Kentucky Turtle touts blocking Merrick Garland in his first 2020 campaign ad - Polidicks

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitch-mcconnell-reelection-launch-video-touts-praise-from-trump-blocking-of-merrick-garland/2019/04/17/bfb6a020-6118-11e9-9412-daf3d2e67c6d_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e4e79357a445 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Wednesday kicked off his 2020 reelection bid with a video highlighting his successful effort to block President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland — a move that helped reshape the court and over which Democrats are still fuming. McConnell, 77, is running for a seventh term. He has previously described his 2016 move to block Garland — and the subsequent confirmation of Neil M. Gorsuch after President Trump took office — as one of his proudest moments. The three-minute video released by McConnell’s Senate campaign includes footage of Obama announcing his nomination of Garland in March 2016 and asking Senate Republicans to “give him a hearing and then an up-or-down vote.” It then switches to audio of McConnell pledging to block consideration of Garland. “Let’s let the American people decide: Who will Americans trust to nominate the next Supreme Court justice?” McConnell says. “It is the president’s constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice, and it is the Senate’s constitutional right to act as a check. The next president may also nominate somebody very different.”

When obstructing the rule of law and dismantling the federal government becomes a plus in the eyes of some voters, you know we're in trouble.

This is literally the entire point of the party.

McConnell, 77, is running for a seventh term. jfc, why are you still here? Why don't you just retire at this point turtle cunt.

I'm starting to believe the only way to save the Union moving forward is to cut all the GOP stronghold states loose. Their voters and federal representatives have become extremists in the last few years. And after all Trump has done, he stands at 90% approval rating among Republicans. Imagine if Canada or the UK had to share its legislature with politicians from Saudi Arabia or Pakistan - what the US faces is no different. Cut the South loose, let them form their own country, and watch it collapse into squalor in under a decade.

In a sane(r) world, I would hope people catch on to the immense hypocrisy of “how dare you block the president, btw I blocked the last president” and vote him out. Plus the whole “a centrist? How VERY DIFFERENT, anything left of being a full fundamentalist is radical leftism” thing. But in this timeline, all I can hope for is that he gets a heart attack and dies.

Sure it did. For us.

Man preparing for new job interview proudly boasts of that time he failed to do his job.

unconstitutional

Maybe, but still the best course of action. The POTUS has done much that is unconstitutional and has gotten away with breaking the law. It doesn't mean much any more.

One would wonder how anyone in kentucky would ever vote for him given how he's the most reviled person in the country, let alone 6 times, yet they will because he's their senator.

Unfortunately it's not just the south, it's much of the midwest too unfortunately.

Hate is a powerful motivator to get people to polls sadly it seems to be more powerful than anything positive

Could you imagine that though? Cutting off the south into it's own country with a president allowed to be as racist and shitty as possible? Would instantly go back to pre-civil rights movements, workers would lose all rights, infrastructure would fail because no one wants to pay taxes. That's the world these kind of people want and they're trying so fucking hard to get it because ????

That's exactly it. It'd give those uncivilized degenerates the paradise they want, and the rest of you would no longer have to deal with them. You could have an open border policy with the new country to give people who wanted to move a chance to resettle, but you'd be obliged to close the door to them once the country they formed essentially collapsed as a result of their brand of governance.

"Lol dems need to grow up and stop blocking nominees also vote 4 me cuz I'm rly good at blockibg nominees."

This is a joke to everyone outside the US btw, your constitution is so fucking outdated and basically oppresses you at this point because people refuse to update it to actual modern times.

Pre-civil rights movement? More like pre civil-war. That's what this has always been about. Southerners are still still butthurt about abraham lincoln forcing their rich ancestors to free their slaves, because they've passed this hatred down through generation after generation. That's why anyone who claims that the confederate flag is just a flag is lying. It stands for a worldview ever bit as reprehensible as the Nazi flag. And worse, we didn't ban the damn flag and the whole culture it represents after the war, like Germany did with Nazism post-Hitler. This, BTW, is why I would strongly hesitate to advocate for cutting the south loose. Because if that did actually happen, every non-white person living there is going to instantly have a death warrant.

Open borders would never be a thing. The brain drain and industry exodus from the South would be unreal. Doing this would get you Berlin Wall 2 and armed conflicts in border states that "totally have a large majority population of people who want to join the South and need to be liberated from their oppressors in the North!"

Cutting republican states loose a terrible idea for many reasons, not least of which because many states might be republican overall with big cities that are solidly democratic.

They'd have to prohibit their people from leaving the country to stop them.

You're totally right, but despite being borderline oppressive nobody wants to give authoritarian types the chance to mess with it (beyond what the Supreme Court already allows them to do).

It was supposed to be a flexible document. Hence a fairly long list of amendments. The issue has become that the two party system did exactly what our first president predicted it would do. HOWEVER the document isn't oppressive. When enforced as it should be, the document is designed to prevent government overstep. It is a prescriptive document that tells the government what it is ALLOWED to do by the PEOPLE. Everything NOT in the document is supposed to be forbidden. The problem is that it failed to establish a punishment for violating the constitution as an elected official. It should be the only crime punishable by death. If you want to be an elected official, then you have to accept the risk that comes with accepting such power. The amount of damage that can, and is regularly caused, by elected officials is staggering when compared to even the worst murderers.

That's exactly what I mean, though. I mean granted I don't think it would be watertight due to scale and logistics but like... if for example several "important industries" suddenly came to be acquired by the newly-formed government of the South and a blanket ban on expatriation of government employees were implemented, what then? "It's the law" is a good enough excuse for supporters of authoritarianism to justify inhuman treatment so like... yeah.

It's like Ron Swanson, except not funny or likable at all.

That would be extremely horrible for a lot of people living in the south.

its also disingenuous to believe its a problem only with the south. the midwest is just as racist and bible thumping as the south

Speaking of, has anyone else noticed that the "Party of Lincoln" is waving an awful lot of Confederate flags?

It stopped being the Party of Lincoln after the Southern Strategy transferred all the racists out of the Democratic Party and they flipped places on the civil rights coin. They just call themselves that now as propaganda for anyone who doesn't know any better. They even repeat the misleading statement that the Democrats "are" the party of slavery and all that shit as if nothing changed in two centuries. Can't trust a thing.