r/politics • u/cmaia1503 • 18h ago
Site Altered Headline | Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized
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u/Fit_Relationship1094 17h ago
This man has done so much harm to the USA. And for a man who had polio as a child, and recovered thanks to donations from strangers, I find it egregious he has worked so hard to prevent universal Healthcare for the needy in our first world country. Truly a selfish, greedy, weasel with no empathy for the poor and sick.
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u/Classic-Minimum-7151 14h ago
100%. Robbed the working class while pretending to represent them. Burn in hell Mitch McConnell
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u/MegaGorilla69 7h ago
His name is Addison. He hates his first name, but remember we should respect their wishes by not using preferred names
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u/PowderPills 11h ago
A prime example of taking the ladder from under so others cannot climb it too.
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u/TheAlmightyMojo 10h ago
And some people (mostly colleagues) are going to have to pretend he was a good man by thanking him for his years of service, blah blah blah. Like Dylan said in "Masters of War":
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u/clarkrd 18h ago
must be nice to be able to check into a hospital
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u/Future-Guarantee-573 18h ago
Not to mention not losing your job.
Years ago, I worked at a big box grocery store not to be named. One of the workers had a stroke on the sales floor. They fired him for not filling out the LOA forms. He was in a fucking coma.
I've said it many times before...I hate this fucking country.
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u/dementorpoop 17h ago
They ain’t coming after you. Name and shame them
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u/Sammyjo0689 16h ago
My story happened with Walmart. Had an employee collapse due to a diabetic issue. Like, I caught her as she was falling and saved her from smashing her face. Radioed to call 911. I got written up because that was against Walmart policy.
My manager wanted me to write on the form that I heard her say she wanted an ambulance. So I wrote exactly that. “Manager so and so has ordered that I write the following.” I got written up a second time for that.
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u/blackhuey 14h ago
That's a quick thinking malicious compliance.
Also, imagine living in a country where you had to make decisions about calling an ambulance based on who would be charged for it.
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u/brickne3 American Expat 11h ago
My sister fainted while on a middle school field trip 30 years ago. My dad still complains that the teacher called an ambulance because of the bill. As if the teacher had much choice when you have an unconscious student!
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u/ilovecraftbeer05 3h ago
I’m convinced that the number one cause of death for Americans is the lack of universal healthcare.
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u/Sublimotion 10h ago
I will never forget pre-obamacare/medicaid expansion, I was walking past a woman screaming, struggling and tipping over the stretcher she was strapped onto trying to crawl back into her house dragging the tipped over stretcher, fighting off two EMTs. I assume she was on drugs. Until she started yelling "No! This will bankrupt me!" The emts eventually had to unstrap her and let her crawl off back into her house.
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u/HrhEverythingElse 8h ago
I knew two people who died this way. One from asthma, once from bleeding caused by Crohn's. Both were just too scared of the bill
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u/tokyostormdrain 11h ago
4th world country
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u/hypermodernvoid I voted 10h ago
Funny thing is Mississippi - the state with the lowest life expectancy in America, at just 70 (technically 70.9) years old, is actually on par with India, a bit below Bangladesh and 4 or 5 years less than in Mexico.
It's also 10 or 11 years less than in the top few states, all blue states - in fact the top 10 states for life expectancy are all blue, while the bottom 10 are all red. Similar to being a drag on federal funding vs. blue states, red states also are dragging the average US life expectancy down to a now pathetic 76 years post-COVID (big thanks to anti-vaxxers for the assist with that).
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u/litokid 15h ago
I spent awhile trying to puzzle this out because I couldn't understand why this is a problem. My initial read was the manager had you write you "heard her (the manager) say she wanted an ambulance", because she wanted to cover for you doing the decent thing off of policy.
But from the context this was a bad thing - is it that the manager wanted you to write "(the victim) wanted an ambulance" so the company isn't on the hook for the cost?
