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kpete

(71,996 posts)
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 10:17 AM Mar 2020

This is as much McConnell's legacy as it is Trump's.

Mitch McConnell made a deal with the devil for judges and tax cuts. He assured the world that Trump would be fine, that a manifestly incompetent executive was manageable because he would be able to contain Trump’s worst failings. This is as much his legacy as it is Trump’s.


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This is as much McConnell's legacy as it is Trump's. (Original Post) kpete Mar 2020 OP
K&R uponit7771 Mar 2020 #1
When the German oligarchs made Hilter Chancellor... Wounded Bear Mar 2020 #2
Mcturdle is a treasonous bastard. gademocrat7 Mar 2020 #3
I've said it here before grumpyduck Mar 2020 #4
Truth. Shout it from the rooftops. nt crickets Mar 2020 #5
Yep. And the rest. Took a long time to purge those conservatives who Hortensis Mar 2020 #6
GOP has been selecting for extremism, corruption, and conformity for a while. Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2020 #8
THIS! We're doing good, but they've been packing Hortensis Mar 2020 #14
The entire GOP... stillcool Mar 2020 #7
THIS! dchill Mar 2020 #26
Kick and recommend to greatest page. bronxiteforever Mar 2020 #9
K & R & Retweeted! SunSeeker Mar 2020 #10
Absolutely it is. Hekate Mar 2020 #11
McConnell should be hung by his librechik Mar 2020 #12
Hung by his balls?? Traildogbob Mar 2020 #18
that assumes they are bigger than peas certainot Mar 2020 #20
Agree Traildogbob Mar 2020 #21
i think these treasonous cowardly republican shits ride the hot trade winds from putin's other certainot Mar 2020 #22
Rusty Limpballs Traildogbob Mar 2020 #23
hiding behind the best call screeners money can buy, riding in limos between private jet and mansion certainot Mar 2020 #24
🙏🏽 Traildogbob Mar 2020 #25
You assume much, my friend! dchill Mar 2020 #27
Moscow Mitch McGunmassacre - The Dim Reaper. n/t iscooterliberally Mar 2020 #13
It surely is... Harker Mar 2020 #15
Agreed, but it begs the question, what would Mike Pence have done? Mr. Ected Mar 2020 #16
It's the whole frigging GOPs legacy. McConnell's just the figurehead of a bunch of power-hungry, KPN Mar 2020 #17
tRump-Republicons. McCONnell leads the Senate & maybe even the House. They own it. Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2020 #19

Wounded Bear

(58,662 posts)
2. When the German oligarchs made Hilter Chancellor...
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 10:23 AM
Mar 2020

they reassured people by saying, "Don't worry, we are hiring him."

grumpyduck

(6,240 posts)
4. I've said it here before
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 10:40 AM
Mar 2020

and I'll say it again. McAsshole has been flying under the radar all this time except for a few instances. I understand the MSM treats him that way because they want to focus on POtuS, but he's the one who's been enabling POtuS all along. I want to see a spate of books and articles on him and his crew, and I want to see McGrath leave him in the exhaust from her afterburners .

I would even love for a next-generation Bob Woodward to discover that McAsshole is behind some illegal stuff and have him convicted and hauled off to Ryker's Island or some other place suitable for his assholiness.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. Yep. And the rest. Took a long time to purge those conservatives who
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 11:22 AM
Mar 2020

wouldn't go along and replace with hard-right corruptible and just plain corrupt replacements, but they've done it. No exception for Mitt Romney and his hypocrisy that he's able to support corruption and betrayal but somehow be separate from it.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,349 posts)
8. GOP has been selecting for extremism, corruption, and conformity for a while.
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 11:57 AM
Mar 2020

They finally have a gang that will operate in lockstep no matter how extreme the position taken by their leader.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
14. THIS! We're doing good, but they've been packing
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 12:24 PM
Mar 2020

the judiciary and governments around the nation for a long time and, with sophisticated nation state-level assistance from foreign enemies, are dangerously close to taking over.

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
7. The entire GOP...
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 11:34 AM
Mar 2020

every single one of them is responsible for the fate of the people they represent. They should all be sued, and all their ill-gained profits confiscated. Especially the slush funds, in off-shore accounts.

librechik

(30,674 posts)
12. McConnell should be hung by his
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 12:16 PM
Mar 2020

balls, since we can't do that with Dump. He doesn't have them. Putin has them.

Traildogbob

(8,748 posts)
18. Hung by his balls??
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 12:45 PM
Mar 2020

It would take a very tall tree and very long rope. At his turtle age those balls are hanging below his boney knees, and probably has the elasticity of a bungee cord.

Traildogbob

(8,748 posts)
21. Agree
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 01:19 PM
Mar 2020

But it takes some fairly large balls to be an outright in your face treasonous bastard with no fear of ever being defeated, because Putin would never allow it.

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
22. i think these treasonous cowardly republican shits ride the hot trade winds from putin's other
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 02:06 PM
Mar 2020

tool, talk radio kingpin lmbaugh, like the dittohead trump and admin

today lmbaaugh continues to downplay corona, defend trump, and explain to 20 mil a day that it's just hype from liberal media to sell big govt

that is why it i so easy for mcconnel to look like he has any power at all - like the last 30 years - any republican who sides with dems will be named a traitor by limbauagh and on the 1500 radio stations that have to fiollow his lead

and trump just repeats the same shit

and it would be so easy to reverse this if dems just stop ignoring rw radio - the ad industry will have to break up the monopoly

Traildogbob

(8,748 posts)
23. Rusty Limpballs
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 02:21 PM
Mar 2020

Medal of Freedom hero. Just hours before the orange blob interrupted "Seal Team", he was ranting hoax, librul lies, yadi, yadi, yadi. A bloated, cancerous, drug riddle, asshole guiding people to their deaths, for 50 million a year. Satin will not give a damn about the cash he takes there with him. The devil will just stoke the eternal fire pit with his obnoxious fat ass. Like whale oil, it will keep the fire good and hot till the trump family arrives.

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
24. hiding behind the best call screeners money can buy, riding in limos between private jet and mansion
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 02:58 PM
Mar 2020

and mara lago and studios, and talking like he knows what the 'common man' wants

a great candidate for corona death - but that would be too quick

Harker

(14,022 posts)
15. It surely is...
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 12:31 PM
Mar 2020

but the extent he's likely to be remembered by most Americans, it will be as a footnote.

History is largely defined by whomever was president. Or President, if Democrats.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
16. Agreed, but it begs the question, what would Mike Pence have done?
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 12:37 PM
Mar 2020

Answer: somewhere in-between nothing and what Trump has done, which is nothing.

KPN

(15,646 posts)
17. It's the whole frigging GOPs legacy. McConnell's just the figurehead of a bunch of power-hungry,
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 12:37 PM
Mar 2020

greedy, evil incompetent crooks. They should all be tarred, feathered and run out of town.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,002 posts)
19. tRump-Republicons. McCONnell leads the Senate & maybe even the House. They own it.
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 01:11 PM
Mar 2020

Trump-Republicons own this.

Republicons plowed the ground for tRump
Republicons seeded the ground with trumpanzees
Republicons created tRump as a Republ Icon in 2015-16
Republicons elected tRump candidate
Republicons endorsed tRump
Republicons voted for tRump
Republicons enable tRump
Republicons defend tRump
Republicons protect tRump

Trump-Republicons own this.
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