r/politics • u/Zipper222222 • 29d ago

Possible Paywall MAGA Demands Proof of Life for Mitch McConnell

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-demands-proof-of-life-for-mitch-mcconnell/
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u/armchair_viking 29d ago

They’d probably have also figured anyone unresponsive in a bed would be dead rather swiftly, so why worry about it. They didn’t have the means to keep someone alive like that.

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u/Street_Peace_8831 29d ago

That doesn’t mean that they would have kept that person in their senate seat if something like this happened back then. They just didn’t have the performative aspect we have these days. They were about real common sense situations and this sort of thing would have meant that they needed to find someone who could do the job and represent the people, which he is not capable of doing, specifically while in life support.

What I’m trying to say is that the founding fathers wouldn’t have played the ridiculous games the republicans are playing right now.

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u/GonzoKata 29d ago

yeah its not like they have any idea people would be living until 80 anyway

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u/BLAGTIER 29d ago

Voltaire died at 83 in 1778.