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The man has been leading by example for years. Remember when, during the Obama presidency, he refused to even call a vote on any Supreme Court nominees?
He has shown time and time again that he doesn't care about the unwritten gentleman's rules that the government has been (more or less) abiding by for centuries, and now he's shocked that his party is overrun by people with zero interest in working towards anything other than destruction?
He's a fool and he's dragged us down with him.
I'm still angry about that. We have the eight Justices of the Supreme Court and Neil Gorsuch, IMO.
Hey guys, I poured some diesel on this fire, and hid all the extinguishers. Turns out that it's hard to control it now.
I think petrol is worse if you want a better example than diesel.
Petrol instantly vaporizes and explodes, and exhausts itself more or less right away. Diesel takes time to heat up enough, but once it does, it's a raging inferno that easily reignites by itself after being extinguished.
Source: I've started (sanctioned, legal, and utilitarian) fires with both
How would it go if they were mixed and ignited?
Diesel burns slowly, though petrol makes diesel easier to ignite.
We mix them 3:1 Diesel/Petrol (called 'driptorch' fuel, used in 'driptorches') to safely put fire to the ground when we need to.
Source: am firefighter.
Never tried, but I would suspect that petrol could be an effective accelerant, as it'd reach its flash point long before the diesel does.
We all understand the message, no need to clarify the type of fire it should be.
Ideally, it'd be a turd-fire, but afaik, they don't exist, so I went with diesel.
Of course you had options, you traitorous piece of shit:
You had tons of options, but you'd rather let democracy burn anyway.
Wouldn't even have to become a Democrat: the "independent" label exists
Or he could have not stolen a court seat.
He could have not backstabbed everyone and everything.
Alas, he's a piece of shit.
Hell he could kill a coworker. Mitch McConnell shooting up the RNC would be an interesting turn of events
"I have no power to stop this" says man who refused to even try to use the ACTUAL POWER HE HAD stop this
Fuck off and die McConnell, preferably in the most painful way possible. He refused to impeach the fucker, so this is just whining to try to protect his legacy, but this is 10000% his fault.
Doddering pensioner wonders why he has no control
“Wait, why isn’t the monster I’ve created listening to me??”
It's a bit worse than that - they're following the path he laid down... he just likes to seem like he has no control when they're acting heinous, but if they get the house and senate again he'd be happy to install more conservative judges.
That's some amazing logic.
I have absolutely no power and am utterly helpless. I'll stay in the job.
"I'm shocked after creating this monster I'm unable to control it" - mitch McConnell
"Hey Mitch, you won't be able to control this monster"- Everyone, for ten years.
"Idfc lol, I'm old and rich-" Mitch
He could absolutely control it, he just doesn't want to make any hard choices.
I'm not sure at this point mitch could control MAGA, even trying to pull weight with any remaining classic Republicans probably wouldn't have any chance of reining in the party back from full on MAGA since a lot still are thinking of reelection and going against MAGA is a career ender
If only there was a classic book everyone knows about to warn him
He should fuck off and die.
I need to pick up some fireworks for when that traitor finally dies.
Once you announce retirement, you're lame duck. This is not news to McConnell or anyone else.
Well, well, well... If it isn't the consequences of my own actions.
Absolute scum.
I don’t think he can control his own sphincter.
So, in order to avoid having no influence, you use all of your influence to advance someone else's ends? Idk man, seems like you could have told Trump to eat a dick on national TV, told the Republican senators that you were never going to have a better chance to get rid of his ass, and voted to convict and bar him from politics if it passed.
Sure, I don't get to be a senator, but the fuck would I want to be a senator for, if that was the price of entry? You get to be a pawn, and get played? Pass, old man.
“The issue is, what kind of influence, even if I had chosen to get involved in the presidential election, what kind of influence would I have had?”
What a worm.
You cannot control a room full of demented dogs with terminal rabies.
Don’t worry Bitch, Putin does.
Under the fool's watchless eye cretins rise.
He is a useful idiot, yes.