I believe Mitch McConnell blocking hearings for Merrick Garland was the moment that broke America. Since he violated that social contract and got away with it, the right has rampaged. - ThreadSky

mrjoncryer.bsky.social • 1 day ago

I believe Mitch McConnell blocking hearings for Merrick Garland was the moment that broke America.

Since he violated that social contract and got away with it, the right has rampaged.

Reposted from NBC News

BREAKING: Sen. Mitch McConnell says he won't seek re-election in 2026, ending a 40-year Senate career. nbcnews.to/4i5uZ9p

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billtbns.bsky.social•1 day ago

Obama should have seated Garland during recess and let them fight it out in the courts. The Senate abdicated their advise and consent responsibility.

veespop.bsky.social•1 day ago

The beginning of the end of America was the assassination of JFK.

ether50.bsky.social•1 day ago

Maybe that was moment that broke Government? I’ll lay the blame for the breaking of America at the feet of people such as Ailes, Rove, Gingrich, Limbaugh, Palin, and the like.

msbak.bsky.social•1 day ago

There is a special place in hell for Mr. McConnell. I think he knows that.

49njms.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nixon pardon. He pissed on our Constitution- no consequences. Resigning is what doctors and cops do when caught, then go to a different state. Nixon went from DC to CA. Same wealthy donors as always pampered him. And we’ll never fully recover. If we do somehow survive the current abomination.

kwangger.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hakeem Jeffries needs to study up on McConnell cause the turtle was effective even in the minority.

rygeldominar16.bsky.social•1 day ago

I hope McConnell gets his worst fear, a replacement with a D after their name - let him watch all his evil work goes down the drain.

yovivian.bsky.social•1 day ago

Good fucking riddance. He's the reason we're in this nightmare.....

dashx.bsky.social•1 day ago

When he lead the Rethuglican secret meeting just after Obama was elected when they had vowed to ruin his presidency (party over country) where the asshole bros began, (Ryan, Gowdy, etc. and the ignorant fuck we're left with now, Jordan) & every power grab since then, including Trump.

katpic57.bsky.social•1 day ago

Definitely a harbinger for what was to come.

wmoliver13.bsky.social•1 day ago

I hope his retirement sucks, that he's considered the creepy old man on his block that kids are warned not to linger in front of but they egg his house everyday anyway

tygolden.bsky.social•1 day ago

Bye Felicia

sniveclaveley.bsky.social•1 day ago

He could have had an esteemed career. Instead he will be relegated to the cesspool of history (along with some other people…).

jfromaz.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yep. I haven’t forgotten. One of the principal architects of America's current freefall into becoming a fascist oligarchy. He could have supported impeachment and ended this madness. History will not be kind. Good riddance.

nywiz.bsky.social•1 day ago

But Chuck Schumer was also a coward too

@schumer.senate.gov

mzink.bsky.social•1 day ago

1000% agree

jamiromo.bsky.social•1 day ago

Fuck him

newsjunkieblu.bsky.social•1 day ago

Additionally, after 40 years, McConnell has left Kentucky with this 👇 40 years.

hhazel.bsky.social•1 day ago

Absolutely agree

bowarr.bsky.social•1 day ago

Good riddance. Too little, too late.

ellenmaai.bsky.social•1 day ago

Good riddance. One of the worst politicians ever.

liberalrocks.bsky.social•1 day ago

He is definitely the individual who empowered the GOP to become the monster it is.

But the true the point of no return for the GOP was the impeachment of Clinton. That was the point of no return for this path & nothing was ever a step too far again. McConnell just kept them on the trail.

blueskydogforever.bsky.social•1 day ago

I can’t wait to shit on his grave.

splatterthought.bsky.social•1 day ago

Pretty much.
Then again, America is always late to the party...

This mfer has been sabotaging a broken America for years.

eileenfiona.bsky.social•1 day ago

For me it was when nothing changed after Sandy Hook, but this too. We were getting signs for years

betterworldbuilder.bsky.social•1 day ago

Him and Biden are two of the longest serving political people I can think of.

One, retires with a stain despite peaking for a moment, and a past filled with murky/questionable decisions.

The other, retires with a sprinkling of glory amidst a flood of poor choices and outright betrayals

scoundrel2.bsky.social•1 day ago

he is truly why we are here today. he is a total disgrace and a traitor to this country. that is how he should be remembered.

ronniii.bsky.social•1 day ago

There is a special place in hell for this bitch. May he rot.

nathansmith.bsky.social•1 day ago

That was messed up and then them ramming in Comey-Barrett as a complete 180 on the rationalization for blocking Garland fully cooked the goose

lmrose.bsky.social•1 day ago

He won't be remembered well in history if history books still exist.

jickup.bsky.social•1 day ago

“Social contract?”

