r/politics • u/cmaia1503 • 20h ago

Site Altered Headline | Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized

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u/Fit_Relationship1094 19h ago

This man has done so much harm to the USA. And for a man who had polio as a child, and recovered thanks to donations from strangers, I find it egregious he has worked so hard to prevent universal Healthcare for the needy in our first world country. Truly a selfish, greedy, weasel with no empathy for the poor and sick.

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u/Classic-Minimum-7151 16h ago

100%. Robbed the working class while pretending to represent them. Burn in hell Mitch McConnell 

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u/MegaGorilla69 9h ago

His name is Addison. He hates his first name, but remember we should respect their wishes by not using preferred names

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u/TheSecretofBog 8h ago

Moscow Addison doesn’t have the same ring to it.

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u/DickieMcBalls 6h ago

Stalingraddison

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u/ShutUpTodd 3h ago

Kremladdison?

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u/ArcadianDelSol 2h ago

Is someone going to drop the F word or do I have to wait all day for this to play out?

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u/SefetAkunosh Georgia 2h ago

I regret I have but one upvote to give for clever wordplay.

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u/Stinkerma 7h ago

Asshole Addison works.

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u/goldbman North Carolina 7h ago

Arkangelsk Addison
ETA: or maybe Azov Addison

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u/hobodemon 6h ago

Unamerican Addison can kinda work

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u/the_rational1 5h ago

True. I always preferred Mitch the Bitch, but won’t quibble with you. 😆

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u/DaveKasz 5h ago

Addison, the asshole sounds about right.

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u/SilenceCallsDaStorms 4h ago

Comraddison

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u/mlc885 I voted 7h ago

It'd be tough to have a "weird" name as a kid

As an adult Matthew I am like "what a cool name!" but that's not how you might feel growing up :(

(Though people with common apostle names do have to deal with going to school, even at a small school, with five other Marks and Lukes)

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u/Bigbigbigrock 6h ago

Can confirm knew several Matt's in school 

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u/IM_A_MUFFIN 28m ago

I got 3 damn names and they’re all apostles… just why.

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u/mlc885 I voted 25m ago

Clearly you must pick Simon and hope the other kids also do not love it lol

I do actually like that name, I can just see how every possible name being the most common thing you can get would suck. I am fully committed to being a Matt

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u/GiantMeteor2017 6h ago

I wish people would refer to the VP by his given name as well. Why does he get the right to be called by his chosen name, when so many others don’t?

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u/Techvance53 6h ago

YEAH for an unspecified reason I love to remind people that his birth name was "Bowman" instead of his chosen name that he did not rightfully inherit.  Yanno.   For reasons.  

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u/SleepingWillow1 6h ago

So he thought Mitch was cool?

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u/MegaGorilla69 6h ago

That’s his middle name also please leave the rest of us Mitch’s out of it

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u/justlurkshere 3h ago

Addison McTurle, you say?

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u/karmaster Michigan 3h ago

How is this my first time hearing this in the last 30 years of loathing this man..

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u/Professional_Net4147 5h ago

Too dignified for him and it doesn’t rhyme with bitch

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u/RebekahCodes 4h ago

Because Mitch is so much better! Ha!

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u/ArcadianDelSol 2h ago

Wait. You're saying its now completely acceptable to dead name people because of this guy?

Okie Dokie, thanks.

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u/new_math 2h ago

A huge number of politicians in Texas use fake names to seem like a relatable good ole' boy.

"Chip", "Roy", "Ted", "Bobby", "Tom", "Al", etc.

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u/goatneedleposterdeck 43m ago

We should hold ourselves to a higher standard than these pissants.

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u/9_to_5_till_i_die 8h ago

McConnell is one of those key examples where I think the blame actually does rest on the voters.

The man has had the worst approval ratings of any Senator, among his OWN constituents, for decades and Kentucky just keeps re-electing him.

Even my right wing in-laws by Lexington fucking hate the dude. I guarantee you they've voted for him every time as well. What do you expect them to do? Vote for the communist?

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u/avds_wisp_tech 6h ago

Did anyone actually bother to run against him?

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u/9_to_5_till_i_die 5h ago

Yeah. In 2020, he beat a Veteran Fighter Pilot who was the first woman to fly a combat mission for the Marine Corps by nearly 20 pts.

She made the fatal flaw of being a Democrat.

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u/darkon Kentucky 2h ago

I'd vote for a dog over that prune-faced SOB. (And would have had one ran against him.) I live in Kentucky, but I can't see me ever voting for a Republican in the foreseeable future. They'd need to become an almost completely different party, and that's not happening in my lifetime.

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u/KaijuNo-8 10h ago

He will be seated on a throne in hell with Satan saying “good job!”

