Trump is a huge piece of shit, but McConnell is much worse. Fuck him. It was his unprecedented "fuck anything Democrat" strategy versus Obama that transformed boring partisan politics into the dangerously divisive min-max only institutions we have now.
Really want to hear the average Kentucky voter's thoughts on this.
Yup. I hate Trump, but I loathe McConnell to such a level I can't accurately put words to it. The man is literally smiling as he willingly destroys the world because he knows he'll be dead before anything he causes bears fruit.
The 9/11 responders are nothing but political capital to McConnell. Oh sure, he'll help them. But only after they've been used to further some agenda he's pushing. It's disgusting.
McConnell is literal evil.
Well I'll go out on a limb and say your average McConnell Kentucky voter doesn't give a fuck about some dead and suffering yanks. 9/11 for them is more about the audacity of some brown people attacking us on our soil.Really want to hear the average Kentucky voter's thoughts on this.
We've been trying like hell for years to get rid of him, but then the Mountain folk fuck it up for everyone.Really want to hear the average Kentucky voter's thoughts on this.
Really want to hear the average Kentucky voter's thoughts on this.
The North Remembers.... your historic fucking loss and general shittiness for the past couple centuries
Kentucky was part of the North, which makes all the Confederate flags down here even more bizarre.The North Remembers.... your historic fucking loss and general shittiness for the past couple centuries
It's weird because Kentucky never left the Union and petitioned the North for support to stop the Confederacy from taking them during the Civil War.
Looking at McConnell's previous election ads, his main point seems to be "I'm a big important guy in the Senate. I keep all that delicious government money flowing into Kentucky." Which is bizarrely divorced from the official national Republican agenda, but certainly points to them being fine with him acting as a obstructionist ass and doing whatever he needs to achieve his ends.Really want to hear the average Kentucky voter's thoughts on this.
Really want to hear the average Kentucky voter's thoughts on this.
Seriously. He's what Trump could be if he wasn't a moron.
Oh, absolutely. McConnell is a political genius who is equal parts ruthless and shameless. He's the kind of politician the Democrats could only dream of having; an efficient tactician who pushes his party's agenda consistently, quietly and broadly for decades.
Thanks for this. Very informative.Kentuckians don't identify with the South or North, on a whole. In fact, the various regions of Kentucky are rather culturally distinct from one another. Most will talk about the South with the same novel wonder and bewilderment as the rest of the country. Yet, most will do the same for the Midwest. And seeing a confederate flag where I live is rare enough that you can remember individual instances of seeing it. It's not something a respected pillar of the community would do... more like something you might see ignorant trash put on their pickup trucks as part of some larger rural brand. You might be surprised to know that we have no confederate monuments in my hometown, but several Union plaques, to put that in perspective.
That's not to say Kentuckians aren't backwards and rural folk. But, it's more of an Appalachian than Southern mentality. They don't concern themselves with what other people are doing in other states as much as they have a more insular 'well, that might be good for them, but this is good for us' type of mentality. It's why someone like Mitch, who is very effective as a national politician, is rather unpopular in Kentucky. What Kentuckians actually want is a Robert C Byrd type of politician who is only in it for his constituents and would see the other 49 states burn to do good for Kentucky. Crooked AF homer.
I think it's both for better and for worse. A lot of this state is going to go down with the coal ship and it's ugly. They want to believe Republicans care because they are lying to them by promising that their communities can be saved. But, there's no hope for a lot of the state unless coal can make a miraculous turnaround and coal production decreased yet again during the 2nd year of Trump's presidency, to a rate lower than 7 of the 8 years Obama was in office. Kentuckians got took yet again, and they'll go back for more false hope in 2020.
McConnell is one of clearest examples of a misathropic psychopath alive today. As much as he deserves honest hatred, he makes me hate political structure more by allowing a psychopath like himself to destroy the world.
Yup.
Psychopaths need to be taken way more seriously than they are. Nothing gets them off more than others' suffering. The really bad ones are not just fucking serial killers/rapists. The smarter ones aim higher.
They really want this climate change apocalypse while they vacuum up and destroy necessary resources (money, food, water, etc) and sow divisive chaos on their way out. The joy in killing everyone through unconventional means. Enabled by poorly regulated capitalism that they worked to break. These fucks need to by stopped and locked away in a prison on the moon.