Saagar Enjeti on McConnell: You Could Have Left With Dignity, Don’t You Want to Do Anything Else WIth Your Life?
“Breaking Points” co-host Saagar Enjeti discusses Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) health condition and the gerontocracy ruling class.
SAAGAR ENJETI, ‘BREAKING POINTS’ CO-HOST: In this particular case, it’s like, so the wife offers no update. The senator offers no update. The staff apparently just thinks that we can all live in limbo for 21 days and just say, yeah, he’s recovering. And we have no idea whether any of that is true. There’s no proof of any path to recovery. And so look, there’s all kinds of rumors that are circulating out there. Thomas Massie, let’s put his tweet up here on the screen. He says, “Is America ready for my term limit legislation titled three strokes and you’re out?” I’m with you, Thomas. I am totally with you. Like, three strokes. You know, a modest proposal, just three strokes. You know, just not one, not two, but three. You have three strikes and you’re out. It’s crazy, the entitlement. He’s an 84-year-old man, literally went on camera, can’t speak. What are his children doing? You know, you don’t say anything. Your wife, your family, nobody says. You’re like, “Hey, you gotta hang it up.” I remember saying this with Biden. I go, does anybody love this man? If you really love somebody, how could you let them do that, you know, out in public? It’s just, again, the gerontocracy, they’re clinging to power, they’re narcissism, how the office serves them. They are never about serving you. It’s all on display in this thing. RYAN GRIM, ‘BREAKING POINTS’ CO-HOST:Now, if McConnell is incapacitated or does die, then under Kentucky law, there would have to be a special election. They changed their rules back in, I think, 2024 to strip the governor because they had a Democratic governor. So they said, if there’s a vacancy, there has to be a special election, no gubernatorial appointments. And so, and this was when McConnell’s health was failing then, too. This was understood to be about McConnell. So if he is incapacitated or dead, there’d have to be a special election. And that’s where Thomas Massie comes back in because he would be able to mount a short-term kind of independent campaign. It’s everybody running in the same field, and that could draw votes away from the Republican and elect the Democrat. You could even plausibly see a world in which Massie won. Now, he’d only be in office for a couple of months if McConnell is not running for re-election. His term is up at the end of 2026 to early 2027. But if McConnell is kind of on some sort of life support and being kept alive to keep Massie out of office or out from running, that is exactly what Mitch McConnell would want. Oh, absolutely. So that is, those are his dying wishes to make some petty partisan move with his ailing body… ENJETI: Look, again, I don’t wanna besmirch an 84-year-old man who is in bad health, but that’s why you should have left a long time ago, right? You made it our business, man. You are the person who made all of this our business. You could have left with dignity. GRIM: You ran for re-election at 78. ENJETI: You ran for re-election. You were 78 years old. That is disgraceful, especially whenever you were already having lingering health problems. And you had multiple health incidents on camera and still stayed in office. So it’s crazy. GRIM: So don’t you wanna do anything else with your life? ENJETI: I kept thinking about that in Maine with Susan Collins. Because how old is she now? She’s like 70-something. She had previously pledged, what is she had pledged? Only two terms. I’m telling you guys, this is- GRIM: She’s 73. ENJETI: She’s 73. You want six more years? One of the most gorgeous places in the world, in my opinion, just my opinion. And I’m like, and she’s a multimillionaire, I have to assume, because they all are. Retire. It’s great out here. Enjoy yourself. Some lobster, you know, some oysters. What else do you need?
