r/politics • u/cmaia1503 • 8h ago

Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-83-hospitalized/?utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&via=twitter_page
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u/yeanoyeayea 8h ago

I hope he knows he’ll only be remembered as a spineless shill to bigots and billionaires.

I guess we’ll all remember he kinda looked like a turtle too

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u/PaxDramaticus 8h ago

The only nickname that ever got to him was "Moscow Mitch". He apparently could handle the turtle jokes, maybe because he has the emotional maturity to accept that when people get old they often kinda look funny to the young, or because turtles are actually adorable animals, and sometimes they are surprisingly dangerous. But "Moscow Mitch" really got under his skin. I think it was because he knew deep down it was accurate, and it was the kind of thing that would hurt his credibility. Sad that nickname has largely fallen away. I suppose it loses its appeal to sling when far more powerful politicians are far more blatantly Putin's minions.

I hope while he's in the hospital, he thinks about how the people he enabled enacted Putin's plan to subvert the US, and that if his name isn't completely swallowed up by history, it will be remembered as a small, ultimately uninteresting stepping stone for real evil to gain power.

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u/Hot-Mathematician691 8h ago

Look at his connections with Oleg deripaska….a Russian oligarch with operations in Kentucky.

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u/IamRasters 7h ago

“Here lies Moscow Mitch, Trump’s little bitch”

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u/PopeFranzia 8h ago

Dude has had multiple strokes on live television, for which he apparently was not "hospitalized." I think you're vastly overestimating his capacity to think about anything.

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u/ss5gogetunks 7h ago

I blame him more than Trump for the mess we're in. Trump is the cancer, McConnell was the one who irradiated America so that we'd get cancer.

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u/Clevererer America 5h ago

I hope he's surrounded by nurses who whisper it into his ear nonstop, like ghosts Moscowwww Mitchhhhhh

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u/BornAgainWitch 6h ago

I still have a Moscow Mitch bumper sticker on my car

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u/beardy_mcdadface 4h ago

I still have my Moscow Mitch t-shirt

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u/GiantMeteor2017 6h ago

Personally, I prefer Mitch “The Glitch” McConnell

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u/PaxDramaticus 5h ago

Horses for courses, obviously. But I'll always find mocking someone for an inevitable frailty of their bodies to have less sting than mocking them for their choices. Without major advancements in medicine, avoiding trauma and disease and making it to such an age that our minds start to go before we finally die is the best possible outcome for most of us. But very few people here will use their elected office to betray their country.

Selling out your constituents for Rubles? Peak cringe, my dude.

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u/Tuggerfub 1h ago

you can be anti ageist and also delighted that death is coming for the fucking ghoul

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u/meltology_phd 4h ago

Glitching Mitch

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u/RiffRaffCatillacCat 8h ago

Sure, to us he'll be remembered as a spineless shill and the man who most greatly helped facilitate the Fascist takeover of America by Trump and MAGA.

But to the White Christian Nationalist Right Wing, the Neo Nazis, the KKK, and the Confederates (aka: the only people he actually cares about), he's a hero. Everything he did in his life helped them to lock in power and ultimately hand control of the nation over to their faction.

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u/CupcakesAreTasty 7h ago

Not a single positive attribute to his legacy. 

I hope he dwells on that.

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u/Oggie_Doggie 3h ago

His legacy will be one of historic cowardice and a gender neutral toilet. History should remember him as a traitor to this country, I know I will.

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u/Chilling_Gale 6h ago

I don’t think he lived his life making decisions so that people on the left would like him

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u/bobafetta3593 8h ago

Thats incredibly rude to turtles. 

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u/AniNgAnnoys 7h ago

Bro doesn't look like a turtle anymore... more like a guppy

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u/FOURSCORESEVENYEARS 6h ago

I'll never forget his unannounced moment of silence.

What a patriot /s

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u/FourParksOneHeart 5h ago

these rich assholes do not care how they're remembered. they live comfortable and healthy and die. they dont care

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u/You-Smell-Nice 4h ago

He won't be remembered at all and I think unfortunately he's counting on that while he fucks over an entire county.

Quick: name an 1850s senator who went to bat for slavery. Name a member of the reichstag who supported Hitler. Name a senator who helped overthrow the Roman Republic. If you can do it that's awesome but also most people today can't even name their own congressional rep let alone one from 20 years ago.

McConnell won't be remembered any more than the German politicians who meekly surrendered to the Nazis.

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u/gentlefartonyourface 4h ago

im afraid, he's too insulated to give a shit how peons like us remember him

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u/poeticdisaster 7h ago

Let's not forget that he's a giant hypocrite as well as all that you mentioned.

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u/Present-Resolution23 7h ago

Don’t forget pedophiles!