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They sent out the following proof of life pic:
Even IF we assume that it's genuine, the left side of his face is severely drooping and his wife seems to have to hold him up on the same side. Both indicators of paralysis of the entire left side of his body, likely due to a massive stroke.
I'm no geologist, but in my strictly non-electrician estimation, it's extremely unlikely that a stroke that bad doesn't leave him too cognitively impaired to adequately do his job of evaluating and deciding matters of the utmost importance for 340 million people.
I'm not licensed to teach judo, though.
I'm calling BS on that picture. If he's in a long term hospital stay he is going to be in a gown, he's going to have a medical bracelet, an IV, possibly oxygen and he's going to look like hot shit because no one who has been in the hospital looks good even when they are on the road to recovery. The man isn't even wearing a pulseox. If you've ever gone through it with a loved one, you know exactly what I'm talking about. So either they shoved a sick old man in jeans in a button down for a photo op (doubt) or that photo is fake as fuck. I also find the tag being on the outside of that button down shirt suspicious as fuck in an AI is stupid kind of way.
Not that I don't agree with your general point and conclusion (I do), but the Republican propaganda ghouls would ABSOLUTELY do that.
Oh I agree, but the nursing staff in most ICUs are pretty good about shutting that kind of shit down.
A lot of those usual standards and practices go completely out the window when people this powerful show up at the hospital's door. They're not relying on the ordinary hospital security, for example. When a nurse tells them to stop, but an FBI or Secret Service agent commands them to not interfere, how many nurses would try to stand up to the feds? And even if they did, they would just be immediately escorted out of the room.
These people do not live in the same world you and I do.
Good point