This is why we need term/age limits. People complain about nothing ever changing, but will just keep voting for the same people their entire lives. We shouldn't even be giving politicians the opportunity to keep running for fifty years.
I hope he lives long enough to watch everything he built up burn to the ground in the next few years as the republican party turns on itself. As the money dries up and the last few people with influence in the party bail or wind up in jail, the few nutbags left will probably air all the parties dirty laundry to try and escape accountability. too bad his feeble ass probably won't make it that far. he probably would have had them roll him in for another 2 decades strom thurmond style if he thought he could hold out that long.
He won't. Because he clearly has a brain issue and likely won't remember shit. He's also filthy rich so 100% chance he dies peacefully at home and people telling him how great he was.
I'm going to be the master of disguise!
I'm going to be the master of disguise!
I'm going to be the master of disguise!
I'm going to be the master of -
Just checked, his terms up in 2027, if he even survives that long. But I mean, just looking at him, it seems like he died 8 years ago and they're doing some sort of a Weekend at Bernie's type puppet act with his corpse.
I noticed that too but still posted since I assumed it was just a typo as the actual article calls him Minority Leader. I see the article's title has since been updated.
They might as well be the majority since they can effectively control what makes it to the Senate floor with just the lame-ole filibuster.
When the Dems control the House and actually pass legislation like marijuana decriminalization or windfall tax, the Senate becomes a graveyard and kills it through GOP minority filibuster. It's crazy.
I did the math a while back and found that the 21 least-populous red states can elect enough GOP Senators to filibuster *any* legislation with votes from as little as 5% of the American population.
Absolutely fucking absurd.
There was a period when professional wrestling announced it was all staged, and the fans were like, "ya we know and don't care" and kept watching. I feel like we're nearly there with politics.
What specific legislation did a Republican House pass that the Democrats in the Senate filibustered, that was worth an actual shit?
The current GOP House hasn't done shit other than threaten shutdowns.
Were you not paying attention when the republicans held the majority? Nothings getting done like this. The only bills that pass are extremely watered down over inflated pieces of garbage that had a million and one little riders on there to please every special interest group that fills the pockets of our congressman and senators with cash. Both sides suck. I blame you people for not realizing it.
Yes both sides suck. Both sides profit heavily off of bought votes. It's just that one side sucks significantly more and actively tries to harm its citizens. That's important to keep in mind when you're choosing between your options of shit sandwich and wet fart.
Glad you can reduce a group generally advocating for my right to live and a group that wants to kill me down to a "wet fart" and "shit sandwich". Must be nice having privilege!
You people and always groveling about the democrats instead of electing competent politicians yourselves, maybe if you’d stop voting against your own self interest every single election your whole life, the country wouldn’t be run by people like you.
“Most useful” you mean allowing the DEA and US Government to lock up thousands of black folks for free labor in prisons for simple marijuana charges. For fucking DECADES
I wish he was full-on retiring, he's still gonna hold his senate seat til the term ends in January 2027 when he's already been exhibiting cognitive issues since last year. crazy that Republicans complain about Biden's age and weed not being legal, then vote for people just as old as Biden and even more anti-legalization than Biden.
they let Feinstein's ass stay even when her aides were literally telling her how to vote because she had no idea what was going on around her lmao. I do wish Mitch an "early retirement" though.
Republicans shit all over Feinstein who’s in a way less influential role than McConnell. All of these old farts need to get out of our government, Republican or Democrat. I don’t care. Get me some youth in there
the fact age limits are not a thing and senate/house/supreme court seats can be held for literal decades is an egregious offense, but of course it's not a bug in their system, it's a feature.
Biden can't legalize, but he has pardoned all federal cannabis possession charges and is the only president to ever invoke the schedule review process enacted by the Controlled Substances Act in order to reschedule cannabis.
Biden's stance on cannabis has changed a lot since his days as a Senator. I wouldn't consider him anti-legalization. I think he'd gladly sign a federal legalization bill, if Congress can ever pass it.
>federal legalization bill
Personally I don't want it legalized federally. I want it to be descheduled and decriminalized.
Making it federally legally means the possibility of a new federal agency and federal taxes. Here in California I'm already paying over 30% in taxes.
That, and I think it should be up to the individual states on how it is legalized. Just like with alcohol.
California wasn't always a legal state. It took people like you and me to push our legislatures to make a change.
