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09/12/2023 15:08
Subject: Re:Is something wrong with Mitch McConnell?
Oh wow that reliable Joe Manchin, huh. He’s part of the GOP traitor train already.
And Mitch McConnell doesn’t have any control over his beastly party anymore.
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09/12/2023 09:55
Subject: Re:Is something wrong with Mitch McConnell?
Dallas Morning News has an article about the behind-the-scenes battle of the Johns (Thune, Barrasso, Cornyn) to replace McConnell sooner or later. Thune at 62 is the youth option. The other Johns are both 71. The Dallas paper gives Cornyn the advantage in what traditionally is the most important thing to Senate Republicans - “the ability to raise massive amounts of campaign cash and spread it around to his colleagues.”
I can’t link because it’s behind a paywall. I read it on Press Reader.
I can’t link because it’s behind a paywall. I read it on Press Reader.
Anonymous
09/02/2023 22:13
Subject: Is something wrong with Mitch McConnell?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I’m having a hard time feeling sympathy for him. He was part of the effort to block replacing Feinstein with another dem on the judiciary committee. This is karma for exploiting an ailing elderly woman for political purposes. I hope he continues to humiliate himself and his goons.
Yes, I can’t say that I’m too concerned about him, but I have to say I don’t like watching it play out in public. I don’t want to watch someone die as staffers stand around winking and asking reporters to speak up.
Ef McConnell
Anonymous
09/02/2023 22:12
Subject: Is something wrong with Mitch McConnell?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I’m having a hard time feeling sympathy for him. He was part of the effort to block replacing Feinstein with another dem on the judiciary committee. This is karma for exploiting an ailing elderly woman for political purposes. I hope he continues to humiliate himself and his goons.
Yes, I can’t say that I’m too concerned about him, but I have to say I don’t like watching it play out in public. I don’t want to watch someone die as staffers stand around winking and asking reporters to speak up.
Glitch McConnell and the GOP Sycophants
Anonymous
09/02/2023 17:04
Subject: Is something wrong with Mitch McConnell?
Anonymous wrote:I’m having a hard time feeling sympathy for him. He was part of the effort to block replacing Feinstein with another dem on the judiciary committee. This is karma for exploiting an ailing elderly woman for political purposes. I hope he continues to humiliate himself and his goons.
Yes, I can’t say that I’m too concerned about him, but I have to say I don’t like watching it play out in public. I don’t want to watch someone die as staffers stand around winking and asking reporters to speak up.
Anonymous
09/01/2023 20:40
Subject: Is something wrong with Mitch McConnell?
I’m having a hard time feeling sympathy for him. He was part of the effort to block replacing Feinstein with another dem on the judiciary committee. This is karma for exploiting an ailing elderly woman for political purposes. I hope he continues to humiliate himself and his goons.
Anonymous
09/01/2023 13:49
Subject: Is something wrong with Mitch McConnell?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I feel sad for him, even though he has caused most of the US so much pain.
Genuinely curious why? He chose to sell himself to the highest bidders - this is what he signed up for. Money over dignity.
You are right,
it's just hard to see another human being debase themselves so much now that they probably don't know where they are and what they are doing. That seems to be 90% of the GOP at this point.
Anonymous
09/01/2023 12:14
Subject: Is something wrong with Mitch McConnell?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I feel sad for him, even though he has caused most of the US so much pain.
Why? Serious question to anyone who feels similarly. Unlike many, at the very least, he has an ample pension, top tier medical insurance, and could leave his current job any time he wants. He has the ability and the resources to focus on his health if he decides that his physical well-being is a priority. Mitch is choosing this.
I feel sorry for people with health challenges and financial concerns who are forced to continue to work — or who become impoverished, and who lack adequate healthcare in large part because of Mitch and his fellow Republicans.
I think it's because we have weird parasocial relationships with famous people, even famous people we hate, and even disgraceful politicians who have helped orchestrate the downfall of this country. A good part of being human is that we extend empathy to people we know - and we "know" Moscow Mitch. So it's our instinct to have some sense of feeling bad for him, even if we despise him and what he's done. I think you actually have to fight human nature pretty hard not to feel that way.
I can appreciate all of this — especially the instinct for empathy. Where I’m stuck is realizing that he’s actively choosing this, including what he’s putting people and the country through. Perhaps it’s no different from any older person fighting to feel competent, and maintain what they’re used to? I do despise him though, in part because unlike many other heinous politicians, he’s always known exactly what he’s doing, and what the outcomes for other people are likely to be.