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I blame McConnell for Carlson and trump
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No but they could slip on me and smack their head and decide to change their life's goals to being the best banana salesmen.... Or buy up all the umbrellas and corner the market. Or you know....
great so two people who are not currently in government have more pull than the whole of Congress. ffs I hate it here
Kind of lacks the nuance of a House of 435 Representatives and Senate of 100 who write, amend, vote, rewrite, vote again, discuss, and vote a third time with a majority or sometimes even a 2/3rd majority in order to pass laws. All of this in one of the most politically polarized times in history.
You don't need to have more sway than the whole of congress. You just need to convince like 80 people and then nothing will ever get done again.
Oh so now Mitch is back to criticizing trump again? What did Mitch get rebooted again and forget endorsing him a few weeks ago?
I have one guess. There’s absolutely 0 evidence for it so maybe I am just fooling myself that it is plausible when it isn’t.
But, a bunch of people have been suddenly turning anti-Russia recently who were previously very cool with it. Something changed. My unfounded theory is, more criminal charges are coming for people who have been agent-ing for Russia, and McConnell and the other lawful evils are trying to just emphasize that they’re nowhere near those charges, no how sir.
One can dream I suppose.
Probably I am dreaming yes
But, a bunch of people have been suddenly turning anti-Russia recently
Did the Russian checks start bouncing?
I mean, honestly? That might be another explanation. Some combination of sanctions, effective counterintelligence, or "Ukraine is getting their weapons so what the hell are we paying you for" blocking the payments.
Russia's not running out of money any time soon (not on the scale of the laughably small amounts that it takes to corrupt people in the US government), but there are other reasons why people might not be getting their checks anymore. And Rand Paul is still going strong, where he's one of the people who's just motivated by some absolutely cockeyed internal compass that gravitates unerringly to the wrong answer on absolutely everything, so that would track, too.
Such a beautiful description of Rand Paul.
Its like he knows the rught way but will not act that way unless paid to.
Very liberdashian.
With the Europeans dismantling a propaganda and bribe network Europe-wide, the Germans catching their far-right taking money directly from Russia, I suspect they're hedging their bets.
EU seized the money so the bribes are drying up.
The wind is shifting, that's for sure.
Most of the money goes to US weapons manufacturers. The weapons manufacturers are very big political donors.
You can create all the hoo har you want, to “energise your base”, but when to music stops and it’s time to vote , you do as you are told and get that public money into hands of the defence contractors as quickly as you can.
MTG found this out yesterday when she was publicly called an idiot : unhinged rant about Jewish space lasers ? No problemo. Put $90bn of weapons money at risk ? You’re a lunatic.
Latest check hasn't cleared yet. Give it a week and he'll have flopped again.
How do you do, fellow non traitors
Boy I sure am upset about all the traitoring around here, how dare they, amirite?
Look, Moscow Mitch can bite my shiny metal ass on exactly 100% of the issues except support for Ukraine. I’m glad he’s still onboard even though I really, really, really don’t like him at all.
Still. Let’s get russia packed up and kicked out and then we’ll get back to everything else.
I really don't care what any politician says. Trump and Carlson do not hold elected offices, they should have zero say in any government matter, foreign or domestic. Their alarmingly close alignment with particularly adversarial foreign entities should further disqualify anything they say.
I’d call him Moscow’s Bitch, but we don’t want to confuse him with Marge.
Did mitch forget who he is? Or is this a new bug in his reboot. The guy spent 4th of July in Moscow, he created tucker and Trump and has ruled the gop for decades
Then maybe you should have convicted him when he was impeached the first time?
Or the second
This is an apology to the arms industry donors .
Pot calls out kettle.
Damn that Dutch Oven!
That guy that endorsed Trump? Not me. That was Rich McConnell.
“Mitch McConnell? No. No. No. You got it all wrong. I’m Bitch McConnell”
Moscow Mitch blaming everyone but himself
McConnell is the expert on delaying things, he would know.
why do two people that are not in government have anything to do with this, and if they are give advice it should be declared that they are lobbyists for these things.
There was also this guy named Mitch McConnel involved.
FuckConnell says what?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday celebrated the impending passage of $60 billion in U.S. aid to Ukraine ahead of a final vote, while lamenting the fact that it took months to secure enough Republican support to land it.
At a press conference, the Kentucky Republican pinpointed two men responsible for that delay: former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson and former President Donald Trump.
“I think the former president had sort of mixed views on” Ukraine aid, he added, before alluding to the failed attempt to add border security provisions to the bill, “which requires you to deal with Democrats, and then a number of our members thought it wasn’t good enough.”
The top Senate Republican has been an ardent supporter of Ukraine aid and battled a slew of conservative voices who have sought to block it.
McConnell said he remains committed to working to help regain a Republican Senate majority, despite his plans to step back from leadership at the end of the year.
McConnell said part of the blame falls on the Biden administration for not recognizing the need earlier and reacting, but acknowledged Congress should’ve acted more quickly.
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FOAD, traitor.