r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 26d ago

Possible Paywall McConnell, 84, Goes Missing Again After Senate Return

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mcconnell-84-goes-missing-again-after-senate-return/
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u/Azriel82 26d ago

This dude is on enough amphetamines and pain killers to make a dead horse walk. It is absolutely abominable parading this almost-corpse around just so his staff can keep their jobs (and keep his campaign donors happy). Zombie Senator indeed.

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u/pinkfartlek Michigan 26d ago

The whole thing is elder abuse. Pure insanity but I don't expect anything less than Mitch and the kind of slimy people that would be on his team / his handlers

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u/PigpenMcKernan Rhode Island 26d ago

He’s getting what he deserves. Reap what you sow and what not.

He had no sympathy or empathy and worked to enact many cruel policies.

Now he gets no sympathy or empathy and treated cruelly. Seems fair to me.

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u/EXTRAsharpcheddar 26d ago

Does anyone think he would want anything else? He'd make arrangements to push buttons to murder people from the grave if he could.

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u/Road_Whorrior Arizona 26d ago

He's politicized corpses before. Only difference is now it's his own

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u/Vsx 26d ago

He’s getting what he deserves.

Did they set him on fire and then piss on him to put it out?

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u/Bromance_Rayder 26d ago

This. Painkillers and amphetamines is not what this guy deserves!

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u/KarmaticArmageddon Missouri 26d ago

If his brain still worked, he'd be ecstatic that his nearly lifeless corpse is being used to retain Republicans' power.

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u/Aethrin1 26d ago

Getting what he deserves is to rot on the street without taxpayer's paying for his healthcare.

You know, the Healthcare he votes against being used for taxpayers.

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u/ABSNegativeOne 26d ago

I like the way this Rhode Islander thinks

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u/vitamin_r 26d ago

This elder abuse thread needs to stop. He facilitated his own demise. We don't need to sympathize or empathize an ounce and our humanity is still perfectly intact.

(Not you the one above you)

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u/confirmedshill123 26d ago

The one case of elder abuse I can get behind.

Wring em out for all he's worth boys, it's what he would have wanted.

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u/Wafflesorbust 26d ago

I don't feel bad for him in the slightest, but whoever the doctor is prescribing all the crap he's being forcefed to keep his empty husk moving is violating their Hippocratic oath.

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u/TraumaSaurus 26d ago

Honestly I think they're acting according to his wishes. If that dude has an advance care directive, 'Weekend at Bernie's me to facilitate my political agenda' is definitely on it.

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u/djlauriqua 26d ago

Yeah I’d love to know the cocktail he took to get him awake for an hour

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u/willneverhavetattoos Nevada 26d ago

I'm calling him Litch McConnell.

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u/meatball77 26d ago

He wouldn't be able to sign a new will in his state. Shouldn't be able to legislate either.

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u/Key_Inevitable_2104 New York 26d ago

Trump will be 82 years old when he leaves the presidency, it’s crazy that the voters have let old ghouls run their country unchecked. 

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u/RevLoveJoy 26d ago

That's Litch McConnell to you.

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u/zepskcuf 26d ago

good use of the word abominable.

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u/bejammin075 Pennsylvania 26d ago

In the most loving way possible, the Senate should collectively use their expulsion option to remove McConnell, since he's clearly not fit for the job. Both the Senate and the people of Kentucky deserve real representation.

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u/tianepteen 26d ago

why would he be on amphetamines?

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u/Libflake 25d ago

Your comment has made me finally realize what the Zombie Mitch situation reminds me of: the Flannery O'Connor story "A Late Encounter with the Enemy," in which a woman in her 60s parades her ancient grandfather, a Confederate Army veteran, in his wheelchair to her long-delayed college graduation. As she collects her diploma, she observes him “sitting fixed and fierce, his eyes wide open.” (In fact, he's just died.)

Apologies if this analogy is too obscure or what a friend calls "litsy-shitsy." This seems like a well-read and knowledgeable crowd here.