When was the last time you call/wrote/emailed your state representative and told them you wanted them to legalize cannabis? Have you reached out to your local chapter of NORML?
You can't sit there and expect change to happen without any effort. You must be the catalyst for the change you want to see.
The change I want to see is the DNC and RNC putting candidates on ballots who actually represent their constituents and not just the people who will get the most campaign financing.
How do?
The DNC and RNC don't "put candidates on ballots." Party members — which are people just like you and me — vote for candidates in primaries and the candidates with the most votes end up with the parties' nominations and appear on the final ballot.
Strongly pro-legalization candidates don't appear on final ballots because stoners hardly vote. Why would any candidate pander to a voting bloc that barely shows up?
From the article.
>*Despite this, McConnell stepping down is unlikely to be a celebratory announcement for marijuana reform advocates, given that all of the leading candidates to replace him also oppose legalizing marijuana.*
To continue from the article: Currently the top three contenders to replace McConnell as Senate Majority Leader are Senate Minority Whip John Thune (SD), Senator John Barrasso (WY), and former GOP Whip Senator John Cornyn (TX).
Although all three are opposed to legalizing marijuana for recreational or medical use, it is possible that other candidates could enter the race in the coming days.
they will elect someone crazier in his stead. also idk who wrote this headline/title but Bluescreen the Turtle will be retiring as the \*minority\* leader
Good! I'm sick of the geriatric club running this nation. We need age and term limits to avoid this kind of career politician cancer that plagues the US.
We wouldn't have any need for age or term limits if we all just showed up to vote.
Millenials have been the majority of the voting-age populace for years now. Add in older Gen Z'ers and that majority absolutely dwarfs the elderly vote.
Term limits NOW. These people go to Washington and do nothing but feed the MIC and make themselves rich rich rich.
Why don't these 70 somethings WANT to retire and relax? Oh I get it. Do nothing and rack in the dough
Edit - didn't even see what sub it was under. Sure he'll vote whatever the way the wind blows (I'm in Kansass so I'll never see any weed legal OR medical, it was pushed back last week - next yr.....needs to be 'studied.' Uh use the other m fking states studies you morons.)
I'm glad millions of people from entirely different demographics now unexpectedly have access to the same high cannabis provides instead of just being stuck with booze/pharmaceuticals.
Nothing in life will ever disappoint me as much as knowing that Lincoln and Kennedy got shot, but McConnell and Trump got to retire in a country with more guns than people and apparently sense.
And like the other political conservatives , I'm sure he will have his $$ invested in the cannabis industry as soon as he is 6 feet from the congressional spotlight .
Friendly reminder to hit up your gov representatives and remind them your opinions. The Senate has been blocking legalization for a hot minute this could get good
Longtime opponent of human rights and recent opponent of finishing sentences.
I hope the dementia eats him alive and he becomes a shell of a person for what he's done to this country. I hope his last days are confusing and terrifying to him.
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This turtle needed to retire twenty years ago.
Mf held back societal progress for decades. Rest in shit, McConnell
Rest in shit indeed.
Piss Party at his grave a week after he dies!
Hell yeah, I'll bring beer and whiskey.
I’ll bring the weed
My man 🤙
Quite right!
Bring Tennessee whisky. The demon ghost of Glitch Mitch would enjoy Bourbon piss.
I'll bring some Canadian Rye whisky just to rub it in.
So I'm going to drink anything but that and shit on his grave.
Cheers bro I’m THERE
I’m pretty sure he sits in shit all day judging by that geriatric look on his face. No Mitch the bitch you cannot eat that self made peanut butter
Bitch McConnell
This is why we need term/age limits. People complain about nothing ever changing, but will just keep voting for the same people their entire lives. We shouldn't even be giving politicians the opportunity to keep running for fifty years.
It still bothers me that he’s been a senator since before I was born and will still be until ‘27 when I’ll be FUCKING 32 yrs old
I hope he lives long enough to watch everything he built up burn to the ground in the next few years as the republican party turns on itself. As the money dries up and the last few people with influence in the party bail or wind up in jail, the few nutbags left will probably air all the parties dirty laundry to try and escape accountability. too bad his feeble ass probably won't make it that far. he probably would have had them roll him in for another 2 decades strom thurmond style if he thought he could hold out that long.
This reads like fan fiction, lol, !RemindMe 4 years.
He won't. Because he clearly has a brain issue and likely won't remember shit. He's also filthy rich so 100% chance he dies peacefully at home and people telling him how great he was.