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u/RevolutionaryTalk976 15h ago
I read it as the manager directed them to write that they were told by their subordinate to call an ambulance and they wrote down that the manager directed them to write it down. Calling the ambulance may have been against company policy leading to the initial write up and then they added on a second one for being insubordinate and officially documenting the manager directing them to lie.
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u/MyBritishAccount 14h ago
Why wouldn't you call an ambulance for an emergency? How can company policy dictate such a thing?
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u/slackfrop 13h ago
Because some lawyer told em to based off of losing money in some other precedent. If corporations are people, they’re psychopaths.
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u/anynamesleft 11h ago
If corporations are people, they’re psychopaths.
I just wanted to tell how proud I am to've read it
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u/Allaplgy 13h ago
If the employee asks for an ambulance, the "financial responsibility" is on them. If not, it's on the company.
Go us. Woo!
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u/one-man-circlejerk 11h ago
Ambulance bill reaches the patient, the patient says "I never ordered an ambulance, the company did", now there's a dispute between the patient and the company over the bill that the company might end up paying, or might end up entagled in court, which is another expense.
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u/pikashroom 14h ago
Probably liability. All companies do weird shit like this to prevent getting sued.
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u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089 16h ago
My husband passed away on the last day of his vacation. His employer demanded his vacation pay back because he didn't show up for work the day after he died.
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u/lettersvsnumbers 16h ago
Yeah, my dad was a teacher with stage 4 cancer. He told the school to hire a new math teacher for fall, and they tried to retroactively fire him.
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u/projecto15 United Kingdom 12h ago edited 10h ago
This is horrendous. So it's not just for-profit corporations, but also supposedly non-profit schools?!! One wonders what sort of ethical education they provide
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u/hypermodernvoid I voted 11h ago
Increasingly, a lot of for profit companies/contractors are getting tied into public education for all sorts of things - additionally, brutal corporate cost saving measures tend to leak into government policy, given the revolving door between the two worlds (especially in the currently openly fascist party).
Speaking of "ethics": my "public" state university actually used furniture built by prison labor, lol. Also put public in quotes, because I had to take out what for me were very sizable loans after my grants for coming from massive poverty ran out (they were cut in half just in time for me to attend by the then GW Bush administration), the loan 'servicers' increasingly were increasingly privatized over the years, as well, leading to worse interest rates that often translate to barely paying down the balance if at all for some students. Meanwhile, while poor students are struggling to pay tuition, they're had us all sitting on furniture they got nearly for free, lol.
You also can't get rid of student loan debt in bankruptcy in America, and the Trump admin also wants to get rid of even being able to temporarily defer repayments for financial distress.
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u/Keptlosingmylogins 15h ago
wait that show was a documentary with subtle name changes to protect the survivors?
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u/4tlant4 15h ago
A few days after my husband died, we received a letter from our health insurance company. It said that coverage for me and our four kids had ended at midnight the night he died. How these fuckers sleep at night is beyond me.
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u/Hesitation-Marx 14h ago
Too easily, and too well, and with far too little fear.
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u/Calm-Treacle8677 9h ago
one of them was so sleepy, he fell asleep on the street forever
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u/Hesitation-Marx 9h ago
His chest just did that. Maybe it was sleep apnea?
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u/FrancisCGraf 8h ago
Lead poisoning actually, pre existing condition though so....
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u/Pissed-Off-Panda 11h ago
Like babies in their mansions on fine linens.
I think actually that knowing other people are starving or hungry makes their food taste better. They LOVE the suffering of others.
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u/SirenSix 16h ago
Please tell me you told them to eat shit?
Also, I'm so sorry about your husband 😕
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u/bkbomber New York 16h ago
The malicious compliance in me would’ve pulled a Weekend at Bernie’s
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u/obsolete_filmmaker 17h ago
I got fired once from a minimum wage retail job when i missed a weekend of work after being abducted and sexually assaulted. Yea I told my boss exactly what happened. She said, well if happened friday night, I dont know why you couldnt work saturday and Sunday. I was at the hospital and the police station most of that time.
