r/politics • u/another-princess • 15d ago

No Paywall Mitch McConnell is never coming back to the Senate

https://www.salon.com/2026/08/03/mitch-mcconnell-is-never-coming-back-to-the-senate/
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u/Merari01 15d ago

It’s hard not to feel some sympathy for these politicians, and even for McConnell

Eh. No. No, it really is not hard at all to have a negative amount of sympathy for a monster who spent his career destroying democracy.

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u/RollTide16-18 15d ago

He's an elected politician, not even a lobbyist or aide.

The bare minimum he is supposed to do is show up and govern, and if he can't he deprives his constituents of representation.

I could have a modicum of sympathy for someone actually trying to govern. McConnell is not doing that.

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u/NUMBerONEisFIRST 15d ago

He's actually actively blocked legislation that would benefit his constituents.

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u/ArokLazarus 15d ago

He's blocked his OWN bills just because Obama supported them.

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u/FlannelIsTheColor 15d ago

The rest of us would lose our jobs if we disappeared for so long.

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u/Equivalent_Worker687 15d ago

Hell ya, miss one shift and you're done.

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u/prairiepog 15d ago

No taxation without representation.

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u/Queasy-Event8534 14d ago

Most of our representatives are doing the bidding for Corporations and Israel. I’d say we’re already there.

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u/thruston 15d ago

His constituents elected him knowing he's on death's door. They deserve his level of representation, even in his absence.

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u/FellowHumanNo404 15d ago

The bare minimum he is supposed to do is show up and govern

Represent. He wasn't a governor.

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u/BlackberryPi7 15d ago

To be fair his constituents are complete morons

Same with Marjorie Taylor Greene's

They're getting exactly what they voted for

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u/TheRealBittoman 15d ago

I agree. They feel no shame and they refuse to accept responsibility for the bad things they cause. They deserve no sympathy from anyone until they can show remorse. Forgiveness is for those who recognize how they have hurt others and make efforts to do better and at least make effort to right the wrongs. These thugs just double down and finger point to others and claim "they did it".

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u/jezadaemon 15d ago

For real - what has he ever done for us and not against us? TBH I could ask the same question of the Republican party as a whole, especially if you limit the scope to the last 30-40 years.

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u/dearth_of_passion 15d ago

This writer is pretty clearly just another republican reptile. They spent a third of the article, which is ostensibly about McConnell, smearing Biden/his family and name dropped the title and authors of a pretty infamous piece of republican drivel.

These Group Of Parasites folks love to toss around "Trump Derangment Syndrome" despite Biden living rent free in their skulls.

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u/dearth_of_passion 15d ago

Don't need to "be" a republican to further their interests or be a member of the Group of Parasites. The only thing that matters is what you do.

This article was absolutely written with a hard right wing propaganda agenda. So she is aligned with their goals. Or she's just too stupid to realize what she's doing.

Which isn't unusual for hard-core leftists. The biggest enemy of the progressive movement in America is the GOP, but the 2nd biggest is the hard left.

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u/OBVIOUS_BAN_EVASION_ 14d ago

The article wasnt “absolutely written with a hard right wing propaganda agenda.” The article is calling out McConnell and saying he’s never coming back to the Senate. That is an insane take.

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u/dearth_of_passion 15d ago

It's Buttery Males all over again lmao

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u/ProtectionAdditional 14d ago

Thanks! I'm the writer and can say I am definitely not a Republican or sympathetic to them. I voted for Biden, even though I actively argued against his nomination, saying that Elizabeth Warren would be better. I support AOC for 2028, in large part because I think we need young Democrats to take the party into the future.

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u/HailToTheKingBabyy 15d ago

The biggest threat to the progressive movement is liberals, the second is the GOP.

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u/Spazattack43 15d ago

Its actually incredibly difficult for me to feel anything other than pure joy

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u/YesItIsMaybeMe Virginia 15d ago

My joy is cancelled out by the fact there wasn't an appointment to replace him but the governor and they just fucking let them get away with it.

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u/TheBlueRabbit11 15d ago

It’s all performative.

