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Mitch McConnell Is A Threat To The Future Of America (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Dec 2019
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riversedge
(70,084 posts)1. yes. he. is
sandensea
(21,600 posts)2. Him - and the radicalized Big Business interests that back him (and Cheeto)
No fascist ever rose to power without backing from his country's business leaders.
Not all of them are so inclined, of course - but those that are, easily become the biggest threat to any democracy.
Stuart G
(38,414 posts)3. K and R
no_hypocrisy
(46,020 posts)4. Query: Wasn't the real reason why Obama didn't appoint judges via
Recess Appointments was McConnell had a pro forma Senate technically gavel in during recesses, so Obama wouldn't have that option? (Obviously, Obama could have done that when Harry Reid was Majority Leader in the Senate.)
KPN
(15,635 posts)5. What goes through my mind is: look at this guy. How the hell can he be a threat to anything?
Which of course is why he is if you burrow to the root of it. Because that's exactly how he feels deep inside himself -- powerless, worthless, impotent -- all of which he really is.
Geesh! Fucking humans (well, some of them; thank god for the rest)!
Woodycall
(259 posts)6. He's got that Heinrich Himmler look... n/t
mdbl
(4,973 posts)7. He has the army of Fux Nooze watchers behind him
They are those stupid people in your family everyone always avoided.