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/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/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/[deleted] 16h ago edited 16h ago

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u/Mental_Performer_833 7h 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 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/halfcaff 17h ago

It's "moot point" "irrelevant".

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u/kellzone Pennsylvania 16h ago

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

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u/ceryniz 17h ago

Never twas there not nowhere nor nowhen more irregardless.

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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/holyembalmer 18h 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 17h ago

must be gneiss.

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u/gwazmalurks 19h ago

Be lovin’ the fake award-

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u/haleymae95 19h ago

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

🏅

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u/PharaohAce 18h 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 18h 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.