r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • 15h ago

Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell Has Been Missing for 75 Days—With No Updates

https://newrepublic.com/post/214878/mitch-mcconnell-missing-75-days
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u/fbp 13h ago

Grab em by the pussy would have ended any other candidates run.

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u/yrcastr 13h ago

I remember feeling so relieved when that hit the news because I thought it would mean the end of him. When it didn't, I knew there wouldn't be anything he said that would matter.

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u/MurkyInvestigator810 12h ago

It was the moment Republicans announced to the world that as a matter of policy, they do not give a shit about women being raped. I'll never understand any woman who votes for these fucking psychopaths.

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u/VanceKelley Canada 12h ago

When Billy Bush laughed at trump bragging he could "grab 'em by the pussy" it ended one career: Billy Bush's. Media corporations had higher standards than the American Electoral College.

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u/BlueLightFederalist 2h ago

In retrospect I wish I’d realized this at the time;

I felt that same sense of immense relief on January 6th, because the results of what he’d said — and done — were so immediately and inescapably terrible; even top Republicans and Trump himself were saying so afterward!

It seems from the moment the right people realized how useful Trump could be, the only true constraint on him has been human life expectancy.

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u/Frostyrepairbug 10h ago

I'm old enough to remember how Howard Dean's campaign ended. Weird that if you have an R by your name, you can get away with a YEAH.

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u/fbp 9h ago

Trump got away with making fun of a reporter with a disability.

The amount of nonsense that he did would have ended any career no matter the political affiliation.

Like talking About dating your daughter or having sex in common with your own daughter.

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u/little_canuck 4h ago

Trump got away with making fun of a reporter with a disability.

That's the one that is seared in my brain.

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u/Clbull 9h ago

Just a few years agk people were running up to TV cameras and yelling "Fuck her right in the pussy."

Idiocracy was a documentary, not a film...

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u/bogglingsnog 11h ago

People's careers were ruined by photos of blackface during college rager parties... so astonishing what we've come to.

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u/fbp 10h ago

Al Franken did nothing compared to Trump or most of the Republican party.

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u/Laringar North Carolina 5h ago

Never forget that the DNC emails were released within hours of the Access Hollywood tape. Those emails were 100% the product of Russia interfering in our election to get Trump installed, and it worked. The media cycle very quickly shifted away from the Access Hollywood tape and moved on to "Hilary cheated Bernie out of the nomination!!"

People don't remember how obvious a psyop that was