Nope. Along with his stupid politics is his shitty two-dimensional attempts at playwriting, rife with blustery douchebags trying to be all edgelordy, and definfitely not just GGR.
“I see dead people.” 
Joni Ernst, Republican senator from Iowa, was confronted by constituents upset about Medicare cuts. From the NPR story,
“When you’re arguing about illegals that are receiving Medicaid benefits, 1.4 million (people) … they are not eligible so they will be coming off,” Ernst said.
Someone in the crowd shouted in response: “People are going to die.”
“Well, we all are going to die,” Ernst responded. “For heaven’s sakes, folks,” she continued with a smile.
The crowd, which had already grown hostile to Ernst’s tone, erupted in roars of disapproval.
And then she posted an “apology” on social media.
Appearing on camera with what look like tombstones in the background, Ernst said: “I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely apologize for a statement that I made yesterday at my town hall.”
“I made an incorrect assumption that everyone in the auditorium understood that yes, we are all going to perish from this Earth,” she continued, adding that she’s glad she didn’t have to bring up the subject of the tooth fairy.
“But for those that would like to see eternal and everlasting life, I encourage you to embrace my lord and savior, Jesus Christ,” she said.
“And when we reached out to Mr. Christ, he responded with things that, quite frankly, we just cannot repeat here.”
… because some things simply must not be printed in red
Purely personal opinion: this belongs in the Republican Party is the Party of Evil thread, so as not to let the endlessly stupid Republicans take this thread over too. And because I’m sure that Ernst knows exactly what she was saying.
Not sure where to put this one. On the surface it seems like the hospital screwed up a DNR order. But I think there’s more to it than that. I’m guessing, at the very least, there’s confusion on both sides as to what is and isn’t considered a DNR order.
My WAG is that a big part of this case will hinge on two things:
1)Does ‘I don’t want her intubated’ = DNR, and what was actually discussed in that conversation, like, what were the actual words being used.
Shokar [the doctor] also asked what Scott and Cindy’s intentions were for Grace if there was a severe decline in her condition.
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Grace’s parents stated they did not want Grace intubated
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Shokar then told Grace’s parents that chest compressions might not save her life should Grace go into respiratory or cardiac arrest
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The family ended the call believing no change was being made to Grace’s care plan. But at 10:56 a.m., around the time the call ended, Shokar entered a “blanket DNR order" on Grace’s chart, according to the complaint.
2)What exactly happened when the family tried to remove the DNR at the last second?
She [patient’s sister] made a FaceTime call to their parents, then ran toward the nurses station.
“We were all begging, screaming, pleading for someone to help save her,” Vander Heiden told the Journal Sentinel.
Staff responded that Grace was coded “do not resuscitate,” the complaint says.
According to the complaint, Grace’s parents were screaming, “She’s not DNR, save our daughter.”
“Not one nurse moved," Vander Heiden said. "They just stayed stationary.”
In its response to the family’s lawsuit, Ascension said it denies these allegations.
A patient’s code status is “never a static thing," said Kerri Kliminski, dean of the Madison Area Technical College’s School of Nursing.
“It can be changed by the patient or the patient’s powers of attorney, if they are unable to advocate for themselves, at any time," Kliminski said.
It’s the part where the family said the staff just stood there instead of doing something that caught my attention.
The trial will be live-streamed by Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine nonprofit founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now the nation’s health secretary.
I think there probably was a misunderstanding of what DNI and DNR means, and/or the implications of that.
If the people running/screaming/crying at the nurses’ station were NOT legally decision makers for the patient I could see the nurses honoring the DNI/DNR rather than what they might perceive as random relatives freaking out over a terminal case.
Of course, I was not there, I don’t have any special information, and I’m not taking a side here.
The only thing I can say definitively is that this is bullshit.
A self-proclaimed “medical murder” expert, Schara believes the government and medical community have worked together to hasten the deaths of thousands of people, particularly the disabled and elderly.
The hospital may or may not have been negligent in their handling of this young woman’s case, but this grieving father fell down a conspiracy theory hole. I’m hoping they have a competent lawyer, and that Schara’s not going to go into court like a SovCit to start ranting about death panels and plandemic shit.
They were her parents, and it was via Facetime. If the staff felt these ‘random relatives’ shouldn’t be allowed to lift a DNR order, they shouldn’t have let the same ‘random relatives’ place the DNR order in the first place.
I’m not even sure you read the article.
OK, her parents were on Facetime. Who were the people holding the device showing them and were her parents able to prove their identity? I’m not clear what went on there, and probably the nurses weren’t either.
Certainly there was at least one set of stupid MFers involved in that case. But I suspect, once more information comes out, that it will turn out to be the family.
It’s hardly rare that various family members have different attitudes about What to do for Grandma when she’s in extremis.
It’s also hardly rare for whoever is legally in charge of Grandma’s ending (including Grandma herself) to not include certain close family members in on the decision so they won’t have to fight about it right then and there. Instead the fight happens if those folks are nearby the hospital when Grandma’s about to expire. And suddenly their blindsided that Grandma, or sibling X, or whoever, has done the unthinkable, unthinkable I say, to my beloved Grandma!!!
Well, in this case it was a 19-year-old girl, not grandma.
Make sure you and your parents have ironclad DNR’s! I’m so glad that I have a family, all in the medical field, that’s willing to enforce mine.
None of them will think “Golly, we’d just love to keep our curmudgeonly dad/husband intubated/on a respirator!”
My wife is tough enough that I’ve told her that even if we got divorced and I had a whole other family, I’d keep her listed as my Plug-Puller.
My mother had an ironclad DNI/DNR. The hospital did intubate her pending my brother’s arrival with the paperwork. My father had it stuck to the fridge so it would be easy to access if EMS showed up. He didn’t expect her to expire while he was driving her to a routine doctor appointment.
Getting that DNI/DNR can be difficult. In my mother’s case, we all knew what she wanted (we had a big discussion during the Terry Schiavo fiasco), but Cleopatra insisted that she didn’t need to get one together, because she “wasn’t that sick.”
What I don’t get is if; oxygen is not sufficient, the patient has refused NPPV (non-invasive positive pressure ventilation, simply, a C-PAP) and the parents have refused intubation, what the fuck is left for the doctors/hospital to do?
(Because no one is going to stand there and “bag” the patient for days.)
Careful. An attitude like that is going to get you added as a co-defendant.
Come to think of it, I should amend this: Due to medical privacy concerns, it’s quite likely that more information won’t ever come out.
Ellipsis mine, but the snipped part isn’t relevant to the point here.
These two items seem to be saying opposite things. What am I missing? Or is Cleopatra somebody else we don’t know about?