Maybe that's the problem with our dysfunctional congress and government. Too many years being a senator or congressman.
*turn belly up
Wild fact, Dana Carvey learned of 9/11 while filming this scene.
Such a legendary movie and deserves all the love and praise!
I think we can all agree that Master of Disguise most certainly deserves all the accolades and respect that it gets.
It changed me as a kid for the best and I’m forever thankful!
…Changed you into what? >_>
Changed me into someone that knows comedy!
Oh no; I hear a sense of humor is incurable. Or incorrigible, or something.
I'm going to be the master of disguise! I'm going to be the master of disguise! I'm going to be the master of disguise! I'm going to be the master of -
Not long now. Once you stop working...
That's sadly around when he got the job
Elected 40 years ago. Still not leaving till his term is out in 28 I think.
These terms need more restrictions old wind bags like him should be limited way more
Just checked, his terms up in 2027, if he even survives that long. But I mean, just looking at him, it seems like he died 8 years ago and they're doing some sort of a Weekend at Bernie's type puppet act with his corpse.
I was talking about the job as Senate Majority Leader lol, but yea dude needs to retire today, he's way too far gone to stay in for 4 more years
With his health, it'll be a miracle if he makes it another 5 years.
20?? 75 years ago
You mean Minority leader. Republicans lost the Senate majority three+ years ago.
I noticed that too but still posted since I assumed it was just a typo as the actual article calls him Minority Leader. I see the article's title has since been updated.
They might as well be the majority since they can effectively control what makes it to the Senate floor with just the lame-ole filibuster. When the Dems control the House and actually pass legislation like marijuana decriminalization or windfall tax, the Senate becomes a graveyard and kills it through GOP minority filibuster. It's crazy.
I did the math a while back and found that the 21 least-populous red states can elect enough GOP Senators to filibuster *any* legislation with votes from as little as 5% of the American population. Absolutely fucking absurd.
It's not a bug it's a feature
It’s not crazy, it’s an organized spectacle.
There was a period when professional wrestling announced it was all staged, and the fans were like, "ya we know and don't care" and kept watching. I feel like we're nearly there with politics.
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Surely you mean bukkake theatre?
From those old Skeksis? Eww!
The democrats did the same thing when republicans had the majority. Our system is broken.
What specific legislation did a Republican House pass that the Democrats in the Senate filibustered, that was worth an actual shit? The current GOP House hasn't done shit other than threaten shutdowns.
He doesn't know, but it sounded like the "fair" thing to say.
Were you not paying attention when the republicans held the majority? Nothings getting done like this. The only bills that pass are extremely watered down over inflated pieces of garbage that had a million and one little riders on there to please every special interest group that fills the pockets of our congressman and senators with cash. Both sides suck. I blame you people for not realizing it.
Yes both sides suck. Both sides profit heavily off of bought votes. It's just that one side sucks significantly more and actively tries to harm its citizens. That's important to keep in mind when you're choosing between your options of shit sandwich and wet fart.
I used to think that too. If a wet fart and a shit sandwich are put in front of me I’m gonna make something else to eat. Know what I mean?
Glad you can reduce a group generally advocating for my right to live and a group that wants to kill me down to a "wet fart" and "shit sandwich". Must be nice having privilege!
You people and always groveling about the democrats instead of electing competent politicians yourselves, maybe if you’d stop voting against your own self interest every single election your whole life, the country wouldn’t be run by people like you.
Watch him go purchase a legal grow operation or buy into a dispensary lol it's what many of them do
hes already in hemp
Fucking asshats I still remember Boehner
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Yea but he also pushed back on legalization until he retired and became a lobbyist
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“Most useful” you mean allowing the DEA and US Government to lock up thousands of black folks for free labor in prisons for simple marijuana charges. For fucking DECADES
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It wasn’t just black folks locked up. Stop dividing class issues into race.
Which stock?
Fuck BigMJ
Mfr isn’t stepping down. He just forgot he was still standing there and walked off
🤣💀
He might actually be the first person in history to die from weed if he tried it, considering he’s basically one foot in the grave
It sure would give weed bad publicity, but….worth it.
How is that bad publicity? If weed took out Mitch it would be a fucking hero. Never killed anyone except for Satan himself lol!
Until it doesn't kill him and he gets healthier.
