As COVID flares to its worst levels of the pandemic, Donald Trump’s incompetence is fully coming home to roost.
And Mitch McConnell could have staved off the reckoning with a stimulus bill... but he was too busy penning the fantasy final scene in a biopic that will never be. 1/
McConnell pushed through an illegitimate SCOTUS justice thinking it would be the final championship ring that made him the GOAT.
And now his party is poised for an obliterating wave of losses followed by an obliterating wave of reform.
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Trump piloted us headlong into the three peaks of rising COVID, a collapsed economy and plummeting markets because he is a toddler locked in a cockpit sure he is Chuck Yeager.
McConnell though... he chose this.
He punched in a course straight into mountains.
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For real, Mitch’s choices have been a political suicide mission.
He’s too smart to not know that.
I think he has always been planning on pulling a personal ripcord and ditching before the bang.
Bet ya a beer McConnell pulls a Paul Ryan and bails not long after the election.
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When this election is over, win or lose, we Dems need to reckon with something.
We - me included - have spent endless time spotlighting the immoral and corrupt things Trump has done - as if people seeing them is enough to change their minds.
For some people, it is.
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We haven’t reckoned with a thornier reality though:
Too many people aren’t swayed by bad things because they don’t think they’re actually bad.
Having a crime on tape isn’t compelling to a jury that doesn’t believe it’s a crime.
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And being blunt, I’m talking about primarily white people here.
The array of comments I’ve seen in the past day from white people who still support Trump has really been something.
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About five or six years ago or so, I was working with a small firm as partners on a long-term client project.
I discovered that the two senior guys from the partner firm were cheating our client.
Basically skimming money by getting a backend cut of inflated vendor bills.
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I had helped write our agreement with the client. I considered myself a point of trust. The partners were defrauding the client - and me knowing meant I could be either a tacit accomplice or a whistleblower.
I ain’t no fucking accomplice, so I consulted an attorney...
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The partnership and client relationship were important to me.
They were 90% of my income.
I figured I could blow the whistle on the partner firm and the client would likely fire them and possibly hire me back directly.
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Tonight, the White House is going to rub America’s nose in their successful corruption of the Supreme Court.
Mark my words: The pictures of a corrupt president on the White House lawn politicizing a SCOTUS appointment 8 days before an election will live in infamy.
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Trump cannot help but see Coney Barrett being illegitimately pushed through as a victory because his disordered mind sees every time he successfully cheats as proof of his power.
But the public won’t see that.
It won’t see that today and it won’t see it tomorrow.
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The public will see it as the distilling image of the reduction of the Supreme Court to an illegitimate political body no longer a coequal branch.
It will see it as the moment SCOTUS became a wholly owned subsidiary of an unpopular president and even less popular Congress.
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