The social contract we call the Constitution, you mean?

stlugal.bsky.social•21 hours ago

It was Citizens United by far, but this guy hasn't helped improve the world for his existence. He's objectively made the world a worse place for having had a lifetime.

artweber.bsky.social•1 day ago

"If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell."
-- Christopher Browning, respected American historian

blueflagal.bsky.social•1 day ago

Good riddance!

420eggman69.bsky.social•1 day ago

Very valid. Ugh. I vividly remember him not wanting to impeach (and eventually convict) Trump for J6. Saying that he will soon be a private citizen and can be prosecuted as a private citizen. If was impeached and convicted he wouldn't have been eligible to hold office again. 1/

420eggman69.bsky.social•1 day ago

Merrick Garland deserves his own blame for dragging his feet on Trumps J6 trial tho. I hate this ride.

wtafishappening.bsky.social•1 day ago

Greedy asshole.

dunnottar1745.bsky.social•1 day ago

I still blame him for all of this - he could have nipped it in the bud at the impeachment.....

jupitess.bsky.social•1 day ago

I agree with you. He destroyed any legacy he had that day. He owns more than his fair share of the blame for everything thats happened since including the destruction of American democracy!

sonny01.bsky.social•1 day ago

His legacy was corporatocracy and kleptocracy, which went out of control in that last unconscious move for dRumpf's Pathocracy.

jupitess.bsky.social•1 day ago

I still hate him for not voting to impeach trump, if he had, no one would be in this mess now!

sonny01.bsky.social•1 day ago

Remember, almost every retrumplican became traitors not voting to imprison those Mah.Thur.Fah.Curse, particularly incestuous pedophile dRumpf the megalomaniac.

rose-hartigan.bsky.social•1 day ago

For decades, there has been a GOP Axis of Evil destroying democracy -
Rove, Gingrich & McConnell.
3 evil men.

barryjsullivan.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hey Mitch, this one is for you…

daven50.bsky.social•1 day ago

And McConnell followed up by ramming through the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett. And he was instrumental in Trump serving two impeachments. Mitch McConnell is a name that will live in shame.

jeffifer.bsky.social•1 day ago

That bastard is a ghoul.

malkfragment.bsky.social•1 day ago

When he finally croaks I will, I *will*, make a special road trip to Kentucky *just* to piss on his grave.

jeffifer.bsky.social•1 day ago

I understand. I'm planning to bring salt. That ground will never grow anything again.

dangermouse911.bsky.social•1 day ago

That was just a nail in the coffin. Reagan and supply side economics broke America.

liberatedwoman.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ha is totally responsible for this mess we are in.

godhatesyeast.bsky.social•1 day ago

this is all his fault

he could have stopped any of this at any time

his name will be first on the tombstone of democracy

sassymaster.bsky.social•1 day ago

He couldn’t deal with a black man being smarter than him.

joegug.bsky.social•1 day ago

But let not forget that a president more sophisticated in the ways of Washington like Biden might have overcome the blockade.

finny-y-marto.bsky.social•1 day ago

Good riddance. His legacy as a shit stain on democracy will endure.

theartistmattyrich.bsky.social•1 day ago

jillybcooks.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think his first statement was he was going to block everything Obama tried to do. And he did. Since KY is such a poor state, I don't understand how he and Rand Paul continue to get reelected while doing zero to help their own constituents.

jennvanhoose.bsky.social•1 day ago

Agree! Being from eastern Ky, the bulk of the population votes Republican and always against their own interests. I will never understand that.

ham215.bsky.social•1 day ago

I concur

tulsatime.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’d add when McCain chose Palin. It was the moment the GOP began glorifying the absurd.

jtheman.bsky.social•1 day ago

Absolutely! I have thought the same thing. To block a SCOTUS nominee for OVER A YEAR was an unprecedented normalization.

grauface.bsky.social•1 day ago

I hope he rots in hell. Have a great day, America!

skinny-brown.bsky.social•1 day ago

before that I hope his death is agonizingly slow and painful and that he wallows alone in his mansion with his piles of money and not one soul to lose a single second of peace over his passing

121gigawattprod.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah but I think RBG should have stepped down sooner. Those judges should have been filled when Democrats had the majority. When you have a clear shot you take it.

