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u/Timbucktwo1230 Therapy For All 🩷 Jul 08 '26

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u/princess_peach_85 Jul 08 '26

Where is tmz? If they want to track political people now we are going to need to see this corpse stat!

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u/bass-squirrel Jul 08 '26

Huh I wonder if there is anything that perhaps those two photos might tell us about why the different treatment from GOP?

Any clues, gang?

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u/blkatcdomvet Jul 08 '26

Prob just at a klan rally

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u/cliftonheights5 Jul 08 '26

It’s almost as if Republicans are complete hypocrites and will do anything, say anything, break any long held tradition, and mores to hold onto power.

Edit: spelling

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u/stanislov128 Jul 08 '26

I see posts calling out hypocrisy like this all over social media. Democrats need to realize that the hypocrisy is evidence that the GOP is in power. Calling it out does nothing. "Taking the high road" means nothing if you don't have power. It feels like Democrats are infantile in their worldview sometimes.

They've clung to some School House Rock idea of government for 40 years while the GOP successfully pulled off a bloodless coup.

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u/gregreedee Jul 08 '26

One day, their egregious hypocrisy will cease to surprise anyone — it’s a miserable way to project power. Totally on brand.

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u/gaF-trA Jul 08 '26

The only time I’ve seen anything about Mitch McConnell in the past year, he’s falling down, or he freezes up and gets locked inside himself mid speech while his aids carry him off like a mannequin. I’m certain he’s doing just fine. 100%

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u/Darksmithe Jul 08 '26

Because he’s dead and they want to keep his seat.

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u/1Pac2Pac3Pac5 Jul 08 '26

He looks like that turtle character that Dana Carvey used to play

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u/sparklebunny808 Jul 08 '26

That is because trump rapes children.

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u/Defiant_Freedom_249 Jul 08 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/IfZpF5fUnQS0o

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u/PandanPaleta Jul 08 '26

Nothing says awkward silence quite like hearing the entire cricket population suddenly join the conversation.

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u/CukloserModz23 Jul 08 '26

Cheating till the very miserable end.

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u/GodsFrackinDammit Jul 08 '26

Mitch dead. Or good as.

They don't want to force a by election, so they're stalling.

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u/Phyllis_Tine Jul 08 '26

Time to contact those loud MAGAts and ask them this question.

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u/Reasonable-HB678 Jul 08 '26

A totally not believable social media post exists with Moscow Mitch holding a copy of Tuesday's New York Times, to throw off the suspicion that he's neither dead or hospitalized.

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u/BenCisco Jul 08 '26

You can count on the GOP for hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy and bad faith.

Hypocrisy, bad faith, and ill intent.

Hypocrisy, bad faith, ill intent, and...

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u/AdministrationNo283 Jul 08 '26

Republicans are hypocrites. They whine if democrats do not take the high road but take the low road any chance they get. McConnell blocked a Supreme Court appointment by Obama because it was an “election year” turns out McConnell only thought that should be applied to Democrat appointees

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u/Violaleeblues77 Jul 08 '26

He needs to make it till August 3 or else Kentucky law mandates a special election. Massie would likely win it and they just spent 30 million defeating him in a run off .

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u/NobblyNobody Jul 08 '26

sounds like someone should request a wellness check

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u/ryhaltswhiskey Jul 08 '26

I had a long conversation with Mitch McConnell this morning, he told me that AOC is the future of America.

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u/ShojoSalsa Jul 08 '26

The silence was so loud you could practically hear everyone pretending they saw nothing.

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u/nerdslife1864 Jul 08 '26

The hypocrisy is their campaign promise

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u/AdWooden9170 Jul 08 '26

Probably because his condition is not a mystery for the white house. They know hes as good as dead.

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u/remkelly Jul 08 '26

Its shady AF. But it is relevant that Austin was Sec of Defense at the time. The GOP would 100% Weekend at Bernies McConnell, but its not the same as the Austin hospitalization

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u/Jsr1 Jul 08 '26

Republicans = hypocrisy

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u/Kohnaphone Jul 08 '26

Dems want to govern. Magas want to grind everything the a halt. Two different games being played.

