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Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell posing with a Confederate flag and receiving a plaque at a Sons of Confederate Veterans event in the 1990s. |
Thee Optimist is not a fan of Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. Not even a little.
He has no warm feelings for this Demon of the Underworld in any way, shape or form. In fact, Thee Optimist once imagined McConnell being Ungawa-ed by a group of Stone Age tribesmen.
Until the Donald came along, you might even say that Mitch McConnell was the person most responsible for the decline (and now collapse) of American democracy.
Obviously, Mitch has been overshadowed by the Fat Man's walking corpse, its enablers (and the people behind the scenes who are using it to ram through their extremist agenda).
Even so, Mitch has done so many bad, racist, anti-democratic things, for so long, that it's almost hard to believe no one ever popped him, or even tried.
Like they did Cap'n Kirk, for example.
Just like Charlie, Mitch has been a champion and apologist for the gun lobby his entire career.
Mitch has also used his power to prop up the coal industry for decades, while simultaneously torching the renewable energy industry.
He is one of the people who bears the most blame for China's vast and unstoppable lead in energy generation, which will only get worse and worse over the next century or so.
Bad man. Bad career.
He stepped down from his leadership position a year ago, but he's still rattling around the Senate, literally held upright by people who benefit from pretending his rotting carcass has any business handling the affairs of state.
Just recently, Mitch got knocked to the ground in a Senate hallway, by a woman activist who asked him a question.
No, she didn't touch his frail old ass. She merely talked to him. That was more than enough.
The woman's name is Stella.
The question she asked was:
"Do you support ICE taking working people off the streets and kidnapping them?"
Ka-POW!
Down goes Mitch.
Talk about a glass jaw.
Way to go, Stella.
Now, of course, in most cases, we shouldn't mock people in the end stages of their lives. Mitch is in for some mockery just because of what a toxic personality he was, and how much damage he did.
And this latest humiliation gets at an idea Thee Optimist has visited again and again.
The United States is a sclerotic world power in terminal decline, where dark unseen forces use obviously impaired, indeed borderline helpless political figures as puppets.
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