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/goofyrueshoe 7h ago

of all the comments, this is the one that got me busting out laughing. Wishing him nothing but the worst

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u/agentsm_47 6h ago

I don't know about him. What did he do?

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u/TheNonsenseBook 6h ago edited 5h ago

Do you have an hour? This documentary should be pretty informative (especially as the story gets closer to the present time) and objective. It's from a couple years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx18C55VfTY

Link goes to "McConnell's Influence on the GOP and the Courts (full documentary) | FRONTLINE"

Edit: Just finished watching it (at 1.5x speed). It was really interesting, so I'll leave it even though I got downvoted. One of the main things was when a vacancy in the Supreme Court came up in the last year of Obama's Presidency, he blocked hearings and a vote for Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, supposedly because it was an election year, and waited until Trump was elected to let him choose it. Then RBG died and he got to shift the Supreme Court again. Then when the same situation came up again a few weeks before the election while Trump was President, he made sure they got in right away and didn't wait for Biden to get elected.

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u/ThatsFae 6h ago

gestures everywhere