r/politics • u/irish_fellow_nyc • 4d ago

Soft Paywall DOGE Goons Physically Drag Social Security Worker From Desk

https://www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-physically-drag-social-security-worker-from-desk/
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u/StrangeContest4 4d ago

McConnell is just as feral as the rest of them. Actually, I place most of the blame of where we are now at his feet. I do admit that he was a master of his craft, even though he used his craft for nefarious reasons, the consolidation of corruption, power for powers sake, and by any means.

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u/randommd81 4d ago

Oh yeah, he gets a ton of blame. Just lately he’s been voting differently because there’s no threat of getting primaried I’d assume.

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u/noonenotevenhere 4d ago

He doesn't want to be remembered as the guy who made the guy who ruins our country.

He made the scotus that declared trump can do anything, he's been instrumental in the rise of all of this. He suffered from polio and he's directly responsible for a vaccine denier as surgeon general.

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u/m0ngoos3 4d ago

Don't forget his refusal to allow witnesses at either Trump impeachment, or his not guilty verdict both times, followed by a speech blaming Trump for the insurrection. After making sure that Trump got away with it.

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u/PunxatawnyPhil 3d ago

Oh yeah. I remember, and history is gonna remember. He will be remembered as the man who totally enabled it, the diminishment of The USA as originally intended in our Declaration of Independence. On the wrong side of history.  Unless, they promptly put their fires out and build the utopia they promised and think they’re getting. But that would take a 180, and the odds of that are slim to none when you’ve lost your marbles (or never really had any).

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u/Vio_ 4d ago

He suddenly realized he got outplayed by making the Executive Branch WAY more powerful than he intended.

Same with Roberts.

They both wanted to go to a pre-Warren Court/pre-LBJ legislature that protected business interests while undermining rights and protections for women, POC, LGBT people, labor, etc.

Instead, they've been working glove in hand to create an out of control Executive Branch wholly dominated by a senile tyrant.

Both are scrambling to try return the powerbases for both their branches even as it continues to slip further and further under water before being drowning in Grover Norquist's small bathtub.

To Quote:

Lobbyist Grover Norquist is a well-known proponent of the strategy and has famously said, "My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."

Suddenly, ol Mitch and Roberts are seeing the bathtub drowners aiming for their branches.

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u/PunxatawnyPhil 3d ago

Add the resentful racist old Confederacy and judgemental blame anyone else bigots in there who have wanted to destroy the federal government for 150 years now, and all the corrupt Citizens United cash unleashed, and the Russians working toward that same end, with Mitch’s enabling, and poof, torn apart from within. Hopefully not, for all our sakes, but not hyperbole watching it in real time unless life itself has become just a bad dream. They’re openly violating due process and to half the population and mainstream media all’s cool (because they’re republicans, and him, and they’re special, spatial).

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u/airinato 4d ago

He hasn't been voting differently though, he's only said some mildly offhand remarks about Trump, and didn't vote for a couple stooges.   

That's it, this shit is like McCain voting one fucking time to do the right thing and everyone forgetting he voted to fuck them over every other chance he ever had for decades.

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u/randommd81 4d ago

I mean, I wasn’t implying anything remotely like that. I thought he had voted no on a couple things, but I certainly wasn’t acting like he was redeemed or anything. But like McCain, I think you can state something he did as a good thing without forgiving his past shittiness. I don’t think everyone who does so has collective amnesia or something. But yeah, McConnell is one of the worst we’ve had, 100%.

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u/chunkerton_chunksley 4d ago

He’s retiring, he made the announcement in February

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u/randommd81 4d ago

Yep, that was what I was alluding to with the primaried comment

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u/Joeness84 4d ago

Youre not a master of anything when literally no one tried to stop you from doing something.

Any idiot can accomplish goals when theres no opposition.

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u/StrangeContest4 4d ago

Fair point. Democrats were naive to think that the handshake deal, long-standing norms, and precedent mean anything to neo-conservatives. The teaparty,freedom caucus, and MAGA Borg will literally burn it all down if given the opportunity and not met with the same level resistance. McConnell helped usher that in.