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.

    • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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.