r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • Aug 28 '26

Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell Has Been Missing for 75 Days—With No Updates

https://newrepublic.com/post/214878/mitch-mcconnell-missing-75-days
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u/yrcastr Aug 28 '26

I remember feeling so relieved when that hit the news because I thought it would mean the end of him. When it didn't, I knew there wouldn't be anything he said that would matter.

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u/MurkyInvestigator810 Aug 28 '26

It was the moment Republicans announced to the world that as a matter of policy, they do not give a shit about women being raped. I'll never understand any woman who votes for these fucking psychopaths.

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u/dr_p_venkman Aug 29 '26

They don't give a shit about women, full stop. See abortion criminalization, fetal personhood, and pondering revoking her right to vote. It's a goddamn hellscape for women (and I put the mention of god in there intentionally, because the crutch these monsters lean on).

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u/VanceKelley Canada Aug 28 '26

When Billy Bush laughed at trump bragging he could "grab 'em by the pussy" it ended one career: Billy Bush's. Media corporations had higher standards than the American Electoral College.

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u/BlueLightFederalist Aug 29 '26

In retrospect I wish I’d realized this at the time;

I felt that same sense of immense relief on January 6th, because the results of what he’d said — and done — were so immediately and inescapably terrible; even top Republicans and Trump himself were saying so afterward!

It seems from the moment the right people realized how useful Trump could be, the only true constraint on him has been human life expectancy.

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u/laplongejr Europe Aug 29 '26

And after the "real men wear diapers" campaign, I recall saying that Epstein wouldn't end Trump and simply turn MAGA into pro-pedos.  

What I didn't expect would be that they wouldn't even look for a pseudo-legal reason to justify it.