My Bull Shit Detector is lighting up strong:

[Chasstev365]

John Thune, John Barrasso, and Scott Jenning all state they had a 20 minute phone call with Mitch McConnell in the hospital.

Really: you all stated the phone call was exactly "20 minutes?"

BTW: I'm sure Chuck Schumer has Mitch McConnell's phone number. Has he even tried to call him to see WTF is going on?

[dedl67]

1. On a very slightly related topic, there was reportedly a phone installed in Mary Baker Eddy's tomb...

... though I am not sure if anyone has had 20-any minute calls with her recently. Maybe McTurtle is more loquacious in the afterlife in purgatory or wherever..

[dalton99a]

2. Because they all have the same limited voice plan

[vapor2]

42. lmao

[OldBaldy1701E]

3. Let me see here...

Yep... definitely pegging!

[SSJVegeta]

4. Maybe a conference call?

[mwmisses4289]

5. Lol!

[QueerDuck]

6. Mitch wasn't responsive... someone just placed the phone by his ear, or turned on the speaker...

... and they spoke TO him... not WITH him. It's common (I've heard) for people to talk to the dying even though they are comatose or the brain-dead.

I recall that I used to have "conversations" with each of my parents during their last days in hospice. It was therapeutic for me... I chose to believe they could hear me, but it seems unlikely considering their comatose state and the amount of morphine they had been given to ease the pain of transitioning.

[SSJVegeta]

7. Oh i know that dynamic all too well

[modrepub]

11. If It Makes You Feel Better

They say hearing is the last sense people have at the end of life. Both my wife’s parents proved that in my mind.

My mother in law was in home hospice basically only taking morphine for weeks with little else. On their wedding anniversary, my father in law kissed her forehead and wished her Happy Anniversary and said she could go. She did within hours.

My father in law had a massive heart attack that left him in a coma. This happened while we were on vacation. It took us a day or so for us to get in the hospital. We told him we were there and he could go see mother (a term he used for his wife). Shortly after my wife and brother in law were discussing taking him off the machines. That became unnecessary; he passed quietly within an hour of us getting to the hospital.

[QueerDuck]

15. Thanks. 🫂

I just talked about old times with Dad. With Mom, however, I did tell her that "she was safe, it's okay to let go.... and we'd miss her... but that we'll be okay" --- The hospice nurse said that sometimes they want privacy... so we went back to the hotel for dinner, and right at bedtime, we got the call that she'd passed. Sigh.

Sorry for hijacking this thread.

[Seinan Sensei]

29. "Squeeze my hand if you can hear me"

Once if yes to Trump
Twice if no to Constitutional-anything

[mr715]

35. This is what happened...

or they spoke to someone with power of attorney so they can make the bullshit claim that they were, legally, speaking with Mitch McConnell.

Sen. Mitch McConnell is almost certainly currently fermenting.

[QueerDuck]

37. "Fermenting!" 🤣🤣 OMG... Stop!

[3Hotdogs]

8. Mitch told 'em he was sharing a room with Tom Kean but Tom left, suddenly. He doesn't know where Tom went.

[mr715]

36. I was really hoping Tom Kean had gender reassignment surgery

[3Hotdogs]

38. I was originally figuring on Syph but that thought got short circuited when I realized it would require someone to

have sex with him.

[mr715]

39. IDK, New Jersey

A swim in the Passaic could give you a nasty itch.

[hlthe2b]

9. Yes. Maybe one of them might have spoken somewhat at length (if any of this is true), but all of them?

Hospitalized patients in (or even out of ICU after such a--reportedly-- traumatic few weeks) might take a few phone calls, but I've never seen them be more than brief. The "business-addicted" might be a bit more determined but their energy and motivation doesn't persist. Recovery is exhausting. Hospitals are hardly conducive to sleep, so yeah, even with the VIP treatment, I'm not sure I'm buying these stories.

[allegorical oracle]

18. Mitch was freezing up periodically when he was still able to walk around

Capitol Hill, which makes 20-minute phone calls seem at least an exaggeration. He's been hospitalized, now, for a month.

[electron_blue]

10. yes and also it seems everyone claims they "talked to" him which technically you could do to someone in a coma

I'm not reading anything about "talking with" but perhaps I missed it

[Ol Janx Spirit]

12. Nah, he's fine....

[SocialDemocrat61]

13. The AI app get weird after 20 minutes

[struggle4progress]

14. "Let's be smart and make sure our stories match!"

[FakeNoose]

16. They should have a Zoomer with Mitch and post the video for all of us

[Aristus]

17. They have their talking points. And they're sticking to 'em.

You can't expect originality from these apes.

[PatSeg]

19. They are all so proficient at lying

It is part of who they are.

[marmar]

20. They all got the same script.

[newdeal2]

21. They ran out of ChatGPT tokens

And they’re too cheap to pay for a pro plan.

[Quiet Em]

22. and Mitch still hasn't found a moment to check in with Governor Beshear

Yeah, it's all bs.

Mitch McConnell is probably not leaving that hospital. He's old, he had a heart attack or stroke, he was found unresponsive, and his condition is unlikely to improve.

[MustLoveBeagles]

24. I agree

[otchmoson]

23. Where's Andy Beshear?

As governor, he should have vested interest in assuring his citizens are represented in the Senate. Doesn't he have the standing to ascertain whether Mitch is alive or dead?

[BannonsLiver]

33. He's done what he can do. I'm not sure WTF people want from him. This has become a running theme here.

He didn’t cause or create this shit show and it’s not within his power or job to resolve it. 🙄

[Dave Id]

25. Were the conversations with Mitch two sided or

did they do all of the taking to McConnell, but he didn't speak himself?

[xuplate]

26. The devil is in the details

They may have talked but did but was he able to respond?

[Buckeyeblue]

27. Did Thune and Barrasso actually say they talked to him

Or did their staff or Moscow Mitch's staff say it? It seems like 1 or 2 people are perpetuating this story.

Assuming it's not a game and he is going to walk in any day.

[Mr. Jinx]

28. Same script, differnt day.

Talking about current events wouldn't be high on the task list of most people in a similar situation.

[Mustellus]

30. I'm sorry.. I can't resist....

Ding dong the Mitch is dead. Which old Mitch? The wicked Mitch.
Ding dong the Wicked Mitch is deaaadddd....

[Gato Moteado]

31. that was the same day that....

...trump had a conversation with teddy roosevelt

[usonian]

32. Rare photo of Mitch in hospital!!!

[ClaudetteCC]

34. Didn't this info originate with the Sen. Jack Kimble parody site?

It looks like it was CNN's source also.

[Red Mountain]

40. Governor needs to call bullshit

and set the wheels of a special election in motion.

Let them respond.

[Red Mountain]

41. Would look very

Presidential, no?

[lame54]

43. 20 minute max - Hell is a long distance call