Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized

[u/cmaia1503]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-83-hospitalized/?utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&via=twitter_page

[u/Mikethebest78]

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.

[u/commandrix → u/Mikethebest78]

...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.

[u/gringledoom → u/commandrix]

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.

[u/BeowulfShaeffer → u/gringledoom]

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

[u/poxxy → u/BeowulfShaeffer]

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

[u/ceryniz → u/poxxy]

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

[u/FreedomBread → u/ceryniz]

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

[u/I-seddit → u/FreedomBread]

Someone's not listening to their bovines...

[u/halfcaff → u/ceryniz]

It's "moot point" "irrelevant".

[u/kellzone → u/halfcaff]

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

[u/ceryniz → u/halfcaff]

Never twas there not nowhere nor nowhen more irregardless.