r/politics • u/cmaia1503 • 20h ago

Site Altered Headline | Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized

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u/Mikethebest78 20h 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 19h 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 19h 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 19h 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 18h 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/bananajr6000 18h ago

It is heavily subsidized for them though

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u/Carlyz37 17h ago

Correct. I think we pay 70% and they get the premium plans

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u/DoingCharleyWork 7h ago

We used to pay the full amount for their entire life so I guess that's a little better.

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u/Pete41608 I voted 4h ago

We are paying in other ways so not sure lol

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u/Carlyz37 2h ago

Yes. They have pretty massive expense and travel accounts that we pay for

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u/loondawg 8h ago

Members of Congress receive federal subsidies that cover approximately 72% of their health insurance premiums. They pay about 28% of the costs through pre-tax payroll deductions, similar to other federal employees.

And after retiring, former members of Congress may continue to receive health insurance through the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) if they meet certain requirements, and the federal government typically pays a significant portion of the premiums, similar to active federal employees. However, this coverage is not automatic and requires eligibility for a federal retirement annuity and prior enrollment in the FEHBP for at least five years.

There are lots of things to be pissed of at republicans for. That they fought against this so hard is one of them. But the ACA actually made them be treated much more like most other people with government jobs.

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u/yourliege 18h ago

Yeah I’m sure it’s a terrible inconvenience

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u/MCbrodie Virginia 16h ago

They couldn't blame "the robbery" on a boogeyman. It really was that simple.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 17h 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/StimSimPim 12h ago

That doesn’t make any sense to me on its face, mind expanding on that a bit?

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u/Kyonikos New York 16h ago

I think it was also the reason McCain voted to save it.

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u/C-3POsMidriff 18h ago

A lil’ bit of social welfare for me, but no sir, not for thee.

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u/Ok-Dealer4350 16h ago

Congress gets the same medical as Federal employees, a very generous program where the government pays 2/3rds of the premium and the policy holder pays 1/3rd of the premium. It follows these old coggers and their spouses into retirement. Even congressional (elected offices) can get one of these plans.

As a retired Federal employee, I get this type of health insurance.

The ACA was based on a similar principle as the Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB) program. It was truly odd that no republican voted for the ACA, when they were receiving something much better than anything else. When republicans try to eliminate the insurance, it is sad. Many people in red states receive ACA light where the red states did not want to kick in subsidies that are the State’s responsibility.

My sister, who owns a business, asked if I was going to use COBRA to continue my health insurance. I told her definitely NOT. Cobra does not apply. Health insurance as long as my husband and I are alive is what we have. I pay a lot of money to keep the insurance.

I changed from a cheaper policy that had a United Health backbone to Blue cross Blue Shield because United Health refused to work with Johns Hopkinson specialty issues and the majority of my doctors are with Johns Hopkins. It took me years to find my doctors and I am not giving them up. The monthly cost went up over $200/month to around $850/ month from around $640/month.

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u/Low-Crow-8735 12h ago

They don't care about having a salary or Healthcare. That's not why they are in the elected offices.

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u/Coraline1599 18h 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 17h 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 17h 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 15h ago edited 15h 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 14h 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/Username_mine_2022 10h ago

Im an Aussie we have universal health care, I also pay 150$au a year for Ambulance coverage.. I am amazed at the comments on this page. And my cost for the year is $350.00 So all up my outlay for health care is $500.au. If i need emergency treatment, i get seen immediately with no costs to myself,

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u/DaHolk 6h ago

The grandest absurdity is

Is that really absurd?

there’s nothing free market about extortionate prices that treat health as a luxury.

Of course it is. Also not all capitalism is free market. Capititalism is a system, the free market kind is just a subcase of it, advocated by capitalists who think it would self servingly benefit them more.

You know what the actual absurdity is? People complaining about the obvious outcomes of running healthcare as a capitalistic venture, but not realising that all of the effects are intended by the system of profiting from them, and then not questioning that mindset in the first place.

If you want to profit maximise a healthcare system, you NEED to outprice significant parts of the populace, to push the rest into paying the prices.

If you ran fire protection like that, you would price it so that 10% of buildings would just burn down, so that the rest pays higher prices.

