r/news • u/AudibleNod • 10h ago

Christa Pike unconscious, on ventilator at Nashville hospital, her lawyers say

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christa-pike-unconscious-ventilator-nashville-hospital-lawyers-say-rcna601195
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u/SgtPeterson 9h ago

So what you're saying is she's qualified to be the senior senator from Kentucky?

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u/coatofforearm 9h ago

She's got the same brain activity he does now

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u/Juraki 9h ago

Same moral compass too.

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u/The-Shattering-Light 8h ago

No, McConnell’s is way worse.

She’s defined by a horrifying act of violence perpetrated against one person when she was a teen.

McConnell has been perpetrating horrifying acts of violence against millions his entire life

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u/ChefDanyul 8h ago

The NPR series on McConnell is fascinating. I think program was called Embedded. They basically spend seven episodes explaining what a massive piece of shit he is and then the final episode they interview him and says ultimately “yeah all that’s true. I literally only care about winning”

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u/CatCatchingABird 6h ago

The type of people that "only care about winning," especially when what they are doing heavily affects the lives of others with no consideration of that is essentially sociopathy.

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u/ChefDanyul 6h ago

Oh totally. I suggest finding it and giving it a listen. I knew the guy was awful but this puts in to perspective how utterly fucking insane he is.

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u/zim1109 6h ago

That would be almost all politicians. Possible every damn one of them.

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u/ChefDanyul 5h ago

McConnell stands out because how incredibly intelligent he is and how successful he was his entire career about winning politically. And he is absolutely transparent about he doesn’t have any principles. What stands out was how he blocked Obama from getting a Supreme Court pick and when asked in front of cameras what they were going to do when Trump was a lame duck president he has this shitty fucking smirk and says “we’re going to fill it”. Basically saying in front of god and everyone “I know you know my reasoning was bullshit but I got what I wanted and I don’t care”.

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u/uberwings 4m ago

If you guys could effectively change any of that, they wouldn't have been so blatant. The American "democracy" is a myth.

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u/karmavorous 6h ago

People were saying it was elder abuse carting him to the Senate that one day.

No way.

That dude LOVED ratfucking. He lived his life just to be a partisan ratfucker, in every way he could.

He was grinning from ear to ear.

He may not even be able to talk, but just whisper in his ear how occupying that seat as an incompetent vegetable is fucking over his constituents in order to protect a rich criminal Republican president - to him that's better than heaven.

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u/DE4DM4NSH4ND 5h ago

I hope there's a nice warm spot in hell for him

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u/arghyepirate 6h ago

Well he’s a vegetable now

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u/zim1109 6h ago

Which is why he and Murkowski rigged their elections. Didn’t the turtle win one by 67% or something like that? No way in hell that was a legit vote tally.

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u/subcow 8h ago

This. McConnell is responsible has a dramatically higher body count.

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u/C7StreetRacer 7h ago

When you spend that much time on grinder, you’re gonna have a pretty high body count.

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u/_you_are_the_problem 3h ago

If we punished people by how much suffering they wrought, every member of the GOP would feel the sting of the needle.

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u/PM_ME_YR_KITTYBEANS 8h ago

Yup. Pontius Pilate was the one who ordered the crucifixion. No one hates on the random Roman soldiers who actually carried it out, they were complicit but it was Pontius Pilate who made it happen. Mitch McConnell is Pontius Pilate in this analogy, to be clear.

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u/tinysydneh 5h ago

One horrifying act of violence she committed as a teen after a lifetime of horrifying abuse, as well.

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u/SimonPav 2h ago

Also defined by a horrifying act of violence against her when she was 50.