Wow, Associated Press, “a record run in the job” that’s what you came up with huh? Well, fuck you.
As in, he holds the record for the longest serving senate leader. They’re not making a statement on the quality of his tenure. You should read the articles.
Will they carry him out on their shoulders? In a pine box? I mean, he died months ago, didn’t he?
Favorite quote from his speech:
“I turned 82 last week. The end of my contributions is closer than I would prefer.”
I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like!
And less than half of you half as well as you deserve!
He’s not dead yet? For fucks sake his diet should have had a 308 loooong ago
Anyways good riddance and die soon, smooches
We’re getting duplicate posts so I’m going to sticky this one.
I absolutely DESPISED Kissinger, and with excellent reason. I don’t think I have ever loathed a public figure personally and to that extent before or since.
But McConnell is rising to that mark, and at least for all his crimes against humanity Kissinger wasn’t a traitor for foreign pay against his adopted homeland.
Mitch McConnell, on the other hand, is a coward who sold his own soul and his own country for wealth and power, and ultimately the holder of his notes has ended up being Vladimir Putin.
Piece of shit. I have nothing but contempt for what he has done to this nation.
The only good outcome from Trump getting elected was seeing Mitch McConnell squirm for 4 years.
Mother fucker still played the game though.
I would devote a year of full time work to exercise and training if I knew I’d get one chance to punch him right in the face
Mitch McConnell, on the other hand, is a coward who sold his own soul and his own country for wealth and power, and ultimately the holder of his notes has ended up being Vladimir Putin.
Shockingly, Mitch has been one of the few Republicans to support giving weapons and money to Ukraine.
https://kentuckylantern.com/2024/02/16/on-ukraine-aid-mcconnell-acted-on-principle-not-politics/
Yea of late the House had been so crazy that Mitch supporting Ukraine and the boarder deal makes him seem moderate. Which is a horrid sign of where things are. I equally wouldn’t be shocked if he said he was stepping because of the party’s shift. Also a horrid sign since he as a massive factor in making it crazy.
Kissinger wasn’t a traitor for foreign pay against his adopted homeland.
We’re going to have to agree to disagree on that one. Henry Kissinger is uniquely responsible for the modern quagmire of a relationship that exists between the United States and Israel.
I am speaking of the US as Kissinger’s adopted homeland; he came here from Germany in 1938.
Henry Kissinger is uniquely responsible for the modern quagmire of a relationship that exists between the United States and Israel.
Lol. No.
While I recognize a certain urge to acknowledge Henry Kissinger as satan himself, and can even sympathize with it to some degree, the reality is that he was just one man and you give him FAR too much singular credit as an individual, when there is more than enough to go around on all sides. You write as though Bibi himself does not exist, nor Hamas, nor the rest of the Arab states surrounding the war zone (each with their own angle to play trying to manipulate it to their own ends) nor the world community. And not just today’s cast of characters, but for the last 80+ years: everyone from Golda Meir to Yasser Arafat to Richard Nixon all up in that mess, even the Brits.
LOTS of hands in that pie, Rico. Not just one country’s doing, much less one man’s.
And to that end I would be remiss not to remind folks that Donald F. Trump STILL hasn’t answered for that nuke of a decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in 2017 – going so far as to hold the fucking opening of the US embassy on the 70th anniversary of Israel’s statehood. I call it a “nuke of a decision” because it had exactly that effect on Israel and Palestine and the always tenuous peace that was ever there, and was done for no actual reason but that Bibi (allegedly) asked him to do so. If you want to name American names, then Trump is much more explosively relevant to today’s “quagmire” than anything Kissinger personally did or did not do, IMO, and certainly more recent.
Oh, and lets forget about Abraham vs. Ishmael while we’re at it too, because religion has nothing to do with the US position on Israel. Nope, none at all, even though Congress is full of the corrupt trying to buy the christian god with favoritism toward Israel, all longing for the Second Coming. Through a serious twisting of their holy book, some are even openly working toward forcing the carpenter to schedule his return trip by manipulating world events: they figure if they start Armageddon he HAS to come back to save them from the world they are creating right now for the rest of us to bake in. And where is Armageddon allegedly scheduled to take place? The valley of Meggido, Israel.
Kissinger didn’t do all that. He was just evil, not totally batshit crazy and thinking he could crowbar god almighty into changing his plane tickets for the Second Coming, lol.
