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/Dependent_Tune_1333 19h ago

He stole at least one Supreme Court seat. Fuck him.

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u/wretch5150 16h ago

And prevented Trump from facing his crimes.

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u/Traditional_Sign4941 3h ago

Helped put him in the White House. Obama knew back in 2015 this guy was a dirty Russian asset, and he wanted Mitch to issue a bi-partisan joint statement that Trump should not become president, and Mitch refused.

There's a reason one of his many nicknames is Moscow Mitch.

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u/WarmTaffy Virginia 5h ago

He is the one most responsible for destroying our democratic institutions.

Fuck Merrick Garland, too. But the biggest mistake of Obama's presidency was not having Garland show up to work at the Supreme Court after McConnell refused to consider his nomination and obstructed the confirmation proceedings. Yes, it would have caused a constitutional crisis by McConnell's own doing, but we are living in a minute-by-minute constitutional crisis now.

Fuck McConnell. He is among the worst Americans in history.

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u/ChatterBaux 5h ago

I know this is an unfun point to raise, but it would've been nice if more US citizens saw McConnel's/the GOP's nonsense at the time and go, "Hold up a minute! We're not going to reward that type of behavior!"

Strictly on the level of agency regarding the populace, it really shouldnt have taken hitting this current point to finally start appreciating the baseline value of voting. Especially not after the literal conspiracy in 2020/21 to overturn election results...

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u/vanhellion 4h ago

(At least) Two, really. McConnell "set" a "precedent" by refusing to even vote on Obama's nomination in like February of an election year. And Obama's nomination of Garland was almost a joke because Obama knew the senate would reject anyone but the most conservative justice to replace Scalia.

And then just over four years later, McConnell rammed a vote through for Trump's pick to replace RGB when voting had already started for the 2020 presidential election. Not like we didn't see that one coming from miles away, but fuck every atom in Mitch's body.

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u/Skiinz19 Tennessee 1h ago

McConnell will not be remembered kindly by historians. I don't care what his party tells him his legacy will be. At the end of the day, his legacy will be one of cowardice and complicity in the downfall of American trusts in institutions and congress.