Enjoy the moment, Mitch McConnell

[Cyrano]

This is the you wanted when you stole the Supreme Court.

History will treat you as the biggest mound of shit that America ever produced.

But you won't be alone. This Supreme Court will be viewed the same way.

[RKP5637]

1. You can smell the shit stench even more, already, from these despicable characters. n/t

[Irish_Dem]

2. He is enjoying it immensely. He knows he is one of the most powerful men in the world.

Arguably the most powerful man in the US right now.

And all of his dreams are coming true.

[wnylib]

26. Makes me wonder what kind of information

about McTurtle a good, investigative journalist could find and publicize to knock him off of his pedestal.

[Irish_Dem]

28. I doubt a journalist would challenge McConnell.

You don't go up against one of the most powerful men in the world without suffering consequences.
Especially one as ruthless as McConnell. He is the US version of Putin.

Besides McConnell has rigged the votes so he will always "win" his elections, no matter the bad press.

[wnylib]

32. Donald Trump was once untouchable, too.

Sounds like going after his vote rigging would be a good place to start. Maybe KY could use some US Marshall's at voting sites.

[Irish_Dem]

34. McConnell is much smarter than Trump.

And McConnell knows where all the bodies are buried and how DC works.

He probably also is pals with most of the other power brokers in DC, including the US Marshals Service.

[wnylib]

36. Difficult, but not impossible.

[Irish_Dem]

38. Very difficult. But not impossible yes.

[Upthevibe]

35. wnylib..........

Not to be argumentative but IMHO if there was anything major on him it would've been found and disclosed. He's been able to do so much damage for a long time and I can't imagine he wouldn't have been exposed by now...just my opinion.

[wnylib]

40. IF there was anything major on him?

Of course there is. You don't wield the amount of power that he does without there being skeletons along the way to that power.

It would take a dedicated, motivated person to uncover it. And someone with his/her own protection against the consequences. But it could be done, even though it probably won't be.

[intrepidity]

3. The dog finally caught the car

What will happen?

[RussBLib]

5. dog is gonna get run over nt

[LenaBaby61]

8. THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[Cracklin Charlie]

16. He is wound around the axle.

Eff them all.

[Wednesdays]

17. The dog merely starts chasing another car.

Watch out Hodges, Obergefell, Lawrence, Griswold, Loving.

[MarcA]

52. thomas has already indicated as much except Loving.

Gee, I wonder why - Not!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. I hope he lives to rue this day. n/t

[Harker]

19. That's generous. n/t

[DBoon]

62. you men hoping he lives?

[Harker]

66. There were calls to hang him from his erstwhile supporters. n/t

[Gore1FL]

9. I don't see how their ever-dwindling minority holds on to "win" in the end.

Right now, and for a number of reasons, they wield a lot of imbalanced power, but I don't see how, in the end, they actually win.

[calimary]

55. THAT'S the biggest and most important point, right there.

Money. Money that buys radio stations and news channels.

Have our Dems even awakened to that fact yet? Where are OUR media delivery systems????

[Tommymac]

59. Probably won't happen. 6 Global Media companies own it all and are owned by 1% moguls. (2020)

Near impossible for a start-up media company to be successful. That boat has sailed.

https://techstartups.com/2020/09/18/6-corporations-control-90-media-america-illusion-choice-objectivity-2020/
These 6 corporations control 90% of the media outlets in America. The illusion of choice and objectivity
by Nickie Louise POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Today, their impacts are more felt in our online news intake and media consumption habits. 37 years ago, 50 companies control the media in America. Fast forward to 2011, American news outlets are controlled only by 6 powerful corporations. Back in 2018, Jim Morrison, a singer, songwriter, and poet, who served as the lead vocalist of the rock band, once said: “Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.”

