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  STFU Mitch. Repubs ARE "Nasty, Chaotic", with or without Trump.
context: Maybe someone should point out his party to him.  Cruz, Boebert, Green and others. >
  
  ...Lee, Gohmert, Tuberville, Biggs, Hawley, Jordan... >
  
  ...Mitch.... >
  
  This is the right answer.  Mitch could and should have made a difference, but he played the game like everyone else. >
  
  Common Mitch, if it walks like a duck, swims like a duck, squawks like a duck...it probably is....you are who you hang with.... >
  
  Man, maybe if republicans weren’t so nasty and chaotic, people wouldn’t think that >
  
  True; Trump just let us see that with no self-censorship. >
  
  Old Republicans have always been pretty nasty, chaotic, and bitchtastic.
  Since the Reagan times, they have been the stuffy kick poor people in the face group.  I never understood why so many of my fellow poors lined up to be punched in the jaw. >
  
  People lined up to support the republicans because the democrats abandoned the unions and the working class with policies like globalization (NAFTA) and tax cuts for the rich. Plus they got the racism side perk which gave them an “other” to blame over the white men creating their problems. >
  
  To be fair- despite democrats being significantly better and more supportive of unions. Union members in large numbers decided to abandon the party because of culture war bullshit and racism. >
  
  In northern Minnesota’s Iron range forever we’re conservative democrats.  All the union members.  Really only democrat mainly because of unions. But the combo of environmentalists “against” new mines like the proposed copper mine near BWCA and Trump, never before democrat strong holds voted republican.  And it looks like they won’t return anytime soon.  
  Now I know democrats are the supporters of unions, but up in iron mine country it’s more than that.  Most of them think democrats are anti-mining and so that’s their lively hood.   That is the iron range all along northern/northeast Minnesota. >
  
  I know this is going to suck to hear but a lot of union jobs simply don’t make sense anymore economically like coal mining. It’s funny to hear coal miners bitching and complaining about immigrants and bitching and complaining their shitty podunk mining town is dying. It was their great great grandfathers who moved from their home/country to find work in these mining towns and they can’t see that these immigrants they hate so much are doing the same to provide for their families, while they sit there too lazy to move, to dumb to read the tea leaves and expecting that the modern equivalent to alchemy coming back. >
  
  I Agree with ya.  I see it all the time.                       My Grandpa, was a little kid when his family came over from Poland through Ellis island.  Became a navy man and when he came back after ww2 he worked in the iron mines in northern mn.  In their hay day.  Mining towns are boom or bust.   Their argument to what you just said is, “Come here legally! Like my grand parents and their parents did!”   (Not my family, they don’t say these things).   But the iron range has become 60% MAGA country. >
  
  Uh. No. The platform of bigotry, misogyny, racism, and greed existed decades before Trump even ran. Republicans, especially McConnell, fully supported Trump in pushing policies that are killing women, stealing people's right to vote, facilitating the continued transfer of property and wealth to corporations. Trump made the inevitable outcome of conservative thinking plainly visible to millions who insisted it couldn't happen here. >
  
  Exactly. And Mitch skated past every opportunity to pull it out of the ditch. He traded the chaos and lies for power to stack the judiciary, enabling all of it. >
  
  Trump only brought out the inherent nastiness in already nasty Republican electorate. >
  
  yea. you don't turn into a racist mysognist just because one guy got elected president. it's more like they finally got a guy who said the things that they want to say out loud >
  
  Nah, Mitch. It was when you held a US Supreme Court seat hostage. Probably before that, too. >
  
  Newt Gingrich in the 90s is usually referenced as the beginning of the "soulless/evil" stage of the republican party.  Though you could make a case for Reagan in the 80s.  They've been evil for a long time really, they've just been slow to reveal themselves behind their masks >
  
  Newt "the Contract on America" Gingrich
  Tom Delay was another one >
  
  Reminder that Tom DeLay was taking “donations” from Russian oil execs way back in the 90s. >
  