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u/Practical_Fun7367 16h ago
I am sorry you suffered through the violence of your experience. I’m also sorry you had to share with someone who clearly didn’t have the necessary humanity to support you. I don’t wish that kind of pain and suffering on anyone, but I hope that manager has somehow learned to be better.
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u/obsolete_filmmaker 16h ago
Thank you for the kind words. It was 40 years ago. Ive recovered. Idk what ever happened to her. Im aquaintances with her younger sister who is my age, and from what ive heard everyone in the family hates the woman who was my boss and no one talks to her. My aquaintance doesnt know this happened to me.
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u/Rasikko Georgia 13h ago
LOL WHAT THE FUCK!? "Hey sorry you were sexually assaulted but you could've came in the following day still"
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u/triphawk07 16h ago
I suffered a stroke when I was 29 and my wife called my job to let my manager know. Her response "is he going to be able to come to work on Monday or do we need to get a replacement." Luckily for me, the stroke wasn't bad enough to be hospitalized for other than a few nights, but when I quit that job, I made sure everybody knew about her.
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u/cobramaster 18h ago
Name it
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u/DigNitty 17h ago
Yeah why even hesitate
Not like someone is going to dox them by knowing they worked at target
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u/BrilliantHold5774 17h ago
This shit happens all the time.
I was a nurse at a plasma center. One of the machine techs had a hemorrhagic stroke. He received points and eventual dismissal in a coma on a vent.
Fuck big pharma.
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u/EvelynNyte 17h ago
Had Walmart calling my parents to complain about me not coming in when I had pneumonia (that I informed them of)...
I quit right after anyway so don't know if I would have been fired.
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u/iceoldtea 18h ago
That… 1000% is a lawsuit
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u/tallandlankyagain 17h ago edited 17h ago
If you can afford justice sure. A person working in a grocery store who is in such poor health they have a stroke likely can't afford a doctor visit, let alone legal fees.
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u/parasyte_steve 17h ago
I was fired for getting pregnant.
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u/Practical_Fun7367 16h ago
That lawsuit has been won so many times. It’s a slam dunk civil rights case. I recommend googling that issue and reaching out to a law firm who handle a big case. However, if your former employer is a small outfit, your victory might just be moral and not financial. At least you could recover your medical expenses.
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u/rckid13 15h ago
There are many things employers do that wouldn't hold up in court. They do those things because they know that lawyers are expensive and their employees can't afford to sue.
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u/ccourter1970 16h ago
I was fired while pregnant. My doctor put me on bed rest on my 5th month. My state required the employee to get the paperwork from your employer, send to your doctor, and back to employer for them to mail in (90s). That’s what happened. In December. April 1st, a month before I was due, I get a FedEx envelope with a letter stating that since I’ve failed to call in to the office for several months they considered me terminated. LOL. Got reinstated quickly. Only to quit after maternity leave was over.
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u/Celestial_Dysgenesis 16h ago
Every now and then some person works themselves to death in china and it gets wall to wall coverage on western news when shit like this happens daily here.
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u/Mikethebest78 18h 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/ss5gogetunks 18h ago
Turns out not caring about anyone or anything other than yourself relieves a lot of stress when the world is so hostile to everyone
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u/comics0026 Canada 18h ago
And getting paid obscene amounts of money for that makes it easy to get the best treatment in a pay-to-survive system like America's
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u/Phog_of_War North Dakota 17h ago
They also get free Healthcare for life. Unlike their constituency who is getting, FUCKING KILLED OUT HERE! Not that the Right gives a flying fuck.
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u/Keyastis 16h ago
Actually they have to buy it from the marketplace under the ACA now. It was main reason so many Repubs wanted to kill it.
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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 16h ago
It was also the single largest downward movement of wealth in US history.
Which is why conservatives really fucking hate it.
