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Link to tweet
@MichaelSteele
I'm sure Mitch is aware that a grown ass black man who happens to be a former president has agency to speak his mind on how his successor is managing this crisis, especially since his successor has yet to keep "his mouth shut" about him.
And "classless"?
Aviation91
(114 posts)Well said... Thank you Michael Steele!!
fwvinson
(488 posts)minority in this area, as far as thinking Mitch is evil. In my opinion, people here are not paying attention.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
Ferrets are Cool
(21,112 posts)still_one
(92,488 posts)demonstrated overt racism, is embarrassing
Alacritous Crier
(3,822 posts)IronLionZion
(45,612 posts)It's better if these folks stay Republican but speak out against this stuff. It gives them more credibility with other black Republicans.
Otherwise they would influence our party to become more conservative to pander to them.
Exactly what IronLionZion just said!
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)the Democratic Party is more financially responsible by miles. Every GOP president has a recession, ends their term with record-setting deficits, and unemployment figures are abysmal. The stock market means very little to macroeconomics, compared with those other factors.
If the Dems need to raise taxes, it's to cover the spending of the "drunken sailor" party.
IronLionZion
(45,612 posts)low taxes, pro-business, opposes many social programs, opposed most of Obama's and Pelosi's reforms
It's great that he's openly critical of Trump/McConnell and speaks out against racism. People like him should fix what's wrong with the Republican party.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Okay, thanks.
BamaRefugee
(3,488 posts)Salviati
(6,009 posts)I welcome him tearing into the republican party, but we don't need him telling us how to do our own business.
hlthe2b
(102,477 posts)Rick Wilson, George Conway, Steve Schmidt and others... Proceed please!
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)(Wait for It!)...even the previously despicable Bill Kristol. He was the Most Punchable Pundit ever to opine until Trump's reign prodded him into making a little sense.
wnylib
(21,727 posts)Opposing Trump makes them look like "good guys." They have known from the start that his worthless populism can't last long. They are looking out for themselves and not defending democracy or good governance. They are not even salvaging true consevatism.
The Republican party is not worth salvaging or cleaning up. It is far too tainted with a traitorous scum majority that enables and embraces Trumpist fascism.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)under PRESENT circumstances, though, they're kinda FUN to listen to...
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)Conservatism, while I don't agree with it, is a respectable ideology. The Republican Party has abandoned classical libertarianism (which, despite libertarian blathering, is not libertarianism) in favor of what Mussolini termed "the corporate state".
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)efforts to get all Americans health insurance in the 1990s.
He killed more Americans than Al Qaeda and ISIS could ever dream about--without blowing up anything.
He is still punchable, even with a sanitizer shortage.
rurallib
(62,474 posts)KS Toronado
(17,408 posts)unlike dumpies base they know right from wrong & are willing to put country before party even at the risk of their own livelihoods. Plus they are helping Biden get elected.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)SpankMe
(2,972 posts)liberalla
(9,273 posts)rickyhall
(4,889 posts)PatSeg
(47,695 posts)whereas Trump criticizes Obama publicly every chance he gets.
And this from the man who told colleagues they were going to make sure Obama was a one term president by blocking everything he tried to do.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)worked with, instead of against, President Obama, their party might be in a much better position today. Moscow Mitch thinks "classy" is talking about grabbing women by their private parts, classy is a first "lady" with nude photographs available worldwide, classy is colluding with Russians, and Chinese drug runners? How "classy" is the entire first family? The tRump family of grifters, thieves and dumbasses. CLASSY? Hey, Moscow Mitch here is what "classy" would be - convincing YOUR disaster of a leader to resign. You should retire, your have made millions from doing the bidding of wealthy donors, including Russians. After all the damage YOU have done to this country, why don't you donate a few of your ill-gotten millions to help the needy, hungry people that depend on you as a "representative"?
PatSeg
(47,695 posts)but obviously that will never happen. Like Trump, everything is about him and how government service can enrich him. In many ways, I think Mitch is worse than Trump. Trump is really stupid and childlike, but Mitch should know better.
How much money is enough for these vultures? There is a reason why "You can't take it with you" is a well worn cliche, but it still goes over the heads of many.
lastlib
(23,356 posts)A close encounter with dimensional lumber might re-direct his thought processes, such as they are.
druidity33
(6,450 posts)it didn't seem to make Rand Paul any less of an asshole.
lastlib
(23,356 posts)A 2-by-8 over the cranial cavity may not make MoscowMitch more of a human being, but it would be EVER so gratifying in its own way.....
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Pinocchios nose grew. Your face melts.
lastlib
(23,356 posts)May Mitch follow in his footsteps as he always has.
Nitram
(22,940 posts)Cha
(297,911 posts)TY!
ananda
(28,891 posts)Steele is a Reep.
No excuse.
Too little too late.
GETPLANING
(846 posts)Hypocrisy is the second.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)I wonder.
Hstch05
(219 posts)Toht, the bad Nazi from Raiders of the Lost Ark who got his face melted off, in mid-face melt.
At least according to Trump, he'd be a very fine person.
judesedit
(4,443 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,793 posts)OverBurn
(967 posts)noneof_theabove
(410 posts)look like a turtle
the old adage how did the turtle get on the fence post.
Since it did not crawl up there, someone had to put him there.
he is the keystone to this mess.
knock any keystone out of the building and the whole thing will collapse.
crickets
(25,988 posts)Link to tweet
@JBethSlater
Replying to @MichaelSteele
Any person who supports Donald Trump never gets to call someone else classless.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)A leaked PRIVATE conversation.
But Obama should never speak, I guess. Or think.
Every day the Trump cabal disgusts in a new way.
47of74
(18,470 posts)He's a fucking Nazi and Kluxer.
There I fucking said it.
It was either do that or have an aneurysm trying to keep it bottled up.
PatrickforO
(14,602 posts)the new stimulus remove liability for employers who force their people back too early is just another instance of corporate socialism. Corporations get the profits but the risk is all passed onto us.
As to his comments about Obama, well maybe they will galvanize voters in KY and Moscow Mitch will be out in the parking lot with a pink slip.
misanthrope
(7,435 posts)The good ol' days for guys like Mitch.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Collimator
(1,639 posts)isn't worth the energy-drain that results from outrage.
I think President Obama should have kept his mouth shut, McConnell said in the interview.
You know, we know he doesnt like much this administration is doing. Thats understandable, but I think its a little bit classless, frankly, to critique an administration that comes after you.
Loud, persistent laughter is the only worthwhile response. Can anyone really be so unaware?
yellowcanine
(35,703 posts)Just sayin'
Rabrrrrrr
(58,355 posts)That's all there is to it.
You got no legs to stand on, dickweed, because the guy you support is the most classless dimwit turd of a human being on the planet.
Clean up your own house first, shitstain.
wryter2000
(46,122 posts)Steele supported McConnell when Steele was head of the RNC.
demigoddess
(6,645 posts)no, Michael Steele lets McConnell have it!!!
let's is a contraction of let us. Lets is a verb, similar to gets.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)Corrected