  Huh, I didn't know that - I just knew he was a corrupt POS. >
  
  So much to ridicule here:
  1) He made them "think" they're nasty and chaotic? They are nasty and chaotic.
  2) Trump's influence has waned? Maybe, but the Republican base still loves him. No one who opposes him is actually going to win a primary.
  McConnell is living in cloud cuckoo land. >
  
  A lot of us thought that about your party, regardless of Trump. >
  
  but they are.... >
  
  No that was the behavior of the republican party that did that. >
  
  Moscow Mitch did a pretty good job of it too. >
  
  Haha.   Come on Mitch Boebert, Green. Gaetz ,  I could go on.  It isn’t just Trump that makes the party look bad.?    Blame yourself. >
  
  Oh I don't know Mitch. Maybe you been running that type of platform for over 40 years and maybe you really didn't know what you were doing with stacking the Supreme Court. Because your in-laws think like the 1930s and you never told these conspiracy people: "Would you shut up! If people thought your way when we were all kids we all be dead by now." But nope, had to be: "But making Trump and MAGA responsible will destroy the GOP. I can't do that!" Now he is: "Shit! What did I do!?" >
  
  Does the Turtleman own a mirror? >
  
  Are we positive he’s not Zuckerberg from the future? >
  
  Still in denial about the character of his Party. >
  
  More about trying to put a positive spin on his party.  Like “Seriously we’re not the party of Trump or out of touch, sexist, racist supremacists, we like rich people and ‘conservatives’ too!”  Despite, all the video evidence showing mostly the contrary.  
  If W’s 8 years and Trump’s everything in 4 didn’t show you what this party does when in power then either you have a short memory or just don’t care. >
  
  “If we nominate Trump we will be destroyed…and we will deserve it” 
  -American Traitor Senator Lindsey Graham >
  
  Republicans did that.
  Trump is a symptom, not the cause. >
  
  Mitch is right. Before Trump I only thought Republicans were greedy, cynical, sociopathic and cruel. >
  
  
  Trump Made Voters ~~Think~~ Realize Republicans 'Nasty'
  
  FTFY >
  
  Well, come on now. I mean, every time is see 'Former White House Advisor Ivanka Trump' ...I just have to laugh a little.
  It's like we're living in a Mel Brooks movie >
  
  Trump held up a mirror. Some Americans loved the reflection. Some hated what theysaw. >
  
  I mean maybe we think that way because of how they are? >
  
  “Chaotic?” Seriously? The entire planet has PTSD after the chaos trump & the GOP wrought upon our world. “Nasty,” just isn’t a strong enough term about how most of us feel about them. I’m going to go with VILE. >
  
  Sorry Mitch but you are just as guilty as Trump >
  
  Only the 1% think Republican's are not nasty and chaotic. They get the best representation that money can buy! >
  
  Gee-wiz golly Mitch, 
  think you have had a spinal column with you the last eight years? You aided just as much as anyone in the party because he was semi useful to you.
  I don’t suppose anyone in Kentucky would like to run against and club him over the head with how useless he has been for his constituents. >
  
  No not really. We got there on our own observations. >
  
  Yeah, all I’ve heard from them over the last decade or so is that I’m a coastal elite, that being college-educated means I’m a brainwashed idiot, and that I’m not a “real American”because of it. Screw ‘em. >
  
  Ignoring the GOP’s shift to the right in the 1900s and their growing affiliations with the KKK, David Duke, antimodernism, homophobia, etc. is pretty much peak McConnell political analysis, and not very smart. Even he used to support abortion in the 1980s before falling into the wayside. >
  
  I don't know, I think the hypocrisy has a lot to do with it. Not holding a vote on a supreme court nominee a year before the election and then rushing one thru only months before. I think acting nasty pretty much reveals the nasty ass characters that republicans are >
  
  Ewan McGregor voice You have done that yourself! >
  
  Trump Showed Voters That Republicans Are Treasonous and Hateful. >
  
  We knew long before Trump came along. What we didn’t know was how republicans would fight tooth and nail to protect him.
  You’re accomplices. >
  