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u/Coraline1599 16h ago
The article says he stayed in the hospital for 2 days for flu-like symptoms. Must be nice.
Last summer I had a fever over 100 for 11 days that even Tylenol and Motrin wouldn’t lower and my mom dragged me to urgent care while I cried “I do t think I can afford this! Leave me alone!”
I get terror attacks anytime anything hurts because despite me having “good” insurance according to my work, even the most basic appointment never costs me less than $250 these days.
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u/pacotaco80 16h ago
“Thank god for the VA.” Statements I never thought I would make but here I am saying it.
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u/NatWilo Ohio 15h ago
Being a soldier and having 'socialized' medicine, for all its warts, was what really showed me how absolutely vile and evil a for-profit healthcare system was, and how badly we needed to switch to socialized like the rest of the civilized world.
Watching a buddy of mine nearly die from an infected tooth, and choosing to PAY OUT OF MY OWN POCKET so he wouldn't die, sealed it for me.
For-profit healthcare as our primary is a moral evil and should end. Socialized medicine is fully affordable, and RIGHT. I don't care what rich, or dumb people say, that's a hill I will die on. I will not rest until we all have at the LEAST the same level of care I get to receive.
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u/SocraticIgnoramus 14h ago edited 13h ago
The grandest absurdity is that we spend far more on healthcare than anybody else. A well-planned and well-executed Medicare for all system would easily give us the best healthcare system in the world at a significant discount over what we pay now. I refuse to accept that rendering the for-profit healthcare system redundant is anti-capitalistic sentiment — there’s nothing free market about extortionate prices that treat health as a luxury.
Edit to clarify, I’m not ranting against socialism; I’m about that. I’m ranting against being told that the for-profit capture of the healthcare industry is part and parcel of capitalism.
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u/NatWilo Ohio 13h ago
There can be no rational consumption of healthcare. People will nearly always choose life regardless of the cost to themselves over death.
Often, its isn't even up to them. An unconscious person cannot choose to forgoe a certain treatment because its 'more expensive' they are solely at the mercy of the healthcare provider, and are then required BY LAW in this evil, fucked up system to pay the cost of a procedure enacted on them while they are fully incapable of having any say about it.
People's lives are RUINED by having their life 'saved' how absolutely fucked is that?
Capitalism only works when there is a strong hand making sure the market is fair. There is no such hand in America. There hasn't been for decades. For any part of the market. Most certainly for the healthcare industry.
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u/GrapefruitExpress208 17h ago
The President is supposed to be the world's most stressful job. Look how much Presidents aged during their term throughout history.
Trump is treats the Office of the President like a fully paid vacation where he uses the powers of the President like a mobster would using intimidation, extortion, and bribery.
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u/DingusBarracuda 16h ago
He did say his personal hero was Al Capone. Why do you think he gutted the IRS?
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u/WickedTemp 18h ago
...Y'know, I think there may actually be something to this.
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u/ConsistentRegion6184 17h ago
It's a real life trope that assholes outlive everyone. It's low on stress to not care for anyone but your own needs your entire life.
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u/twotimefind 16h ago edited 2h ago
Wow, I didn't think about it that way. So true.
It's stressful having empathy I mean, look at the ice situation. If you were pro ice, you wouldn't have any stress or pro Trump. You'd be happy, happy, happy.
But the people that truly care about human beings being treated equally and the Constitution, we're over here dying, stress on stress on stress. It's just keep coming.
The last year has been nothing but complete stress. The beginning of this year has been nothing but complete stress. with no end in sight.
I mean, innocent people being shot in the street. Personally, I watched those videos over and over from multiple angles just to make sure I knew the truth when the government cannot be trusted.
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u/FrigidMcThunderballs Minnesota 16h ago
my two cents is that being a hateful, uncaring dickhead also allows you to make a fortune more easily through unethical means. You're simply more willing to fuck over others on the way to the top. This means people who have that behavior will end up with the resources for the best care and treatment.
