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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(116,562 posts)
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 12:17 PM Aug 2024

Mitch McConnell's 'worst nightmare' is the parting gift he deserves

Sen. Mitch McConnell has done a lot for this country. Sorry. Make that “to.” He's done a lot to this country. Things like stealing two Supreme Court seats, creating the constant debt ceiling crisis, and surrendering his party to Donald Trump.

McConnell has promised to step down as Republican leader in the Senate in November. Considering his role in destroying the courts, warping the Senate, and elevating Trump above the law, it seems only right to send McConnell a going-away present, as he is the longest-serving Senate leader in history.

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“Let's assume our worst nightmare: the Democrats went to the White House, the House, the Senate," McConnell said during his Aug. 7 keynote speech at the National Conference of State Legislatures Legislative Summit.

If that happened, McConnell warned Republicans, “The first thing they'll do is get rid of the filibuster. Second, you'll have two new states, D.C. [and] Puerto Rico. That's four new Democratic senators in perpetuity.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/8/14/2263154/-Mitch-McConnell-s-worst-nightmare-is-the-parting-gift-he-deserves

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CrispyQ

(38,604 posts)
2. If we get the majorities, DO IT! Go bold!!!
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 12:21 PM
Aug 2024

Oh Mitch, we gave you two opportunities to get rid of the orange fucker, the second one presented on a silver platter, & you rejected them both.

JT45242

(2,997 posts)
3. Sort of like splitting the dakota territory into two tiny states to give you 4 senators all the time?
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 12:23 PM
Aug 2024

Of course the R party could adopt policies that might draw in voters..but, nah.

Puerto Rice has as many people as Iowa. So it might cancel the neo-confederate ways of Iowa in the electoral college and house of reps as well.

The filibuster shouldn't exist McTurtle. Read the Federalist papers and the constitution the tyranny of the minority is a horrible thing.

Scrivener7

(53,221 posts)
4. And while we're at it, let's make one Dakota. The population of the Dakotas doesn't warrant 4 senators.
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 12:26 PM
Aug 2024

The Unmitigated Gall

(4,624 posts)
5. Majority Rule. The people. Terrible.
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 12:28 PM
Aug 2024

To a racist, elitist dickbag like McConnell, it's like tropical sunlight on a vampire.

Tweedy

(1,224 posts)
8. Poor man
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 01:13 PM
Aug 2024

Senator McConnell worked his whole life long to make America like Russia, to re-en-serf us all with glory to the plutocrats who he believes own us all, everyone. He has worked vigorously to bring baksheesh to America, to end the honest services doctrine and to ensure our water is filthy and our air dripping with petrochemical goo.

Looks like his life work is going goodbye

Our ancestors are applauding this outcome and telling us to make certain it happens. !!

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