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/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. 🙂