... 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..

... 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

You can't expect originality from these apes.

It is part of who they are.

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

...trump had a conversation with teddy roosevelt

It looks like it was CNN's source also.