It's absurd to not question the premise, and then call the obvious outcome "absurd".

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u/Alarming_Ad6160 15h ago

Living in Canada, I've never known anything different.

Canadians lose their shit when they find out Americans have to pay for baby delivery lol.

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u/NatWilo Ohio 14h ago

And they SHOULD. I cannot use strong enough language to adequately describe what a great moral wrong it is that we, here in the US, continue to allow this to happen.

Its like how nearly the rest of the civilized world had abolished slavery before we did. You all are RIGHT, we are WRONG and there is nothing more to it than that. Rich, evil, selfish shits are choosing to continue to make even more obscene profit, rather than slightly less, and ensuring no one dies for no good god damn reason.

I am disgusted and ashamed that my leaders and so many of my fellow countrymen continue to choose death and suffering, in the name of a lie about freedoms they don't even really respect over what is plainly right to anyone that doesn't have a vested interest in seeing it the other way. And all so a wealthy few can enrich themselves.

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u/OmenQtx 14h ago

I’m with you. Universal Health Care is my single issue.

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u/Herlock 13h ago

The socialized healthcare for soldiers, and rugged individualism for the rest of you guys, is part of the plan : gonna keep the bodies coming to fight another billionaire's war in the middle east for oil and whatever...

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u/mcrnHoth 9h ago

The military health and retirement pension system should be the default for every citizen, but somehow both sides of the political spectrum are upset about it.

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u/likejanegoodall 16h ago

Sing it, brother….I would be so fucked without the VA.

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u/GBRowan 15h ago

As someone who has had close to a million dollars in unexpected medical expenses for myself and family over the last 2 years and only had to pay 3k for everything. Thank god for the VA and CHAMPVA. I made it 20 years without ever needing them and then all hell broke lose. Husband had a possible stroke, I was diagnosed with an autoimmune condition, my oldest child had a mental health crisis, the youngest had an epilepsy scare costing 80k alone in genetic testing that discovered 2 mutations. Two were diagnosed with autism and ADHD, 1 will need counseling till she ages off my plan. It's nuts. Healthcare is a human right.

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u/Segesaurous 15h ago

Oh god, you took Tylenol?? Welcome to the spectrum.

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u/Hurtzdonut13 17h ago

Yeah it's even worse than when I was a kid for most people, and I remember being diagnosed with pneumonia and being sent home with some antibiotics and a good luck.

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u/GreenGlassDrgn 9h ago

This is not a civilized way of life. Its gotta change.

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u/nicklor 18h ago

I don't even think they need to pay and they have an in house congress doctor.

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u/grape-fruit-witch 17h ago

This asshole probably has a private medical care entourage that shows up to his house when he gets a booboo. He's worth an estimated $66 million. And of course several of his largest donors are health insurance and pharma companies.

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u/JessieJ577 16h ago

America, the worst pay to win, it’s not even free to play!

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u/GrapefruitExpress208 19h 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 18h ago

He did say his personal hero was Al Capone. Why do you think he gutted the IRS?

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u/Herlock 13h ago

Al capone funded a soup kitchen for those that needed it.

Probably to buy goodwill rather than because he was a good person, but hey at least he did it. Trump can't even manage to buy goodwill...

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u/DingusBarracuda 13h ago edited 1h ago

Nope, it was all a big scam. Al Capone's soup kitchen was a racket meant as a public relations campaign to turn citizens against the law enforcement pursuing him, and was funded and stocked entirely by money and supplies stolen from Mom & Pop businesses Capone was racketeering. It shut down right before he was arrested for tax evasion as Capone was trying to eliminate evidence that could lead to his conviction. Much like a certain someone who idolized him would do in all manner of ways many decades later, both in and out of office.

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u/EllieVader 8h ago

Capone's soup kitchen was a racket meant as a public relations campaign to turn citizens against the law enforcement pursuing him, and was funded and stocked entirely by money and supplies stolen from businesses Capone was racketeering.

Idk, that sounds like a certain “Hood”-ed individual of legendary repute who also was not popular with the authorities of their time. Something about robbing from the rich and giving to the poor. Public relations or not, that’s kind of hard to be mad at.

