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Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell bluntly warned Republican senators in a private meeting not to sign on to a bill from Sen. Josh Hawley aimed at limiting corporate money bankrolling high-powered outside groups, telling them that many of them won their seats thanks to the powerful super PAC the Kentucky Republican has long controlled.

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[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 119 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Imagine being about to die any day now, and still using your failing, literally sputtering life force to proactively stand for enduring corruption even when you're gone and will no longer profit from it, as if the corporations that bribe the Republicans and Neoliberals will be able to send the bribe checks to hell or something.

There aren't many villains, even in fiction, that lack any nuance to this degree. McConnell truly is a palpatine-esque cartoon of malevolence.

[–] Jarmer 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He really is one of the most evil humans to ever exist in the USA. PLEASE can he die soon. PLEASE. The earth needs a win.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm convinced he's a lich and we need to find his philactery first

[–] uis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

His philactery is a needle. The needle is in egg, the egg is in duck, the duck is in rabbit, the rabbit is in chest, the chest is buried under oak, the oak is on the island in the middle of ocean.

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