We’re going to have to agree to disagree on that one.
Yeah. Completely. Works for me.
I agree with all of the things you said. However, Henry Kissinger was essentially the father of modern neo-conservative foreign policy, and those policies are largely what led to the manipulation of the United States government by AIPAC and the Israeli government. There are a multitude of other factors as you suggest, but don’t act for one second like Henry Kissinger wasn’t Jewish first and American second.
don’t act for one second like Henry Kissinger wasn’t Jewish first and American second.
I wrote exactly as I believe: Kissinger was an evil opportunistic strategist first, and a human being second. Nationalities and opportunities were just the specifics.
And you should brush up on your history: for example, during the Yom Kippur War, Kissinger was the one pressing Israel for more concessions to the Arabs, including land, and NOT the other way around. “Jewish first and American second” was not the hard and fast rule you believe it to be.
I haven’t voiced this before, but after seeing him and his actions for the last 10-15 years… I’ve grown to literally hate him. That smug turtle faced prick. I hate him so much. He’s done so much damage to America. He stalled us on decades of progress. He’s a piece of shit that deserves his shitty health and to rot in hell.
I’m sorry if that’s harsh to say about another human being, but, he is one who truly does not care about anyone but himself and to ‘stick it’ to everyone else who isn’t on his side. He’s truly an evil man.
It is a harsh thing to say about another human being. It’s also being kinder than he deserves.
Few people deserve ire to this degree. He happens to be one of them.
I feel similarly but this guy’s face will never be as punchable as Matt Gaetz. I would pay lots of money to see him get kicked in the nuts.
You mean statutory rapist Matt Gaetz? The one that sexually assaulted a woman? That Matt Gaetz? Of Florida?
It’s ok. Politicians are not people, they are symbols. You can hate a symbol all you like. You can also hate someone who would become that symbol. It doesn’t make you a bad person to point out that someone else is causing the world harm.
I wonder which complete GOP MAGA psychopath is going to get the turtle’s seat? I’m betting they try and force Tuberville on us.
I’d take ol’ Tommy because he’d be completely incompetent and ineffective.
Tommy Tuberville was extremely effective at single-handedly blocking military promotions, blocking all Senate efforts to get past him, and only stopping when they were about to go scorched earth on him and change Senate rules to get around him.
I’m not saying Tuberville ISN’T dumb as a lump of dogshit, because he is. But he’s ALSO a traitorous fuck getting paid by Russia to support Putin’s war on Ukraine from the Senate floor, not only in votes but in speeches now, and he has handlers who are not nearly as stupid as he is.
Be careful what you wish for. Any government post Tommy Tuberville holds is a post that Vladimir Putin controls.
Tommy blocked those promotions because he’s an idiot and literally didn’t realize that the positions would go empty if he didn’t let them through. Someone had to explain to him that keeping the military from working is a bad thing. That’s how dumb he is. I am convinced that he would just make the GOP looks as bad as McCarthy and Johnson.
“He spoke at times haltingly”
Isn’t this the guy who literally froze during a press conference? He looked so lost, like he escaped from an elderly home just to hold the conference
The GOP got tired of resetting him each time he froze up
TWICE!
He managed to do so much damage in his lifetime. This is not a win.
Hopefully he drops dead soon after.
A bad prognosis has got to be the only reason the turtle would step away from power.
He still has time until November to drop dead before.
This guy looks like one of those weird little things in Ursula’s garden from The Little Mermaid. Who’d he sell his soul to?
I used to hear that he looked like Dana Carvey’s turtle dude in that movie “Master of Disguise”.
No sorry. That’s clearly that thing from Pan’s Labyrinth
I once sent an email to him directly with the phrase “$2000 or a new guillotine?”
Guess what he picked ;)?
Retiring as leader but still keeping his senate seat. Any day that man is still allowed in Congress is a bad day, no matter what chair he sits in.
Believe it or not, McConnell’s home state of Kentucky currently has a Democratic governor, so if McConnell vacated his seat, the governor would appoint a Democrat to fill it until a special election could be held. No way in hell a guy like Mitch would allow something like that to happen while he’s still drawing breath.
I’m pretty sure Kentucky passed a bill saying that the replacement must be of the same party.
Yeah, McConnell saw his own time drawing to a close and had his buddies in Kentucky pass some legislation vote-proofing his seat against a Democratic replacement:
