• Pete Hahnloser
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    910 months ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      3110 months ago

      But his support for riling the base up was of the Tea Party, not MAGA, flavour.

      That seems like a distinction without a difference.

      • @[email protected]
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        710 months ago

        I think the point they’re trying to make is ‘McConnell might be horrendous shit, but at least he’s not horrendous diarrhea’.

    • prole
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      2110 months ago

      He’s literally the leader of the legislative branch of the Republican party. It would be absurd to act like he bears no responsibility for the direction of his party.

    • Unaware7013
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      1510 months ago

      But his support for riling the base up was of the Tea Party, not MAGA, flavour.

      “He wanted a Squirtle, not a Blastoise”

    • @[email protected]
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      10 months ago

      He doesn’t deserve less culpability just because he underestimated how much evil he’d do

      • @[email protected]
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        510 months ago

        Underrated comment. Arsonists don’t get clemency for the things they didn’t intend to burn.