ms-d.bsky.social•1 day ago

Depravity and evil personified

shelley-og-jc.bsky.social•1 day ago

He is scum

libtilend.bsky.social•1 day ago

Absolutely was the turning point.

fouyapot.bsky.social•1 day ago

He lit the match and left.
May he never know peace.

magistercalvert.bsky.social•1 day ago

He sure seems cowed since his sister-in-law died horribly in a mysterious accident in the middle of nowhere Texas while driving a malfunctioning Tesla which trapped her inside when it drove into a pond and she drowned.

itsprkles.bsky.social•1 day ago

Agreed. That was the moment he overruled the power of our votes, and paid no political price for it.

darcee1.bsky.social•1 day ago

I hope he rots in turtle noggin hell for being the catalyst of trumps ruination of your country.

bobiv.bsky.social•19 hours ago

100% agree, Jon.

mothman911.bsky.social•1 day ago

Moscow Mitch should unfurl a "Mission Accomplished" banner. The U.S. has become a fully-owned subsidiary of Russia, and he's in large part responsible.

tucsonsu.bsky.social•1 day ago

Good riddance

a-xwatcher2696.bsky.social•1 day ago

And thank God he is paying for it with the slow loss of his freaking mind. Serves him right.

davdewitt.bsky.social•1 day ago

And if Garland were in the Court, Doug Jones would’ve been atty general, and the prosecution of Trump and other leaders of the coup attempt would’ve gone differently. But yes, the block of Garland for SC was outrageous and unprecedented.

jcmedia1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Exactly. 💯

architect8.bsky.social•1 day ago

derfelif.bsky.social•1 day ago

He couldn't have done it without Citizens United.

jimmis.bsky.social•1 day ago

I agree

energyis.bsky.social•1 day ago

BEST NEWS FOR ALL OF US AND I AM CELEBRATING EVERY DAY UNTIL HE IS F'ING GONE!

emelinakenika.bsky.social•1 day ago

He can rot in hell as far as I am concerned.

dbjmn3700.bsky.social•1 day ago

Shame on you Mitch for voting for Kash Patel! 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻 You knew that was a wrong move and you did it anyway for the Republicans. See ya later, don’t let the door hit ya on the way out! 👎🏻

direwolf52.bsky.social•1 day ago

It goes way back to the Krotch brothers and decades of repressed facism.. It's been a long story. Mitch just put the final dagger in the heart of democracy.

tzipshmil.bsky.social•1 day ago

True. And then he added a final blow when he refused to remove Trump after January 6.

greenvistas.bsky.social•1 day ago

I fully agree with this! Hatred of a black President started this dismal decline and led to a fully bought and paid for Supreme Court. F them all!

nees5959.bsky.social•1 day ago

You will, as we all do, be required to live with your past decisions sir.

aes360.bsky.social•1 day ago

And staying silent after Nov 2020 election and what followed

boocow16.bsky.social•1 day ago

Mitch who?

grouchygrams.bsky.social•1 day ago

I believe it goes way farther back than that. When we gave up our rights to privacy after 9/11 seems to have been the pivotal moment.

madwisconner.bsky.social•1 day ago

I wholeheartedly agree!

danben.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thinking about Gingrich’s Contract ’on’ America has a point where the right explicitly started down the path that lead to the trump junta, project 2025 etc

swlabr123.bsky.social•1 day ago

Goes back further. I keep remembering things with Jerry Fallwell and Reagan.

suedei.bsky.social•1 day ago

Mitch McConnell can resign as much as he wants. However, it will not change the fact that he played a significant part in this disaster; he will be held to account.

direwolf52.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not a significant part of the disaster. He IS te disaster.

suedei.bsky.social•1 day ago

Along with the rest of them. I hope they all are held accountable. its a disgrace what they are doing

earthfan.bsky.social•1 day ago

F him.

reedermt.bsky.social•1 day ago

Absolutely. That was the turning point.

lectric1e.bsky.social•1 day ago

turtle mcfuckface needs to die a slow and miserable death and go to his hell- this is all on him...

karakelty.bsky.social•1 day ago

No, it was the moment the Supreme Court crowned Bush president.

mfoley25.bsky.social•1 day ago

good riddance and f*** him!

angeliquecat.bsky.social•23 hours ago

And shoving those unqualified asshats into the Supreme Crunchwrap Court… McConnell deserves to be haunted by all the holiday ghosts… and saying that DirtyJiveTurkey would ever be held accountable. He’s responsible for all this mess. May he be remembered as the weakling who caused our downfall.

