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    1. From linked article

      [Mitch McConnell](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/mitch-mcconnell-wont-seek-reelection-2026-rcna192997) may no longer be [the Senate majority leader](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/matters-mitch-mcconnell-will-step-senate-gop-leader-rcna140952), but he does not lack for influence in the chamber’s caucus. In a private meeting Tuesday amid Republicans’ scramble to pass [their budget reconciliation bill](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/overlapping-problems-create-uncertainty-future-republican-megabill-rcna214977), McConnell tried to assuage the fears of senators facing blowback. “I know a lot of us are hearing from people back home about Medicaid,” he said, [according to Andrew Desiderio of Punchbowl News](https://x.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1937593205102690353). “But they’ll get over it.”

    2. localistand on

      This is an effort to divert the attention of people calling and contacting their senators to a central, national figure on this topic. Don’t fall for it: your Republican senator is the one with the vote that matters just the same as McConnell’s, contact and pressure your own Senator.

    3. ThisOneFuqs on

      Why can’t the rich just get „get over“ losing their tax cuts? Why is that never an option?

    4. Of course they’ll get over it, they’ll be dead.

      When will these idiots figure out that it’s cheaper in the long run, far cheaper, to offer people preventative care instead of waiting til they’re sick to death or in labor before they take them in at emergency?

    5. invalidpassword on

      Yeah, they’ll get over having to go bankrupt because they get diagnosed with cancer.

    6. Sure. The people that die because they lose their Medicaid won’t be complaining at all.

      Because they’ll be dead.

    7. OhGodSoManyQuestions on

      They can make the base love this. But MAGA media channels will have to set up some channels streaming the delicious suffering of imprisoned nonwhite and LGBTQ people for 24/7 fash gooning. I’m not even exaggerating.

      Most of the base will give up their medical care, their homes, their freedoms for more of this bitter juice. Delicious spectacles of sadism are ONLY thing they really demand of Trump. This is why nothing Trump ever does turns them against him. Even when he hurts them, too.

      Remember that the apotheosis of the Q fantasy was not a world safe for children but an eternal 24/7 torture and slaughter spectacle for the base to savor.

      Will they part with Medicaid for this? Oh, will they.

    8. Then-Attention3 on

      It seriously kills me Mitcu McConnell will likely die without suffering any consequences for the pain he’s caused others. Life isn’t fair, I’m an agnostic who hopes and prays for an after life just for McConnell to suffer

    9. RDOCallToArms on

      More likely he’s confident that the GOP can sell it as the Democrats or trans people or immigrants (etc) who are to blame

      and sadly he’s right

      The odds that the GOP face any consequences (or rather, any meaningful long lasting consequences) are tiny.

    10. He doesn’t care about voters. He’s not running again. He might not live to the next election.

    11. McConnell has lost his mind. He’s not representing the people that put him in office. He should be ashamed…..

    12. forthewatch39 on

      Yeah losing medical coverage and jobs, that’s going to go over well. Hospitals and medical offices closing across the country, that’s not going to bode well. I don’t think there are enough soldiers and police or militias to keep tens of millions of angry civilians down. 

    13. He’s not wrong. We haven’t done shit about anything but just moved along.

      Meanwhile the current regime runs over and through everything

    14. twotimefind on

      Get over it, you mean they’ll won’t be alive.. Let him go without health care and see how he gets its over.

      What if they’ve had medication for years in Medicaid and they have to go cold turkey?

    15. AnalTongueDarts on

      Is that the same Mitch McConnell who recovered from polio in a government-funded medical facility, or are there two now and I need to keep track of which is which like this is some Jon Favreau shit?

    16. Relevant-Raisin9847 on

      He’s probably not wrong. Voters almost never hold Republicans accountable for anything. Republicans have been promising to make healthcare as dogshit as possible for years and their voters don’t care.

      Democrats couldn’t message their way out of a paper bag, so they will be useless in leveraging this for any electoral gains.

      It took Trump publicly botching the COVID response to lose the 2020 election. Losing Medicaid will happen in private and won’t have anywhere near the visibility.

    17. RevolutionaryCard512 on

      Any of us who die will haunt TF out of every single one of you!

    18. thegoodnamesrgone123 on

      This dude is a bad cold from seeing Hells Gates and he’s like „Fuck poor people!“

    19. King_Kookaburra on

      As someone who is on medicaid after a catastrophic accident. No. I wont get over losing it and neither will my health. I’m not on medicaid because I want to. Im on medicaid because I can run over by an 18 wheeler and I’m out of work.

    20. Duron_Huemfrai on

      As a person who works in medicaid, my money’s on „Not fucking likely.“

    21. SquarebobSpongepants on

      Republicans want the sick to go into crippling debt so they have to keep working and the threat of not being able to have health care prevents them from ever leaving the job allowing them to treat workers anyway they want because what choice to they have.

    22. May his cruelty and callousness be revisited on his family for a dozen generations.

    23. hopefaith816 on

      Let’s take away Mitch’s health insurance and see if he’ll get over that. He should. What a stupid thing to say. SMH.

    24. Kentucky has so many people on Medicaid. But I believe they will vote against their own best interests to own the libs.

    25. Ozymandias12 on

      I walked around all day in the Senate today and all I saw were people wearing shirts that said “Republican Cuts Kill”, and “Medicaid Cuts Kill”

      I don’t think they’re going to get over it.

    26. ThePedanticWalrus on

      Rich old white guy convinced the poors will get over losing vital benefits…tale as old as fucking time

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