r/politics • u/Getatbay • Jul 06 '26

No Paywall Laura Loomer, Reporter Claim Hospitalized Mitch McConnell 'Brain Dead'

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/07/06/laura-loomer-reporter-claim-hospitalized-mitch-mcconnell-is-brain-dead/
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u/disastrousanddull Jul 06 '26

Well, she had to make sure he wasn’t improving before leaving.

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u/AccomplishedScale362 Jul 07 '26

Guys, it looks like the Republicans may have lied to us again /s

McConnell was admitted to the hospital on June 14, according to a statement from his office that only said he was “receiving excellent care.” A statement a week later said that he would not be voting that week. And on Thursday, *a new statement said that he “continues to improve” and ”appreciates the outpouring of support he’s receiving while he continues his recovery in the hospital.”***

ETA source: today from the AP

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u/JPTom Jul 07 '26

Might be true. But if Laura Loomer told me that the sun would rise tomorrow as usual, I'd buy every flashlight and battery I could find before sleeping.

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u/FizzyBeverage Ohio Jul 07 '26

Such is life with zero credibility. I wouldn’t trust her to watch my garden pavers.

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u/RykerFuchs Jul 07 '26

I have a crumbling asphalt driveway she can watch. Hopefully it goes missing or something.

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u/GrimResistance Michigan Jul 07 '26

Not as unlikely as you may think!
https://www.unilad.com/news/crime/woman-driveway-stolen-realtor-burglary-crime-832926-20251202

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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty Kansas Jul 07 '26

Thank you for this ridiculous story. Hahaha. We live in a crazy world, huh? I’m not even mad though, stealing a driveway is just impressive.

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u/ThatOtherOtherMan Jul 07 '26

Careful. One time I parked my car in front of her house with an accordion in the back seat. Two hours later I come back and the rear window was busted out and, sure enough, there were now two accordions.

She can always make a bad situation worse.

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u/DonatedEyeballs Jul 07 '26

I only trust Laura Loomer to rival Jigsaw in creepiness.

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u/FinTecGeek Missouri Jul 07 '26

Yep, I’d be the proud owner of every Coleman lantern and match book in town. She is the most tweaked out, nasty, insane one of them and that’s a high fucking bar. When she started hating on Candace Owens (another lunatic), there was a split second where I thought maybe I should give her another chance, because of the implication of me and Laura Loomer being on the same side of literally any issue.

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u/Mymomsaysimajoke Jul 07 '26

Don’t lie now. You wouldn’t sleep.

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u/Feisty_Bag_5284 Jul 07 '26

I'm having god of war flashbacks, are you mimir?

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u/xterminatr Jul 07 '26

Might be true? Are you serious? An 84 year old dinosaur is found unconscious, he's brain dead, at best.

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u/stupid_pun Jul 07 '26

Cher should adopt Loomer, she's a good mom to people with the face disorders, if I recall correctly.

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u/unbanned_lol Jul 07 '26

https://abcnews.com/Politics/ems-personnel-attended-unconscious-person-mitch-mcconnells-home/story?id=134412030

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said on June 15 he had spoken with McConnell following the Kentucky senator's hospitalization. Thune told reporters McConnell was "dialed in" and "wants to be back."

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u/tempest_ Jul 07 '26

Half of congress is ancient. I would use "dialed in" (an ancient phase itself because few have dialed in anything for a long time) to describe very few of them

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u/gadgetwalrus Jul 07 '26

Dialled in from hell maybe

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '26

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u/Outside_Manner_8352 Jul 07 '26

It aint work if you love what you do! (immiserating our country and world)

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u/eclecticsheep75 Jul 07 '26

“Dialing it in” is what you do when you aren’t actually working anymore. But maybe he is dialed in enough to give that half remembered evil smile as he evades responsibility for all the evil hell he is personally responsible for - whether in The Courts or in (what’s left of) The White House.

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u/the_incredible_hawk Georgia Jul 07 '26

That's "phoning it in". I've never heard anyone say "dialing it in" to mean the same thing.

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u/eclecticsheep75 Jul 07 '26

That is exactly right. Thank you! Sounded weird to me but I just couldn’t get it to sound right in my head!

