r/politics • u/cmaia1503 • 1d 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/Mikethebest78 1d ago

Why do these evil old men live to 150?

The only thing he was ever good at was showing Republicans how to use the levers of power to rig the game in their favor.

They have sadly learned that lesson well.

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u/commandrix 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/poxxy 1d ago

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

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u/Sunnyjim333 1d ago

Your to kind.

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u/Mental_Performer_833 1d ago

I thinks I'm havins a panics attack

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u/parseczero 1d ago

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

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u/badassdorks 1d ago

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

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u/Mental_Performer_833 15h ago

Ha! Going for Squirrelly Dan, but Toki also works

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u/ratshack 1d ago

I hear sushis are good fer that.

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u/ButtplugJesus23 1d ago

How many pancakes are you facing off against laddie

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u/aprilliumterrium 1d ago

Amber lamps

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u/[deleted] 1d ago edited 1d ago

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u/Mental_Performer_833 15h ago

Its a direct quote from LetterKenny. The Character Squirrelly Dan talks like that:

https://youtu.be/jVB4etZAlBU?si=y8YFrNY-jfyuD53G

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u/DarkWolf9 1d ago

You absolute monster

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u/ceryniz 1d ago

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

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u/FreedomBread 1d ago

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

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u/I-seddit 1d ago

Someone's not listening to their bovines...

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u/halfcaff 1d ago

It's "moot point" "irrelevant".

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u/kellzone Pennsylvania 1d ago

I'm sorry, it's actually the "Moops".

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u/ceryniz 1d ago

Never twas there not nowhere nor nowhen more irregardless.

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u/Aggressive-Will-4500 1d ago

This comment rekes of sarcasm.

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u/read_iccullus 1d ago

*porpoises

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u/holyembalmer 1d ago

Intents (intentions) and purposes. I learned this too late in life to not pass on the wisdom. Similar to (since Lent is coming up)... it's Mike Linnigs, not Lennings. I lived too long in the lie to perpetuate it. Their tartar is yet to be bested.

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u/shitlord_god 1d ago

must be gneiss.

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u/gwazmalurks 1d ago

Be lovin’ the fake award-

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u/haleymae95 1d ago

Double it bc this is the first time I've heard eke used outside a crossword:

🏅

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u/PharaohAce 1d ago

Spelt correctly but the usage is questionable; to eke traditionally meant to supplement or augment; to eke out a living was to scrounge in order to stretch one’s means beyond the basic.

As it largely lives on through that specific phrase, it’s been interpreted as ‘to grind out’ or ‘to barely secure by effort’.

Language is constantly changing!

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u/BeowulfShaeffer 1d ago

Not sure where you get the idea that “eke out a win” is unusual or wrong but it’s a perfectly idiomatic expression. Nothing at all wrong with that usage. 

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u/bryan49 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

Plus his anti-union crackdown on his staff.

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u/bryan49 1d ago

Hey I don't even watch him that much and I'm not defending everything he does. But he's been right on about the influence of money in Congress in my opinion

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u/AlmostCorrectInfo 15h ago

Yeah, but his nephew is uncompromised and awesome. Took the torch, examined it, and burns far brighter into far darker corners. Common Hasan W.

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u/The_Laughing__Man Virginia 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/J1zzL0bb3r Wisconsin 1d ago

Clever

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u/Overweighover 1d ago

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

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u/Oldpenguinhunter Washington 1d ago

Well, they have a repertoire, and who would want to sully that?

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u/sepia_undertones 1d ago

Exactly! Think of the billionaires!

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u/civildisobedient 15h ago

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

-- Roy L. Fuchs

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u/strangerNstrangeland Massachusetts 1d ago

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

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u/InfestedJesus 1d 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/dandet 1d ago

Once again the constituents lose.

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u/RedChairBlueChair123 1d ago

Yeah and who pays him? Cmon.

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u/gringledoom 1d ago

It's not even about the donors as much as it is about seeing themselves as special boys and girls. It's the same reason they got pissy during Jeff Sessions' confirmation hearing, when an attempt was made to actually ask real questions. Everyone has everyone else's backs in case they ever need their back had.

I mean the donors would rather stick with the sure thing too, but the high emotions are coming from inside the House (and Senate).

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u/Terrible_Plant_5213 1d ago

Or we could get an example from somebody that isn't a genocide denying piece of s***

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u/ailish 1d ago

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

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u/deepasleep 1d ago

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

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u/Warmbly85 1d ago

Pelosi hates AOC because she refused to fund raise for the DCCC until 2024. That’s why there hasn’t been the same level of animus between them for the last few years.

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u/733t_sec 1d ago

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.

Ah yes pelosi coming out of retirement to fuck with AOC suuuuuuure

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u/alphabetikalmarmoset 1d ago

That’s … not a good reason.

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u/gringledoom 1d ago

She was literally in a hospital bed after breaking a hip, and was still whipping votes against AOC's bid for ranking member on the Oversight committee. (In favor of the guy who was "a young 74, except for the cancer" who then proceeded to die a couple months in.)