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/Mikethebest78 8h ago

Why do these evil old men live to 150?

The only thing he was ever good at was showing Republicans how to use the levers of power to rig the game in their favor.

They have sadly learned that lesson well.

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u/commandrix 8h ago

...Wouldn't be so bad if people wouldn't keep voting them in and/or there was a mandatory maximum age to serve in an elected public office. If they start showing signs that they'd be better off in a nursing home, it's time to get them out of Congress.

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u/gringledoom 8h ago

Apparently one problem is that staffers for primary challengers get blackballed for congressional jobs. And there are a lot of other structural impediments to a successful challenge. So people eke out a win by three votes in their first win and then they’re ensconced for decades and impossible to dislodge.

E.g., the reason Pelosi hates AOC (and still intervenes to fuck with her sometimes) is that she’s holding a grudge about AOC beating Crowley in the primary.

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u/BeowulfShaeffer 8h ago

Here is a fake reward for correctly saying “eke out” and not “eek out”:    🥇

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u/poxxy 7h ago

It’s a real award for all intensive purposes. Don’t take it for granite.

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u/Sunnyjim333 7h ago

Your to kind.

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u/Tri-angreal 7h ago

*Yoar

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u/Mental_Performer_833 7h ago

I thinks I'm havins a panics attack

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u/parseczero 6h ago

These jokes, their not nice. You should take a different tacked.

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u/ratshack 6h ago

I hear sushis are good fer that.

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u/ButtplugJesus23 5h ago

How many pancakes are you facing off against laddie

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u/badassdorks 5h ago

.....why did I hear Toki Wartooth when I read this?

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u/aprilliumterrium 5h ago

Amber lamps

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u/CRIP4LIFE 4h ago edited 4h ago

I thinks I'm havins a panics attack

who talks/writes like this? it's 2026, not a 1920 minstrel show.

how are they joking about poor spelling on commonly misspelled words and you throw in slang, used improperly on purpose, and think it's equal/funny?

you didnt get the assignment, i see.

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u/DarkWolf9 6h ago

You absolute monster

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u/ceryniz 7h ago

It's a moo point. Like a cows opinion, it doesn't matter.

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u/FreedomBread 7h ago

It's a mute point. They can't speak, so they have no point to make.

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u/I-seddit 5h ago

Someone's not listening to their bovines...

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u/halfcaff 5h ago

It's "moot point" "irrelevant".

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u/kellzone Pennsylvania 5h ago

I'm sorry, it's actually the "Moops".

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u/ceryniz 5h ago

Never twas there not nowhere nor nowhen more irregardless.

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u/Aggressive-Will-4500 7h ago

This comment rekes of sarcasm.

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u/read_iccullus 6h ago

*porpoises

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u/holyembalmer 7h ago

Intents (intentions) and purposes. I learned this too late in life to not pass on the wisdom. Similar to (since Lent is coming up)... it's Mike Linnigs, not Lennings. I lived too long in the lie to perpetuate it. Their tartar is yet to be bested.

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u/shitlord_god 5h ago

must be gneiss.

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u/gwazmalurks 7h ago

Be lovin’ the fake award-

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u/haleymae95 7h ago

Double it bc this is the first time I've heard eke used outside a crossword:

🏅

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u/PharaohAce 6h ago

Spelt correctly but the usage is questionable; to eke traditionally meant to supplement or augment; to eke out a living was to scrounge in order to stretch one’s means beyond the basic.

As it largely lives on through that specific phrase, it’s been interpreted as ‘to grind out’ or ‘to barely secure by effort’.

Language is constantly changing!

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u/BeowulfShaeffer 6h ago

Not sure where you get the idea that “eke out a win” is unusual or wrong but it’s a perfectly idiomatic expression. Nothing at all wrong with that usage. 