He was right. Today, Americans think they have an unlimited variety of entertainment and media options right at their fingertips. But it is all a lie. This illusion of choice was fabricated by the media elites. In the early 90s before the mainstream adoption of the Internet, the media landscape used to be simple and straightforward. Today, 6 media giants control a whopping 90% of what we read, watch, or listen to.

Objectivity in journalism is an illusion created by the elite class to give the appearance of balanced news. However, there is no such thing as unbiased news. Journalists who work for these six corporations answer to their owners and ultimately serve their agendas. For example, no logical thinking person will expect Washington Post to write a fair and objective story about its owner, especially a story that Jeff Bezos reportedly cheated on his wife. The point of all these is that the media outlets don’t necessarily serve the interest of the people they control, instead, they serve the interests of their owners.

In today’s startup-centric economy, it is almost impossible for independent media outlets to compete with these six giant corporations that distribute and control a majority of the media in this country. While it may seem that we have limitless options, the simple truth is that we don’t.

(My bold, italic, underline))

#GOTV2022
#VOTEBLUE2022

[misanthrope]

7. THE biggest?

I think J. Edgar Hoover might give him a run for his money on that.

[vanlassie]

18. Did Hoover have responsibility for aiding climate disasters?

Turtle does. Among everything else.

[misanthrope]

56. Good point

Hoover's treachery was for longer, McConnell's more wide-reaching.

[SWBTATTReg]

10. The so called supreme court is losing it's favorability ratings more and more by the day. Already

low prior to this latest decision, I expect now that the % favorability ratings are even lower.

Why? Mainly IMHO they have ruled against what the majority of Americans want for literally decades.

They don't reflect what the majority of Americans want, and they want to keep America and Americans stuck in that land where their interpretation of the Constitution remains the same (whatever is in their feverish minds at the time) and doesn't include or reflect an America that is moving forward, a view that has been around literally forever and never changing.

It is time to change the supreme court to better reflect what the vast majority of what Americans want, and not this small proportion segment of the population wants, religious and conservatives (so called, neither one of these two words have ever accurately described these thugs on the court's roster. Isn't it amazing that 9 people have the right to impact the lives of so many of us, w/o a single vote being cast, no say in the matter? This sounds wrong to me.

[LymphocyteLover]

14. Poor Ketanji Brown Jackson. Hope she can help turn things around

[SWBTATTReg]

22. Thank goodness we do have some damn good voices still there, but I do feel that

the supreme court has ruled against voting rights, abortions, and other things that haven't been around until the last fifty years. Society does change (and it has over the last 50 years or so), the definition of a 'family' has expanded greatly, the definition of when live starts and ends (and I'm not talking about the beginning of life, I'm talking about the end of life).

My mom and dad, when they passed (bless them, I miss them), made sure that we all knew that they didn't want a supreme effort expended to extend their lives, basically, don't leave them on a ventilator forever or some other machines, that they basically are zombies.

All of us (the four kids) agree and wholehearted supported their decisions (M and D). When does life end, when the last tick of a machine dies out after someone being on it for 5-10-longer years, w/ literally no change in their condition. But, I do hear of miracles when some have come out of their comas. It's a deeply personal, family issue and no one else should interfere in their processes (the family issue) on the decisions they must make.

[jaxexpat]

41. Life begins when? life ends when?

Totally depends on your net worth.

If you're poor enough, life never really did begin. If you're wealthy enough, your trust fund portfolio ensured your long life began as soon as the initial documents were signed when you were still but a fantasy. If your net worth is high enough, you're alive until the last determinable "brain" wave has been documented. If you're poor enough, you're dead way too long after your first breath.

[dalton99a]

12. That piece of shit needs to get a fatal and painful disease.

[LymphocyteLover]

13. There's gonna be a lot of high fives at the GOP coke orgies tonight

we have to make sure their happiness doesn't last long

[relayerbob]

15. He's 80 years old, he doesn't give a shit about history books

He just wants as much power and money as he can grab on his way out.

