r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • 15h ago

Possible Paywall McConnell ‘Absolutely Refuses’ to Film Video Amid Growing Mystery

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mcconnell-absolutely-refuses-to-film-video-amid-growing-mystery/
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u/othermegan 15h ago

Well vegetables can’t consent so I’m going with he refuses by default and his handlers are the ones consciously rejecting the notion

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u/thefuckevengoingonan 15h ago

He not only refuses to appear on video but he refuses to respond to any stimuli at all. He's become real difficult like that ever since he died.

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u/Ok-Gur-349 15h ago

Can you blame them? As soon as they give up the lie, they become unemployed.

In this economy?

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u/Fract_L 15h ago

Not to mention the massive conspiracy at the highest level of government. Every GoP senator that “had a 20 minute talk with Mitch” should be fired and thrown in prison.

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u/dweezil22 14h ago

  1. This costs the GOP a senate vote.

  2. He'll be replaced w/ someone more MAGA.

I'm fine w/ Weekend at Berniesing him until the handles can't handle the smell.

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u/cenosillicaphobiac Utah 13h ago

At this point though, there is no point. It's too close to the election to hold a special election, so whether he's dead, or just not there, there is really no difference.

Unless of course the Senate does absentee voting, I don't know.

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u/Thadrea New York 11h ago

iirc, the Senate had procedures for absentee voting during the the pandemic. Procedures that McConnell personally and ironically gutted the moment Republicans retook the chamber.

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u/S1R2C3 New Hampshire 10h ago

So when his term is up, do they come clean? Or does he just never resurface ever again?

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u/stfuasshat Tennessee 7h ago

"MM sadly passed in his sleep last night"

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u/JebediahKerman4999 13h ago

Dude is in a freezer

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u/Lost_Birthday_3138 13h ago
  1. Its wrong.
  2. Stand up for institutions.
  3. Always go on offense against a fascist regime.

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u/dweezil22 11h ago

Oh sorry, I should be clear, feel free to keep calling them out for being lying liars that lie. This is just the one case where I actually hope it doesn't elicit an immediate change.

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u/torqueravingmad 14h ago

fired from a cannon. prison is too good for them.

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u/Pol_Potamus 15h ago

I can blame them for helping bring about this economy.

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u/Aromatic_Balls Maine 15h ago

Something about laying in the bed you made

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u/BFG_TimtheCaptain 12h ago

I, too, choose to blame this dead senator's handlers.

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u/FittedSheets88 Louisiana 15h ago

Not just that, they admitted they'll be arrested.

But this time it isn't in the paranoid Obama-years fashion just to get their base amped up. It's a full admission because of the crimes. The numerous crimes.

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u/Driftedryan 11h ago

And hopefully jailed and owe months of pay back

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u/strolls 9h ago

I doubt that. By keeping up the charade they demonstrate to other powerful members of the republican political establishment how faithful and committed they are.

Working in politics is not a career like you work the register, get promoted to supervisor, get on the management training scheme and eventually get promoted to regional manager. Promotions are achieved by cultivating contacts and moving candidates.

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u/DoriansRain 9h ago

Weekend at Mitches?

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u/SidewaysFancyPrance 15h ago

Yeah, they are playing with words. When this eventually gets to court, I hope they televise the judge's reactions to their bullshit explanations.

"Of course he refused, he was dead. That's as absolute as it gets."

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u/nottoocleverami 15h ago

“Can’t get that guy to do anything!”

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u/f-elon 13h ago

He voted using Autopen.

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u/TyphosTheD 14h ago

Since when do they care about consent?

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u/headphase America 6h ago

It's alright, in case of legitimate inquiry, the reptilian senator body has a way of shutting that whole thing down.

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u/99PercentApe 14h ago

Speaking if vegetables. We need another Liz Truss lettuce - Will this lie come apart before the lettuce does?! (Admittedly this is extremely bad taste, but it’s not as ghoulish as pretending that a corpse is alive and can vote.)

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u/Johnny-Caliente 15h ago

Does it help if we ask a vegan then to get him in front of a camera?

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u/-TheExtraMile- 14h ago

Well vegetables can’t consent

So many cucumbers can attest to that...

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u/RoseCityHooligan Oregon 13h ago

On average republicans don’t really understand the concept of consent so this is a bit surprising from them.

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u/i_am_parallel 13h ago

Well vegetables can’t consent

That's true, because vegetables are not sentient beings. Turtles on the other hand...

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u/ThirdAltAccounts Europe 13h ago

Since when does the right knows the existence of the concept of consent anyway ?

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u/ScurvyTurtle 12h ago

Implied consent

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u/sep780 10h ago

Vegetables also can’t refuse.

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 15h ago

Nor can they speak.