The South Carolina Republican spent more than three decades in Congress, voting against marriage equality, workplace protections, and open military service as speculation about his sexual orientation followed him throughout his career.
    • SeeMarkFly@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I know his shoes were off, and there was no oxygen, and they weren’t in a hurry, but my government wouldn’t lie to me, would it?

    • Mirshe@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      I have bad news for you, which is that he posted a statement and a photo with Elaine in his hospital room. It sounds like he had a mini stroke or something - he fell, they’ve done a “battery” of tests “trying to find out what caused the fall”, and then caught a “mild” case of pneumonia due to hospitalization.

      Even at 84, you don’t take up a hospital bed for three and a half weeks just from a fall and pneumonia.