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a PT cruiser full of militia guys that said "Mitch McConnell" on the side pulled up to the ballot counting location in kentucky. then all the guys got out and started loading boxes labeled "to elaine chao, these are the fake ballots for mitch from gyna" I know it's true because I just saw it on the internet

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I've always believed the Republican elected officials who know Trump is unbelievably unfit for office and active threat to our national security but support him anyway are worse. Trump is who he is—a severely damaged human being without two brain cells to rub together—but he wouldn't have been able to do any of the horrible shit he's done without the backing of the GOP.

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Considering the mood of the American electorate, I think it's safe to assume that 77 million Americans actually gave the President 154 million middle fingers.

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Paul's Law: You can't fall off the floor.

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And Ted Nugent was either going to be dead or in jail if Obama won reelection in 2012.

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Ok, so Biden's ~148,000 lead in Michigan should be decisive for Moscow Mitch, because it's "not even close?" Good to know.

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I have always though McConnell was worse than Trump. Mr. "My proudest achievement has been to block everything Mr. Black President has proposed" still won't let relief bills, apart from everything else, even come to a vote. Trump has power in that he seems to be able to hire and fire at will, and sign executive orders, but McConnell should be the Repugs' hero.

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Now, imagine you're Elaine Chao, and he's about to fingerbang you with those things.

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The party was already in the sewer. Biff was just holding their heads under water and making them drink it.

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Oh no, I 100% agree with you. Both men are evil, but Moscow Mitch is competent and understands how to manipulate the levers of power in Washington. Biff is a monkey with a machine gun, creating chaos. Moscow Mitch is able to target his evil.

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"They aren't just the sycophantic courtiers to a sociopath."Except when they are.Stephen Robinson knows even better than I do, because he's American and keeps track, no matter how nauseating the track gets, that Lindsey Graham said way back in the day, if the Republican Party nominated Trump for its presidential candidate, it would be destroyed, " ... and we'll deserve it."Hard to believe now that Graham actually spoke the truth once.Apparently he didn't find it that hard to transform into a sociopath's sycophantic courtier.I'll grant him that he made a stunningly complete job of it.

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Of course not.Reminds me of what someone said to me about von Daniken's "ancient astronaut" books back in the 1960s."They wouldn't let him publish it if it wasn't true."No, really.

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Disagree, but politely. You cannot separate the GOP from Trump's crimes.

Their endless ratfucking: SCOTUS, the Constitution, all of it, happened not because of Trump, but because of the GOP's enabling of Trump's treachery.

They don't get a pass.

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Please recount Kentucky and South Carolina just for the accuracy of it all.

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I will have to pass on those dirty thoughts 🤮

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