  Don’t forget racist, misogynistic, corrupt and stupid. >
  
  The Republican Party is fundamentally broken >
  
  I would throw cruel in there as well. >
  
  Trump made voters aware republicans are nasty and chaotic, thanks to people like Mitch McConnell. >
  
  They were before Trump. Now they are worse. >
  
  Mitch made that happen >
  
  ~~B~~ Mitch, please! >
  
  I mean they are, but we already knew that. >
  
  Can it, Mitch. You whispered sweet nothings in his ear for four years like the rest of 'em. We're angry that Republicans didn't try to rein him in when he was a bull in a china shop on the international stage. >
  
  He encouraged republicans to show their true colors. And they obliged. >
  
  Mitch "One of my proudest moments was when I told Obama, ‘You will not fill this Supreme Court vacancy’” McConnell says what? >
  
  McConnell can f*ck off. Trump isn't the problem - he's a symptom of the problem. I got out of the GOP 20+ years ago when it became clear the inmates were taking over the asylum. The party is run by crazies and/or spineless power mongers like McConnell who will do anything to appease the so-called "base." >
  
  No republicans did that by not putting trump in this place including you mitch >
  
  Chickens've come home to roost, Moscow Mitch. >
  
  McConnell : "how dare he make voters think we're nasty and chaotic, we aren't chaotic!" >
  
  We are, in fact, brutality efficient in our cruelty towards the Poors. If you’re too chaotic, they start to think about rebellion. Can’t have that.” McConnell said jowly. >
  
  The GOP is a rotting corpse. Trump just had his way with it. It was already nasty. He just took it to a new level… with his “genius.” >
  
  think?
  More like realize. >
  
  Oh no, Mitch. Believe me, we thought that long before Trump. He just solidified that, while reminding everyone that the whole of the GOP is rotten to the core.
  That includes you, Mitch. >
  
  Here comes the epic re-branding where we are all supposed to forget about the horrible shit Republicans said and did during the Bush and Obama years while pretending the problem is just Trump as opposed to decades of 'conservative' bigotry and support for fascism. >
  
  They've been hinting at it since the Lincoln Project, but now they're going full Madison Avenue >
  
  Probably should have whipped his senators into shape during the first or second impeachment. Asshole. >
  
  Fuck off, Mitch, you gaslighting piece of shit. Republicans are nasty, Trump just made more of them feel comfortable being upfront about it. >
  
  Says the guy who is blocking legalizing marijuana. Dude y’all are nasty and chaotic. >
  
  When in truth you’re just organised evil. >
  
  McConnell aided and abetted Trump for 4 yrs.  If people like McConnell had stood up for integrity we wouldn’t have had this mess >
  
  This. McConnell could have stopped him long ago.  
  Moreover, Republicans were nasty fucs long before Trump came along.  Gingrich ushered in the current era of vilifying the opposition. >
  
  Then why you still standing behind him? Is it because republicans are in actuality quite nasty and chaotic? >
  
  “But we’re not nasty and chaotic, we’re hateful and stubborn!” >
  
  Republicans made voters think Republicans 'Nasty,' Chaotic... they're really trying to pin this shit on Trump? They've been getting worse ever since the election of Bush. This turtle was also a huge part of that. >
  
  The quiet part is now out loud. >
  
  Lol. Oh and it took you this long to figure that out?? Oh and by the way, there is a pretty large number of them that actually are nasty and chaotic! >
  
  Republicans have done a solid job of doing that themselves >
  
  Coming up with a policy platform other than whatever trump wants would be a good start, ahole. >
  
  Glossing right over the fact that Trump is a symptom, not the disease. >
  
  "Why don't people like us?" asks a culture that fought a war to preserve slavery, resisted civil rights at every turn, and now openly threatens democracy. Trump didn't make republicans the way they are. They've always been nasty. >
  
  It was all the nasty chaotic Republicans who did that for me >
  
  As opposed to nasty and calculated. >
  
  I don’t know if he made me think it, but he sure help solidify my position in that direction >
  
