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About time we start flipping tables.

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@billynichs.bsky.social · last mo.

Speak ill of the dead when deserved. Just because someone dies doesn’t excuse terrible things they of which they were responsible.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last mo.

Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...

And yet…McConnell refused to vote to convict. Seven of his colleagues did, and with McConnell’s leadership, more would have done so, potentially enough to get to the supermajority needed. With conviction, the Senate could have also taken the vote to block Trump from running again. Doing so would have ended Trump as a political power. McConnell was clearly considering this option. In an oral history interview at the time the House was impeaching Trump, McConnell said But apparently you can impeach somebody after they leave office, and if that happens, there’s a second vote in the Senate, which only has to pass by a simple majority, that prevents that person from seeking office again. So he could not only be impeached, but also eliminated from the possibility of a comeback for this office. So it is significant. In the end, McConnell protected Trump from punishment. It was not just the refusal to vote to convict. After a swift House impeachment, he pushed to delay the Senate trial. He opposed the Senate joining in a Congressional investigation of Jan 6. He endorsed Trump in 2024, although this matters little except to further diminish McConnell’s dignity, as it was clear by this point that the Republican Party was Trump’s and McConnell’s time of influence was at an end.
Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I think you need Mamdani levels of optimism about government to rebuild everything these assholes have broken but not necessarily his sunny disposition. Let's get some grumps in there too. Curmudgeons who are mad all the time but at the right people

David_j_roth@davidjroth.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Praying for Rudy Giuliani. Complicated man, but he taught me that marriage and family don't mean anything. You can just do whatever you want. Humiliate and lie to everyone you're supposed to love whenever you want, or are bored. Honestly fuck them. Also he taught me everything else is like that too.

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 5mo ago

im just really fucking sick of spending my entire adult life lurching from one worldwide economic disaster to another all because people pretend republicans arent dumb as dog shit morons completely detached from reality

Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The opposing party is using my tax money to build concentration camps and pay pardoned J6ers to kidnap children and shoot taxpayers in the street and bomb schoolchildren in Iran. Grow up you putz

Matthew Brooks@matthewrbrooks.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Seeing the opposing party as the enemy and prioritizing the defeat of that enemy over seeking to serve the American people is the underlying problem that has led us to this current nightmare version of the American government.

Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Every single time a Trumpist says “the rhetoric of the left is putting people in danger,” wave your middle finger in their face, because they are lying shitbirds without any principles.

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muscular baby jeb lund@mobute.bsky.social · 7mo ago

cignetti getting like $250k/hour on the "leaderversity: thinksummit" speaker circuit by saying you should hire smart talented people who work hard and train them in core skills and strategies and trust them to do a good job and then asking if folks wanna hear 59 minutes of stories about playin' ball

David_j_roth@davidjroth.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Anyway, living well and being good to the people in your life remains the best revenge, there. That and expanding the Supreme Court/House of Representatives, I guess, but you have to start with the stuff you can control.