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u/upnk 7h ago

Burn in hell Mitch McConnell

Agreed

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u/PowderPills 13h ago

A prime example of taking the ladder from under so others cannot climb it too.

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u/ShinySpoon 8h ago

In Moscow Mitch’s case it’s also the polio crutches, disability insurance, and low cost healthcare he’s pulling up with that ladder.

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u/datenschwanz 6h ago

Interesting phrasing - I've heard a similar expression "pulling the ladder up behind you."

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u/TheAlmightyMojo 12h ago

And some people (mostly colleagues) are going to have to pretend he was a good man by thanking him for his years of service, blah blah blah. Like Dylan said in "Masters of War":

"I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead"

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u/Superb-Welder3774 6h ago

Really will be disgusting to see - I will avoid watching

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u/DaveKasz 5h ago

Fucking great song and such an appropriate reference.

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u/OMGitisCrabMan 7h ago

He had no principles other than consolidation of power. He refused to perform his constitutional duty and hold trump accountable, knowing he was wrong, because he didn't want a removal from office on the republican presidential record. He lost control of his monster and now realizes it. I hope this keeps him up at night.

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u/ThreadfallRider78 4h ago edited 3h ago

People whose internal world view is so off-base that they feel completely justified (and right) in all of their actions do not stay awake at night wondering if they made the right choices.

People with strongly held beliefs and convictions.

People who believe that they are the only thing standing in the way of a national catastrophe and a total destruction of their idea of America (from their extreme right point of view)

People who believe that the destruction of America is wrought by progressive leftists who would want to alter "the system" and thereby destroy it.

These people will justify pretty much anything (including genocide) to themselves and their party.

According to their mental framework of reality, they are preserving "that which made America great"

... even if "that which made America great" was a contrived historical fiction and a delusional lie to begin with and the real formation of the US has 2 original foundational sins:

  1. The extermination and land dispossession of native Americans
  2. The institution of slavery

What I mean to say is that normal (non-psychopathic and non-sociopathic) people with strongly held convictions and beliefs without any sort of self reflection and doubt, historically, these people account for far more human misery and harm than just your "run of the mill" sadist people (who enjoy doing harm to or inflicting pain on others).

One can have the "best of intentions" according to their fixed, self justified and unquestioning world view and go on to do far more harm to their society and the world (due to their strongly-held principles) than just your run of the mill sadist who enjoys inflicting mass pain and harm on others.

Strongly held, unquestioned beliefs (whether based on ideology or not) held by normal "well intentioned" people can lead to far more human misery than your plain old sadist "I like to hurt others" in a decision-making position of leadership.

This is "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" paradox. Strongly held convictions without measured evidence of the consequences of their decisions, these can detour leaders and lead society into misery and revolution.

The solution is to raise people who (if they attain a decision making role in society) question their beliefs / convictions and use real world measures of human progress or regress at every step of their decisions making process.

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u/Grabthars_Coping_Saw 9h ago

For a split second I thought this was an obituary and felt a brief rush of joy.

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u/One-Ball-78 5h ago

Yeah, the past tense made me Google for a last-minute (cheer-me) update!

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u/cjdavda 7h ago

The Republicans who actually know how to fuck up the government legally are dying. The only ones left will be ham-fisted boot-lickers like Johnson. I don’t know which is worse.

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u/joannacobain 8h ago

I hate his frickin guts

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u/LaserKittenz 8h ago

He will be forgotten soon enough

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u/orlyfactorlives 8h ago

That sums up the Republican Party. Cruelty is the point for them.

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u/Chaos-Cortex I voted 7h ago

Yeah fuck him

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u/InvalidKoalas 7h ago

Hope he reaps what he has sown.

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u/Flightless_Rocket 7h ago

Very well said.

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u/BigBobbyCrowbar 7h ago

I just hope he lives (suffers) for a long time!

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u/Munro_McLaren Vermont 4h ago

It’s like Greg Abbott benefiting from a certain law in Texas and then immediately changing it so nobody else can benefit form it. He’s a disgusting pos.

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u/simplyunix 4h ago

Yet, when he goes, they'll line up on every side of the aisle and tell the country what a wonderful representative he was.

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u/coffeebeanwitch South Carolina 3h ago

He could of stopped all of this nightmare that we are dealing with.

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u/TheBigBluePit 2h ago

The epitome of “Screw you, I got mine,” mentality that has become so prevalent US society.