  Late to the party on that one... the Tea Party did that all by itself, though tRump certinally added to it. >
  
  Mitch had many opportunities to defend democracy and decorum and chose to support Trump knowing all of this a long time ago. Zero respect and no forgiveness. >
  
  Trump is just a symptom of the disease. >
  
  Thanks for the wake up call, Trump!
  Best cure for indoctrination I've ever had. >
  
  The lack of republicans condemning Trump when he did horrible things is what made me think republicans were nasty. I have always been liberal in red states. I always assumed my Republican friends were religious, moral people who were single issue voters. The mental gymnastics they did with trump showed them to be nasty people, who only embrace religious ideals as an excuse to support nasty candidates. >
  
  Nah, you did that Mitch >
  
  The Republicans who stood with Trump for years should fall with Trump now. >
  
  Yep, that’s who you are. >
  
  I dont think those things mitch; your voters actions’ made me know those were true. Trump only made them feel comfortable saying it out loud >
  
  No No No,
  Trump did not make people think of the Republican party and think nasty are bad thoughts. I'm someone who has voted for Democrats and Republicans.
  Trump is a crooked politician, we know this and they know this. More importantly our founding fathers predicted this and in all their wisdom they set up checks and balances for this exact same reason. When people think of the Republican party and think (nasty), its not because of anything Trump has done it's because what Congress and Republican senators have not done.
  
  
  When he said grab them by the pussy. You stood by and said nothing, instead you held him up at your nominee and then elected him to office.
  
  
  When he said there are good people on both sides. You did nothing.
  
  
  When he fired the director of the FBI you did nothing.
  
  
  When he pressured a foreign leader for dirt on his opponent. You did nothing.
  
  
  when his family allowed for Nationals to stay into his hotel clearly bribing him. You did nothing
  
  
  When he allowed covid to spread across the United States and told his supporters not to wear mask. You did nothing.
  
  
  When Trump picks crazy lunatic candidates for the position of Congress and Senate. You did nothing
  
  
  When trying to pass gun control to stop school shootings. You did nothing for decades
  
  
  When he tried to overthrow the government of the United States of America, you did nothing.
  
  
  When he scams his supporters over and over again, you do nothing.
  
  
  When Biden tried to pass covid relief for millions of Americans that were hurting, You did do something. You try to block it.
  
  
  When Biden try to forgive student loans to help out people in need, you blocked it.
  
  
  I find it hilarious bet out of all people Mitch McConnell would have something to say about the way people view the Republican party.
  When Garland was nominated for the supreme Court Mitch McConnell stated that the people should have a right to choose who is elected to the supreme Court and because this was an election year (18 months away for the record) The Republican party did not even hold hearings for Garland. 
  2 weeks away from the election and Ruth Ginsburg passes away, the first thing Mitch McConnell does is rush somebody into the supreme Court.
  For the first time I'm going to stand up for Trump and say please Mitch McConnell do not blame him for everything you had a big part in the way Americans view your party. >
  
  Nah, they were that way long before Trump. >
  
  Yeah, but that's a feature, not a bug.
  Put out Republican candidates that aren't as shitty and the shittiest Americans won't feel nearly as motivated to get out and vote for them. >
  
  it sounds like what he said about Trump before the election in 2016 but he supported him completely for 4 years. Oh well. >
  
  No, Republicans did that. Trump is just presenting a scapegoat. >
  
  For me it was abortion. That’s what is was Mitch.  The GOP desire to legislate my body. >
  
  And Mitch made the Republicans look like they choose party over country in a very orderly and compromised manner. >
  
  I have to admit seeing all this infighting within the GOP is quite enjoyable it really has escalated over the last week. >
  
  No Republican support for Trump, no matter what he did or said, made it very clear that Republicans are nasty and amoral. >
  
