Only kinda. McConnell is the guy who'd do deals with Russia and try to rip them off and not pay them and get away with it, unlike Trump. It's interesting to watch. He would be supporting Trump if he thought Trump had a future. Mitch is evil but brave, and he is in the loop. Mitch knows stuff.
Declaring tariffs *is* a power of congress, so Trump doing it unilaterally means swiping that power from congress, and I guess Mitch took that personally.
Unfortunately it won't get to have a vote in the House because of that stupid "For this term, a day lasts a year." rule the Speaker brought in, meaning the rule that forces him to put it up for a vote within 7 days gives him until 2032.
It is nuts. I think we're going to see him hold a conference where he announces it's stage IV and he decided to take his heart out of the phylactery jar and and listen to it as it whispers promises into his ear.
I feel like the only way we get out of this presidency without catastrophic consequences is if enough Republicans rise up and we collectively throw him out before his term is up. So I like to see this.
That being said ... I did not think I'd live to see *Mitch McConnell* actively disagreeing. 😮🙀
His wife is going to make his life hell, if Trump goes through with tariffs on Chinese imports, that being her whole family's business and all. Smuggling things in through Canada isn't impossible as their plan B, & that was about to be screwed, too.
I'm not sure its nuts. McConnel has been acting like an a-hole for the last 8 years or so, but, contrary to popular opinion, I'm confident he's not *actually* one. He just plays one on TV.
Every now and then Rand Paul remembers that he cosplays having libertarian values and will flinch that into a reflexive "vote against any tax" impulse.
He never seems to remember his libertarian values when it comes to things that aren't about the government collecting money.
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Not... completely nuts. Mitch is stepping down after his current term. And he knows he's so old he'll die soon anyway, so MAGA terrorism doesn't hold as much fear.
The only thing left for him is his legacy.
Not the one I would have predicted to make the jump, but.
Mitch McConnell has lived in my head at the very bottom of the trash dumpster. My brain isn’t ready to process or understand maybe evicting him from it.
Pretty sure his wife, who is the brains of their partnership, has one of trump’s wigs pinned by seven different rusty nails on a wall in their home.
He accused her of being a PRC operative. If there’s a greater insult to levy against a Taiwanese capitalist, I can’t imagine it.
I suspect it's because he's retiring and can't be primaried, and if Rs lose that seat they've probably already lost most of the others too, so they figure he can do things that will make the baby angry without consequences
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That's all I got, unless the MitchBot rebooted and thought the Democrats were still segregationalists.
Go against Trump? Who cares, it's some other person with an R next to their name next time.
He's proving once again he's just a pathetic coward and always has been.
Until other countries looked that man in his rheumy eyes and said, “We are gonna burn your bourbon exports to the ground.”
McConnell blinked. And it’s apparent he hasn’t forgotten.
I'm not even American and I'm still checking myself for signs of some kind of multiverse displacement
That being said ... I did not think I'd live to see *Mitch McConnell* actively disagreeing. 😮🙀
https://bsky.app/profile/kenwhite.bsky.social/post/3k3kalpou3d22
He never seems to remember his libertarian values when it comes to things that aren't about the government collecting money.
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
I... didn't think he had a spine anymore. Or he's stolen it back from Trump's back pocket...
I... FOUR of them did it too! Just...
The only thing left for him is his legacy.
Not the one I would have predicted to make the jump, but.
https://bsky.app/profile/jrtonca.bsky.social/post/3llu73y47ys24
He accused her of being a PRC operative. If there’s a greater insult to levy against a Taiwanese capitalist, I can’t imagine it.