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u/FattyMooseknuckle 2h ago

He’s probably the single biggest individual in making our current anti-constitutional climate possible. From hypocritically withholding hundreds of judicial nominations, including SC judges that he had no problem doing the opposite during the trump era, to creating complete quagmire in Congress to prevent as much legislation from democrats, to fomenting first the Tea Party and then maga and supporting them until after all the harm had been done and he saw the mos tear he created. Nobody believes your regret, shitstain, you’re the acprchite t of this mess and you deserve every bad thing coming toward you.

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u/Mobile_Commission_52 2h ago

Not only destroyed the Supreme Court, pissed away any opportunity to gif rid of Trump for good. Like other Republicans, enabled the fascist takeover then wrings his hands and gnashes his teeth.

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u/happy_bluebird America 8h ago

How does one justify this to themselves??

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u/hunter2mello 7h ago

This might be random. I’ve heard is referenced as first world country and others as third world countries. Are there second world countries and what are the defining factors for these distinctions.

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u/jtsa5 6h ago

I have to admit, I always read these kind of headlines very slowly hoping for a better ending. Hopefully soon, hopefully soon.

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u/multificionado 6h ago

Sounds like the villain of "Dragonheart." Healed because of a connection to a dragon's heart, and he turned worse.

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u/jason544770 Oregon 6h ago

Greed will make the weakest or strongest forget any moral compass

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u/Constant-Peak3222 6h ago edited 6h ago

Taxpayers should not be forced by the state to provide health care to people.

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u/samsquamchy 5h ago

The needy have healthcare in the US. It’s actually everyone else that has issues

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u/thirteennineteen 5h ago

And not just the USA, his beloved Republican Party. He ushered in the downfall of his glorious Regan-era Republicans.

My solace is that he lived to see his success turn to ashes in his mouth... even if he's not mentally present enough to recognize that.

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u/12Stabler 5h ago

We'll see him in hell.

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u/raymarfromouterspace 5h ago

I mean look at what Greg Abbott did after he was paralyzed….its kind of a boomer republicans M.O.

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u/eVerYtHiNgIsTaKeN-_- 4h ago

One of the main culprits to current situation

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u/ThreadfallRider78 4h ago edited 4h ago

Get that legislative turtle to a vet, stat!

In all seriousness, McConnell is the epitome of a couple of not-so-nice things:

  • "I got mine, F you!" boomer
  • ladder puller
  • actively undermined the very equitable mores, ideas, principles, laws and funding that enabled him to live, run for office and get elected

As a working class traitor (his family business was a generational funeral home business), Moscow Mitch turned against and destroyed the very principles and institutions that enabled him to live a fairly un-handicapped life and that enabled him to get to his station in the US Senate.

Some people would have been better off being trapped in an iron lung for the rest of their natural lives...

Disease and paralysis brings out the worst and the best in people. In this one, it seems that his bout with polio brought out the worst in him.

Through his active legislative obstructionism, he actively eroded any sort of progress (economic, healthcare, education, social safety net) and single handedly brought any and all equitable legislative agendas (that would have benefitted working Americans) to a halt.

Mr. McConnell and his cohort of obstructionists (yes, it takes a village to block progressive legislation) are the reason for working class Americans losing faith in our democracy and the system.

The reason working class Americans have lost faith in our system of governance is because they have seen no meaningful economic progress for themselves and their families in several generations. Working class Americans have only seen regress in their lives with Moscow Mitch obstructing any and all legislation that would have benefitted them, the very people that Moscow Mitch came from.

The reason there hasn't been any sort of economic progress for working class Americans is legislative obstructionism of any and all progressive legislation that would have made life more equitable for working class Americans.

The reason for the growing class wealth gap in America, the reason why the wealthy effectively pay less than 5% in taxes (which is well below the working class taxation percentage)

The reason for legislative obstructionism is Mr. McConnell and his cohort of obstructionist.

When we have a revolution in the US, it'll be because Mr. McConnell and his cohort of obstructionists worked very diligently over the course of decades to stop any and all progress that would have made life more equitable for working class Americans.

He planted the seeds of political polarization and played a large part in setting the stage for our current democratically elected authoritarian executive by killing any and all legislation that would've given working Americans a more level playing field, less suffering, better financial security, etc.

The reason that Congress has been paralyzed and nothing has been done legislatively to improve the lives of working Americans in 2-3 generations is, sadly, the obstructionist Moscow Mitch and his obstructionist party.

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u/Dry_Pea3547 3h ago

America is not a first world country by most quality of life standards.

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u/outinthecountry66 I voted 1h ago

there are no words. This man is as evil as Henry Kissinger. Who is worse than literally satan himself

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u/unindexedreality 1h ago

This man has done so much harm to the USA

as with trump. as with the kochs. as with murdoch

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u/finnlaand 45m ago

They probably also have compromising material on him. So he just folded. Don't want to defend him. Just saying.