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Sen. Mitch McConnell appears to freeze again at a Kentucky event (www.nbcnews.com)
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[–] 26 points 3 years ago (5 children)

This is likely going to be unpopular, but McConnell, for all his faults, is one of the last remaining bulwarks of somewhat sane GOP machinery. I don't like the guy, but he's immeasurably better than having a MAGA fuckstick running the Senate caucus.

All that said, when your politician needs to be rebooted in the middle of public appearances, it's time to trade it in for a newer model.

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  • [–] 106 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    The first part of your comment may be true, but it's leaving out an important caveat: he's very much directly responsible for the current state of his party, and the rabid base he helped create.

    I think that's some important context.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I'm scarcely excusing his actions on a number of fronts, especially the SCOTUS clusterfuck he engineered. But his support for riling the base up was of the Tea Party, not MAGA, flavour.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago

    The MAGA collective are too busy calling each other pedos to be effective. Kevin Mccarthy found this out the hard way trying to get his votes. That was the only silver lining of Trump, he was too incompetent to actually accomplish his goals. How much of that wall got built?

    Mitch however is the reason the supreme court was able to repeal Roe. Not that I would relish someon like MTG getting more power, but it's in our best interest for the self enrichment fools to line their pockets instead of an idealog getting things done.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Can you please ELI5 what GOP and MAGA mean?

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    GOP stands for "Grand Old Party", which is a nickname for the Republican Party in the United States.

    MAGA is an acronym which stands for "Make America Great Again", and was used by Trump during his run for the presidency. It has since been used to indicate those that follow Trump and his policies.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Just to further clarify, MAGA was originally used by Ronald Reagan (and later Bill Clinton).... it's just another thing recycled by the orange guy who has no ideas of his own.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    To clarify even further, there was a failed painter in 1930s Germany who ran on the same slogan (except "Deutschland" not "America"). Also used the whole "fake news" thing (or "lugenpresse" in that case)

    ...I wonder how things turned out with that guy.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    GOP = Republican Party

    MAGA = Trumpists traitor branch of the party

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    To be clear, the GOP is also heavily composed of traitors.

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