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Mitch McConnell’s Sanctimonious Threat Gets Over One Thousand Responses in Eight Minutes

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Mitch McConnell is the man who blocked Merrick Garland from a seat on the United States Supreme Court from March until well after November because he wanted “his guy” in that chair. Mitch McConnell is the person who fast-tracked Justice Amy Coney-Barret in just one month. Mitch McConnell is also the guy that refused to bring to the floor nearly every piece of legislation passed by the House of Representatives under the Democrats. Mitch McConnell is the man who totally reversed the rules regarding the number of votes required for the number of judges and justices needed for an appointment, which led the way for almost 300 Trump-appointed judges to pollute the federal bench for god only knows how long.

And yet today, Mitch McConnell is lecturing the country and the Democrats about the threat to do away with the filibuster and the 60 vote requirement to pass legislation, two of the most anachronistic and anti-democratic rules in the U.S. Senate and two that McConnell would and will break in a second, the moment he has the majority again.

We do not understand how Schumer allowed this to happen, but we are going to investigate it thoroughly. We strongly believe that the Democrats need to consider new leadership. This is not what we fought for.

Regardless, here is Mitch, getting more responses in eight minutes than anyone we’ve ever seen who wasn’t named Trump or Beyonce, most of them not nice:

Mitch, the nightmare is that you’ve lost the majority. The nightmare is that you don’t control the country from your perch. The nightmare is that something might be voted on and passed. A “scorched earth” Senate is the only thing that can function and because it would function it would be a nightmare to the people who lost it.

That’s really the point. Mitch would do it. Mitch will do it. So why not do it before he’s ever handed the Senate again?

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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Jason Miciak
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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