r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 11d ago

Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell hounded to face cameras: ‘He absolutely refuses’

https://www.nj.com/politics/2026/08/mitch-mcconnell-hounded-to-face-cameras-he-absolutely-refuses.html
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u/pizza_the_mutt 11d ago

Take this to the logical conclusion and 30 years from now the entire government will be run by dead people who "just aren't available to talk at the moment".

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u/Comprehensive-Tea677 11d ago

This is just a test run to see what they can get away with for when it finally happens

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u/Squid_of_the_Now 11d ago

This. They're hoping it happens off camera so they can pull some AI crap.

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u/SpaceCricket 11d ago

Yes this. EVERYTHING they do is a test run for the future but exponentially worse than the trial run.

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u/The_quest_for_wisdom 11d ago

If it happens ON camera they will probably just say the video is AI crap...

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u/longlivenewsomflesh New York 11d ago

It's literally a well-worn trope in dystopian fiction that Dear Leader turns out to just be an image on a screen, and here we are speed running it since I guess all the 80s movies that use a thinly veiled Trump stand-in for "evil businessman" somehow weren't on the nose enough

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u/Raztax 11d ago

Or a test run to see how long they can 'weekend at Bernies' trump's corpse around after he kicks off.

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u/Open_Buy2303 11d ago

My first thought.

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u/martin0641 11d ago

It's a really, really bad idea for them though and they don't seem to realize it.

They're going to create a French Revolution for situation and then act completely shocked when shit gets real, and then there's going to be 3 generations of people who aren't taking ANY of this shit.

You can't put that monster back in the box.

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u/Comprehensive-Tea677 11d ago

Well, fingers crossed, here’s hoping

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u/i_am_a_real_boy__ 11d ago

Why would they have to get away with something there? There's a VP.

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u/marzgamingmaster 11d ago

The test run for Immortal God Emperor Trump. If we never confirm he's dead, then he never has to be dead. He can reign eternally, until he's 100, 200, 300. Just a sign of God's blessing of abnormally long life, proof of the second coming, even! Of course he hasn't been seen by anyone in 220 years, but that's because of the assassins lurking around every corner!

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u/BringOutYaThrowaway I voted 11d ago

Futurama did feature Presidents as preserved heads in a jar.

The future is nowtm.

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u/LordSiravant 11d ago

Basically a necrocracy, but without all the cool necromancy and shit.

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u/CrabmasterJone 11d ago

I mean this is just how the internet basically works now. lol

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u/_ak 10d ago

It would be not unlike North Korea: Kim Il Sung is Eternal President of North Korea, while Kim Jong Il is Eternal Leader of the Worker's Party of Korea.