Just a reminder that Mitch McConnell could have prevented this not once but twice.
Good luck (seriously) trying to keep the monster you created and continuously enabled under control. I also hate that I'm implicitly rooting for McConnell here.
Don't worry, Trump now will see him as The Enemy and use everything at his disposal against him.
McConnell just might be the first one to draw the ire this term.
Don't worry, Trump now will see him as The Enemy and use everything at his disposal against him.
I mean, probably. Unfortunately, McConnell's actually right for once. Whether he's right for the right reasons is irrelevant at the moment.
The enemy of my enemy.
We can agree with him and root for him. Just keep in mind who he is and what he's done. Don't allow a short memory to curb that perspective.
In the meantime, while the monsters fight we should be collectively working to shore up things in our communities. I'm working on mine.
Accidentally right is still right!
Any chance McConnell will fall out a window in the near future?
The good news is in party fighting is s good sign that they won't be able to consolidate power as quickly or completely as they wanted to. The bad news is, they now know who to come for on the night of long knives.
There is consensus that the current nominations for cabinet are heavily oriented to separating the disloyaistlls in order to define targets. McTurtle in his prime was a competitor, but I imagine it will be easy to move against him these days
When the worst guy starts fighting a twice as worst guy, you have a relative good guy to root for.
The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy, but I want to see the former hurt the latter first.
This enemy of my enemy is not my friend, the moment is merely a temporary truce for the greater good.
Bad people can do good things sometimes, and you should never interrupt or shame them for doing it. Many people on the internet forget that.
Never thought I'd see the day where I hoped a McConnell plan would work in any capacity.
He's allowed Trump to exist so project 2025 can happen.
Moscow Mitch will do anything to make project 2025 happen, maybe he was convinced the "normal" Republicans can mitigate Trump's penchant for treason and sedition against America and that mitigation risk was worth the project 2025 payout.
Hopefully he is right about mitigating Trump. Otherwise, I hope McConnell is the first Republican publicly executed because Trump absolutely wants to be able to publicly execute anyone he doesn't like.
Moscow Mitch took hundreds of millions in Russian 'investments' for I think an aluminum plant.
He's dirty as fuck and just needed a call from his handler to remind him which way to vote on that.
As much as he probably wants to please Big Daddy Trump I think he also wants to assert himself a little by saying, "Here's your McDonald's. I took a few fries and yes, I'll do it next time too."
The next 4(?) years:
Please tell me Trump isn’t Bugs.
My take is Bugs is the embodiment of society as a whole, but since Trump is bigger and heavier than Sam, the edge of the cliff will break off and we all go off the edge together.
Oh, yes. This makes sense.
If McConnell is saying this then I believe he’s planning on retiring VERY soon. Republicans o Lt grow a spine when their walking out the door.
Also McConnell: Votes to confirm
He likes to be in the same room and watch while we all get fucked.
The Senate can't turn down too many Trump appointees until they are looked on as an obstruction to their own party. So, you'll definitely lose Gaetz, but Trump has flooded the zone with incompetence.
Donnie boy is always testing the waters, testing the limits. It's an extreme version of what the GOPers have been doing for years. Ask for a 150% of what's reasonable, and then act all butt hurt when they only get 125%. We've seen this game before. There's nothing new coming out of the "grand" Old party. smh.
Well those are just basic negotiation skills.
If so then the Dems need to learn some basic negotiation skills. But I don't agree. The two parties are supposed to represent all of the US, and what they should be negotiating for is those policies that are in the best interest of all US citizens. I hope you'll agree that is not the case.
Very few things the federal government does has anything to do with helping people. It’s bowing to our corporate masters while trying to keep the masses from rioting
I am starting to believe the theory Trump is putting up the worst possible people so when one gets rejected he can try to force Congress to adjourn and then appoint whomever he wants which will be 100% worse.
Not that Trump thought of this but someone, Miller, is pulling the strings
It's negotiating 101. Open with the hoop dream so the next option isn't near as bad. If you get your first option, you win, and if you get the second option, you win a little less.
Senators are very different in many ways. They are very powerful, and feel a responsibility to their position for the most part. That includes advise and consent, part of the Constitution. It takes just as many Republican votes to call a recess as to confirm a nominee. Don't forget, also, that until DeWine and DeSantis do their bit, they will be two votes short.
As shit as Roberts' SCOTUS is, I don't think even they'd go that far. Their entire argument hinges on one phrase from Article Two:
he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper;
Supposedly as long as neither the House nor the Senate alter their scheduled appointment dates this clause can't be invoked.
We can only hope for incompetence, the real danger is a malicious and competent appointment.
"Donald, it has to at least look like we gave you some oversight."
Right? McConnel has kinda always been the GOP's fall guy in the senate. The one who takes all the heat for unpopular shit, when the entire party is actually on board. Donny probably just didn't get the memo.
He got the memo, but he ate it before anyone was able to read it to him.
Fair chance that this has more to do with Gabbard than Gaetz. She's close with Russian state media and was put in change of US Intelligence. Obviously a Trojan horse.
Why would Moscow Mitch have an issue with that?
Mitchell has more loyalty to American oligarchs than Russian ones. The lines are blurry because billionaires are multinational, and once a Russian spends money in his state, they become an American oligarch to him. Similar to Chinese oligarchs like his father in law.
This will mean nothing since McConnell is retiring or has retired already.
Polymath probably taking bets on how long McConnell has left before suicide by defenestration+2 bullets to the back of the head
I'm sure people with opinions become more clumsy under dictators. Mitch will probably fall out a window.
Well, at least McTurtle can hope his lack of a backbone to break will save him.
Good ol’ St. Petersburg Suicide
Either I see a challenge to a runaway Trump, or I see the death cry of McConnell's political career destroyed by Trump psychopaths.
Silver linings.
I call bullshit.
Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell reportedly warned that there will be no recess appointments
Recess appointments stopped being a thing in 2016 altogether and really the water source was shut off back in Obama who only got 32 as Pro Forma became popular in Congress.
I am seriously doubtful that the House wants to get rid of Pro Forma nor would they risk a Section III dismissal to appease Trump.
As much as Trump is power hungry, so too are a ton of GOP members of Congress equally hungry.
GOP members with faces slowly waking up to the fact they got a hungry face eating leopard into the White House.
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