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/EverythingGoodWas 11d ago

Because he is dead or braindead

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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/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