Fuck You, Mitch McConnell

    As pundits pick over the bones and dried out organs of the Harris-Walz campaign, there will be dredged up a myriad of reasons as to how the American people could be so collectively brain-dead to install back in the Oval Office a convicted fraudster and rapist who, legally, isn't allowed to travel to at least 40 countries, including our allies in the United Kingdom.

    Yes, we can endlessly debate what caused the most inexplicable and catastrophic outcome of perhaps any US presidential election. But, as Lewis Carroll once wrote in Alice in Wonderland, "Begin at the beginning."

    This is all on Mitch McConnell's hunched shoulders. McConnell had not one but two opportunities to prevent what had happened on Tuesday night.

    The first time was nearly five years ago, when the House voted to impeach Trump on December 18, 2019. By February 5th the following year, Republican scum in the US Senate voted to acquit Trump of both articles, thereby keeping him in office for nearly another year. He rewarded them by siccing a violent mob on the Capitol building and putting all their lives in danger.

    That set up the second impeachment and McConnell's second opportunity to rid us of Trump once and for all. By January 13th, 2021, a week after that riot, the House voted on another article of impeachment. Both times, McConnell voted to acquit.

     As the Republican leader in the Senate both times, McConnell had the juice to kick out of office and prevent from running for federal office ever again a man who'd repeatedly attacked him and his wife, Elaine Chao, Trump's former Transportation Secretary. A conviction in the Senate would've immediately put to a halt Trump's political future. The first impeachment could've and should've kicked him out of office, barred him from even running for that office and would've even cost him his Secret Service protective detail, his pension, everything.

     But obviously, that's not what happened.

     Despite essentially laying the blame for January 6th squarely at Trump's feet, stating, “The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people,” McConnell still couldn't find it in his withered soul to do the right thing. He put partisanship over principle, party over country all because Trump cynically put a capital R after his name. He relied on the ultimate cop out, that if Trump was to be held accountable for January 6th, then it should be by the courts.

     How's that working out? Oh, right. Jack Smith is busy cleaning out his desk, his insurrection case against Trump about to vanish as abruptly as his documents case in Fort Pierce, Florida. As far as federal court and the Supreme Court goes, Trump is invulnerable and invincible.

    All because Mitch McConnell didn't use his power to pressure other Republicans to do the right thing and convict the most shameless and prolific criminal that ever sat behind the Resolute Desk.

    And McConnell doesn't give a shit. He'll be out of the Senate soon enough and he'll easily be able to ignore Trump as he sneers at him from Truth Social while he's in Kentucky wondering why he's wandering around outside without his pants on.

     Aside from that, McConnell will be immune to the rack and ruin that Trump promises to unleash on this country. Republicans are already loudly sneering that Project 2025 will be Trump's agenda from Day One. Women will die from lack of access to reproductive care. Migrants will be deported en masse, sending the US economy into a tailspin. And whatever economy we'll have left will be destroyed when Trump levies another round of ruinous tariffs on other countries which, of course, we'll have to pay for.

     Ukraine is essentially fucked and will have its US funding pulled, thereby allowing Putin to take over that country. Ukraine is the largest country in Europe and the most important bulwark between the rest of Europe and Russia. Trump will pull us out of NATO and the Paris Climate Accord yet again. Social Security and Medicare will be on the chopping block. Trump will be a lame duck president from the start. He won't have to worry about re-election.

     With Trump at the top of the Republican ticket, it set the stage for the GOP taking over the Senate, opening the doors for vastly unfit assclowns like Jim Justice (the Senate's first billionaire), Bernie Moreno and Tim Sheehy. With only 27 seats in the House still up for grabs, the GOP is just eight seats away from gaining a majority in the House. Ruben Gallego's win here in Arizona is very cold comfort, indeed.

     All because of Mitch McConnell. McConnell helped Trump put three right wing ideologues on the Supreme Court and, with Trump's "victory", Alito and Thomas will be able to retire, knowing that Trump will replace them with much younger and surely more dangerous ideologues. The filibuster will suddenly be on life support, denying Senate Democrats an actual voice.

     Yes, we gave the White House and the Senate and quite possibly the House to the most useless, most ruinous party ever to infest the Beltway. Kudos, Mitch.

     If there was any justice left in heaven, McConnell will be tarred and feathered right before getting his withered ass kicked out the door. But that won't happen. He'll be able to depart with all his dignity and fortune intact, with every honor possible bestowed upon him as he mistakes the Senate cloak room for the front door.