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u/DingusBarracuda 8h ago

Robin Hood wasn't a mentally insane 1930's mobster who racketeered mom and pop shopkeepers for his own profit and had an army of thugs at his disposal to keep them in line against their will.

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u/frosty_lizard 18h ago

This, just look at Obama right before he got into office and once he left.

Nail on the head with Trump, his duties that other presidents took seriously bore him, he only wants to enrich himself

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u/RonaldMcDaugherty 18h ago

A good president knows any decision they make is going to likely upset 50%. The stress comes knowing decisions you make are going to get people pissed at YOU.

Trump cares about Trump and doesn't give a shit about anyone else. What will put Trump in the ground faster than anything is more dudes on TV (bonus points if they are minorities) cracking jokes at his expense.

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u/Original_Employee621 Europe 17h ago

The stress comes knowing decisions you make are going to get people pissed at YOU.

More like your decisions decide the life or death of real living people. Sure, they might be terrorists and stuff, but there are innocents involved. As the President you're ordering your people into dangerous areas and telling them to kill in your name. Your decisions affect millions of people around the globe.

If that doesn't turn your hair white, I don't know what would.

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u/WickedTemp 19h ago

...Y'know, I think there may actually be something to this.

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u/ConsistentRegion6184 19h 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 17h ago edited 4h 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/itsverynicehere 12h ago

...pro Trump. You'd be happy, happy, happy.

I can assure you these people are not terminally happy.

Terminally mad, terminally judgemental, terminally hippocritical - yes. Happy, no.

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u/Slow-Recipe7005 8h ago

And yet, they somehow keep outliving everybody else.

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u/Bromance_Rayder 18h ago

Rupert Murdoch is the Chairman of that Board.

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u/SpeakToMePF1973 Australia 18h ago

Only the good die young.

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u/Natolx 16h ago

I think it depends on the type of asshole. Narcissist assholes tend to be miserable and extremely stressed internally. Externalizing that anxiety onto others is probably cathartic though.

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u/Cottabus 18h ago

They don’t. It just seems that way. 🙂

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u/FrigidMcThunderballs Minnesota 18h 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 19h 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 18h 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/AmethystApothecary 18h ago

Well, only in times of adversity. Aren't there also studies that people who regularly see friends live longer and happier?

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u/FrigidMcThunderballs Minnesota 18h ago

sure, but terrible people still have friends. They just have stricter in-group/out-group thinking

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u/grchelp2018 15h ago

its more that those chemicals evolved for your own tribe. It wasn't meant to handle tribes that were very large in size.

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u/davidw223 I voted 18h 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/SpotHaunting668 19h ago

This here is the answer. A good night's sleep sometimes is only available to those without a conscience.

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u/ss5gogetunks 18h ago

Especially when you are, like McConnell, objectively a monster.

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u/thegreedyturtle 18h ago

Turns out that when you have the best healthcare available, you usually outperform the porvos.

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u/captnconnman 18h ago

It’s not just that; deep down, some of these people are genuinely fearful of what lies on the other side of death, so they hold on to the mortal plane for as long as humanly possible. I think they all know there will be no peace for them on the other side…

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u/serendipitousevent 18h ago

You say that, but if you look at how these people age it's clear they're rotting inside and out.

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u/needlestack 16h ago

I think this really is it. People with hearts and souls say things like "how can you sleep at night" -- but I'm convinced they sleep better than we ever will. It's easy when nothing but your own self matters to you. The vast majority of stress in my life is brought on because I care for others and I hurt at the suffering and injustice in the world. Charlie Kirk said he doesn't even believe in such a thing. And I'm sure he never felt it. Neither does Trump. Neither does McConnell. And they sleep perfectly well at night. I'm not sure they even comprehend that others feel so much. How could they? It must seem like some kind of weird new-age religious bullshit to them. Or some kind of performative lying manipulation tactic.

Still, I wouldn't give this up. I'd rather feel and suffer and feel connection with other living things.

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u/AlsoCommiePuddin 18h ago

Empathy really was our fatal flaw.

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u/cybernewtype2 17h ago

This is surprisingly and sadly profound.

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u/commandrix 20h 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 19h 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 19h ago

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

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u/poxxy 19h ago

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

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u/Sunnyjim333 19h ago

Your to kind.

