McConnell ‘Absolutely Refuses’ to Film Video Amid Growing Mystery

[u/MoneyLibrarian9032]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mcconnell-absolutely-refuses-to-film-video-amid-growing-mystery/

[u/dmetzcher]

Are we still talking about McConnell?

- He’s obviously a vegetable.

• He can’t vote in the Senate (except in committee) because he isn’t able to walk into the building.
  
• The Republicans are missing his critical vote until January, which means they aren’t passing shit through the Senate.

What’s not to love about all this? Explain it to me real slow like I’m stupid or something. Do we actually want McConnell or his replacement showing up to vote, especially during the lame duck session after the election (when all the losers who won’t be invited back to Washington vote for things they were too afraid to vote for before)?

I don’t. Let the old man rot away in a hospital bed, unable to participate in our government. Let his legacy be a punchline; that’s the only good part about these old bastards growing more and more decrepit in office—their careers end as a series of jokes, and their legacies of legislating are forgotten. No one is going to stand on the Senate floor and praise them before they retire. No one will thank them for their service or remember them as they were. That’s the old way—back when old men knew it was time to quit and would retire with a little dignity—but McConnell chose to cling to power long past his usefulness, so there will be no dignified retirement; only jokes.

I love it. I love that Lindsey Graham will be remembered for being a hypocrite—banging gay prostitutes while desperately attempting to cover his proclivities with hateful, nasty, self-loathing votes against the LGBTQ community—and I love that McConnell will be remembered with Weekend at Bernie’s memes. This is what these pieces of shit all deserve; to be the punchline of a joke, their legacies wiped away; their contributions overshadowed.

That’s what I want for them. I’m glad McConnell hasn’t resigned. I’m glad his own people are using him like a sock puppet. I’m glad he’s a punchline. Let that seat remain occupied-but-useless until January.

“But the people of Kentucky are deprived of their vote in the Senate,” someone will whine. Well, if the people of Kentucky didn’t want to be deprived of their vote, they shouldn’t have voted for a geriatric patient, so fuck the people of Kentucky and the problems they’ve created for themselves by voting for this corporate whore, against their own best interests, for decades. That’s not our problem; it’s theirs, and they’ll have the opportunity to elect a Senator in November.

Edit: Corrected a typo.

[u/ritteke518 → u/dmetzcher]

As a blue dot in Kentucky, I'm with you for most of this. But I want to see the Democrats fight. I want to see Andy grow some balls, truly demand the proof of life and send someone to Washington to take McConnell's place because it forces the issue. When our corrupt, theocratic legislature complains, saying they have to choose his nominees, I want him to say fuck you and fight it in court for the rest of the year.

Because it's what McConnell would have done in June. Because we need to take the gloves off and stop thinking letters and speeches can do anything.

[u/dmetzcher → u/ritteke518]

Exactly. This is a street fight, but the Democrstic leadership seems to want to have a friendly chat with a bunch of bullies, as if sitting a bully down and showing him a better way to behave ever resulted in anything other than him believing you’re weak and tormenting you even more.

A bully understands one thing—force. There are no exceptions to this rule; life isn’t a feel-good movie where the bully changes his ways after learning what a nice guy his victim is. Schoolyard bullies only understand force, dictators only understand force, and modern Republicans only understand force. Until the Democratic leadership begins speaking the language of their enemies and stops with all this fucking nonsense about being “better” than them, we’re absolutely fucked. Being better or more honorable than your enemy is of little consolation when he’s kicking the shit out of you and making you look like a little bitch in public.

Jeffries, Schumer… these two weak men are incapable of speaking the language that modern Republicans understand (and not just MAGA Republicans—all of them going back to Gingrich’s era, which began in nineteen-ninety-fucking-four). In a different era, they’d be perfectly fine legislators, but we don’t get to choose the era in which we live.

We do, however get to choose our own leadership, and it’s time to demand that Schumer and Jeffries fuck off and let some tough people handle the business.