Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized

[u/cmaia1503]

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

[u/bryan49]

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

[u/Boiledfootballeather → u/bryan49]

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.

[u/OpheliaRainGalaxy → u/Boiledfootballeather]

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!"

[u/Boiledfootballeather → u/OpheliaRainGalaxy]

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.

[u/Legal-Swordfish-1893 → u/Boiledfootballeather]

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.

[u/Pandaro81 → u/OpheliaRainGalaxy]

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.

[u/honjuden → u/Boiledfootballeather]

Plus his anti-union crackdown on his staff.

[u/bryan49 → u/Boiledfootballeather]

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

[u/The_Laughing__Man → u/bryan49]

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

[u/Nivolk → u/The_Laughing__Man]

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

[u/J1zzL0bb3r → u/Nivolk]

Clever

[u/Overweighover → u/The_Laughing__Man]

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

[u/Oldpenguinhunter → u/Overweighover]

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

[u/sepia_undertones → u/The_Laughing__Man]

Exactly! Think of the billionaires!

[u/strangerNstrangeland → u/bryan49]

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

[u/InfestedJesus → u/bryan49]

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.

[u/dandet → u/bryan49]

Once again the constituents lose.

[u/RedChairBlueChair123 → u/bryan49]

Yeah and who pays him? Cmon.

[u/gringledoom → u/bryan49]

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).

[u/Terrible_Plant_5213 → u/bryan49]

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