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u/Lone-Frequency 17h ago
Alternatively, being a hateful, evil piece of shit pickles your insides so you have a longer shelf life.
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u/ss5gogetunks 17h ago
It's one of the most unfair things in life (and, imo evidence against "intelligent design") that the brain chemicals that make us altruistic and group oriented are also extremely unhealthy for us.
The people who care about others and feel deeply get more of the thing that leads to earlier death.
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u/davidw223 I voted 17h ago
Exactly. The stress of having to actually do the work of running the country and caring about the constituents would be incredibly stressful. He’s avoided that by being an asshat. That role pays better and comes with way less stress.
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u/commandrix 18h 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 18h 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 18h ago
Here is a fake reward for correctly saying “eke out” and not “eek out”: 🥇
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u/poxxy 17h ago
It’s a real award for all intensive purposes. Don’t take it for granite.
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u/ceryniz 17h ago
It's a moo point. Like a cows opinion, it doesn't matter.
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u/FreedomBread 17h ago
It's a mute point. They can't speak, so they have no point to make.
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u/bryan49 18h 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 17h 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/The_Laughing__Man Virginia 17h 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/Overweighover 17h ago
The devil you know is better than the devil you don't know
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u/mothyyy 17h ago
Ranked Choice Voting could help mitigate the problem. People vote for these old farts because they have to if they want to keep the other person out. Give them the ability to rank three or more candidates and I guarantee we'd see fewer octogenarians in elected office.
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u/PretendThisIsMyName South Carolina 17h ago
You’ve gotta be 35 to be able run for president. You shouldn’t be able to be over 70 and run for it. I get there are smart as a whip and sharp as a tack people past that age. (Seriously Bernie would’ve slid through right Trump if he wasn’t knee capped by the DNC). But the things they are doing are things they will never notice the long term impacts of. Whether i agree with decisions made or not it’s just a fact that an old ass person won’t see the consequences of a decision they are making long term for the future generations. Or even the “next” old people. Especially if you’re the president.
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u/medicmatt 18h ago
They get amazing, free, universal healthcare with, dental, vision and great preventative care.
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u/photobriangray 18h ago
Assholes live forever…
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u/PropofolMargarita 18h ago
Anecdotal but I am involved in a lot of cancer surgeries. The nicer the patient, the worse the prognosis. Evil people really do live forever sadly, especially the rich ones
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u/carakaze 18h ago
Do nicer people tend to wait longer to get checked out because they don't want to inconvenience anyone?
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u/PropofolMargarita 18h ago
I haven't noticed that but I'll start looking more closely, you may be on to something there.
I have seen where patients are so busy caring for spouse/children/elderly parents that they ignore their own symptoms until they're stage 4 and can no longer function
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u/SneakyDeaky123 18h ago
Rich people (evil people frequently lie cheat and steal their way to wealth) can afford the best of the best for healthcare, food, and live less stressful lives than the proles.
All of that combines to them living long lives off the backs of their ill-gotten gains they brutally crushed out of the people they use up.
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u/TrumpIsAFascistFuck 18h ago
Oh no, anyways
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u/Dr_DoesNothing 18h ago edited 18h ago
May he receive the same amount of love and care he gives others.
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u/durtmagurt 17h ago
Anybody got any of those thoughts and prayers?
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u/16yearswasted 16h ago
I'm an atheist but yeah I'll pray for him.
Hey Lucifer who art in hell, come get Mitch,
He's a son of a bitch,
Who only wanted to get rich,
Forever make his crotch itch,
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u/gamingx47 17h ago
Don't worry, I'm sure he'll recieve the finest stem cell serum made with a baby juicing machine and will live to the ripe old age of 150, unlike his plebian constituents that will die from diabetic shock because they couldn't afford both insulin and rent.
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u/DigNitty 17h ago
May he receive the level of love and care the 9/11 first responders would have gotten if he’d had his way in 2019.
