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[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 175 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Booing and attacking the one man who single-handedly prevented Trump from getting permanently barred from running for office.

But at least Moscow Mitch is getting the treatment he actually deserves.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 121 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Fascists always eat their own eventually. Always.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 31 points 3 months ago

No honor among thieves.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 7 points 3 months ago

They eat everything. Because they’re fat shits.

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 59 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Booing and attacking the one man who created the current SCOTUS that is doing nothing but help trump

[–] dudinax@programming.dev 8 points 3 months ago

And the Aileen Cannons underneath them.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 47 points 3 months ago

the one man who single-handedly prevented Trump from getting permanently barred from running for office.

Twice.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 143 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It is pants-shittingly terrifying that McConnell is being booed for being too moderate.

[–] 242@lemmy.cafe 81 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They're probably booing him because trump doesn't like him, not because of any specific policies. Most of the simpletons in the audience work off emotion, not logic.

[–] InternetUser2012@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They do and feel as they're told by fox "news". They don't have a single thought of their own.

EDIT: A word

[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 59 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And also hilarious, since he was all too happy to fully enable Trump.

All that power that he cheated our democracy to put in Trumps hands, so that he could use him as a puppet to further his far right agenda, has turned on him. Even after kissing the ring after falling in line again after a very brief "perhaps we've gone too far" moment on Jan 6th.

Fuck you, Mitch. You destroyed our democracy. You did this. You raised an idiot to a dictatorship thinking you could control him. Great fucking job.

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

As is tradition. A lot of the more "moderates" in Germany thought they could easily control Hitler. Idiots failing to grasp weaponized stupidity in the hands of other idiots.

[–] whyrat@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

And that about half of voters still back the party doing it...

[–] meleecrits@lemmy.world 91 points 3 months ago (1 children)

McConnell drowned

:)

out by boos during RNC roll call

:(

[–] Bdtrngl@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Can turtles even be drowned?

[–] ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

If it's a tortoise sure. Depends on what species of turtle McConnell is.

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 1 points 3 months ago

Nobody in that family would ever go near water again

[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 44 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If the fascists come to power I hope I get to see this guy get purged before they come for me.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago

I hope he becomes clumsy around windows

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hard to say. The Night of the Long Knives was about midway through

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

If they win, it will be 180 days. That's a long enough time to get my wife and kids to Canada

[–] profdc9@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's going to be the Night of Long Knives or Stalin's Purge all over again. Trump will terrorize and purge his own party to obtain absolute control.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago
[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Hes been past his best-by date for so long he should be content with any kind of attention at this point