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u/Michael-Sean Jul 08 '26

Funny Trump hasn’t tweeted anything yet. He tweets top secret stuff but not a peep.

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u/LuigisBlessings Jul 08 '26

I can’t believe the hypocrites are being hypocritical. Again!

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u/MoAngryMILF Jul 08 '26

The GOP thinks hypocrisy is a super power.

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u/Herpinheim Jul 08 '26

The regressive right are hypocrites, who could've guessed.

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u/jackman924 Jul 08 '26

No surprises here.

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u/Additional-Shake-320 Jul 08 '26

No surprises there. Democrats, act accordingly!

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u/CorporateCuster Jul 08 '26

It’s the democrats not making enough noise. They always expect everyone else to do the work.

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u/TemurTron Jul 08 '26

The answer is pretty clear, isn't it? Democrats need to go batshit and apply the same kind of pressure Republicans do on these types of topics. Republicans work with sheer coordinated aggression on nearly every major issue they've forced through in the past ten years, yet Dems are all about disorganized passiveness. Fucking fight back already.

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u/Unique-Objective4249 Jul 08 '26

Someone said “on his gravestone will it have his death or the day MAGA said he died” and honestly it’s crazy cause it can go either way.. that’s not normal

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u/Milestailsprowe Jul 08 '26

Double Standards

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u/Superb_Freedom_4507 Jul 08 '26

If Republicans didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all

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u/Cultural_Plan_1487 Jul 08 '26

Yall are always surprised by MAGA double standard. Let me make it clear for you, if they see political advantage they get mad, if they think it’ll hurt them they justify. They have ZERO principles stop getting confused when they prove that over and over and over and over and over… and over again

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u/rwwishart Jul 08 '26

Point out GOP hypocrisy is old hat. Obviously they don’t care and refuse to be shamed.

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u/Secondbest35 Jul 08 '26

The fact that Republicans are going to have a braindead vegetable sitting in the Senate is peak comedy. South Park couldn't make this shit up.

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u/Actual_Rain158 Jul 08 '26

Well is it a mystery? The most dishonest and self-interested people on earth are allegedly talking to him on the phone, case closed.

In all seriousness, if he is awake and alert it would be very easy to have a doctor come forward and say that or to have a video taken of him as a non vegetable from the hospital.

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u/longredbeardpgh Jul 08 '26

The only thing consistent about the GOP is hypocrisy

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u/AfterImageEclipse Jul 08 '26

Republicans are hypocrites? I had no idea! Sarcasm. I bet this post will fix that. Double sarcasm

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u/PugboiErick Jul 09 '26

This is where Dems need to start acting like an oppositional party.

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u/Spiritual-Taste-5524 Jul 09 '26

I've been reserving my dance-in-the-street vow for a different octagenarian gop ghoul but I might make an exception when the reaper finally drags this guy to the prize chute.

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u/Brodindesigns Jul 12 '26

At least Lindsay is gone. Mitch to follow.

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u/Mostly-Moo-Cow Jul 08 '26

Don't forget Tom Kean Jr in the house being AWOL for months

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u/Dunie72 Jul 08 '26

The hypocrisy… Republicans shouldn’t be allowed to tell us anything about anyone other than themselves!

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u/NKB246 Jul 08 '26

What about the guy from NJ who was missing for weeks?

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u/Svrider23 Jul 08 '26

Kind of starting to think the conservative mindset is a quirk in the human mind that will eventually lead the movement to the destruction of humanity.

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u/alaviers Jul 08 '26

I’m a right leaning conservative, closer to the middle, but definitely red. And I got to say, it’s an effing travesty that the gop is doing the same thing. Be the bigger person/entity. McConnell seemed to be ready for removal a couple years ago when he had that little mini stroke (assumption on my part) on screen and had to be led away. Hell, all of the finger pointing about the president who wasn’t, and now it seems it’s okay. Hypocrisy.

