Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell bluntly warned Republican senators in a private meeting not to sign on to a bill from Sen. Josh Hawley aimed at limiting corporate money bankrolling high-powered outside groups, telling them that many of them won their seats thanks to the powerful super PAC the Kentucky Republican has long controlled.

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    Imagine being about to die any day now, and still using your failing, literally sputtering life force to proactively stand for enduring corruption even when you’re gone and will no longer profit from it, as if the corporations that bribe the Republicans and Neoliberals will be able to send the bribe checks to hell or something.

    There aren’t many villains, even in fiction, that lack any nuance to this degree. McConnell truly is a palpatine-esque cartoon of malevolence.

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      He really is one of the most evil humans to ever exist in the USA. PLEASE can he die soon. PLEASE. The earth needs a win.

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        Jesus, I can just picture the Heritage Foundation fascist thinktank rolling a screen onto the Senate floor that’s some janky McConnell LLM Max Headroom looking AI to tell the Senate Republicans what to think.

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          Now that’s an obscure reference. I was a kid in the 80s, and there were whole decades of my life where, if I thought about Max Headroom at all, I suspected I had just hallucinated the whole thing.