McConnell is probably kicking himself

[Proud liberal 80]

That he gave us peasants $600 for nothing...you know the only reason he did it was because of this Senate race

[Marie Marie]

1. Obviously, Americans are not bought that cheaply. Crumbs to the peasants

may have cost him his Leadership. Good - we'll take that $600.00 PLUS what the Democrats come through with for us.

[BGBD]

2. Trump fucked him too

Democrats ran with the $2,000 checks and Warnock/Ossoff leaned on it heavily in the last days.

I wouldn't be surprised if the promise of passing that bit of legislation didn't boost democratic turnout today and push us over the top there.

[Proud liberal 80]

3. Except for the Warnock/Purdue voters

I guess the 18,000 Warnock/Purdue voters didn’t care about the $2000

[BGBD]

6. I expect that's

just a little bit of incumbency advantage that Purdue has from actually having won an election before rather than being appointed.

[mvd]

4. And I may not be able to get $600 due to lack of foresight by the IRS

The last payments were 8 months ago and my bank account on record, like others, was closed! They should still get me a check.

I am sure Biden with a Dem Senate will get everything right in any next payment.

[Blasphemer]

10. I am in the same boat!

Seems like they want to push people to file taxes early and get the credit rather than having to issue checks. I plan to delay filing my taxes so we'll see how soon the check arrives.

[mvd]

15. Good luck to us getting checks

I need it badly.

[Skittles]

13. sorry, why was it closed?

just curious

[mvd]

14. Chargeoff of an overdraft

Bank made a huge error and refused to correct it. Naturally I didn’t even want to remain at Citizens Bank.

[Skittles]

16. just update your new account info

ya know?

[mvd]

17. IRS doesn't have a place

Maybe Get My Payment will now have one since my payment was rejected.

Have a good night. Very enjoyable night on DU!

[joshcryer]

5. He doesn't care. He sees himself as the last Republican guard.

Because he knows the party is going to die after he is long gone. He knows it's over. He knows, and there's no real disputing it, he was the Iron King of the Senate for 12 years. Historians will look at him as an evil man, but a strong arm. And that's all he fucking cares about.

[madaboutharry]

7. I have a question.

Can a turtle kick itself in the ass?

[RockRaven]

8. No, he's not. He's really not. Because he knows that $600 will not prevent any of the

catastrophic outcomes which he WANTS to happen to as many Americans as possible to hurt Democrats as the "in office at that moment" party.

He's taking solace in the fact that he's got a clear and obvious angle to play and has positioned things to affect a useful short-term outcome in that direction -- economic devastation across all of American society apart from the uber-wealthy.

That $600 was useful in that it was so fucking small and ineffective... He does not care about the debt or deficit or spending. That spending was good in his mind insofar as it prevented a better bill/spending from being proposed/debated/adopted which would have caused better outcomes, less suffering, for the American people.

[Blue Owl]

9. Throw that fucking garbage out

ESAD McConnell!

[regnaD kciN]

11. The irony being...

...that, if he hadn't roadblocked the full $2,000, they might have picked up enough votes to hold one of these seats.

[msfiddlestix]

12. He should be kicking himself for letting the opportunity to dump trump with a conviction

Everything would have been different had they simply convicted that psychotic and put Pence in there.

As "clever" as he's touted to be, I'll never understand why they didn't take the opportunity when it was served to them on a silver platter.

[tblue37]

18. Kompromat. I keep saying it because it's obvious. nt