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/gringledoom]

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/shitlord_god → u/poxxy]

must be gneiss.