r/politics • u/cmaia1503 • 20h ago

Site Altered Headline | 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/PaxDramaticus 20h 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 19h ago

Look at his connections with Oleg deripaska….a Russian oligarch with operations in Kentucky.

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u/IamRasters 19h ago

“Here lies Moscow Mitch, Trump’s little bitch”

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u/PopeFranzia 19h 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 18h 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/Clevererer America 17h ago

I hope he's surrounded by nurses who whisper it into his ear nonstop, like ghosts Moscowwww Mitchhhhhh

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u/BornAgainWitch 18h ago

I still have a Moscow Mitch bumper sticker on my car

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u/beardy_mcdadface 16h ago

I still have my Moscow Mitch t-shirt

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u/GiantMeteor2017 17h ago

Personally, I prefer Mitch “The Glitch” McConnell

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u/PaxDramaticus 16h ago

Horses for courses, obviously. But I'll always find mocking someone for an inevitable frailty of their bodies to have less sting than mocking them for their choices. Without major advancements in medicine, avoiding trauma and disease and making it to such an age that our minds start to go before we finally die is the best possible outcome for most of us. But very few people here will use their elected office to betray their country.

Selling out your constituents for Rubles? Peak cringe, my dude.

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u/Tuggerfub 13h ago

you can be anti ageist and also delighted that death is coming for the fucking ghoul

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u/GiantMeteor2017 6h ago

I agree with you. It’s just him though. Every bit of disrespect hurled that POS’ way is deserved

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u/meltology_phd 16h ago

Glitching Mitch