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Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell bluntly warned Republican senators in a private meeting not to sign on to a bill from Sen. Josh Hawley aimed at limiting corporate money bankrolling high-powered outside groups, telling them that many of them won their seats thanks to the powerful super PAC the Kentucky Republican has long controlled.

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[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 118 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Imagine being about to die any day now, and still using your failing, literally sputtering life force to proactively stand for enduring corruption even when you're gone and will no longer profit from it, as if the corporations that bribe the Republicans and Neoliberals will be able to send the bribe checks to hell or something.

There aren't many villains, even in fiction, that lack any nuance to this degree. McConnell truly is a palpatine-esque cartoon of malevolence.

[-] Jarmer@slrpnk.net 36 points 10 months ago

He really is one of the most evil humans to ever exist in the USA. PLEASE can he die soon. PLEASE. The earth needs a win.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

I'm convinced he's a lich and we need to find his philactery first

[-] uis@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

His philactery is a needle. The needle is in egg, the egg is in duck, the duck is in rabbit, the rabbit is in chest, the chest is buried under oak, the oak is on the island in the middle of ocean.

[-] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 10 months ago
[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

Jesus, I can just picture the Heritage Foundation fascist thinktank rolling a screen onto the Senate floor that's some janky McConnell LLM Max Headroom looking AI to tell the Senate Republicans what to think.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 5 points 10 months ago

Now that's an obscure reference. I was a kid in the 80s, and there were whole decades of my life where, if I thought about Max Headroom at all, I suspected I had just hallucinated the whole thing.

[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Honestly it predates me! I grew up in the 90s and saw so many pop culture references to it over the years that I sought it out. Really ahead of its time.

Also, it's apparently being rebooted. https://m.imdb.com/news/ni63708482/

[-] FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

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