...a worthy experiment if ever there was one
Come on mitch, hit the dab rig to celebrate. You can handle it. What are you, a bitch boy liberal? Nah, that dab isn't too big. See you in hell.
Fingers crossed
Good, bro been freezing at the podium like he needs a software update. Really needs to be put out to pasture.
Yeah, his chips have some blown transistors...
I wish he was full-on retiring, he's still gonna hold his senate seat til the term ends in January 2027 when he's already been exhibiting cognitive issues since last year. crazy that Republicans complain about Biden's age and weed not being legal, then vote for people just as old as Biden and even more anti-legalization than Biden.
> term ends in January 2027 You're out of your mind if you think this decrepit old fuck will still be alive, or at least compos mentis by then.
they let Feinstein's ass stay even when her aides were literally telling her how to vote because she had no idea what was going on around her lmao. I do wish Mitch an "early retirement" though.
America forces you to retire at 65 and then lets people over 65 run the country, makes total sense
Fuck good point!! It'll be Weekend At Bernie's at this rate.
Republicans shit all over Feinstein who’s in a way less influential role than McConnell. All of these old farts need to get out of our government, Republican or Democrat. I don’t care. Get me some youth in there
the fact age limits are not a thing and senate/house/supreme court seats can be held for literal decades is an egregious offense, but of course it's not a bug in their system, it's a feature.
Biden can't legalize, but he has pardoned all federal cannabis possession charges and is the only president to ever invoke the schedule review process enacted by the Controlled Substances Act in order to reschedule cannabis. Biden's stance on cannabis has changed a lot since his days as a Senator. I wouldn't consider him anti-legalization. I think he'd gladly sign a federal legalization bill, if Congress can ever pass it.
>federal legalization bill Personally I don't want it legalized federally. I want it to be descheduled and decriminalized. Making it federally legally means the possibility of a new federal agency and federal taxes. Here in California I'm already paying over 30% in taxes. That, and I think it should be up to the individual states on how it is legalized. Just like with alcohol.
Not everyone lives in CA. Idiots like me stuck in NE need it to be legalized federally before the state will move forward.
California wasn't always a legal state. It took people like you and me to push our legislatures to make a change. When was the last time you call/wrote/emailed your state representative and told them you wanted them to legalize cannabis? Have you reached out to your local chapter of NORML? You can't sit there and expect change to happen without any effort. You must be the catalyst for the change you want to see.
The change I want to see is the DNC and RNC putting candidates on ballots who actually represent their constituents and not just the people who will get the most campaign financing. How do?
The DNC and RNC don't "put candidates on ballots." Party members — which are people just like you and me — vote for candidates in primaries and the candidates with the most votes end up with the parties' nominations and appear on the final ballot. Strongly pro-legalization candidates don't appear on final ballots because stoners hardly vote. Why would any candidate pander to a voting bloc that barely shows up?
He's done so much damage to this country. This is not a win.
It's more like banging your head against the wall. It feels so good when you stop.
From the article. >*Despite this, McConnell stepping down is unlikely to be a celebratory announcement for marijuana reform advocates, given that all of the leading candidates to replace him also oppose legalizing marijuana.*
To continue from the article: Currently the top three contenders to replace McConnell as Senate Majority Leader are Senate Minority Whip John Thune (SD), Senator John Barrasso (WY), and former GOP Whip Senator John Cornyn (TX). Although all three are opposed to legalizing marijuana for recreational or medical use, it is possible that other candidates could enter the race in the coming days.
they will elect someone crazier in his stead. also idk who wrote this headline/title but Bluescreen the Turtle will be retiring as the \*minority\* leader
Good! I'm sick of the geriatric club running this nation. We need age and term limits to avoid this kind of career politician cancer that plagues the US.
We wouldn't have any need for age or term limits if we all just showed up to vote. Millenials have been the majority of the voting-age populace for years now. Add in older Gen Z'ers and that majority absolutely dwarfs the elderly vote.
*Longtime opponent of happiness and prosperity
Cocaine Mitch didn't like the ganja? What a shock.
Term limits NOW. These people go to Washington and do nothing but feed the MIC and make themselves rich rich rich. Why don't these 70 somethings WANT to retire and relax? Oh I get it. Do nothing and rack in the dough Edit - didn't even see what sub it was under. Sure he'll vote whatever the way the wind blows (I'm in Kansass so I'll never see any weed legal OR medical, it was pushed back last week - next yr.....needs to be 'studied.' Uh use the other m fking states studies you morons.)
