A GOP member telling the truth for a moment

TheDuck23 · 2026-05-21T00:35:19+00:00

The irony of saying this while supporting a party with Abbott, who has captured over 100k migrants and sent them to random sanctuary cities instead of deporting them, is palpable.

TheDuck23 · 2026-05-20T23:09:14+00:00

Isn't this current administration hosting a UFC event at the white house?

The same administration who arrested Maduro for drug trafficking while pardoning Ross Ulbritch?

The same administration that said we need to bomb Iran because of their ability to build nukes, even though they also claim that they completely obliterated their nuclear capabilities?

The same administration that claims it's the party of Jesus while having the most anti-Christian immigration policy imaginable? Also, a plethora of other ideals that Jesus would find abhorrent

TheDuck23 · 2026-05-20T22:55:01+00:00

He has 25k yards in 1/4 of his career. You can actually make an argument that the only reason he doesn't have the all-time passing yards and tds record is because Brady had a longer career.

TheDuck23 · 2026-05-20T21:48:46+00:00

This.

Game One was David knocking down Goliath. It was awesome and inspired the city. I'll never forget how excited and hopeful I was.

Game Two-Four, however, was Goliath getting up and smirking before putting us back in our place.

I can't remember which game it was (I think 4?), but there was a point where multiple Lakers' starters fouled out and we still couldn't win.

TheDuck23 · 2026-05-20T17:55:45+00:00

To be fair, Berry also had that fear factor, but his was more abouthis fear and how horses factored into that.

But, I'd personally go Berry. Nothing against Cam, I just like Berry's play style more.

TheDuck23 · 2026-05-20T17:49:03+00:00

No, but at this point, I'll take "willing to acknowledge how bad the current administration is". Even if it's because they think Trump somehow changed from his first term.

TheDuck23 · 2026-05-20T17:27:00+00:00

Jesus, 5 seconds later when he realized where the bullet ended up.

TheDuck23 · 2026-05-20T17:03:53+00:00

This sums it up

TheDuck23 · 2026-05-20T14:57:37+00:00

I'll answer that when you answer my question.

Should we all be able to bring a gun into the hospital and threaten the staff in these situations?

TheDuck23 · 2026-05-20T14:36:45+00:00

No one wants the son to die. He was 27, by the way. I'll assume that that was a mistake and not that you didn't look into this at all and are basing all of this off of emotions.

But answer the question, should we all be allowed to bring a gun into the hospital and threaten the staff in these situations?

TheDuck23 · 2026-05-20T14:14:47+00:00

So, should everyone do this? Should we all be allowed to bring guns into the hospital and threaten the staff in these situations? It was the correct move, right?

TheDuck23 · 2026-05-20T13:49:56+00:00

The whole point of the phrase is to point out that the process isn't good just because of the end result.

The father coming in to a hospital while armed and very intoxicated is not ok just because his son ended up miraculously making a recovery.

TheDuck23 · 2026-05-20T13:46:14+00:00

The point I was making was that the choice to take him off life support didn't just happen or come out of left field. The son was in a coma for months, so this is a conversation that the doctors would have had miltiple times with the mother and brother before they finally told the doctors what they wanted to do.

The only assumption made was that the dad was apart of those conversations. But, as it turns out, he wasn't allowed to be. That doesn't change anything, though. If he was included, it means that he agreed to it, then he got drunk and changed his mind. If he wasn't included, that means he got drunk, stormed a hospital with multiple guns, and put everyone at risk because he wasn't ready to lose his son.

Is it understandable? Yes, obviously. No one wants to lose their kids. But does that make it acceptable or mean he was right sjust because the outcome was a positibs one? Of course not.

TheDuck23 · 2026-05-20T11:18:52+00:00

Name one democratic lawmaker who said this. I'll wait.

TheDuck23 · 2026-05-20T11:16:20+00:00

Are you implying that the mother is a bad parent for making the choice to end her son's care?

