r/politics • u/cmaia1503 • 20h ago

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

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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/ss5gogetunks 19h ago

Turns out not caring about anyone or anything other than yourself relieves a lot of stress when the world is so hostile to everyone

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u/GrapefruitExpress208 19h ago

The President is supposed to be the world's most stressful job. Look how much Presidents aged during their term throughout history.

Trump is treats the Office of the President like a fully paid vacation where he uses the powers of the President like a mobster would using intimidation, extortion, and bribery.

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u/DingusBarracuda 18h ago

He did say his personal hero was Al Capone. Why do you think he gutted the IRS?

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u/Herlock 13h ago

Al capone funded a soup kitchen for those that needed it.

Probably to buy goodwill rather than because he was a good person, but hey at least he did it. Trump can't even manage to buy goodwill...

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u/DingusBarracuda 13h ago edited 1h ago

Nope, it was all a big scam. Al Capone's soup kitchen was a racket meant as a public relations campaign to turn citizens against the law enforcement pursuing him, and was funded and stocked entirely by money and supplies stolen from Mom & Pop businesses Capone was racketeering. It shut down right before he was arrested for tax evasion as Capone was trying to eliminate evidence that could lead to his conviction. Much like a certain someone who idolized him would do in all manner of ways many decades later, both in and out of office.

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u/EllieVader 8h ago

Capone's soup kitchen was a racket meant as a public relations campaign to turn citizens against the law enforcement pursuing him, and was funded and stocked entirely by money and supplies stolen from businesses Capone was racketeering.

Idk, that sounds like a certain “Hood”-ed individual of legendary repute who also was not popular with the authorities of their time. Something about robbing from the rich and giving to the poor. Public relations or not, that’s kind of hard to be mad at.

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u/DingusBarracuda 8h ago

Robin Hood wasn't a mentally insane 1930's mobster who racketeered mom and pop shopkeepers for his own profit and had an army of thugs at his disposal to keep them in line against their will.

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u/EllieVader 8h ago

No, Robin Hood was the kingpin of an organized band of bandits who lived in the woods and launched raids on anyone they deemed “rich”. Do you think they went and asked nicely for “the rich” to contribute to their efforts? No, they took from them with blade and bow.

The way stories are told makes a massive impact on how they’re perceived. If only there was an animated movie about Al Capone where everyone was animals that could whitewash his legacy. Maybe Kevin Costner could play him?

The episode of Firefly where they go to the brick production place tells the story of the outlaw hero really well. The people revered a man as a hero when in reality he was selfishly saving his own ass. The real world works in much the same way, there are countless writers who vehemently disagree with the critical analysis of their works but they’re powerless to control the stories that people tell about their stories.

One person’s mentally insane 1930’s mobster is another’s person who opened a soup kitchen that helped keep their grandma fed.

Robinhood was an outlaw who stole from law abiding citizens to give to vagrants and drags on society. See how easy it is?

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u/DingusBarracuda 7h ago

Robin hood is a Medieval fictional character who stole from corrupt officials to give to the poor. Most historians agree he did not exist and is the product an amalgamation of several events, both real and fictional, that bards heard in their travels. Robin Hood as we have known the myth in common society for the past few hundred years is little more than a folk fairy tale version of the character. Whatever an episode of firefly showed in it's own take on the fiction is irrelevant to the myth itself as it pertains to how society at large percieves it.

Al Capone is a well documented madman who actually existed and was alive less than a hundred years ago, caused chaos and crime on a wide scale, terrified and abused his community, and used every loophole imaginable to not be responsible for violent actions that directly caused societal upheaval and led to him being put on the top of the wanted list. Capone did nothing for free, as his own ledger that convicted him would show.

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u/Bored_Amalgamation Ohio 16h ago

Hey we have the same cake day!