I appreciate the Mitch McConnell jokes, I do, but it appears that they’re trying to stretch this out until after an August 3rd deadline that would mean there wouldn’t be an election to fill his seat until after the midterms, which would be a pretty egregious subversion of democracy. And maybe we should be saying that a little louder.
@ben dude its 2026 and you're still invoking democracy when referring to the US. LOL
@ben why?
they don't care about democracy and we need to stop pretending they do.
@ben Why are our elected officials doing nothing about it?
@ben Kentucky is going to have to pick up that torch and if they have ever done something like that it had been kept real quiet
I wonder if someone could create a halfway-convincing lookalike of McConnell's cooling corpus, just to convince them to show the damn body.
@ben Wasn’t it McConnell himself who thwarted the Obama Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland? Time for some irony and justice.
@ben and totally in brand for Mitch too.
Seriously now. If he’s in a hospital, it’s probably GWU or MedStar Washington Hospital Center.
Got any stringers in DC to check it out?
Ah, the old "Weekend at Mitchie's". We should have seen it coming.
@ben when are streamers going to start speedrunning mitch mcconnel?
@ben I don't appreciate the Mitch McConnell jokes. I don't think it is good to indulge in cruel jokes against our enemies, because it just cultivates cruelty in general. Now it's McConnell, soon it will be AOC, then it will be whoever the next Bukharin, Zinoviev & 700,000 others are next. Having a cruel attitude is a good way to end up shooting yourself in the foot & 700,000 comrades in the head the moment you get actual power. We must cultivate virtue & discipline in low stakes situations if we want to have it in high stakes situations.
I think it is being said quite a lot but one more time hurts no one! 🫡
@ben you mean the way McConnell himself kept a Supreme Court seat open for months to keep Obama from getting to pick one?
Saying it isn't enough. What path to force action exists? Who is best suited to engage it? What is the lead time to do so? I think we should get the folks at the various outlets (e.g., Indivisible, et al) on it. Coordinated call for unified effort to singular end -- unfuck this before the deadline and prove that no, actually, you are not "secure" in your power play. And you will never be so. So expect THAT. 🪔📣