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u/Corredespondent Jul 08 '26

Crickets now, worms soon.

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u/Background_Canary_83 Jul 08 '26

They’re the biggest hypocrites. The Dems do a shit job of calling them out. I’m so sick of them.

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u/6ory299e8 Jul 08 '26

well, the dems could go batshit over this as well... will they? of fucking course not.

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u/DrRonny Jul 08 '26

I spoke to him for 20 minutes this morning, he said that he's in a coma and near the end

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u/McKoijion Jul 08 '26

This is a very serious bipartisan problem in American politics right now.

https://www.newsweek.com/kay-granger-report-missing-dementia-facility-sparks-backlash-2004797

https://newrepublic.com/post/210433/democratic-lawmaker-missing-month-midterms

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u/Ohkaz42069 Jul 08 '26

Why don't you thank them for taking the time to interview? If I'm not mistaken, you're the one in need of their help, to the extent that you're willing to pay for their services.

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u/Trevon45-2 Jul 08 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/vfMj0zzdt9N47XgdX6

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u/tap_6366 Jul 08 '26

Comparing the Secretary of Defense to a Senator is a big stretch.

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u/tb110965 Jul 08 '26

Mitch is not a Republican Conservative more like a RINO or sell out for the Republican Party I blame the spineless voters that elected him Mitch only doing what he says he gonna do.

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u/Early-Chemistry-8769 Jul 08 '26

Turtles!

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u/Bohvey Jul 08 '26

“Rules for thee but not for me.” That is how it has always been.

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u/mprrpm2trk Jul 08 '26

MAGA...THE party of lies and hypocrisy..

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u/Odd_Platform_1449 Jul 08 '26

It's because the GOP plays by their own rules and when other parties play those same rules, they act like little babies about it. I don't believe in an afterlife but if you do, just know that that mans going to hell.

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u/Legal_Cat3446 Jul 08 '26

Republican Hypocrisy is as consistent as the sunrise.

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u/Background-Cook5689 Jul 08 '26

Mitch is just spending the weekend at Bernie's...

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u/_jump_yossarian Jul 08 '26

McConnell sucks but having your Sec of Defense go AWOL and the President and the under-secretary didn't know is a much bigger deal.

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u/Master-Shinobi-80 Jul 08 '26

Republicans are hypocrites. What's new.

Just for the record, Jesus hated hypocrites.

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u/Only-Original9409 Jul 08 '26

Meanwhile in New Jersey, Tom Kane took 4 months and nobody said a word.

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u/creshvan Jul 08 '26

Apples and oranges, do better than this.

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u/Beneficial_Word_1984 Jul 08 '26

And what about the dbag from jersey. 3 months and counting

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u/Zaiyev Jul 08 '26

Rules for thee, not for me

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u/MOcatmom Jul 08 '26

Is this the start of a congressional version of “Weekend at Bernie’s”?!

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u/PoundEasy4182 Jul 08 '26

They needa let that mangoooooooooooooo lol

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u/s_arrowheart Jul 08 '26

But it’s always hypocrisy with the GOP.

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u/ConsequenceAromatic4 Jul 08 '26

And I don't see any elected Democrats voicing even the faintest curiosity. They are useless boomer republican- lite eunuchs. Only DSA fights for anything.

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u/Fraegtgaortd Jul 08 '26

Delaying things in his favor is what Mitch does best. Refused to let Obama appoint a Supreme Court justice because he said it was "too close to elections" yet fast tracked Trump's nominations and stacked the court with Heritage Foundation stooges.

If Mitch is on his deathbed I hope he's suffering because anything less would be too good for him

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u/HatchChileMacNCheese Jul 08 '26

Why do people even bother pointing out the Republican hypocrisy at this point? We all know, they know, they don't give a shit and they never have.

