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Mitch McConnell's Legacy Is Donald Trump
House Freedom Caucus mocks McConnell as '(D-Ukraine)' after retirement news
Initech
(100,253 posts)Like really talk about taking the low road...
nuxvomica
(12,519 posts)Empathy is not just about being nice and caring for the powerless, it's also a necessary leadership skill in that it enables you to understand your fellow human beings. The MAGA party has promoted those who lack empathy, what they call "woke", and are now left with a power structure that is incapable of getting anything done. You can't have a political party comprised of only the purist narcissists. McConnell has (barely) a modicum of empathy but that's his downfall in today's MAGA-ridden Republican party.
orangecrush
(19,786 posts)Is still playing nice with these vile @#$&!
struggle4progress
(118,455 posts)calimary
(81,804 posts)Evidently Mitch must eat everything fingers-to-mouth. No utensils necessary.
struggle4progress
(118,455 posts)it's a 14th century proverb
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Johonny
(21,126 posts)To please the jackals
erronis
(15,687 posts)The jackals of the RW free-dumb caucus will never get all they want - by definition.
The devil of global greed will demand everything, even of the jackals.
twodogsbarking
(10,168 posts)SergeStorms
(19,214 posts)a series of small strokes that have him more than a little worried.
Remember when he would just zone-out for 20 or 30 seconds at a time and his aides would escort him from the press?
I think he has some serious health problems facing him, and Trump isn't helping matters any. 🤔
CTyankee
(63,958 posts)time ago.
SergeStorms
(19,214 posts)But yeah, it was a little alarming to watch. I think they gave him a heads-up that he should get out of the way. If Trump wins the election (gawd forbid!) , he won't want the Turtle as minority/majority leader in the Senate.
It all looks kind of fishy to me. They're clearing every path for Trump to become dictator for life. I really hope this is just a paranoid suspicion on my part. If it isn't, my family and I will be driving across the US/Canada border the next morning, never to return.
Do you think the Canadians will build a wall?
erronis
(15,687 posts)PTL_Mancuso
(276 posts). . . that Jamie Raskin or Adam Schiff or Sheldon Whitehouse or any of a number of our heroes will speak on McConnell's departure NOW and LIST every damn time he stabbed Democracy in the back for his own power and wealth and at the behest of the "Vast right-wing conspiracy" of zillionaires, which the repugs and MSM turned into a sort of joke, which is all too real and which Mitch served to make ever more powerful.
I hope Evil Mitch will not die peacefully in his sleep.
He is a Democracy Destroyer of the First Order.
calimary
(81,804 posts)Last edited Thu Feb 29, 2024, 02:41 PM - Edit history (1)
Fucking damn detestable two-faced backstabbing BASTARD.
BumRushDaShow
(131,028 posts)I haven't seen/heard anyone (at least here or even on MSNBC last night) speculate about the timing of Turtle's "announcement" and the subsequent SCOTUS decision.
So let me do this -
SergeStorms
(19,214 posts)That's exactly what I was thinking.
Things are NEVER as simple as they appear when it comes to these ultra-right-wing pricks.
I'll see your tinfoil hat, and raise you another tinfoil hat.
progressoid
(50,084 posts)How is Mitch connected to the SCOTUS decision?
BumRushDaShow
(131,028 posts)Just like how Alito's Dobbs decision "leaked", I expect the "leaks" are still going on for those "who need to know".
For Turtle, his work is done -
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,953 posts)Biophilic
(3,808 posts)Once this types of people taste power they never stop wanting more. Not for any righteous cause, but just for the sense of power it give them. Anyone they even suspect of being in their way just gets eliminated.
Old Crank
(3,780 posts)These Putin partners have no morals or loyaty to anything.
2naSalit
(87,406 posts)And he may well have sold out our entire species along with many others.
calimary
(81,804 posts)Then FUCK HIM at the starting gate!
The Democrat colleagues???
Shouldnt that be Democratic colleagues?
Are we or are we not the DEMOCRATIC Party?
NOT the Democrat party!!!!! They have NO right to fuck with our name. NO RIGHT!!!
We are the DEMOCRATIC Party.
CTyankee
(63,958 posts)would have learned how to properly speak the English language. Or at least enough of it to know a noun from an adjective. English IS your native language, correct?" (maybe add "or are you just a dumbass?"
mwb970
(11,400 posts)They still have the power to amaze.
tclambert
(11,089 posts)kimbutgar
(21,374 posts)This song is one thats in my mind all the time now because what the repukes and TFA have done to this country are up for a reckoning. Mitch is in my top 10 of those who i want to crash and burn!
LetMyPeopleVote
(146,648 posts)Wednesdays
(17,624 posts)If you thought McTurtle was bad, just wait until we see his replacement!
Dave Bowman
(2,008 posts)Iggo
(47,671 posts)Aussie105
(5,593 posts)Forgotten him already. (*)
More of a worry though - who will replace him?
(*) Where do turtles go when they are past it, over the hill, and blank out at the wrong time?
Martin68
(23,212 posts)the power of the GOP. He didn't give a shit about the USA except to assume what benefitted him benefitted the country. A self-serving prick.