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madamesilverspurs

(15,805 posts)
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 04:54 PM Jan 2020

And McConnell "speaks"

I tried. Really, I did. McConnell was speaking from the floor of the Senate, and I sat back and turned up the volume to listen. I lasted for almost two minutes before his toxic fulminations forced the mute button.

Now, it’s no secret that I am among those for whom the Trump “presidency” is a tragedy with alarming fatal possibilities. That said, I’ve worked hard to hold to the principle of hating his actions rather than his person; he hasn’t made it easy. So, I confess — I detest, despise, loathe, abhor, and hate everything about him, rapidly losing any boundary between principle and person. And that confession is offered only as a baseline, because my sentiments toward McConnell far exceed what I feel toward Trump.


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And McConnell "speaks" (Original Post) madamesilverspurs Jan 2020 OP
RIGHT THERE WITH YOU, MY DEAR MADAMESILVERSPURS! YES INDEED. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2020 #1
Many or most of us are with you. Pepsidog Jan 2020 #17
McConnell has been doing damage (to the entire U.S.) far longer than Trump has. maddiemom Jan 2020 #24
Can you understand him? BigmanPigman Jan 2020 #2
Exactly. nt iluvtennis Jan 2020 #10
The whole damned Faux pas Jan 2020 #3
Treasonous bastards gademocrat7 Jan 2020 #4
I, like our speaker, was taught not to hate any human but it is really hard to do with those 2 efhmc Jan 2020 #5
Talk is cheap Fritz Walter Jan 2020 #6
He is knowingly pure evil. zentrum Jan 2020 #7
I feel exactly the same way. Right on!!! Mickju Jan 2020 #8
Welcome to the club Kaiserguy Jan 2020 #9
McConnell is evil. barbtries Jan 2020 #11
Well said. nt crickets Jan 2020 #12
thanks crickets nt barbtries Jan 2020 #20
I agree, Trump doesn't have much of a clue about a lot of what he does, Moskow's ... marble falls Jan 2020 #13
Do you think SCVDem Jan 2020 #14
You have 2 minutes more patience than I. nt benld74 Jan 2020 #15
Yes, my sentiments toward McConnell are the same as your. K and R Stuart G Jan 2020 #16
Consider that the predominant perception of Trump is the same as yours Prosper Jan 2020 #18
Protestors drowning out McConnell's speech with chants of "Moscow Mitch" dustyscamp Jan 2020 #19
I think your list left out abominate, but I mentally added it. We must be thorough! Karadeniz Jan 2020 #21
Loathing (you list) is good cold emotion w/o toxic heat of hate that is so self-injurious and Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2020 #22
Mitch McConnell is the gravedigger of democracy. Saviolo Jan 2020 #23

maddiemom

(5,106 posts)
24. McConnell has been doing damage (to the entire U.S.) far longer than Trump has.
Tue Jan 7, 2020, 12:44 PM
Jan 2020

Sometimes he's failed (such as making Obama a one term president: he had to settle for doing everything he could to thwart him). No need for Turtle to lie when he can be BLATANT about it. I still can't believe he actually bragged about "throwing" the Senate impeachment trial to Trump and thumbed his nose at the Constitution. He's been drunk with power for far too long and is the single biggest argument for term limits for Congress members. I'd bet that he is hated nationally even more than Trump, the more time he keeps his control over our government.

Faux pas

(14,681 posts)
3. The whole damned
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 05:03 PM
Jan 2020

basket of them are inhumane and inhuman. And good "christians" all. Makes me extra proud to be an atheist

efhmc

(14,731 posts)
5. I, like our speaker, was taught not to hate any human but it is really hard to do with those 2
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 05:10 PM
Jan 2020

and a few others, if I am being truthful.

Fritz Walter

(4,291 posts)
6. Talk is cheap
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 05:20 PM
Jan 2020

Amy McGrath needs our support to unseat Moscow Mitch!

Best gift I got last month was a donation (in my honor) to her campaign. I will follow through on that gift as soon as I pay off some holiday bills.
Donation link appears in a reply to this post.

Get. Out. The. Vote.

barbtries

(28,799 posts)
11. McConnell is evil.
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 06:36 PM
Jan 2020

he's more dangerous than trump ultimately, because he has the power to rid us of trump and won't do it, because of the Courts, and because when he talks he doesn't sound like the fucking psychopath he absolutely must be. he sounds lucid. the way he says outrageous things and utters outlandish lies makes him seem reasonable.

he is a dangerous man, and a disgusting example of a human being.

marble falls

(57,106 posts)
13. I agree, Trump doesn't have much of a clue about a lot of what he does, Moskow's ...
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 06:52 PM
Jan 2020

Mitch knows very what he is doing, and is doing it intentionally.

 

SCVDem

(5,103 posts)
14. Do you think
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 07:15 PM
Jan 2020

He knows him and his wife are fucked?

Treasonous pigs!

They make Benedict Arnold into a saint!

Stuart G

(38,436 posts)
16. Yes, my sentiments toward McConnell are the same as your. K and R
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 07:24 PM
Jan 2020

...McConnell created that utter disgust and hatred, when he refused to allow a vote on Obama's Supreme Court pick. Like Trump he created it himself. It is deep and very ugly. McConnell is quoted as wanting to destroy Obama and his presidency from the beginning. That is it, and that is all.

Prosper

(761 posts)
18. Consider that the predominant perception of Trump is the same as yours
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 07:29 PM
Jan 2020

and mine and a lot of others. That makes it hard to realize how we can exist on the same planet as his supporters. As bad as Trump is that is how he was made. The people that support him have made a conscience decision to do so in spite of all the information pointing out his misogynistic racist dictatorial tendencies. Granted he lied his way into the presidency with “lots of good paying jobs” “make America Great Again” and healthcare that will be denied to nobody. But his reality is totally opposite and it really begs the question: “what can make so many people support him”.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,007 posts)
22. Loathing (you list) is good cold emotion w/o toxic heat of hate that is so self-injurious and
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 07:46 PM
Jan 2020

... and loathing can be just as much of a goad to action as hate.

Saviolo

(3,282 posts)
23. Mitch McConnell is the gravedigger of democracy.
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 07:47 PM
Jan 2020

As long as he's getting what he wants, he's going to keep going. If Trump's voted out, he'll continue to obstruct as he did with Obama. He rushed dozens and dozens of judge nominations through when he knew he could get his friends from the Federalist Society on the bench, and withheld nominations for years under Obama until there was a shortage and a crisis. This is all in addition to his blatant theft of Merrick Garland's seat on the SCOTUS.

He's super rich, insanely powerful, completely out of touch with any constituency that doesn't include other extremely wealthy and powerful people like himself. He will actively harm the poor, women, POC, LGBTQ+, and immigrants, because none of those people even exist in any meaningful way for him. They're (we're) an abstraction. He will suppress votes, gerrymander, lie, cheat, block Senate votes, obstruct, whatever he thinks he needs to do to give his party the tiniest edge. Not even because he believes in the party, but because it will keep him in power.

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