  The only Tuth^tm that Trump ever shared with America. >
  
  Proof that even a broken clock is right twice a day! >
  
  *see clearly what they somehow hadn't seen before >
  
  Given how much the turtle has bowed to Cheetolini, I would say this statement is nasty and chaotic. >
  
  r/leopardsatemyface >
  
  Because they are? I’m confused here. >
  
  Trump made them see the truth, Mitch. Your party is scum, no point hiding it. >
  
  No, it was the lack of a response from those republicans to his nasty and chaotic behavior that cemented the knowledge >
  
  Not really, Mitch. I always knew you and your cronies were evil sacks of shit. Cheeto Mussolini was just more loud about it. >
  
  this is from the man who stood in front of congress the night of the jan 6th attacks and implied he had enough of Trump then when it came time to impeach him twice refused to vote to do so and pretty much discouraged others from doing the same and looked the other way.
  so dont act like your all butthurt now over him. >
  
  Nah, Mitch McConnell did that ages ago. Trump just solidified it permanently. >
  
  They literally put up a banner that said "We are all domestic terrorists" at the CPAC conference. >
  
  Mitch isn’t doing anything to lessen the nasty chaos >
  
  Trump = Chaotic Evil
  McConnell = Neutral Evil >
  
  And you contributed you bloated scrotum with eyes! >
  
  No, Republicans and their supporters did that on their own. >
  
  Says the guy who blocked Merrick Garland's nomination to the Supreme Court by not allowing a vote.  I'd say that's pretty nasty, Mitch, wouldn't you? 
  And as for "chaotic", you bought into Trump world lock, stock, and barrel.  Two impeachments, two effective stonewalls by Senate Republicans.  You could have gotten rid of him, but instead you chose "chaos".  Way to go, Mr. Hypocrite. >
  
  And losers >
  
  Wait until DeSantis comes to town and kicks McConnell out. Desantis was the legal torture czar at Guantanamo according to the prisoners there. He makes McConnell look like a choirboy. The fight is not over yet. >
  
  Mitch is responsible for his fair share of that sentiment as well. Hypocritical old turtle! He’s the one who essentially ruined the Supreme Court. >
  
  Mitch just mad because trump really highlighted just how shitty the Republican Party is. >
  
  The biggest issues on the left are abortion and gun control.  The biggest issues on the right are gender pronouns, Hunter Biden and Dr Fauci.  Conservative media has been feeding questionable information to their voters for so long that they are losing touch with reality and eating their own propaganda.  Then they can’t figure out why they are losing elections.  It’s gotten to the point where they are starting to obstruct themselves now. >
  
  Mitch should have said “overtly nasty and chaotic.” The only difference is that 45 & company say the quiet part out loud. Mitch is just as much a monster. I do appreciate his understanding of the importance of defeating the Russians in Ukraine, but he’s a POS. >
  
  It’s not just Trump.  It’s a bunch of other republicans. But not only that.  It’s MOST republicans.  You said nothing when trump did evil and despicable things.  You’re silent agreement, disgusts me.  The party of laws? pfft.   The party of Jesus?   Pfffft.   Never have I seen a party so bereft of the values Jesus taught, or even just basic laws.  It’s like they were trying to be as evil and as nasty as possible. 
  I blame all republicans.  And it serves you right.   You guys did this to yourselves.   You saw what trump did.  You saw him break law after law.  It was all over the news.  You had the opportunity to remove him from office during the two impeachments.  And you chose to roll with the consequences. >
  
  We've thought that since Reagan. Only went downhill from there. >
  
  Said the guy who tanked his own bill when Obama was in office. >
  
  Ol mcdouche thinks he can wash out the stink with fading trump. >
  
  Um, because they are, Mitch. >
  
  They always have been >
  
  Nah…moscow mitch and the gqp swamp lizards did that very well long before they got suckered by benedict donald. >
  
  Trump was a symptom, not a source. 
  Republicans are nasty and chaotic. >
  
  Well Mitch is nasty >
  
  "We ARE nasty and chaotic, but we have to tone it down a bit in 2024 to attract a few independent voters." >
  