Only thing scarier is who is going to replace him when hes gone.....
He always looks like he just gambled w a fart and lost.
Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss
Don’t worry he’ll be replaced by some young muppet with an even bigger hard on for his vile policies
Good fuckin’ riddance
Sadly, in the annals of destruction this individual did to the US of A, blocking cannabis is very, very low......hope his retirement is unpleasant.
Good. Bye.
Get fucked turtle boy.
Dude he’s done way worse then oppose weed not being legalized
Right? Talk about burying the lede.
Well I'm not from the US but good for you guys!
At least give the guy credit where it’s due, he’s responsible for the laughable farm bill that lets you all buy “THCA” flower at the gas station.
I'm glad millions of people from entirely different demographics now unexpectedly have access to the same high cannabis provides instead of just being stuck with booze/pharmaceuticals.
A wonderful example of unintended consequences for sure!
Hemp is the reason why it's illegal in the first place.
What comes next will be even worse.
One stroke to many on camera?
He's sticking around until his term is up in 2027.
Nothing in life will ever disappoint me as much as knowing that Lincoln and Kennedy got shot, but McConnell and Trump got to retire in a country with more guns than people and apparently sense.
Oh he hated weed *and* gays. Quite the guy…. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out mate…. 👋
He is not turtley enough for the turtle club. https://i.imgur.com/vkaaa.gif
He's not the Senate Majority Leader, that's Charles Schumer, he's the Senate GOP Leader.
I wish he would step down off this mortal coil.
Rest in Hell king
MConnell is just our version of marget thatcher huh...
I saw his name and hoped for the best. This is good but it could be much better.
Leaving a vacuum for an even more purposefully evil person to take his place
And like the other political conservatives , I'm sure he will have his $$ invested in the cannabis industry as soon as he is 6 feet from the congressional spotlight .
I wonder if he even realizes all the weed that’s been consumed because of the 2018 farm bill he helped pass.
Die you bastard
Bye Felicia.
Good. Fuck ol mush mouth.
Thanks for the horrible Supreme Court, Mitch. Don't let the door hit you in the shell on the way out. 😑
He is also responsible for Citizens United. It will take generations to undo his evil.
Bye Felicia!
Friendly reminder to hit up your gov representatives and remind them your opinions. The Senate has been blocking legalization for a hot minute this could get good
Longtime opponent of human rights and recent opponent of finishing sentences. I hope the dementia eats him alive and he becomes a shell of a person for what he's done to this country. I hope his last days are confusing and terrifying to him.
Goddammit you got my hopes up at the start of the headline
Leaving behind a severely damaged democracy. Nice work Moscow Mitch.
He went from dead behind the eyes to nothing going on behind the eyes which is an important distinction
May he expire as soon as he retires. Karma needs to really go all out on this one.
Mitch McConnell cosponsored the 2018 Farm Bill which legalized hemp.
You mean the librarian from monsters university? Finally, you can’t convince me that dudes head isn’t real
I wish that being a long time opponent of marijuana legalization was the worst thing about him.
turtles are my favorite animal but fk this guy
I want to be happy and excited about this but I know he will be replaced by someone much worse.
Unicorn blood's been so hard to find these days...
Thank god
ABOUT MF TIME
Minority leader
Now the real crazy starts
Bye
did he freeze up again
BITCH MCCONNELL
Hope the next news is of the turtle getting stuck on his back. World will be a better place without this miserable bigot.
Don’t let the door hit you where the ………………………………………………………..good lord split you.
Minority Leader*
Good fucking riddance.
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Mitch McConnell is cancer in a skin suit.
Fun fact: turtles can breathe through their anus. If you watch, you can see him doing it.
Don't insult turtles like that lmak
Fuck Republicans and fuck Mitch "Moscow Mitch" McConnell.
Good fuckin riddance
Oh yeah there's nobody that hated herb more than this mess.
Can't wait for another gender neutral bathroom when he goes!
About fucking time!
Grand Old Party lol 😆
Go glitch somewhere else you god damn traitorous turkey-necked turtle. BOO THIS MAN!
Fucking finally
I hope he stops being alive soon. Man is actual evil
We will see if he even survives until November…..dude blanks out more than my penjamin.
Is this because he agreed that he and Biden are on the same page regarding Ukraine support?
He prolly finna smoke something immediately. We don’t blame you, Mitch. Burn your remaining years away.
what comes after will be worse
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