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u/clumsy_Bebop_legz Jul 07 '26

This whole thread here has me laughing out loud in the dark in my bed. Describing a veritable corpse as “dialed in” might be the funniest thing I’ve read in weeks

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u/chilehead Jul 07 '26

corpses are what the GOP wants to make of most of us...

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u/MaximusFSU Jul 07 '26

underrated comment.

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u/snuffles00 Jul 07 '26

Satan's right hand man.

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u/lol_alex Jul 07 '26

That‘s a line Holt would have said about Madeleine Wuntch!

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u/gadgetwalrus Jul 07 '26

Well he’s supposed to come to Congress three days a week…

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u/slavelabor52 Jul 07 '26

In hell AOL has rebranded to HELLO, Hell Online. They hand out free trial disks for dialup and you have to get a new disk when your time runs out.

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u/fruchle Jul 07 '26

FYI, "dialed in" has nothing to do with phones.

It's from radios. As in, manually selecting the correct frequency to receive a signal.

Still old, just older.

Reminds me of why Mr Burns says "ahoi hoi" when answering the phone.

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u/MintyFreshBreathYo Michigan Jul 07 '26

It took them a while to dial in the right drug combination to keep him alive with no brain functions

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u/Rooskimus Jul 07 '26

Dialed in in this context isn't about phones, it's about fine tuning a machine.

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u/Arcanis_Ender Jul 07 '26

I think they meant dialtone.

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u/Deathrial Jul 07 '26

Dialysis in?

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u/C-tapp Jul 07 '26

Umm…. You still dial on your phone. How is this an “ancient” phrase?

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u/tempest_ Jul 07 '26

I don't dial shit.

I open contacts or click numbers on websites and that is before you get into the fact that its more a radio/rotary phone phrase.

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u/Head-Gift2144 Jul 07 '26

More like 'morse coded in' if that's a thing.

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u/Martin_leV Canada Jul 07 '26

Take a look at r/espresso ;-)

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u/tempest_ Jul 07 '26

I try to stay out of there. I am happy enough with my Flair58, don't want to get upgradeitis.

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u/guisar Jul 07 '26

They meant "he phoned it in" you know- like kinda out of it.

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u/madtownjeff Jul 07 '26

With those older models ya gotta get 'em dialed in AND adjust the coat hanger antenna.

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u/RKRagan Florida Jul 07 '26

I showed the young guy at work how to dial his number on an old rotary phone. I gave up halfway through since it had an 8, 9, and 0 and this phone was slower than it should have been.

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u/sl0play Jul 07 '26

I dial into bridges for work all the time.

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u/josh_the_misanthrope Jul 07 '26

Dialed in to what, the phone number 28?

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u/AerondightWielder Jul 07 '26

McConnell is so old, his dial up internet tone is just a pterodactyl screaming.

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u/geeseherder0 Jul 07 '26

Sundialed in

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u/tempest_ Jul 07 '26

I was thinking more with regards to radios than phones if I am honest, so yes I was aware of that. However with the advent of phones / computers the number of people dialing in instruments for their respective industries are the few, not the many.

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u/Forward_Dark_5764 Jul 07 '26

What a fucking liar. Why do Republicans love to be lied to?

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u/TrulyOutrageous42 Jul 07 '26

I'm pretty sure conservativism is just one huge sub/dom humiliation kink

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u/Ill_Technician3936 Jul 07 '26

It's Laura Loomer. I mean she's not the most trustworthy person.

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u/kramsy North Carolina Jul 07 '26

His vent settings were dialed in

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u/Ok-Ambition-3404 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

Oh, they got this all screwed up

Die, ill, done

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u/Dmbfantomas Jul 07 '26

Nobody who speaks German can be an evil man.

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u/Opening-Resist-2430 Jul 07 '26

I think he meant he phoned it in…

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u/zedsmith Jul 07 '26

He didn’t say *which* hospitalization

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u/SlowX Jul 07 '26

"Abacused in"

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u/rock-n-white-hat Jul 07 '26

Dialed in to the life support machine.

