r/SipsTea • u/Murky_Breath_4896 • 4h ago

Chugging tea Not wrong!

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u/kezow 4h ago

It's not lying if he's not technically dead! Just because a machine is breathing for him doesn't make him any less alive!

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u/Infern0-DiAddict 3h ago

Don't care enough to track down if AI is correct, but this is what it showed.

If accurate then they are indeed legally lying, if he has been pronounced brain dead by two physicians. If only one and they are avoiding / preventing a second opinion, it would still be considered fraud.

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u/hahayouguessedit 3h ago

I don’t know if it matters but he was at GW hospital in DC

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u/DarkFit922 2h ago

No because he is a senator in kentucky. He meets the qualifications of a dead person in Kentucky, which you cant be if you want to be a senator.

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u/TheDispiteous 2h ago

Kentucky and DC share the same standard so it makes no difference here, but your assumption that the qualification of what is a dead person has to follow Kentucky is not correct. He has to be declared dead for the 17. amendment to come into effect, and that is a determination made by medical personal where he is, not his home state. But also afaik there is no evidence he is brain dead (or more than usual) or that he is on life support

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u/kezow 3h ago

I'm sure they can find a "doctor" willing to proclaim him not brain dead on the flimsiest pretext.

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u/Unlikely-Key-234 1h ago

No doubt that brain dead is dead, but what proof do you have that he is brain dead?

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u/National_Panda_1791 2h ago

if he isn't conscious or coherent OR AT HIS FUCKING JOB WORKING then he can be released on medical leave. who gives a fuck if he's breathing?

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u/TrioOfTerrors 39m ago

There's no such thing for Senators.

The only way to remove him before death is a 2/3rds vote of the Senate.

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u/National_Panda_1791 10m ago

well thats an oversight

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