The only difference between round 1 and this time is round 1 there were some in his party that thought they could control him and it was blatantly obvious they weren’t ready to actually win the election. That’s why you had so much turnover and can actually set a political time period of a Scaramucci being 10 days. This time around the Heritage Foundation hitched their wagon to his horse. Remember also, he bought the hotel right down from the white house and refused to separate himself from it so you had foreign influences staying there trying to get cozy with him.

Openly gloating about how profitable the little people’s struggles are, he did plenty of that in Covid, and if you knew anything about the man, plenty before he was elected. This is the guy who’s always been infamous for not paying his debts.

This is Trump we’re talking about. His mask was always paper thin and falling off fifteen minutes after he said anything “politically savvy”

Anyone who has been fooled by him is a fucking idiot.

I think the thing I miss most since Trumps first run is my sense of empathy and sympathy. I used to have a belief of sure there’s disagreement and there’s room for it. Fuck that noise now. Republicans keep voting to hurt my friends consistently. At this point anyone says they’re a republican I assume they’ve lost all sense of humanity, and the head of their party at this point has zero redeeming qualities… even amongst his supporters his chronic backstabbing can’t stop.

What did McConnell say? His goal was to make Obama a lame duck president. Here we go.

I mean, I live in Missouri, Josh Hawley being a piece of shit is a non-partisan thing. But the second it comes to choices, they’d rather that instead of voting for democrat.

I’ll give credit for a conservative doing the bare minimum. It is very difficult for them to remove their lips from the asses of the party leadership.

He does. They’re not rich, they can’t do anything for him other than vote. Trump doesn’t involve himself with anyone who can’t give him something.

If they were outside his place asking for anything he’d be the first to call security to get the “undesirables” out.

Cool cool cool. So this means we shouldn’t vote for them.

My trans friends on the Kansas side of the border had their drivers licenses pulled because the veto-proof Republican Supermajority in one night made all drivers licenses that had gender not of birth null with no warning and that’s still currently being fought in the courts. Same time they put through a bathroom bill that has a bounty on it for people to call in where someone will have to go to court to prove themselves.

Somehow frankly shocked our Republican supermajority in MO hasn’t done the same, but they’re busy trying to take away our ability to pass laws because we managed to keep abortion legal. Oh… wait… they’re using trans people as the way to entice people to vote the outlawing of abortion again this election.

But we shouldn’t let the dems win.

I think a lot of yall saying this don’t live in red states where the water is already boiling. Best of luck to you, we’re trying our hardest to survive over here.

Trump is an ass, and this is absolutely not how thing should be done. But here we are.

So if I have to go through this shitshow, I can at least laugh my ass off that he’s doing this to Cotton who’s been one of his supporters. That’s what he gets.

Republicans when talking about min wage: “We can’t give out money, or else inflation happens, learn something!”

Republicans when voting comes up: “HAVE FREE MONEY!”

So I found a honey cheese at Aldi that when you slice it with apple… gah… I want to find that stuff again.

Cosmic Crisp actually! Fuji’s seemed to have lost the tartness I love but the cosmics have REALLY taken over that spot.

I know that we’re not to celebrate death of Graham so I’ll say the nicest thing I can think about him.

Today for breakfast I had two eggs and an apple.

I can’t write up a better TLDR than one of the other responses, they hit the major base points, there’s just so much more.

What I’ll explain is the level of power he wielded because frankly, a lot of US citizens don’t realize the mechanisms he used so I’m not sure being out of the US would know.

McConnelll was essentially the leader of the Republican Party all throughout Obama’s administration, and with such he pushed the Republicans to be pure oppositional on EVERYTHING because he noted that Dems working with Bush on No Child Left Behind and Medicare Part D helped Bush get reelected. So McConnell’s statements were “the single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” and “if [Obama is] willing to meet us halfway on some of the biggest issues, it’s not inappropriate for us to do business with him.” The man literally said about our debt “it’s a hostage that’s worth ransoming”

I’d like to note that when Trump became President, suddenly McConnell was all about putting politics aside and working together as unity to help (his view of) the country.

Now when he got Senate Majority Leader, that meant he had a lot of power. With our system, a law has to go through both Congress and Senate before being signed by the President. And when the President picks positions like judges, the Legislative branch also confirms them. The Senate Majority Leader gets to choose what comes to the floor. So Obama wants some judges… nah, we’re not going to vote on them and let that expire so we can stack it when a Republican President comes in power. This is why Obama became a big user of Executive Orders (essentially the President creating orders that aren’t laws in that the next President can just tear them down, which Trump did, but since the Executive Branch enforces them they essentially become laws in their own way. It’s more complicated than that but by that point I don’t have the law degree to explain better) which the Republicans whined SO MUCH about… and went strangely silent when Trump started using them.

I’d also like to note, McConnell voted to convict and remove Bill Clinton in his impeachment trial, but when Trump’s first one came up he actively denied four witnesses from coming to the floor “I’m not an impartial juror [in this impeachment trial]. This is a political process. There’s not anything judicial about it.” And despite being outspoken about Trump’s attempt to overturn the election for Biden (only after Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol) and stating that he supported Trump’s impeachment, he refused to call an emergency meeting of the Senate for the trial, calling for delaying it after Biden’s inauguration, then voted to acquit Trump by stating it was unconstitutional to convict a President who was no longer in office. He went on a 20 minute tirade about how he thought Trump was guilty “If President Trump were still in office, I would have carefully considered whether the House managers proved their specific charge.” and stated that Trump didn’t get away with it because he’d still be subject to the US criminal and civil laws.

Of course McConnell would filibuster and vote against an independent commission to investigate the Jan 6 US Capitol attack.

And back throughout Biden’s administration, it was back to pure obstructionism, nothing else.

McConnell became a senator a year before I was alive, and has wielded an entire party of our country until it took a demagogue who hated him to turn the party against him. According to his biographers, Alec MacGillis, McConnell went “from a moderate Republican who supported abortion rights and public employee unions to the embodiment of partisan obstructionism and conservative orthodoxy on Capitol Hill.”

… well this was supposed to be a short writeup… but that didn’t work. And I still feel like a lot got left out.

I couldn’t do a better write up myself. And I love that’s the “17 worst things” because… there’s… so… so much.

The thing is… from the beginning the man was a snake. Look up his early politics in his state, he jumped in to get the unions to support him, gladhanded them, shook their hands, said he supported them. Then the second he took power he immediately stabbed the unions in the back, with an attitude of it’s just a cost of doing business.

He’s the opposite side of the coin from Trump of as a man with zero scruples, but where Trump’s entire desire is to make himself richer and more powerful, McConnell was a True Believer of his world view of the Conservative Christian view, and would do anything no matter how slimy if it pushed his world view forward.

Moscow Mitch is possibly the man who did more damage to our country than anyone else. The Trump administration is his victory, just with someone he couldn’t control and actually turned his constituency against him.

Trump is an evil SOB and the US is worse for having him as a president… but I’ll at least say one good thing about him, if you poke your head in conservative circles, they have as much respect for the turtle as the left. And I love that for Mitch. May his legacy forever be mired in shit.