcconnell-multiple-falls-this-year/index.html
Part of me thinks he's lying about his fall frequency, but the other part thinks this is probably true because I don't think he can survive a bad fall, and I mean this literally.
McConnell's generation has benefited from incredible advances in medical technology. Heart disease used to kill you dead in your fifties, but we can stop cholesterol from forming and go in and roto rooter out your arteries if we need to. hypertension used to blow out your kidneys but we can control BP and keep your renal system functioning and hell even cruises have dialysis these days.
but mitch is now to the point where so many wealthy, privileged silents and boomers (shut up willa I'm just using those designators for convenience) eventually get to; they are refused the chance a dignified death, and instead keep trying to juggle all these health concerns with different medications with contradictory side effects just so they can squeeze out one more day.
blood pressure meds? makes you light headed, risk for syncope and fall
diuretics? gently caress with your potassium
blood thinners? bleed risk
donepezil (alzheimer's drug)? hallucinations, vivid dreams, GI risks
how will mitch die? we'll never know for sure. it'll be a "health problem" and all the dems will come together with the GOP and rename the senate building after him or something. they're both going to be similar though
1. he will wake up in the night needing to pee. this happens every two hours anyway but this time it's because he has a blocked artery in his brain and his body is jacking up his blood pressure to try to increase perfusion and his kidneys are like "oh poo poo go pee" and he will go to try to stand and one side of his body will not work and he will collapse to the ground. he will piss and poo poo himself while he is rushed to the hospital and they will not be able to use clot busting medication because he is too much at risk for what's called hemorrhagic conversion. But say elaine chao insists they do it and he started bleeding out everywhere and some neuro icu nurse notices he has a fixed, dilated left pupil and his brain is pushed through the hole at the base of his skull and that's that. or they go up and try to get the clot with basically a rotorooter and pierce the artery to hell anyway
OR
2. he's going to catch his foot on a carpet, or a threshold entering a room, and he's going to fall forward with his hands outstretched. He's going to break his distal radius and ulna, and he's going to break his hip. he will either require a massive infusion on the operating table or he will suffer numerous strokes during the procedure. his surgery will be declared a total success but when the PT eval comes they notice that uh his right arm isn't working anymore. Mitch will go to talk but all that comes out are moans and groans. speech therapy evaluates him and realizes he can't swallow anymore. he will have a couple days trapped in his own rotting, poo poo covered body before all of a sudden he starts getting more and more agitated. someone notices his fever is spiking and his ABG looks like poo poo and they do a chest xray and notice infiltrates. mitch will eventually drift away into delirium. he'll eventually die of aspiration pneumonia on a ventilator because he can no longer clear his secretions. he'll be effectively dead for days as GOP poo poo heads lie about just having spoke to him via text or whatever. when they finally call it, he'll have a tube up his dick, down his throat, and be covered in his own diarrhea from the feeding tube
and that will be the story of mitch
Now excuse me I need to go round
I like knowing that he's slowly spiraling into death. Thanks for this.
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Jul 28, 2023 06:57
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- Zeroisanumber
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the mitch, the
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Jul 28, 2023 19:36
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I mean, we're all dying. Slowly being eaten away by the corrosive effects of the oxygen that we rely on to live.
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Jul 28, 2023 23:49
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- Zeroisanumber
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Have they tried not voting for him
It's a ruby-red state and as long as he's able to force his way onto the ticket he'll get reelected.
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Aug 8, 2023 12:08
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- Zeroisanumber
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Depending on how badly she was hurt this could be it. That's how my grandmother went out.
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Aug 9, 2023 21:15
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disgusting, she has spent her life fighting for ordinary citizens like you and me
The Dead Kennedys song "Let's Lynch the Landlord" is about Feinstein. And she once raised the Confederate flag over San Francisco city hall. If she were born in an earlier generation she'd have made a fine villain in a Polanski film.
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Aug 9, 2023 21:20
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- Zeroisanumber
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Nah she was discharged the same day so she didn’t break anything. Unless they sent her home to die with hospice but I can’t imagine even the wealthy could pull that off that quick.
But yeah, if she falls and breaks a hip that’s it. She won’t survive the surgery. Atleast not cognitively.
Ah, well. Nevertheless.
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Aug 10, 2023 03:52
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- Zeroisanumber
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If you look real close and squint you can almost see the grim reaper breathing down the back of his neck.
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Aug 31, 2023 00:47
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Oh yeah, when I get lightheaded I often stare off into space for 30 seconds in the middle of answering questions for a gaggle of reporters.
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Aug 31, 2023 20:45
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Fetterman's fine, otherwise I agree with her.
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Sep 1, 2023 14:54
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- Zeroisanumber
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Yeah, no joke.
She's not terrible or anything. Left enough that the moderate dems in MN teamed up with the GOP and spent a shitload trying to primary her. But when she first got in I had people who’s judgment I trust tell me that we were getting a stealth comrade up on the Hill and she isn't half that.
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Sep 1, 2023 15:53
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- Zeroisanumber
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this is the living dead thread, not the maybe my congressional fave is ok??? thread tia
What are you the thread police?
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Sep 1, 2023 19:31
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- Zeroisanumber
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That isn't necessarily from a stroke, he might've just suddenly lost all of his teeth.
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Sep 6, 2023 00:40
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- Zeroisanumber
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Bitch drank from the wrong grail.
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Sep 6, 2023 03:26
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all of the 80 year old politicians fighting for the last Ozempic shot like Snake and Liquid fighting for the nanomachine suppressor at the end of MGS4
My BiL lost a ton of weight on Ozempic but he said it was one of the worst experiences of his life.
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Sep 6, 2023 16:12
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- Zeroisanumber
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people come out the other side looking like the hollowed from dark souls
He was 46 and morbidly obese toeing the line between pre-diabetes and just actual diabetes. And he has four young kids. He lost 120 pounds but he said he was basically incontinent, nauseated, and just generally felt like poo poo and farted constantly. It can save your rear end, but you won't like it much.
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Sep 6, 2023 16:20
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- Zeroisanumber
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how long does it take to lose 120 pounds on the miracle drug, rapid weight loss is rather unhealthy, is it actually dangerous for that reason?
This was over the course of a year and he and my sis got him a personal trainer for the gym and went on a pescatarian diet 6 days a week and cut way back on booze. He's much healthier and working with a dietician to maintain now that he's dropped so much weight, but it was an ordeal. The pills ain't magic, and you go through a lot of pain for not a lot of gain if you don't accompany the medication with lifestyle changes.
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Sep 6, 2023 16:25
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Lol "I can't retire! I'm irreplaceable!" I insist as I clamp my rapidly decaying fingers tighter to the levers of power.
If he quit now he, his party, and the government would all be better off but he just can't help himself.
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- Zeroisanumber
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He can't step down because Kentucky's governor is a Democrat who gets to select the next Senator from Kentucky if there is a position to fill. The state legislature passed a law requiring the Gov to pick a replacement selected by the previous Senator's state party apparatus, but the law hasn't been challenged constitutionally.
So there is real danger that McConnell is replaced by a Democrat if the Gov just ignores the potentially unconstitutional law. Given that Sinema/Manchin are the necessary buffer to keep any crazy non-oligarchic poo poo from going down, it's a risk too big to take.
Kentucky's Dem Gov is also a slight favorite to win re-election, so Mitch will never step down. He might disappear totally ala Feinstein, but he will be a Senator until after Beshear is no longer the Gov of Kentucky.
I think that death might have something to say about that old bitch's plans.
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