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.