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Cocaine Mitch

Cocaine Mitch

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Updated Jul 11, 2019 at 09:06AM EDT by Y F.

Added Oct 11, 2018 at 04:52PM EDT by Matt.

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Cocaine Mitch is a nickname for American politician Mitch McConnell. While the nickname was originally intended to insult McConnell, supporters of the politician have adopted it as term of endearment.

Origin

On April 30th, 2018, Don Blankenship, a U.S. senate primary candidate, released a campaign advertisement in which he says, "One of my goals as U.S. senator will be to ditch 'Cocaine Mitch.'" The advertisement referenced a 2014 article in The Nation magazine reporting that 40 kilograms of cocaine were found on a cargo ship owned by the family of McConnell's wife.[1][2]



Spread

On May 3rd, 2018, the Vimeo [3] account for Don Blankenship for U.S. Senate uploaded a campaign ad. The video features Blankenship accusing Mitch McConnell of receiving money from his "China family" and having McConnell's "China people" run attack ads against Blankenship. He also refers to West Virginians as "West Virginia People" and McConnell as "Cocaine Mitch."

That day, Twitter [4] user @LPDonovan tweeted the Don Blankenship campaign ad with the caption "What in the world did I just watch." The post (shown below) received more than 8,200 retweets and 25,000 likes in 24 hours.


After Don Blankenship lost the primary, McConnell's campaign Twitter[5] account, @Team_Mitch, posted an image of McConnell photoshopped onto the poster for the television series Narcos, which follows the exploits of real-life drug lord Pablo Escobar. They captioned the tweet "Thanks for playing, @DonBlankenship. #WVSen." Within five months, the post received more than 3,500 retweets and 12,000 likes (shown below, left).

Following the tweet by @Team_Mitch, other supporters of McConnell adopted the nickname as a term of endearment, ironically referring to him as a gangster (examples below).

On October 10th, 2018, The Daily Dot published an article about the meme.


MITCH Team Mitch TEAM @Team Mitch Thanks for playing, @DonBlankenship #WVSen THANKS FOR PLAYING, DON Ben Shapiro ^ @benshapiro TFW when Cocaine Mitch is tired of your GIF Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec Cocaine Mitch will send out his sicarios to make sure Steve Daines is where he's supposed to be come Saturday

Various Examples


IM HERE TO TRAFFIC COCAINE AND CONFIRM SUPREME COURT JUSTICES AND I'M ALL OUTOF COCAINE Went outside like this. Got some glares. Got some people who thought "cocaine Mitch" was a resistance thing "And that's how Cocaine Mitch owned the libs." 35
Cop the hot new mixtape by #cocainemitch COCAINE MITCH8 THE AL BUM MECONNELLING INCLUDING DESPICABLE DEMOCRATS WE WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED I JUST FILED CLOTURE YOULL REGRET THIS PARENTAL ADVISORY GONUSGBAMAVDUSS ITRACKnltho Supromo Court vacancy EXPLICIT CONTENT The Reagan Battalion. @ReaganBattalior THANK YOU @ChuckGrassley THANK YOU @LindseyGrahamSC THANK YOU @OrrinHatch THANK YOU @JohnCornyn THANK YOU @ThomTillis THANK YOU @SenMikeLee THANK YOU @BenSasse THANK YOU @tedcruz THANK YOU @MikeCrapo THANK YOU @SenJohnKennedy AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST THANK YOU #CocaineMitch #CocaineM itch plays for keeps BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME,

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External References

[1] The Washington Post – The kooky tale of ‘Cocaine Mitch’

[2] The Nation – Mitch McConnell’s Freighted Ties to a Shadowy Shipping Company

[3] Vimeo – Ditch Mitch

[4] Twitter – @RobertMaguire_'s Tweet

[5] Twitter – @Team_Mitch's Tweet

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