[llmart]

33. Then he's stupid if he thinks it will protect him from the ultimate equalizer.

Does he really think he can take the money or the power with him when he kicks the bucket? People like him are delusional. They think somehow they are going to be the one who is immortal.

No one gets out of this life alive and no one of his age doesn't feel the slow decline. Here's hoping his is a long, painful one. See how his money and power saves him from that.

[anarch]

39. maybe he's got the inside track on some new medical advances

that will allow him to harvest organs from poor people or something, and replace his own failing body parts with their strong, youthful organs so he can stay alive for several more centuries. Honestly, would you put it past him? Like, becoming some kind of actual ghoul or vampire or whatever in order to stay alive and hold on to power would be right up his alley.

[relayerbob]

42. Sadly, no, I can't put it past him

Either way, he's not going to care what anyone thinks in the future .... he doesn't care what they think now

[DBoon]

63. you mean like Peter Thiel?

Trump delegate and Gawker bankrupter Peter Thiel is no stranger to the idea of increasing his lifespan through science. “I stand against confiscatory taxes, totalitarian collectives, and the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual,” he wrote in libertarian journal Cato Unbound seven years ago. On Bloomberg TV in 2014, Thiel explained that he was taking human-growth hormone pills as part of his plan to live 120 years. “It helps maintain muscle mass, so you’re much less likely to get bone injuries, arthritis,” he said.

Given Thiel’s obsession with warding off death, it comes as no surprise that the Silicon Valley billionaire is interested in at least one radical way of doing it: injecting himself with a young person’s blood. On Monday, Jeff Bercovici of Inc. magazine published part of a year-old interview with Thiel, in which the venture-capitalist explains that he’s interested in parabiosis, which includes the practice of getting transfusions of blood from a younger person, as a means of improving health and potentially reversing aging. “I'm looking into parabiosis stuff, which I think is really interesting. This is where they did the young blood into older mice and they found that had a massive rejuvenating effect,” he said. “And so that’s . . . that is one that . . . again, it’s one of these very odd things where people had done these studies in the 1950s and then it got dropped altogether. I think there are a lot of these things that have been strangely under-explored.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiel-wants-to-inject-himself-with-young-peoples-blood

[anarch]

64. pretty much...most of these people would have no problem becoming vampires

but I see it as even more exploitative in potential, like maybe regular people will be so desperate to survive that they will sell their organs, or even their children, or enter them into an "organ donor lottery" or something for a cash reward, and the super-rich can live for several hundred years as they just kill a poor and take their organs every couple of decades when the old ones they are using start failing.

Probably with this kind of technology they could just clone organs from their own cells, but it's so much quicker and also more cruel to just take the organs from the lower classes, and cruelty gives them a special feeling inside that they can't get enough of, so I'd expect that's the way they'd go given the option.

[demmiblue]

20. He doesn't give a shit. n/t

[Wounded Bear]

21. He'll die before he experiences any consequences...

[Butterflylady]

44. Slow and very painful as one can only hope.

[Lotusflower70]

23. I mean

Of course he will. He has the power and took women's rights away. He is loving it. He doesn't care what people think of him.

[rubbersole]

24. Has he ever pissed off a woman before?

It doesn't end well. Just sayin'.

[True Blue American]

30. Women are marching on Thomas house tonight.

[machoneman]

27. Actually, we, Pres. Biden and all the AG's in blue states CAN IGNORE THIS SC Ruling. How?

Merely, by stating they don't recognize the SC's authority in this ruling. Say what? Easy. Who in the blue states would prosecute, enforce or even recognize this courts actions ?

Steamroll the bastards. And what can the SC do btw to enforce their decision w/o a police force?

Nothing, I say.

Ignoring the law has become a mantra for the R's. We need to follow suite, stat!

[Cyrano]

29. It's the red states that will enforce the ruling

And they won't be doing "nothing." They've been waiting for this for 50 years and they're licking their chops. And there are too many red states to let anyone feel safe from a malicious Supreme Court.

