The Republican leader told POLITICO that his critics "had their shot" already. But conservatives are not done whacking him over the immigration-for-Ukraine aid implosion.

The Republican leader told POLITICO that his critics “had their shot” already. But conservatives are not done whacking him over the immigration-for-Ukraine aid implosion.

  • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
    48·
    9 months ago

    It baffles me how people see what happens among the Republican lawmakers and say, “yeah, that’s the kind of leadership I want to make my country great.” I mean, if you don’t agree with Democrats then don’t vote for them. But why keep voting for the same people who year after year show they have no interest in governing?

    • Telodzrum@lemmy.world
      271·
      9 months ago

      GOP voters have turned over the last two decades from a traditional type of elector, who casts votes and lends political power to a candidate for something. The average GOP voter in 2024 is voting against something. These things they oppose are often imagined or maliciously designed and when real, are almost always dishonestly portrayed in scale and scope.

    • PrincessLeiasCat
      12·
      9 months ago

      Fear. Of everything. Of America not being how it was when they were growing up. Conservative media have to constantly keep them terrified of imaginary shit so they’ll vote for the person who can “fix” it.

      You think they take 5 minutes to wonder why the “caravan” appears like clockwork right around election time every few years and then disappears like magic?

      Nah.

      • moneyinphx@lemmy.world
        9·
        9 months ago

        The best time to have lived in America was in the 50s as a white property owning man. Republicans fantasize over that period and want to regress us to get that back.

    • SuperDuper@lemmy.world
      9·
      9 months ago

      The insane thing to me is how people are so willing to look past the open hostility towards democracy. It’s crazy that people see the insurrection, the false electors plot, the refusal to certify the election, etc and just say “yeah but I prefer their tax policies.”

  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
    233·
    9 months ago

    I hate Mitch McConnell with the intensity of 10,000 suns. But I give the devil his due; he knows how to manipulate Senate rules to get what he wants. I think the GOP could be about to slaughter the golden turtle.

    They have no one else who can do what he does.

    • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
      14·
      9 months ago

      I was in a civil debate with a light-Trumper about why he thought the election was rigged. I asked him one simple question that honestly made him reconsider his stance: “Informed Democrats know that McConnell has done more damage to this country than Trump ever could, so if the Democrats really went out of their way to rig the elections in multiple key states to keep Trump out, why not finish the job in just one state to stop maybe their most powerful enemy in Mitch McConnell from staying in power?”

      • groupofcrows@lemmy.ca
        6·
        9 months ago

        Or ask him, if the Democrats rigged the election so Trump would lose, why didn’t they also rig a few of the other races in the same ballots so all those targeted Republicans would lose. This would have given the Democrats control of the house and Senate.

  • thefartographer@lemm.ee
    15·
    9 months ago

    Don’t you fucking tell me when I’ve taken my shot, old man! You have not yet even begun to imagine my pettiness. I hope your balls get caught between the toilet seat and the bowl and then you sneeze.

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
    9·
    9 months ago

    The GOP don’t realize that their “standing in the face of adversity” looks like an ineffectual tantrum to anyone who doesn’t drink their Kool aid.