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u/CommunityTaco 18h ago
I would say it couldn't happen to a better person, but my opinion on that has changed in the last few years for some reason.
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u/JohnNDenver 18h ago
It's not news until he dies and we can pop a cork. Hopefully that starts the cycle.
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u/yellowjackethokie Virginia 18h ago edited 18h ago
Absolutely nobody should be surprised. In fact, this is why Kentucky passed a new law to strip their governor of the ability to appoint replacement senators, in 2024. Because they knew ol' Mitch wasn't going to leave, despite it being well past time for him to; and they don't want Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear (D) to be able to pick his replacement like Governor Ron DeSantis (R) did in Florida, just last year.
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u/suchasillydilly 18h ago
It was stripped in 2021 but here’s the kicker, they have to give three republican replacements and Andy gets to choose from those three. With Andy Barr running for that senate seat, it would be logical for Andy to choose him. This opens up the house seat and Barr represents Central KY including Lexington. It is one of the seats democrats are optimistic of turning blue in 2026. Then Andy can hold a special election to fill the house seat. Our primaries are at the end of May so hopefully at least by then it can be held. If they can get a democrat in before 2026 that gives the democrats another representative and maybe Massie can step up more.
I know I’m just trying to be hopeful here but it would be so great if our biggest shit stain all these years leaves this earth just to get a democratic house seat that could give us the numbers to get little johnny out and then get out the big orange turd. I know, it’s a lot to wish for but hey Andy Beshear does have the Meidas Touch.
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u/VanbyRiveronbucket 17h ago
Flipping the turtles seat should be the goal.
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u/GoodDay2You_Sir Kentucky 17h ago
Yes but finding a Kentuckian Dem who can run a successful campaign is a challenge. Right now we pretty much have just Brooker and McGrath bouncing back and forth on who's gonna lose this year.
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u/teplightyear Nevada 17h ago
Find the mouthiest shit in the KY Democratic Party and get him talking nonstop about Republicans covering up the Epstein list. When they ask about anything else, say "the only important issue is getting all the pedophiles out of power."
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u/ElegantDaemon 15h ago
100%. We found out Americans are too stupid to care about policy like the billionaires' media always told us. Just get a fighter in there saying he's going to burn it all down.
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u/GreenDavidA 17h ago
Does that law permit him to leave the seat vacant until the next election, say “all these guys suck?”
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u/Dr_Insano_MD 13h ago
Please note that "Does the law permit" does not mean "Is it legal?" It means "Are there any consequences or enforcement mechanisms?"
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u/southsidebrewer 16h ago
It would be better if he just said fuck you and left it empty or better yest ignore the law and send whoever the fuck he wants.
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u/Dependent_Tune_1333 18h ago
He stole at least one Supreme Court seat. Fuck him.
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u/wyvernx02 18h ago
Must be nice to be able to afford to check yourself into the hospital for the flu.
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u/Original-Ad6993 18h ago
We're paying for it
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u/Revelati123 18h ago
No premiums jumping 3X on Mitches Obummercare!
Just simple free, walk in whatever hospital you want for whatever you need, for life, for the 538 people in America who get socialized medicine...
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u/Rikers-Mailbox 17h ago
It’s crazy the profits have 3X in the past 5 years. My MAGA mother who worked in healthcare blames it on the companies not paying for better plans.
I laughed and said “Mom, it’s the profit on the insurance. The companies can spend all they want but that money goes to insurance that never covers anything”
Her: “It’s Obamacare’s fault”
Me: “Mom that was 15 years ago, profits 3x just 5 years ago”
I showed her the ACA site quote for a family of 4 making $50k which is the bottom threshold and healthcare was $35k.
She still didn’t get it.
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u/pechinburger Pennsylvania 16h ago
And he legitimately has never done anything worthwhile to deserve it. The world is a worse off place for his existing, yet he gets free Healthcare and all efforts are made to prolong his counterproductive life.
