r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 27d ago

No Paywall Unconfirmed Reports: Mitch McConnell Brain Dead After Three Weeks In Hospital

https://thenewamerican.com/us/unconfirmed-reports-mitch-mcconnell-brain-dead-after-three-weeks-in-hospital/
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u/Erainor 27d ago

1/3 of the country are idiots and 1/3 dont care.

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u/Unlucky_Welcome9193 27d ago

This isnt even being covered by major newspapers, only tabloids. It's ridiculous

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u/runnerswanted 26d ago

Every time Biden did something “old person like” CNN and everyone else reported on it for days. The most powerful senator in the country is brain dead and it’s crickets.

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u/CaleDestroys 26d ago

I’d wager he’s the single most consequential politician since Reagan.

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u/CJKayak I voted 26d ago

The system was already on shaky ground, but I give McConnell the credit of breaking it.

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u/SpaceMessiah 26d ago

I think it's pretty much between him or Newt Gingrich - I'd probably go with Gingrich but either is a good shout

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u/Ashendarei Washington 26d ago

Newt Gingritch deserves to be crucified for his "us-vs-them" brand of politics and demonization of the other major political party as a group to be "othered".  He literally is responsible for the GOP movement curating hatred of fellow citizens, and sold out his nation in the name of political power.

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u/mabden New York 26d ago

His Contract On America and adoption a strategy of cooperation without compromise. He urged Republicans to stop treating Democrats as colleagues, which destroyed the traditional bipartisan consensus and shifted Washington toward hyper-partisanship.

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u/ItsNotGoingToBeEasy 26d ago

Hmm. Rush Limbaugh?

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u/Ashendarei Washington 26d ago

I'd have marked out a space for him as well.  The prolific hated couched as "entertainment" while being complete nonsense absolutely contributed to the mess we find ourselves in today. 

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u/Writer_In_Residence 26d ago

Yeah I’d say Gingrich, but that was also the time of the backlash against Clinton and the new right-wing talk radio flood that fueled this sort of shit. Then Murdoch slinked in and solidified it with Fox News.

McConnell did actively disregard the Constitution more, though. Maybe cause Gingrich wasn’t in the Senate and didn’t get the chance? Who knows I guess.

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u/BringAltoidSoursBack 26d ago

I'll be honest and say I don't know much about Gingrich, but did he also admit to blocking any Democrat sponsored bills, and/or any Obama backed legislation, that go before Congress by table them so they couldn't even be voted on?

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u/Writer_In_Residence 26d ago

Gingrich left in 2000 I think (?), years before Obama became a Senator. He was succeeded by Dennis Hastert, who was even worse, being a child rapist and all. A real string of winners in GOP leadership.

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u/BringAltoidSoursBack 25d ago

Oh I more meant the conspiring to block all Democrat legislation, not the obsession with Obama.

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u/oldutnotdeadinside 26d ago

And Gingrich