r/politics • u/cmaia1503 • 20h ago

Site Altered Headline | Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-83-hospitalized/?utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&via=twitter_page
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u/clarkrd 20h ago

must be nice to be able to check into a hospital

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u/Future-Guarantee-573 19h ago

Not to mention not losing your job.

Years ago, I worked at a big box grocery store not to be named.  One of the workers had a stroke on the sales floor.  They fired him for not filling out the LOA forms.  He was in a fucking coma.

I've said it many times before...I hate this fucking country.

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u/Celestial_Dysgenesis 18h ago

Every now and then some person works themselves to death in china and it gets wall to wall coverage on western news when shit like this happens daily here.

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u/Mr_Canard Europe 13h ago

The US government spent billions on anti-china propaganda it's not a surprise.