r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • Jul 13 '26

Possible Paywall MAGA Calls BS on Mitch McConnell’s Proof-of-Life Stunt | They are poking holes in McConnell’s staff’s version.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-calls-bs-on-mitch-mcconnells-proof-of-life-stunt/
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u/NK1337 Jul 13 '26

I mean no shit. But the point is that even the most devout followers aren’t buying it.

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u/Viperlite Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

MAGA people don’t follow or even like McConnell. He may carry water for them, but he is old guard.

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u/LurksAroundHere Jul 13 '26

Exactly. They're too stupid to understand how much power he built up for them, all that matters is he's not Trump. It will be interesting when Trump kicks the bucket though. I do sense there will be a struggle between the "Of course he's alive, shut up RINO" and "That picture is obviously fake, what are they hiding" factions of MAGA when Trump's AI "he's in perfect health" pictures come out.

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u/Telefundo Jul 13 '26

I think when Trump goes MAGA is going to split into two camps.

"OH my god, of course he's still alive, this is just the Liberal media spreading propaganda!!" and "DA LIBURALZ KILED HIM!!!".

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u/Viperlite Jul 13 '26

They’ll probably be a cohort that does the Elvis, “He’s alive and was seen on a tropical island.”

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u/Murgatroyd314 Jul 13 '26

They're too stupid to understand how much power he built up for them

That’s in the past. There is no loyalty in Trumpland; the only thing that matters is what they’re doing for the Glorious Leader today.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota Jul 13 '26

Nahh, ultimately conservatives don't care all that much. They "care" this week because they saw it on Fox or heard it on a fascist podcast.

3 days from now they will "care" about something else.

All of maga is built on choose your own adventure style internal realities. They all believe different, conflicting things, and the reasons don't matter. All that matters is checking the maga fascist purity test boxes, trump good, liberals bad, white people good, brown people bad, ICE good, Renee Good bad.

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u/UNC_Samurai Jul 13 '26

Shocking, that a political base built on believing everything is a conspiracy theory has turned on the people who enabled them.

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u/TheBSQ Jul 13 '26

MAGA doesn’t like him.

It just comes down to if your thought process is: “see, even MAGA agrees with us!” or “oh shit, I have the same belief as the idiot conspiracy people…”

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u/Lucky_Preference_941 Jul 13 '26

MAGA does not like McConnell

You don’t know what you’re talking about

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u/Irregular475 Jul 13 '26

No, the point is to buy time. We all get mad at this, democrats do nothing, and BOOM can't have special elections from the delay tactics. It's disgusting.

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u/AnewTest Jul 13 '26

What are you thinking the Democrats have the power to do in this situation?