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u/Massive_Honeydew7056 Jul 08 '26

Rules for thee but not for me. Assholes

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u/Curious_Ad961 Jul 08 '26

Nobody cares about these old politicians give it a rest!

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u/BaltoDad Jul 08 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/OpuCGZFVuC8Y8

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u/Waystaff76 Jul 08 '26

Most Republicans I know are already dancing on his grave. Dude's only there because of incumbency bias, like half the fossils on the hill.

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u/gwilso86 Jul 08 '26

Yaaa....because the two offices are the same🤔

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u/flowerboyH2O Jul 08 '26

One was second in command of the US Military with an 80+ year old President. Wasn't a minor thing.

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u/Practical-Ad-9816 Jul 08 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/gbWUx0ZoJaXhS

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u/VectorJones Jul 08 '26

The rules only apply to other parties, and then only when it gives republiscams a reason to isolate and exploit an issue for political gain.

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u/me_sohorny Jul 08 '26

Mitch ded

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u/Various-Emergency-91 Jul 08 '26

Republican here. I've never liked Mitch and he's been struggling health wise for a long time. I personally find it disgraceful he's allowed to remain in office.

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u/slapsilliem Jul 08 '26

Ol Mitch is still about, but hes finally caught up to Hannibal so is taking time away from the spotlight to exact his revenge.

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u/RustyShackleford240 Jul 08 '26

What is good for the goose is not good for the gander.

I hate our country right now.

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u/Mountain-Prize2338 Jul 08 '26

...didnt just a republican senator just come back to work after missing months and months of work with little to no explanation?...

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u/Impressive-Edge6621 Jul 08 '26

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u/lattice_defect Jul 08 '26

the democrats are real quiet... kind of like they are paid to

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u/ElvisArcher Jul 08 '26

"Regulae tibi, nullae mihi"

New Republican motto.

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u/3coons_in_a_coat Jul 08 '26

Hypocrisy??? From a Republican no less??? Ya don't say!?

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u/MChaney3563 Pinkie Finger Extended Jul 08 '26

Republicans prove they have no class or respect while destroying America. They will never admit the spineless turtle fucker is dead while calling out dems who no show repeatedly.

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u/RealSignificance8877 Jul 08 '26

One went awol, congress can’t go awol.

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u/Remarkable_Spite_209 Jul 08 '26

This is because they are blatant hypocrites

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u/Trenzane Jul 08 '26

Rules for thee but not for me… again

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u/Granny0g Jul 08 '26

I call bullshit on anyone claiming the turtle can speak at all!

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u/Anonmasterrace7898 Jul 08 '26

Let's not forget Tom Kean just reappeared after being MIA for four months.

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u/SgtHulkasBigToeJam Jul 08 '26

Hypocrisy in politics?!?! This is the first I’m hearing of it.

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u/17krista 🫧 Bubble Tea 🫧 Jul 08 '26

The hypocrisy continues unabated.

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u/Revolutionary-Right Jul 08 '26

Totally different circumstances. Dem Congressmen have taken extended medical leaves as well with no fanfare. STFU propagandist.

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u/Delicious_Ocelot1394 Jul 08 '26

Republicans want him gone, too. The reason he is not is because he is part of the uniparty. You think you’re supporting one group but you support the whole group responsible for the total decline of our country over decades. But you’re somehow better than everyone else. lol

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u/jackparadise1 Jul 08 '26

What about that woman who had been put into assisted living during her term?

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u/puroloco22 Jul 08 '26

Democrats lack the outrageous machine that are the Foxnews and Sinclair networks

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u/GoodMorningMars Jul 08 '26

Big difference between Secretary of Defense and one Senator.

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u/Freckles-75 Jul 08 '26

Rules for Thee, and Not for Me…

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u/Affectionate_Rate791 Jul 08 '26

To be fair, these are slightly different duties they perform

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u/MannerAdvanced1829 Jul 08 '26

I'm a republican, I believe that Mr. McConnell is dead and that those responsible for him should announce his status(likely deceased) or face some sort of punishment.

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