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U.S. Senate's McConnell freezes up for second time in public appearance (www.ctvnews.ca)

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[–] c0c0c0@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Everybody looking forward to this man's departure don't realize what joy the great state of Kentucky has waiting in the wings. As bad as he is, he's actually put a stop to some of the MAGA world's worst nonsense. I'm not entirely confident that crazy is better than evil.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

People already out here white washing Mitch McConnell, and the dude isn't even dead yet...

He is the head of the legislative branch of the GOP. He is the literal leader of the party. That means he's responsible for the direction of that party.

And no, he isn't doing anything meaningful to stop MAGA from infecting (again, that's literally his job) the GOP. He played a direct part in creating this beast, I couldn't really care less if he's lost control, or now pretends he bears no responsibility.

And that's not even including how he poisoned the Supreme Court for at least a generation.

If objective evil exists, this man is it. Do yourself a favor and just stop trying to excuse this man's words, actions, and behavior.

I hope he suffers even a fraction of the pain he has caused others before he does us all a favor and fucking dies.

[–] c0c0c0@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what part of me calling this guy "evil" is excusing his behavior. I'm just saying it could be worse and soon will be. Don't go looking for drama.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not looking for drama. You defended Mitch McConnell, and said that he's actually "put a stop" to some MAGA shit and that's just laughably absurd

[–] CompostMaterial@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At this point, we all know anything the GOP puts forward will be worse than the last. The nice thing about ol'Turtle kicking-it is that his replacement will be a freshman without the power to control the Senate that turtle did.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're not going to replace the Senate Minority/Majority Leader with a freshman. Why would they do that?

The senator from Kentucky that will take his place, will probably be a freshman, but it's not like there is some rule that the Senator of Kentucky is the party leade on the national scale.

They will replace him with another old white dude that's been in politics for 60+ years.

[–] CompostMaterial@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I guess I should clarify what I meant. His SEAT will be occupied by a freshman, which means that Kentucky will now be represented by a freshman Senator with no power as opposed to a Senate leader with way too much power. In other words, Kentucky is fucked as soon as he croaks.