moofusp.bsky.social•1 day ago

Close it was eye of Newt. He started this shit

tadrow.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’d put it at least as far back as Gingrich, with his Contract on America and segregating the incoming 1980 Congress orientation by party to make it easier to dehumanize Democrats…

naveman.bsky.social•1 day ago

Co-sign

sonny01.bsky.social•1 day ago

America began broken 💔 as all colonization of indigenous lands do. Foundations built upon genocide end in genocide. Welcome to recycling ♻️

jacobmc.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yep at that point all decency and normality was thrown out. And it's been nothing but awful ever since.

oldleafsfan.bsky.social•1 day ago

History will not look kindly on what he has done. 🐢

rockyreader.bsky.social•1 day ago

💯 agree with that.

rickster4real.bsky.social•23 hours ago

And a big effU to the Turtle for his feckless leadership. You played a pivotal role is wrecking this country.

sandraeb.bsky.social•1 day ago

He broke America with the help of the Murdoch’s

haroldkrieg.bsky.social•1 day ago

Felon Trump took office on 01-20-2025. Now with all those appointed as director of government offices, including, but not limited to Kash Patel as Director of the FBI, the USA has died on 02-20-2025. So, in 2026 there is no more USA.

ejk415.bsky.social•1 day ago

I agree with you 100%. He will be remembered for that and for voting not to impeach the orange turd.

girlhasnoname8.bsky.social•1 day ago

Me too. That was the first time the GOP out right broke the rules.

democrataz.bsky.social•1 day ago

McConnell has many things that have led to the mess we’re in. Merrick Garland is one. Not voting for impeachment in 2021 was a huge mistake. But I also blame Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She should have resigned and let Obama appoint someone. Still, McConnell’s manipulations are epic.

twinklebutt.bsky.social•1 day ago

A sad, pathetic end to a sad, pathetic existence. An invisible legacy for a man rapidly to be forgotten.

wehriskat.bsky.social•1 day ago

Bush v. Gore, then McConnell.

jackiswoke.bsky.social•1 day ago

Completely agree
Eight years of W and 20 years of war ensued, including the Great Recession

idamay.bsky.social•1 day ago

Mitch McConnell did absolutely nothing to help prevent this nightmare. Good riddance to bad rubbish!

osbornecox.bsky.social•1 day ago

That and the Supreme Court making up law for the Bush v. Gore case only to stop the lawful counting of votes.

susanggarrity.bsky.social•1 day ago

About time.

so-focus.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’ll go a bit farther back. When the Supreme Court stop the vote counting and gave the presidency to Bush 2. We’ve been on the working timeline ever since

wickedferal.bsky.social•1 day ago

And then hiring Garland for DOJ put the final nail in the coffin.

hmsorrentino.bsky.social•1 day ago

Agreed! I think he’s in a state of “be careful what you wish for”. Clearly spiraling out of control.

paulracko.bsky.social•1 day ago

Pure filth. May he rot in hell.

paulracko.bsky.social•1 day ago

The @devil.bsky.social is listening!

shibbard.bsky.social•1 day ago

Burn in hell TRAITOR!

dmc57.bsky.social•1 day ago

Aww, Mitch, farewell, goodbye, Auf Wiederschauen, ado perhaps you no longer need to be a 🐓.

kardenny60.bsky.social•1 day ago

And make sure to take Charles Grassley with you.

vbkim.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yep.

moongirlsusie.bsky.social•1 day ago

I did ask the question while the supreme court noms were being blocked: why is our govt allowing a party to subvert the intent of our constitution? They should have been prosecuted for that at the time.

moongirlsusie.bsky.social•1 day ago

When we finally rid ourselves of the traitors Trump et al, we will need to install an office of oversight that only reports to the people (not congress), has authority to charge, arrest, and prosecute politicians, and can't be fired by POTUS.
And is weighted so that no one party can control it.

bwack.bsky.social•1 day ago

Fuck off Mitch!

malkfragment.bsky.social•1 day ago

Too much of our system is based upon the honor system or "Gentleman's Agreements". The guardrails are made of honor and the fear of shame. Which, of course, does nothing to stop the ignominious or the shameless.

dfinn8.bsky.social•1 day ago

May he burn in this life, not in hell.

pmurray63.bsky.social•1 day ago

In his 60 Minutes interview, McConnell said:

McConnell: I feel fine about it. I knew that if the shoe was on the other foot--
Lesley Stahl: But is that a good reason?
McConnell: --they would've done the same thing.

And I was screaming at the tv, BUT DEMS HAVE NEVER DONE THAT.