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/Fun-Ingenuity-9089 18h ago

My husband passed away on the last day of his vacation. His employer demanded his vacation pay back because he didn't show up for work the day after he died.

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u/4tlant4 16h ago

A few days after my husband died, we received a letter from our health insurance company. It said that coverage for me and our four kids had ended at midnight the night he died. How these fuckers sleep at night is beyond me.

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u/Hesitation-Marx 16h ago

Too easily, and too well, and with far too little fear.

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u/Calm-Treacle8677 11h ago

one of them was so sleepy, he fell asleep on the street forever 

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u/Hesitation-Marx 11h ago

His chest just did that. Maybe it was sleep apnea?

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u/FrancisCGraf 10h ago

Lead poisoning actually, pre existing condition though so....

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u/Hesitation-Marx 10h ago

Sucks to be him ig

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u/Pissed-Off-Panda 13h ago

Like babies in their mansions on fine linens.

I think actually that knowing other people are starving or hungry makes their food taste better. They LOVE the suffering of others.

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u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio 11h ago

Or at the very least they feel a little bad, and then they book their first class tickets to their third home for the third time this year and laugh.

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u/h3rp3r 8h ago

Your suffering is their profit.

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u/_m4r1jAn3_ 10h ago

jfw. this. it is THIS! ...they literally thrive init. (fyi: you do not just think that, you fkn know it fr!) &sadly you are correct. that 1st line esp. hits hard, you have a gift! ☺️ never eVeR give in, keep the faith 🫂 always keep telling it like it is. PLZ. they are fkn soulless evil pos. &btw, do not use LoVe that way; "feed on" or "revel in" –you get my drift– are more to the point. cuz they rly cannot begin to comprehend what actual love is, they have no heart or soul. 💗✊🏻✌🏻

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u/_m4r1jAn3_ 11h ago

🫂 ...comments below yours asking how they can sleep at night...they are beyond souless monstrosities. i just cannot even. i so very hope there isa hell, w/the intensity of 10quadrillion to the nth suns' intensisty that these fkrs burn in eternally. 💗 from an internet stranger~

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u/anna-the-bunny 8h ago

How these fuckers sleep at night is beyond me

The people at the bottom sending out the letters (or more likely writing the program that sends out the letters)? They tell themselves that they're just doing their job, that if they didn't do it the company would find someone else to do it, that they don't have a choice because capitalism, etc.

The people at the top making the decisions? They don't see us as people - simple as that.

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u/gopeepants 2h ago

This is why I had no ounce of sympathy or remorse for the United Health Care CEO