McConnell will step down as the Senate Republican leader in November after a record run in the job

McConnell's entire legacy can be summed up in one cowardly act: After Donald Trump whipped up a mob to attack our Capitol, threatening to kill the Speaker of the House and the Vice President, in an attempt to overturn a presidential election, he condemned Trump.

“Former President Trump’s actions that preceded the riot were a disgraceful, disgraceful dereliction of duty,” McConnell said. “Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day.”

But McConnell voted to acquit him of insurrection, allowing him to run for president again.

One of the most damaging traitors in this country’s history. I wish him the worst.

Fuck this asshole. Few people have done as much damage as he has and the worst part is we’re only going to get someone worse.

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.

He must be on deaths door bc there ain’t now way otherwise he’d ever do this

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.

Goodbye you cowardly worthless skin sack full of excrement! May you stub the same toe on every corner.

This guy was great in Pans Labyrinth!

fuck him. he should resign from the senate completely.

sincerely, lifetime kentucky resident

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Does he know he's stepping down? Has anybody told his nurse to give him the message?

Good riddance. I'm sure his successor with be much worse, but I'll welcome this news for now.

I wish his time left in this life is full of heartache and despair. Fuck You Mitch.

Don't let the door hit your ass on the w-- actually scratch that, I hope the door hits you so hard on the way out that you spend the remainder of miserable life managing broken ass related complications.

People like you make me wish hell was real.

Fucking traitor.

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

A pinnacle of how flawed the American government is, 39 years in our government thus far. 2 senators per state with no term limits and I still hear people argue that the senate serves a good purpose.

Favorite quote from his speech:

"I turned 82 last week. The end of my contributions is closer than I would prefer."

Fuck you for everything, Mitch.

Don't let the door hit your shell on the way out.

Whoever replaces him will be even more of a Trump enabler.

Thank you for your service in completely fucking up this country, Mitch.

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?

Rot in hell.

McConnell should be seen as a superhero for the republicans. He got more done for the party than pretty much any past republican senate leader. He fucking got them 2 supreme court justices by his fuckery. He played senate democrats like a fiddle and got SO MUCH compromise out of them while pretty much never returning the favor. For fucks sake, I think Biden STILL views McConnell as a friend.

Yet he went against god king trump so now they hate him. Republicans are dumb as shit.

Adios Moscow Mitch!

So stepping down as party leader in Senate, but not from the Senate? Ugh...

I'm sure this has nothing to do with his

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Ok.

I very much look forward to reading his obituary.

I'd be happy, except that I worry about who will come next...

Ding dong the Mitch is dead!

He’s not dead yet? For fucks sake his diet should have had a 308 loooong ago

Anyways good riddance and die soon, smooches

I be he is sad about losing his bet with the Koch brothers that he could successfully complete the portal opening sequence to the gates of hell while he was Senate Majority Leader.

He managed to do so much damage in his lifetime. This is not a win.

Will they carry him out on their shoulders? In a pine box? I mean, he died months ago, didn't he?

So, do you think they'll cart out a catatonic corpse? Or will he finally shed his spine and ooze out under the door?

Hopefully he drops dead soon after.

This is strange. I don't dare to hope that McConnell is stepping down for his health, I'm certain that all the human misery he has caused innervates him in a way no drug could. This could speak to a larger internal power struggle. McConnell fucking sucks, but he hasn't been the greatest ally to the MAGAts recently. I know Trump recently infected all of the RNC leadership, I wonder if McConnell is getting muscled down to make way for a crazier, more pro-Trump Republican leader.

Good, he's a dinosaur anyways and we need to extinct them so to speak. They are ruining life for everyone.

Wow, Associated Press, "a record run in the job" that's what you came up with huh? Well, fuck you.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate leader in history who maintained his power in the face of dramatic convulsions in the Republican Party for almost two decades, will step down from that position in November.

McConnell, who turned 82 last week, was set to announce his decision Wednesday in the well of the Senate, a place where he looked in awe from its back benches in 1985 when he arrived and where he grew increasingly comfortable in the front row seat afforded the party leaders.

His decision punctuates a powerful ideological transition underway in the Republican Party, from Ronald Reagan’s brand of traditional conservatism and strong international alliances, to the fiery, often isolationist populism of former President Donald Trump.

McConnell gave no specific reason for the timing of his decision, which he has been contemplating for months, but he cited the recent death of his wife’s youngest sister as a moment that prompted introspection.

Trump has pulled the party hard to the ideological right, questioning longtime military alliances such as NATO, international trade agreements and pushing for a severe crackdown on immigration, all the while clinging to the falsehood that the election was stolen from him in 2020.

After seeing the potential peril of a rising Tea Party, he also established a super political action committee, The Senate Leadership Fund, which has provided hundreds of millions of dollars in support of Republican candidates.

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"He spoke at times haltingly"

We're getting duplicate posts so I'm going to sticky this one.

Fuck McClownell.

Finally the turtle retires

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.

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‘Three Johns’ Top the List of Potential Successors to Mitch McConnell

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/us/mcconnell-successor-senate-leader.html