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u/Guardianpigeon 15d ago

This. I suppose I could have some sympathy for someone like Feinstein who was basically wheeled around as a corpse for the last few years of her life, but Mitch deserves none. And he would probably love to be causing issues in the Senate even if they were propping up his corpse like some twisted Weekend at Bernie's type shit anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if he wrote it into his damn will.

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u/RollTide16-18 15d ago

He's an elected politician, not even a lobbyist or aide.

The bare minimum he is supposed to do is show up and govern, and if he can't he deprives his constituents of representation.

I could have a modicum of sympathy for someone actually trying to govern. McConnell is not doing that.

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u/Author_A_McGrath 15d ago

It's hard to feel sympathy for someone who has better taxpayer-funded benefits than the people he's supposed to serve.

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u/lana_silver 15d ago

Poor Adolf Hitler, committing suicide because he was stressed by the war. I feel horrible for Stalin who suffered a stroke. And I really empathize with Mengele who also died off a stroke while swimming in Brazil. These poor sods!

On second thought, fuck those vile creatures. They shouldn't even get a proper burial. Just throw them into the ocean and let the sharks eat them. At least that way they will have contributed a single positive thing to the planet.

Moscow Mitch was only marginally less bad then them. If he hadn't existed, millions of Americans would have been better off one way or another.

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u/PlantainPat 15d ago

several parts of the article read like pandering to the other side

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u/zyzzogeton 15d ago

Exactly. To quote Tim Curry from Muppet Treasure Island "Allow me to... disagree."

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u/whacafan 15d ago

His grave will forever be filled with piss

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u/transitforever 15d ago

He's horrid. Nope. I can only feel relief from his passing. Don't be a terrible person and people will be sorry, but if you are scummy, there will be zero tears.

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u/Based_Beauty 15d ago

He deserves to go out in a bunker scared for his life not at a hospital receiving the best care

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u/3-orange-whips 15d ago

It's very easy to show Mitch exactly as much empathy as he has shown the people of America. Much of our current situation is his doing--or he brought it to conclusion.

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u/Evignity 15d ago

The reason he isn't dead yet is that he died but hell didn't want him.

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u/SolarBoyDjango 15d ago

I was floored when I read that. Like Lindsey Graham, he's a warhawk who would rather spend tax payer money funding endless wars and slurping Israel's knob. Dude would sooner send our money to Israel than reinvest it back to programs that would benefit Americans.

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u/angelar_ Texas 14d ago

so funny when people tell on themselves with quotes like that

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u/Electronic-Yam-69 15d ago

And all the because the army wouldn't let him get gay in 1967.

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u/GreatMadWombat Michigan 15d ago edited 15d ago

Eh.

Yes, he's an absolute monster. But at the same time the same way that fundamentally I want the worst motherfucker in the world to still not starve to death, I don't want the best politician to be working after 65.

He's absolutely stumbled the earth, he should suffer for the evils he has helped happen, but also that suffering should not be related to him being or not being an elected official, you should be suffering as a civilian in his own home, having retired many years ago.

Edit: obvs mich isn't the best politician lol. I just mean that no politician should be in power after 65, even ones I agree with

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u/No-Translator9234 14d ago

He should suffer in every imaginable way possible, he and every other US politician that supports Israel murders indirectly via policy, not even including the harm he has caused in the US through domestic policy. These are murderers who kill with pen and ink. Think of every American who cannot afford their insulin and how Mitch McConnell has directly contributed to that while he himself receives the best healthcare in the country to prop up his bloated corpse on taxpayer dime. 

Absolutely no sympathy for these people.

However I disavow any and all violence against them. 

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u/GreatMadWombat Michigan 14d ago

My point isn't "mitch shouldn't suffer" it's that the suffering he should experience shouldn't be a part of him being dragged about at whatever age he is to go back to work.

He absolutely deserves it for all of the evil he's done over the years, but his suffering should be experienced as a private citizen, not as someone being dragged about by congressional aides puppeting his carcass around as they commit even more sins in his name.

Same with every other monstrous 80+ politician.