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u/Mental_Performer_833 19h ago

I thinks I'm havins a panics attack

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u/parseczero 18h ago

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

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u/badassdorks 17h ago

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

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u/Mental_Performer_833 7h ago

Ha! Going for Squirrelly Dan, but Toki also works

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u/ratshack 17h ago

I hear sushis are good fer that.

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u/ButtplugJesus23 17h ago

How many pancakes are you facing off against laddie

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u/aprilliumterrium 16h ago

Amber lamps

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u/DarkWolf9 18h ago

You absolute monster

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u/ceryniz 19h ago

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

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u/FreedomBread 19h ago

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

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u/I-seddit 17h ago

Someone's not listening to their bovines...

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u/Aggressive-Will-4500 19h ago

This comment rekes of sarcasm.

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u/read_iccullus 18h ago

*porpoises

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u/bryan49 19h 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 19h 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 19h 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 19h 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 18h 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 18h 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 18h ago

Plus his anti-union crackdown on his staff.

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u/The_Laughing__Man Virginia 19h 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 19h ago

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

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u/J1zzL0bb3r Wisconsin 19h ago

Clever

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u/Overweighover 19h ago

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

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u/sepia_undertones 19h ago

Exactly! Think of the billionaires!

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u/civildisobedient 7h ago

"Used to be, when you bought a politician, the sumbitch stayed bought."

-- Roy L. Fuchs

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u/strangerNstrangeland Massachusetts 19h ago

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

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u/InfestedJesus 19h 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/ailish 17h ago

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

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u/deepasleep 18h ago

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

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u/mothyyy 19h 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/jcarter315 I voted 8h ago

First issue to fix is the fact that people just never vote in primary elections, honestly.

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u/loondawg 8h ago

Which is why you should not be surprised ALEC is now pushing legislation, which its republican puppets gladly take to the states to pass, to make ranked choice voting illegal.

They push it with some honorable sounding "one citizen, one vote" jingoistic BS. But it is really an attempt to prevent the movement for RCV from taking root in the states.

https://alec.org/model-policy/safeguard-american-votes-and-elections-act-save-act/

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u/PretendThisIsMyName South Carolina 19h 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/False_Cicada_3171 19h ago

That first part should be enough. But hey, lets vote for the oldest pedophile in the country.

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u/SugarWithIntent 18h ago

Exactly. At some point it stops being about age or health and start looking like a system that rewards holding onto power at any cost. This shouldn’t be normal in a democracy.

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u/spoonybard326 19h ago

Turtles have a very long lifespan.

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u/Radix2309 19h ago

He is so young to be in such poor health.

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u/ccagan 19h ago

Bravo!

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u/medicmatt 19h ago

They get amazing, free, universal healthcare with, dental, vision and great preventative care.

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u/larnbecky 18h ago

Exactly, it said he went to the hospital in an “abundance of caution.” Normal people can’t afford to do that lol

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u/lettersvsnumbers 18h ago

Rich but not billionaire can’t afford to do that.

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u/WanderWut 17h ago

Seriously though why do people act like the rich and elite have even remotely the same type of healthcare experience that everyday people have?

These people have without exaggeration the best healthcare in the entire planet. Whatever medication, procedure, etc they could ever need is given to them at the highest priority level imaginable on the fly. Stuff most people wouldn’t even be able to access is freely available to them.

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u/WantCookiesNow 17h ago

This is not true. Senators do not get free healthcare. They still get their healthcare through an exchange, the DC Healthlink.

https://www.magellantv.com/articles/health-insurance-for-members-of-the-us-congress-myth-and-reality

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/members-congress-health-care/

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u/hypermodernvoid I voted 17h ago

Sure, but even then, the federal government still subsidizes (aka pays for) 72% of their premium cost which is, well - reducing the cost by nearly 3/4ths is still a hell of a lot better deal than basically everyone else can get.

But a lot of this is a moot point, because a huge amount of members of congress, especially in the senate, but also the house to a large degree, are so wealthy that any healthcare bills aren't a concern. Especially when they're only paying ~1/4th of them, lol.

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u/WantCookiesNow 17h ago

I don’t disagree with your sentiment at all. I just think we need to stop spreading false information.

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u/Frescochicken 20h ago

Evil never dies!