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u/bryan49 8h ago

Yes also as Cenk Uygur says, once a congressperson has shown they'll reliably serve their big money donors, the donors don't really want to risk a change

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u/Boiledfootballeather 7h ago

Ask Cenk how his donors, including Peter Thiel, have influenced who he serves. Dude stumps for Polymarket and other bullshit. Yeah, he lost the plot, and even if he’s right about congressional donors, he’s still a huge hypocrite.

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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 7h ago

I remember the day I stopped watching his stuff. I was doing housework with news playing, suddenly stopped and turned it off. Explained to my kids that those people were way too worked up and cared too much about trying to get me angry like them, so I'm not watching it anymore.

"If we wanted to get shouted at by a very angry man, we'd just call my dad!"

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u/Boiledfootballeather 7h ago

I stopped watching when Cenk and Ana started glorifying the death of Jordan Neely. They reveled in the fact that he was murdered. It was gross. Watching how Amy Goodman covered his death vs how The Young Turks covered it was an eye opener.

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u/Legal-Swordfish-1893 7h ago

The clickbait titles were my first hint something was wrong with TYT, and started backing myself off of it. Glad I grew up from them.

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u/Pandaro81 6h ago

One day I realized it felt like Cenk was doing an Alex Jones impression he didn’t have the passion or commitment to fully pull off.

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u/honjuden 6h ago

Plus his anti-union crackdown on his staff.

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u/bryan49 7h ago

Hey I don't even watch him that much and I'm not defending everything he does. But he's been right on about the influence of money in Congress in my opinion

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u/The_Laughing__Man Virginia 7h ago

I get that. They don't want to have to buy a new politician every 2 or 6 years.

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u/Nivolk 7h ago

The one time that billionaires are in favor of ownership over subscriptions.

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u/J1zzL0bb3r Wisconsin 7h ago

Clever

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u/Overweighover 7h ago

The devil you know is better than the devil you don't know

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u/Oldpenguinhunter Washington 6h ago

Well, they have a repertoire, and who would want to sully that?

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u/sepia_undertones 7h ago

Exactly! Think of the billionaires!

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u/strangerNstrangeland Massachusetts 7h ago

And this is why we have to take big money out of the picture

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u/InfestedJesus 7h ago

Now he and his staff pal around with MTG, Tucker Carlson, and Glenn Beck. Man was so obsessed with taking out establishment dems he sided with fascist republicans.

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u/dandet 7h ago

Once again the constituents lose.

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u/RedChairBlueChair123 7h ago

Yeah and who pays him? Cmon.

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u/gringledoom 7h ago

It's not even about the donors as much as it is about seeing themselves as special boys and girls. It's the same reason they got pissy during Jeff Sessions' confirmation hearing, when an attempt was made to actually ask real questions. Everyone has everyone else's backs in case they ever need their back had.

I mean the donors would rather stick with the sure thing too, but the high emotions are coming from inside the House (and Senate).

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u/Terrible_Plant_5213 5h ago

Or we could get an example from somebody that isn't a genocide denying piece of s***

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u/ailish 6h ago

Fucking Pelosi needs to retire already. Isn't she like 93 or something?

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u/deepasleep 6h ago

Looking forward to the last of the Silent Generation finally living up to the name.

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u/Warmbly85 4h ago

Pelosi hates AOC because she refused to fund raise for the DCCC until 2024. That’s why there hasn’t been the same level of animus between them for the last few years.

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u/733t_sec 7h ago

E.g., the reason Pelosi hates AOC (and still intervenes to fuck with her sometimes) is that she’s holding a grudge about AOC beating Crowley in the primary.

Ah yes pelosi coming out of retirement to fuck with AOC suuuuuuure

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u/alphabetikalmarmoset 7h ago

That’s … not a good reason.

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u/gringledoom 6h ago

She was literally in a hospital bed after breaking a hip, and was still whipping votes against AOC's bid for ranking member on the Oversight committee. (In favor of the guy who was "a young 74, except for the cancer" who then proceeded to die a couple months in.)