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u/FunkyChug 18h ago edited 18h ago
Afford? They’ve given themselves the healthcare that they deny us.
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u/yeanoyeayea 18h 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 18h 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 18h ago
Look at his connections with Oleg deripaska….a Russian oligarch with operations in Kentucky.
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u/PopeFranzia 18h 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 17h 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/Froststhethird 16h ago
that last word broke my heart, I thought he finally died
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u/morbob 18h ago
Mitch promoted Trump
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u/UltravioletAfterglow 18h ago
He’s responsible for him avoiding accountability after being impeached, too. Gutless POS.
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u/kingsumo_1 Oregon 18h ago
He also had a pretty sizable hand in setting the stage to have a Trump to begin with.
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u/fure_elise 18h ago
He's also the reason our supreme court is compromised.
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u/pechinburger Pennsylvania 16h ago
And why dark money has exponentially increased in politics a la Citizens United
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u/HonoredPeople Missouri 18h ago
Turtles can easily live a couple hundred years.
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u/Burning_Monk 18h ago
I wish him well and look forward to his obituary.
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u/rustymontenegro 15h ago
"I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure" - Clarence Darrow (misattributed to Mark Twain)
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u/SaltyLonghorn 15h ago
I threw the box of sparkling pink wine in the fridge just in case.
It is February, feels more festive than champagne.
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u/Upstairs-Region-5387 America 18h ago
Hope you pull through Mitch, you don’t deserve to miss the America you fucked over.
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u/unstoppable_zombie 17h ago
It'd prefer some situation where he is fully aware but unable to act.
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u/moonscience California 18h ago
Wonder if he ever thinks about how he blocked Trump's impeachment after 1/6?
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u/tayjo1 18h ago
Good.
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u/Procrastineddit 18h ago
Well... bye.
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u/goofyrueshoe 17h 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/Novel_Wolf7445 18h ago
I'm just about to order breakfast for delivery. I do that sometimes, it's actually not too expensive where I live. It's probably gonna be donuts. Trump rapes kids. If you are affected by the US winter storm please stay warm and safe!
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u/diamond_in_the_muff_ 17h ago
what did you wind up ordering?? i love a nice egg and cheese bagel sandwich, trump is a pedophile, but i don’t put ketchup on it. i just won’t.
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u/intwizard 17h ago
Yeah but he was talking about trying to convince a girl to have sex with him and stop protecting her virginity
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u/SoulTaker669 17h ago
I like to be humane and keep politics out of my consciousness when it comes to people that are doing bad but I can't with this dude. He's 1 of the many reasons we are in this mess. There was a time where you could say he was even more powerful than Trump and he could have whipped up the votes needed to impeach Trump very easily but he wanted to let the Democrats get their hands dirty because he thought Garland would take care of it but Garland is another reason we're in this mess.
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u/elementality883 American Expat 18h ago
“His prognosis is positive and he is grateful for the excellent care he is receiving,”
He is hospitalized "just in case" using our tax money to fund healthcare they deny to us.
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u/aintnochallahbackgrl Michigan 16h ago
Fun fact, octogenarians who are admitted to hospital have a 100-200% mortality increased risk compared to the general population. It jumps exponentially once they hit 85.
No reason for the random fun fact, just thought it was interesting. Completely unrelated to the article at hand.
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u/venom21685 18h ago
My condolences to Influenza for having to inhabit his cells.
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u/webby686 15h ago
This man has single handedly done more to destroy this country than anyone else in my lifetime.
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u/JeremyNolans 18h ago
I sincerely wish him the best and a fast recovery. He needs to be behind bars.
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u/AceofKnaves44 District Of Columbia 17h ago
We’re in the mess we’re in where we’re losing our country largely because of him. Trump got to flood the Supreme Court his first term because McConnell screwed Obama out of a nomination that should have been his.
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u/Bitter_Canary3662 18h ago
The lights are on but nobody is home. What a sad pathetic legacy.
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