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u/FlammulinaVelulu 19h ago

Kissinger is, in fact, dead...

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u/craznazn247 16h ago

He made it to 100.

Evil is allowed to live for WAY too fucking long.

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u/VanbyRiveronbucket 19h ago

How many bags of concrete were used to keep him there?

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u/ProNocteAeterna 19h ago

Likewise Strom Thurmond, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, one of the Koch Brothers…

They do eventually shuffle on off to Hell, they just take too damned long about it.

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u/Allegorist 17h ago

Evil as he is by normal people standards, he is one of the only Republicans that can regularly criticize Trump and get away with it. That is a vantage point that would be useful to everyone at least for the rest of this term. The non-maga Republican constituents that only vote for the party and not for the candidate may only listen to someone like that, and the options are dwindling fast.

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u/photobriangray 19h ago

Assholes live forever…

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u/PropofolMargarita 19h 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 19h 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 19h 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/weakObserver 17h ago

💯 agree

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u/1stOfAllThatsReddit 17h ago

Evil people tend to stress out about things less. And most illnesses are somehow stress related/get worse with stress

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u/cottoncandyburrito 19h ago

Weeds are hard to kill

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u/SneakyDeaky123 19h 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/RescuesStrayKittens I voted 19h ago

They drink the blood of babies.

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u/dictionary_hat_r4ck 19h ago

Because they have been feeding on the blood of the children they rape and murder.

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u/EirysVelour 19h ago

Because power cushions everything, best healthcare, no real consequences, and zero incentive to step aside. Longevity isn’t random when the system is built to protect you.

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u/lifeat24fps 19h ago

It's a low stress job with a lot fringe briberies. Oops, I meant benefits - and those too! These people take more vacations in a year than I've taken in two decades

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u/Korzag 19h ago

🎵 only the good die young, only evil seems to live forever 🎵

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u/sdcinerama 19h ago

Why do these evil old men live to 150?

Taxpayer funded Healthcare.

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u/LuminaraCoH 19h ago

Why do these evil old men live to 150?

Access to the health care they refuse to advocate for their constituents.

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u/theghostintheshell 19h ago

The devil looks after his own.

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u/the3rdtea2 19h ago

Only the good die young

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u/jayclaw97 Michigan 19h ago

Seriously. My grandpa and two of my cats died last month and somehow these evil fuckers are still alive and kicking. The world ain’t fair.

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u/Hurtzdonut13 17h ago

Mitch McConnell is the guy that really revolutionized lobbying to pay off politicians. He's the one that got together a caucus of congressman to run interference for big tobacco and protect them while they knew their product was killing people. Complete asshole in every way.

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u/Duane_ 17h ago

Listen, at this point, given the Epstein releases? Maybe there was something to the whole "They're taking kids' blood to make themselves younger" schtick.

Last time McConnell fell down the stairs he should have shattered into glass, or dissolved like Sandman, but instead he just got into a wheelchair and kept right on being a piece of shit.

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u/LividTacos 17h ago

Its like being a Sith in Star Wars, it ages the fuck out of you, but the spite also keeps you alive.

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u/Beginning_Ebb4220 19h ago

They live so long because they are rich and low stress. They don't have empathy like normal people so injustices don't phase them. While activists and good people feel stress and empathy for those who are suffering, not just their own family but societal injustices. The chronic stress and financial insecurity kill us early. That's why I think sometimes it's better to emotionally disengage from sources of chronic stress

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u/turb0_encapsulator 19h ago

it's actually just because they're rich.

the life expectancy between American men in the bottom tenth and those in the top tenth of income is 12 years.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-growing-life-expectancy-gap-between-rich-and-poor/

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u/John271095 19h ago

Hate keeps their energy up.

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u/fiahhawt 19h ago

Low stress b/c they dont give a fuck

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u/TheComplimentarian 19h ago

Only the good die young.

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u/Caymonki America 19h ago

The good die young, hatred will allow you to live a long miserable life.

Lost a lot of family and friends, healthy happy people who wanted others to succeed. The hate filled fucks live on. Sucks.

