Mitch McConnell

So Mitch McConnell (Republican Senator from Kentucky) has been in the hospital for a few weeks now. Some reports say he is brain-dead. Others insist that several people have spoken to him for "20 minutes" or so. Surely not everyone is lying about talking with him? We know that Trump and his gang of grifters use AI when they feel like it. Another aspect of this "artificial" intelligence is deep fakes, not only video but audio. All you really need are a couple of samples of someone's voice, and you can make them say just about anything you want, and it's very hard to distinguish between the actual voice and a copy. 

The GOP is capable of anything, including the destruction of the United States, and it would not surprise me at all if they had sampled McConnell's voice and have had him "talk" to various people while he is still actually brain-dead. This, to keep him "alive" long enough so that a special election would not be needed. His seat would simply remain open until the November election, and McConnell is not running for re-election.

The following is a writing from another online friend of mine I will identify as L.C. He is a retired doctor and he knows what he is writing about.

About Mitch

I mean the turtle, of course. If you have read my rants, essays, and musings over the years, you will probably remember that the percentage of individuals who survive CPR at age 80+ is in the single digits - probably 1%. Of that number, an even smaller fraction leaves the hospital alive and neurologically intact. It isn't that CPR doesn't work or that first responders are incompetent, it is that we simply aren't designed to survive a prolonged period of cardio-pulmonary arrest - especially not in our later years.

It's because of these realities that I have for decades said that if I collapse from cardiac arrest, please leave me the fuck alone so that I may die in peace. If you want to hold my hand or stroke my face as I lie dying, thank you for that kindness. Just don't be breaking my ribs, blowing your bad breath into my lungs, and all that other "lifesaving" shit. I don't want it. I have already led a long and fulfilling life. Don't screw it up for me.

Mitch, on the other hand, got the "full resuscitation Monty," of course. It should come as no surprise to anyone that he is lying in a hospital bed probably on a ventilator with diffuse anoxic brain injury. That's what would happen to me or maybe you - if either of us were so fortunate as to have lived into the eighth decade of life and then had a cardiac arrest.

So, maybe Mitch still has a heartbeat. I don't know. But he sure as hell isn't going to be voting on any bills or floor motions. He was 84, and that was a good run. Too bad that he used the time he was allotted to run afoul of the Constitution chasing power over justice and democracy.

Mitch, what has happened to you, is going to happen to all of us. I just hope that when it happens to me, I will not be as hated and reviled by my fellow humans as you are after you have taken your last breath. AMF!

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