Don't Forget This Is All Mitch McConnell's Fault
And two other Friday political thoughts!
A Message From Future Historians: Fuck Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell has been out of the picture and very quiet for the last two years, likely because of his increasingly apparent health issues, but remember every time you get mad at the sad, pathetic, fascist state of the Republican Party that all of this is his fault, more than anyone else. He engineered the “one-term-president” approach to dealing with America’s first Black president, he opportunistically looked the other way as conspiratorial racists and morons hijacked GOP primaries across the nation with spectacularly awful candidates peddling delusional politics of resentment fanning the culture war flames that has led to Donald Trump being somehow tied in the polls despite regularly vowing to use the military against American citizens, and he could have whipped the votes in the Senate to convict Trump in an impeachment trial after January 6th and exiled Trump from politics for the rest of his life. But he was a coward when it mattered most.
Positive Election Vibes Check!
Huff a little hopium with me: I have no specific polling to back this up so this is just my own anecdotal vibe check, but I think the odds of a convincing electoral victory by Kamala Harris relative to today’s statistically tied polling are increasing.
Trump may have grown his vote share among young males of color and people without college degrees, but Kamala Harris has earned unexpected gains among suburban women disgusted in Trump, older Boomers who aren’t willing to roll the dice on whether or not Trump intends to make himself a dictator, and life-long Republicans still loyal to the Constitution, NATO, and Europe’s defense against Russian neo-imperialism who are following the permission structure set up by stalwart Republicans like Liz and Dick Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Joe Walsh, and Trump’s many former generals and national security advisers who agree Trump is the worst president — if not person — they’ve ever met. Fortunately for Democrats, the latter three voter blocs are much more likely-voters than young people of color and those without college degrees.
Meanwhile, Harris has been boldly reaching millions of voters with appearances on some of the Internet’s biggest podcasts, a 60 Minutes interview, and she even went into the lion’s den of Fox News. Trump, in contrast, is canceling interviews and appearances left and right because his conspicuous mental infirmity is flaunting his Dunning-Kruger ignorance more than ever, and he’s straight up losing it. Stopping a rally to sway to music for almost forty minutes in the last three weeks of the campaign is a game-changing example of senility, and his infamous “Weave™” is the kind of thing that makes everyone in a family agree it’s time for grandma or grandpa to go into a retirement home. So go ahead and snort this line of hopium with me, and suspect many more undecided voters will swing to Harris than Trump in these last three weeks!
Donald Trump Is The Stupidest Person In All Of American Politics
There’s just no better textbook example of Dunning-Kruger ignorance than Trump, and, unlike Biden, he has been such an idiot his whole life that the early stages of his now obvious dementia have been fortuitously difficult to differentiate from his usual stupidity.
There’s decades of examples of his mental deficiencies, but a very recent answer to a question on abortion during his Fox News town hall on women’s issues is a classic Trump answer I’d like to immortalize here:
Question: “So although abortion does lie with the states, what is your stance on that, and what would you say to those women?”
Trump’s answer: “So I got a call from Katie Britt, a young, just a fantastically attractive person from Alabama — she’s a senator — and she called me up like ‘Emergency, emergency!’ because an Alabama judge had ruled that the IVF clinics were illegal, and they have to be closed down — a judge ruled. And she said, ‘Friends of mine came up to me, and they were, oh, they were so angry.’ I didn’t even know they were going — you know — she’s — they were — it was fertilization — I didn’t know they were even involved in, nobody talks about that — they don’t talk about it, but, now that they can’t do it, she said, ‘I was attacked, in a certain way I was attacked,’ and I said, ‘explain IVS very — IVF — very quickly,’ and within about two minutes I understood it. I said ‘No-no, we are totally in favor of IVF.’”
Let’s do a play-by-play:
He starts off by mentioning Katie Britt, and then immediately interjects his answer to point out that he thinks she’s hot with his pavlovian sexism. Then his weaving makes it unclear what he’s trying to say until he gets to his cliché of “nobody talks about that” because, like all sociopathically narcissistic morons, if he’s not aware of something it never happened. Of course the bit about Britt being attacked by her friends stood out in his memory because he’s a whiny little bitch who complains endlessly about being treated unfairly, and he knows that the unpopularity of the GOP’s policies on abortion and IVF reflect poorly on his Supreme Court appointments who helped overturn Roe v. Wade and create this mess. Then he relates that he asked Senator Britt to explain IVF to him because, even though he was president for four years and has been campaigning for the four years since in an election for which abortion (whether voters are for or against it) is the most dominating issue, he knows nothing about the topic… because he’s a giant fucking idiot who doesn’t read and has no discernible intellectual curiosity. Hilariously, he mentions that he understood it after only two minutes — remember he’s always telling us he has a big Trump brain, and he’s a genius who is right about everything — and he finishes by saying he’s in favor of IVF because the self-defense part of his lizard brain knows he screwed himself politically by ending Roe (and bragging about it) and motivating suburban women to flip to the Democratic Party.
Obviously a Fox interviewer would never do this because Fox News exists as the propaganda arm of the Republican Party, but it would have been so amazing for the interviewer to have then asked Trump what IVF was, and to explain it to the audience. Also, remember that the question was about abortion generally, and his senile Weave™ took him immediately to a hot senator who once called him about IVF which he promises he supports despite being the reason it’s in danger of being banned.
This recap is amusing, but sadly this fucking idiot is a polling margin of error away from being elected to the presidency again. Here, real quick snort another line of hopium!
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Without Leader McConnell there would not be Donald Trump, at least not in 2024.
McConnell smirking bending, breaking norm to appoint his sub par SCOTUS justices was a sin. Sin is a word I rarely use.
It was amusing to me that McConnell was boo ed at RNC convention.
He gave those hideous people their place in politics&they boo him.
Karma
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