  Quoting McConnell, "We lost support that we needed among independents and moderate Republicans, primarily related to the view they had of us as a party—largely made by [the Repubicans who look in the mirror].
  What's obvious is that Republlican leadership is convinced the Republican voters are infantile, intellectually incompetent, unable to think or understand anything, but who love a good conspiracy and illogical bullshit.  And I don't disagree. >
  
  Funny, Americans have been thinking McConnell is nasty and a bad look for Republicans way before T-Rump became politically viable. >
  
  Republican platform consists of: Obstruction, ineptitude, corruption, owning liberals. 
  Nothing helpful. No agenda. >
  
  One word: hypocrite >
  
  McConnell should just shut up. He knew what he got into back in 2016, and had every chance to get rid of him, but didn’t. This one is one you, Mitch. >
  
  No, you bloated rotting turtle corpse. Republicans made voters realize they were nasty and chaotic by showing their true colors through their support/embrace of someone like Trump.
  Trump was merely a bright orange spotlight that brought all that nastiness and despicable bullshit out in the open. >
  
  Weird. I always figured Mitch was a self aware asshole. >
  
  Who is worse the nasty, chaotic one or the one too afraid to stand up to him? >
  
  You would think at some point these fucks would start dying off. How old if Mitch. 87? >
  
  No. Republicans behavior made me think they are nasty and chaotic. Trump just happened to be their key official >
  
  Well Mitch you can feel free to prove us wrong any day. 
  All you have to do is pass any kind of legislation that makes America a better place for the average person.
  Just one bill, Mitch. You’ve been in the senate since 1985. Prove us wrong, any time you want. >
  
  Trump was just abrasive shitty sand paper, exposing all the rust and rot underneath the paint >
  
  I thought that before Trump tho >
  
  Chaotic Evil vs. Lawful Evil >
  
  Translated: we prefer to stab our constituents in the back and not loudly in their face >
  
  I think nasty and chaotic is a good description of Mitch. >
  
  Oh my god fuck this guy >
  
  Allowing the Tea Party to take over your party is no fault but your own. >
  
  Aaah  , the turtle turns to topple Trump >
  
  Not so much think as observe >
  
  Dude you made republicans nasty way before Trump >
  
  Whattever. I am not going back. >
  
  As if Trumpism isn't the logical conclusion of McConnellism >
  
  Between the two of them, I genuinely think McConnell is nastier and more evil, and that’s really saying something. >
  
  But they are Mitch, they are >
  
  Republicans really do get off on making ridiculous statements that correlate to the fantasy world inside of their head. >
  
  “Trump made voters think”
  Hilarious. >
  
  Finally McConnell is truthful - republicans are chaotic nasty and let me add hateful. >
  
  Change "made" to "showed". >
  
  Yet refused to vote to impeach him. Talks cheep when it’s all lies. >
  
  Truth hurts, don't it? >
  
  I think Mitch is starting to get really worried about his legacy. Not that it was anything to be proud of in the first place. >
  
  Trump has his faults and believe there are so so so many…. However he took advantage of the conditions McConnel set up in the US… Trump is a mere beneficiary of what McConnell has done to the judiciary system and Constitution.. He deserves all the smoke for the explosion of the Republican Party .. He has been in power for decades and Trump was able to blow the party in 4 years… Give me a fucking break… Both POS deserves equal blame… 🤷🏽‍♂️😒🥱🗑️ >
  
  Here's the thing. They could drop a bunch of the culture war stuff and basically be unstoppable. Just let gay and trans people alone and they couldn't lose. But they're infected with right-wing christian nationalism and so are forced to bend to their increasingly insane demands. >
  
  Shut the fuck up Mitch. >
  
  No, Trump didn’t do that. You did. By standing next to him the whole damn time, and never standing up for a single moral principle, eventually abandoning him only because he was no longer expedient. >
  
  Again, no - REPUBLICANS did that. Your voters, your “policies”, your shameless theft of SCOTUS seats & other judgeships in pursuit of partisan power. You ARE “nasty” terrible people.