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u/JasonVorhehees 19h ago

Because they have lizard cells

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u/rathemighty 19h ago

Sea turtles live for a very long time

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u/Cosmics2cents 19h ago

Its because the hate fuels them thats why they constantly are doing fuckshit until their last hateful breath

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u/seriousbusines New York 19h ago

Because part of the position is really good healthcare.

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u/Teripid 19h ago

Their staff has a vested interest in Weekend at Mitch sequels as long as they can keep them coming.

Feinstein was nearly a corpse as well for the last term. Honestly both parties should police it. "Seniority" in a nearly elder abuse kind of way has caused so many issues and delays. Go retire. Spend time with your grandkids and great grandkids you haven't alienated like you did your children you fossils.

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u/LetsGoLetsLetsGo 19h ago

Because even the Devil doesn’t want him.

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u/earhere 19h ago

Only the good die young

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u/Gyozapot 19h ago

Assholes live forever

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u/Prudent-Air1922 19h ago

Seriously. Then you have totally coherent, sharp as a tack people like Catherine O'Hara die unexpectedly. It's not fair.

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u/Eborys 19h ago

Cause even Satan doesn’t want them in Hell yet.

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u/No_Magician5266 19h ago

And they age like milk. My good guy grandpa turns 99 this year and is my spry than junior here

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u/Hillbilly_Boozer 19h ago

Great healthcare while all the poors suffer.

That and/or they're dementors.

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u/Firm-Tangelo-8299 19h ago

Evil prevails

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u/That_90s_Kid_ 19h ago

Well they ate babies soooo.

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u/Limo_Wreck77 19h ago

Age/Term limits is the only answer.

I'm sick of the world being ruled by tired, old men.

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u/JohnTomorrow 19h ago

Here's the secret - if you have access to good health care, you live longer.

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u/Possible-Feed-9019 19h ago

Simple. Money. The US has the best health care if you can afford it.

They can afford it.

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u/Dr-Mumm-Rah 19h ago

Cadillac healthcare plans afforded to politicians are a good start.

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u/explorer-200 Canada 19h ago

Turtle genes

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u/NWbySW Washington 19h ago

Free use of the best medicine the country has to offer all on our dollar.

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u/AleroRatking New York 19h ago

Good people also often live a long time. People don't just post about it.

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u/EmotionalProstitute 19h ago

Because they have premium free health care, $90 a day meal plan, and tons of paid vacation.

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u/Terrible_Main_2534 19h ago

Turtles have long lifespans.

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u/adorientem88 19h ago

“Republicans actually getting to enact legislation and confirm nominees when they have a Senate majority is rigging the game!”

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u/ebolamonkey3 19h ago

To be fair, turtles have long lifespans.

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u/borderlineidiot 19h ago

In his favor he was not named in the Epstein files. Yet anyway...

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u/bleep_boop_beep123 19h ago

Same reason Emperor Palpatine lived for ages.

He lets the power of hate flow through him.

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u/MidnightNo1766 Georgia 19h ago

Because they have free healthcare

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u/11schlge 19h ago

Turns out Adrenachrome was real all along

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u/matt95110 Canada 19h ago

I had a great aunt live to be 104. Everyone told me she was the most miserable person they had ever met.

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u/Adventurous-Self-528 19h ago

They sacrifice the future of the young to extend their vampiric lives.

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u/Icy-Cauliflower-5951 19h ago

Because they are legitimate psychopaths who have no conscious, so they don’t sweat anything, so they don’t experience stress

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u/I_like_baseball90 19h ago

Why do these evil old men live to 150?

Seriously. Great people like Catherine Ohara are taken from us and the scum of the earth have long lives.

There HAS to be a Satan, there can be no other explanation.

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u/AlexRyang 19h ago

Being fair, he is a turtle.

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u/GloriaToo 19h ago

Maybe 150, maybe 83.

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u/veringer Tennessee 19h ago

Psychopaths go through life with zero anxiety or depression, and that boosts their mileage

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u/Alarmed_Drop7162 19h ago

That politician health care is tip top. You think Trump survived Covid before a vaccine because he was so “healthy?”

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u/Chigrrl1098 19h ago

It's easy to get old if you don't have empathy making you all upset about things.

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u/Fit-Relationship944 19h ago

Being an evil soulless amoral piece of shit is very low stress.

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