[MarcA]

54. +1000 n/t

[Martin Eden]

58. That's a dangerous road to go down

Right now the J6 Committee is trying to nail the coup plotters for their efforts to violate our Constitution. Ignoring the authority of one of our three branches of government would be another violation of our Constitution.

Whatever we do needs to be through Constitional means. End the filibuster. Expand the Court. Pull out all stops in winning elections.

[live love laugh]

31. He/They DGAF. They have almost absolute power.

Which all they really care w.

As “stupid”, despicable and disgusting as they are, they have seized control of the country.

It doesn’t matter who’s in office.

[PeaceWave]

37. It's a terrifying day in America if you're any kind of minority.

LGBTQ Community

African Americans

Hispanics

Disabled Americans

This decision and its rejection of the implied right to privacy is just a prelude to going after anyone the GOP feels does not "fit in."

[jgmiller]

43. Mitch never actually wanted this

He wanted to keep using this as a wedge issue to get evangelicals to ignore all of the other evil things the GOP does to keep voting for them. This is a perfect example of "be careful what you wish for". Mitch could careless if someone can get an abortion or not, he only cared about the votes it would buy him.

[Butterflylady]

45. Winner, winner. You have hit on the head.

Now they have no issue to get their maggots to the polls. The abortion issue was all they had and now that hot button issue has flown the the coop.

[COL Mustard]

49. The hot button issue has flown the coup.

Fixed it for ya!

[BlueJac]

46. Absolutely!

[Escurumbele]

47. They don't care what history will say about them, they will be dead by then.

[COL Mustard]

48. He has lots of company

Starting with that toad, 45.

[budkin]

50. He's literally the happiest man in America today

Hopefully his time left alive is short.

[OMGWTF]

51. Moscow Mitch Broke America

That's his legacy.

[USALiberal]

53. He is loving this, no downside for him!

[colsohlibgal]

57. Yep Mitch Lit The Fire

Plus our structure helped. Trump lost the Popular Vote but....only in America can you lose though you actually won.

That said this seems to have set off quite a backlash, if this gets more Democrats to the polls for every damn election down to the City level watch out right wing.

If not...a last resort, if we turn into a theocratic hard right Country I am fortunate to be about 3 hours from Ontario, Canada if it all goes totally “Handmaid’s Tale”.

This situation might have been inevitable considering our structural inequalities giving Republicans a clear advantage with opportunity for minority rule.

[spike jones]

60. F**k you also to all the perple reading this that "Just couldn't vote for Hillary." n/t

[PirateRo]

61. You are exactly right

History will remember the Robert’s court and McConnell for power thieving partisan hacks they have shown themselves to be time and again.

[Novara]

65. So what?

I am not living for history to condemn these motherfuckers.

What the hell can we do about this NOW?

[PirateRo]

67. The problem isn't about today or right now

Where, over the past 50 years was the constitutional amendment, the educational civics enrichment to move our population forward?

Where do we as a pluralistic society draw the line that tells everyone they can live as they choose without interference but likewise *MUST* not interfere with others, let alone try to legislate their magical bullshit to others who do not share or even reject their religion?

It happens in the past. You take action today to ease that future.

That time, those 50 years, show day after day, minute after minute, second after second of missed opportunity. Today, right now, is too late. This was inevitable.

And this tragedy is now useful to mask the disaster of seditious conspiracy to overthrow the government.

History. Today happens in the past.

So what? So everything. This was inevitable, and because of this inaction, lack of education and the monstrous poison of Christian fundamentalism in our country, many more people will die pointless deaths. Important rights of choice and self-determination and health of 50% of the population have been erased Any fundamentalism, really, but right now, it is this attempt to create a Christian theocracy is this country. Look at the HISTORY of Islamic fundamentalism and it’s monstrous effect on scientific research. Look at the fundamentalist destruction of the enlightenment.