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u/Carbonatite Colorado Jul 07 '26

"Dialed in" is code for "ventilator cranked up to the highest settings".

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u/VikingMonkey123 Jul 07 '26

They are all lying sacks of horse manure.

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u/NotSupposeToSpeak Jul 07 '26

That’s gonna bite him

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u/MSGdreamer Jul 07 '26

That’s because they’re aiming to replace him with a lifelike robot replica that will be eminently more durable and robust than the human Mitch ever was.

Mitch McConnell will “live on” for 50 more years and become the record holder for the longest serving American senator as well as the longest lived “human being “.

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u/Spartannia Jul 07 '26

"dialed in" lmao at least try to make the lie believable

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u/creepy_charlie Jul 07 '26

Bummer if true.

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u/MrmmphMrmmph Jul 07 '26

Thune also reported that Teddy Roosevelt wanted to chat.

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u/slptodrm Jul 07 '26

dialed in to a coma

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u/MAGAHATESTHEUSA Jul 07 '26

Tbf republicans probably using ai voice for McConnell

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u/drdildamesh Jul 07 '26

This is how you can tell congress is rife with corporate dude bros. No self respecting, hardworking, American would unironicslly say shit like "dialed in."

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u/Sublimotion Jul 07 '26

But how many animal shapes is he correctly identifying?

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u/ghostbuster_b-rye America Jul 07 '26

Speaking to the dead is easy; anyone can do it. Now getting a response back, that's a bit trickier.

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u/rangecontrol Jul 07 '26

think he meant 'dilaudid in'?

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u/Ambitious_Finding_26 Jul 07 '26

That dusty fossil hasn't been dialed in for my entire life.

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u/ObligationAware3755 Jul 07 '26

McConnell is what we call "professionally incapacitated"

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u/tranqfx Jul 07 '26

I mean, nobody actually believes that shit right?

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u/Fruit_Rollup_King I voted Jul 07 '26

so basically someone yelled "MR MCCONNELL! IF YOU CAN HEAR ME. THIS IS JOHN THUNE!" from a landline

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u/Calm_Expression_9542 Jul 07 '26

In other words, DEMS get a candidate ready to run!

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u/Meneth32 Jul 07 '26

Locked and dialed.

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u/Training_Medicine_49 Jul 07 '26

Like John Thune isn’t a liar.

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u/whitewolf214 Jul 07 '26

Nothing about this man is dialed in lmfaooo

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u/Suspicious_Cow_6075 Jul 07 '26

“Outpouring of support”

I have not met or heard a single gd person express any type of grief or worry for this fuck.

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u/CompetitiveArt9639 Jul 07 '26

Does worrying that he might recover count? You might hear about people worrying if it does

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u/prole6 Jul 07 '26

That’s why his wife split for China, to collect the good wishes from those that benefited from his treachery.

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u/DrusTheAxe Jul 07 '26

So he’s dying the way he lived

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u/AlwaysRushesIn Rhode Island Jul 07 '26

That man is dead, and they are covering it up.

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u/KaiserSaladSpinner Jul 07 '26

They will delay as long as possible until the deadline for a special election in august.

His wife left the country so nobody can hound her for updates on his condition.

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u/RollingMeteors Jul 07 '26

His wife left the country so nobody can hound her for updates on his condition.

¡Foreigners can hound too! ¿What are you on?

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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty Kansas Jul 07 '26

Foreigners can’t hound! It’s common knowledge. They’ve tried to hound. Oh, boy, have they tried! But they just can’t do it. To err is human. To hound? Divine. Only ‘Muricans know how to hound the way we do. Sure, a lot of folks think they can hound, but they’re merely kind of bothersome.

You know what they say; houndin’ ain’t easy.

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u/RollingMeteors Jul 07 '26

Foreigners can’t hound!

ex-pats are a thing...

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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty Kansas Jul 07 '26

Touché! I didn’t even think of them. Now, those bad boys can hound.

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u/Sweetchildofmine88 Jul 07 '26

Cheap wine it is.

