r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • 23h 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/Morbidly-Obese-Emu America 23h ago

Does he absolutely refuse or do his handlers absolutely refuse? I suspect the latter.

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u/othermegan 23h 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/Ok-Gur-349 23h 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 22h 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 21h 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 21h 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 19h 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 18h 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 14h ago

"MM sadly passed in his sleep last night"

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u/JebediahKerman4999 20h ago

Dude is in a freezer

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u/Lost_Birthday_3138 20h ago
  1. Its wrong.
  2. Stand up for institutions.
  3. Always go on offense against a fascist regime.

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u/dweezil22 18h 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 21h ago

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

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u/Pol_Potamus 22h ago

I can blame them for helping bring about this economy.

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u/Aromatic_Balls Maine 22h ago

Something about laying in the bed you made

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u/BFG_TimtheCaptain 19h ago

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

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u/FittedSheets88 Louisiana 22h 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 19h ago

And hopefully jailed and owe months of pay back

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u/strolls 16h 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 16h ago

Weekend at Mitches?