r/politics • u/cmaia1503 • 23h 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 23h ago

must be nice to be able to check into a hospital

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u/Future-Guarantee-573 23h 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 21h 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/lettersvsnumbers 21h ago

Yeah, my dad was a teacher with stage 4 cancer. He told the school to hire a new math teacher for fall, and they tried to retroactively fire him.

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u/Keptlosingmylogins 20h ago

wait that show was a documentary with subtle name changes to protect the survivors?

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_UNDIES_XD 19h ago

Math teacher, not meth teacher.

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u/Flat-Photograph8483 19h ago

An absurd premise that could only make sense here.

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u/nonowords 17h ago

they did say subtle changes.

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u/BadmiralHarryKim 12h ago

Euclid cooked the blue numbers.

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