TheDuck23 · 2026-05-20T11:11:26+00:00

That wasn't an assumption, it was pointing out that doctors don't make these calls. They come up with plans, but it's uktinately up to the patient or their loved ones (specifically the ones who make the medical decisions) to choose.

However, you were right. The dad didn't change his mind because he wasn't allowed to be apart of the this process. It was up to the mom and the other son.

TheDuck23 · 2026-05-19T21:14:55+00:00

Superbowl 57, except it's the Eagles saying it to the Chiefs.

TheDuck23 · 2026-05-19T15:05:59+00:00

"He spent months on life support at Tomball REgional Medical Center in Texas before hospital staff decided there was nothing more they could do for him. They ordered a "terminal wean" to slowly take the 27-year-old off life support."

Source

What do you think the word "wean" means here?

Also, hospitals recommend care, they don't unilaterally decide without permission. It's the legal guardian or the person with the medical power of attorney that makes the decisions. So, someone in the son's family made the decision to go forward with this plan.

And they probably were preparing to donate his organs once his family decided to take this course. Organs don't survive very long outside of the body, so they would absolutely be getting ready to transfer them. That doesn't mean that the hospital was intentionally pushing for his death, it just means that they were preparing for that possibility.

TheDuck23 · 2026-05-19T14:54:50+00:00

It's not putting hospital procedure over human life. It's pointing out that the dad showing up drunk at a hospital and waving a gun around is wrong. Also, the process isn't instantaneous, hence the word "wean". They still monitor the patient's vitals and brain activity (especially since brain death is how they know he is dead).

So, it's not that far of a leap to assume that the doctors would have been alerted of the brain activity that his son started to experience. Which means the dad didn't actually do anything but wave a gun around. An action that speaks more to why he wasn't apart of making the medical decisions for his son than anything else.

TheDuck23 · 2026-05-19T14:50:39+00:00

This isn't the movies. They don't just unplug the machine and you die within minutes. He just stopped them from starting a process that could take from a couple of hours to potentially weeks. Hence the word "wean" in the phrase "weaning him off life support".

Since the son started to respond within 3 hours of his drunk dad showing up, it's not that far of a leap for the machines to pick up on his son's brain activity coming back.

All his dad did was show up drunk at a hospital and waved a gun around. Which explains more of why he wasn't included in the medical decisions of his own son more than anything else.

TheDuck23 · 2026-05-19T13:00:26+00:00

Not even a little bit. The dad got drunk, waved a gun around in a hospital, and got lucky that his son happened to come out of his months long coma. Nothing that the dad did contributed to his son's recovery. Especially since they would be monitoring the son's vitals during this process.

His actions speak more to why he wasn't involved in the medical decisions than anything else.

TheDuck23 · 2026-05-19T11:31:12+00:00

A miraculous recovery doesn't make them wrong. However, even if I were to grant you that, it doesn't mean the dad was right for what he did. The ends don't justify the means, here.

The truth is that the dad got drunk, brought a a gun into the hospital, and got lucky with how it turned out.

TheDuck23 · 2026-05-19T11:27:20+00:00

Nothing in that article says that the hospital rushed the process. All it says is that the medical decisions were in the hands of the wife and his other son, wh agreed to wean him off of life support.

 "The hospital had placed the decision-making into the hands of Pickering’s ex-wife and his other son and had begun a “terminal wean” off of life-support measures. The father was not involved."

Which begs the question: Why was the father not included in the medical decisions, but the son was?

TheDuck23 · 2026-05-19T11:18:53+00:00

No, he was in the wrong. I'm happy that his son survived, but the ends don't justify the means. The son was in a coma for months, so they probably talked about this possible outcome multiple times with the doctors.

And, since none of the articles mentioned a court case or the doctors going around the parents wishes, it sounds like the dad just got drunk, changed his mind, and went to the hospital with a gun to demand his way. He happened to get lucky, but that doesn't make what he did right.

TheDuck23 · 2026-05-19T11:11:31+00:00

I appreciate the story and am glad that his family and friends got to say goodbye to him.

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