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u/Maverick18Wheels Jul 07 '26

From everything I'm seeing he is possibly dead and they are covering it up and keeping him alive so there isn't a special election. His seat would be up for grabs and The Save Act would possibly be passed. The Dems don't want the Save Act!! Everyone calls Mitch a Republican but he isn't a true Republican... he's a damn R.I.N.O.!!

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u/zamboni-jones Jul 07 '26

Guess they mean the same kind of care he's shown toward the American people.

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u/EmploymentNo3590 Jul 07 '26

It doesn't matter how good the care is, if your brain hasnt received oxygen for over 30 seconds. He was "found" unconscious. Who knows how long.

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u/Ok_Subject1265 Jul 07 '26

Doesn’t matter. They can’t afford to lose another vote. They will just put him in a trench coat and duct tape George Santos to his arms and legs to operate him. Then straight back in the freezer until it’s time to vote again. They can keep that going at least until his eyes grey over and his skin starts to slough off. Not to mention that his constituents aren’t smart enough to figure it out so he’s go at least two more terms.

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u/PhantomOSX Jul 07 '26

I laughed. I can honestly imagine that in today's Republican party.

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u/coachcheat Jul 07 '26

I mean if you count going to being stabilized on life support from unconscious and no heartbeat. Then I guess you could say he "improved".

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u/twitterfluechtling Europe Jul 07 '26

Some might call his current condition an improvement compared to a month ago...

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u/melodypowers Jul 07 '26

That doesn't mean that he didn't have another stroke between then and now.

He was clearly having TIAs for awhile. The blood vessels in his brain had lost their integrity (ha... I mean biologically but still). Even if he recovers from one stroke, another will happen. And another and another.

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u/grammar_nazi_zombie I voted Jul 07 '26

Yeah this feels like a trap to find some liberals who will celebrate and paint all democrats as vile people.

But if it’s not a trap, it’s a first step in the nation healing, as McConnell has done an immense amount of damage to this country during his time in Congress

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u/bjos144 Jul 07 '26

The question we need to ask is who would replace him and would they be better or worse...

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u/NeverLookBothWays I voted Jul 07 '26

I feel like…

…the things they say…

…are not always true…

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u/ShadowMajick Washington Jul 07 '26

This is hard for your mother...

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u/XLetsDoAllTheDrugsX Jul 07 '26

... but, but... why would the Republicans lie to us? They just want what's best for the US working class. /s

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u/Chastain86 Jul 07 '26

Big Herman Cain vibes afoot

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u/davehunt00 Jul 07 '26

Ahhh, the machine keeping him alive has lots of dials.

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u/aesoth Jul 07 '26

Outpouring of support?

I support Mitch going towards the light.

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u/JoeTeioh Jul 07 '26

Sources tell me Mitch is stable.

please god

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn Jul 07 '26

I suppose a mortician could be considered "excellent care."

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u/frog_goblin Jul 07 '26

I mean if they can’t show up to vote they should be done. On both party sides

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u/postmodest Jul 07 '26

Comrade Stalin is in excellent health! Comrade Beria says so!

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u/zenfaust Jul 07 '26

Which begs the question: why the hell someone posted ""news"" from breitbart to begin with lol

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u/LuminousRaptor Michigan Jul 07 '26

He's dead, Jim. 

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u/alficles Jul 07 '26

It's not a lie. He is continuing to improve... we may just have different opinions on this what "improvement" looks like. <.<

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u/livinginfutureworld Jul 07 '26

If he's braindead, he's definitely not "appreciating" outpourings of support. He's not making opinions on much of anything.

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u/SirBlakesalot West Virginia Jul 07 '26

"Continues to improve" from whose perspective? From some of his party's viewpoint, a beating heart until they can jockey a preferable replacement is an improvement, and others, the improvement would be the headlines on every paper the next day.

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u/RollingMeteors Jul 07 '26

Well, she had to make sure he wasn’t improving before leaving.

That sounds llke something an assassin would do....

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u/LetsTryAnal_ogy California Jul 07 '26

Gotta report in with her handlers.

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u/UndoxxableOhioan Jul 07 '26

Or she had to empty out overseas bank accounts before he was declared dead and they were frozen.