A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆
Engaging in blatantly partisan fuckery to install a democratic senator in replacement of mitch mcconnell would be the most honest possible way to honor the legacy of mitch mcconnell. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/kentucky-governor-wont-commit-gop-appointment-mcconnell-steps-rcna103068
Kentucky governor won't commit to GOP appointment if McConnell steps down

A state law directs the governor to select a Senate appointee from a list of names submitted by the state executive committee of the outgoing senator’s party.

NBC News
Sep 3, 2023 at 6:33pmWeb
Show threadCath-in-a-HatSep 3, 2023

@JuliusGoat

Your logic is indisputable.

Show threadNonya Bidniss 🥥🌴Sep 3, 2023
@JuliusGoat Precisely.
Show threadmjfgatesSep 3, 2023
@JuliusGoat The only possible improvement would be for Beshear to promise not to do that, and then renege.
Show threadkaramazov1879Sep 3, 2023
@JuliusGoat As life too often is, it's perversely hilarious.
Show threadbusticatedSep 3, 2023
@JuliusGoat it’s the least we could do
Show threadNormal GuySep 3, 2023
@JuliusGoat IMHO, Beshear just appoints a Dem to replace McConnell and lets the Supreme Court sort it out. R went low, Beshear should go lower. Fight fire with fire. No backing off.
Show threadFrank Bennett 🇯🇵Sep 3, 2023
@normalguy @JuliusGoat I would love to read a 5-4 opinion arguing that the preservation of Faction in national politics is a Constitutional imperative for the persistence of democracy in the United States.
Show threadSteve8282Sep 3, 2023
@JuliusGoat This is why he won’t step down.
Show threadZorro Notorious MEB 😡Sep 4, 2023
@JuliusGoat Considering who the *other* Senator from Kentucky is, I'd be in the streets if he appointed a Republican! They'll have an election to get rid of the Democrat anyhow, so give one a couple of years.
Show threadBrian OSep 4, 2023

@JuliusGoat I’m one of those people who (probably naively) think that we shouldn’t do to them what they do to us.

But I literally and audibly laughed for six full seconds when I came upon this post.

Show threadDelricSep 4, 2023
@bjoc @JuliusGoat No offense but that’s why the democrats always lose. You aren’t playing the same game as the republicans, who play to win
Show threadSameGirlieSep 4, 2023
@JuliusGoat Love this!
Show threadNicole ParsonsSep 4, 2023

@JuliusGoat

I still don't understand how Daniel Cameron, the architect that absolved law enforcement officers of murdering Breonna Taylor as she slept, can be considered electable in Kentucky.

This man hates women. He's also anti-democracy, just like Trump.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Cameron_(American_politician)

https://www.wkyt.com/2023/08/17/lawsuit-filed-against-attorney-general-daniel-cameron/

https://19thnews.org/2023/08/kentucky-governors-race-abortion-cameron-beshear/

https://www.thetimestribune.com/news/court-fight-raises-doubts-about-cameron-s-commitment-to-transparency/article_0fbcecba-451b-11ee-aaaf-9fab596bcced.html

https://www.lpm.org/news/2023-08-30/cameron-calls-for-eliminating-income-tax-imposing-medicaid-work-requirements

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-sex-harass-scandal-inside-rising-gop-star-daniel-camerons-office

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/16/trump-daniel-cameron-kentucky-governor-00097128

Daniel Cameron (American politician) - Wikipedia

Show threadPNW DebSep 4, 2023
@JuliusGoat 💯
Show threadzerotensorSep 4, 2023
@JuliusGoat grim reaper for u.s.senate
Show threadrifterSep 4, 2023
@JuliusGoat no lie detected
Show threadAnthonyJK-AdminSep 4, 2023

@JuliusGoat

Only if Charles Booker was the appointee. If it's another conservative Democrat like Amy McGrath, then hard pass.

Show thread🇺🇸Sleepy Liberal🇺🇦Sep 4, 2023
@JuliusGoat sending him "thoughts and prayers."
Show threadRichy222Sep 4, 2023
@JuliusGoat
Show threadGatekeeper..Sep 4, 2023
@JuliusGoat
Andy is required, from what I see, to pick from three republicans.lm pretty sure he won't pick Comer.
Show threadGretchen AndersonSep 4, 2023
@JuliusGoat what I wouldn’t give to see Dems take their stupid white gloves off for a second
Show threadajkandySep 4, 2023
@gretared sometimes I wish they had a modern-day LBJ. Someone who was unafraid to use everything in their arsenal to convince people to get things done; flattery, persuasion, badgering, calling in favors, and threats.
Show threadvolkrisSep 4, 2023

@JuliusGoat

When talking about the McConnell legacy we NEED to address the misinformation that kept him in office, and interfered with so much other functioning of the Senate, from SCOTUS nominations through legislative progress.

Under Senate rules, not even the majority leader has free hand to dictate what happens.

We’ve had a generation of this myth that McConnell had such power, when he absolutely didn’t. BUT, it was a win-win-win-win to promote that myth.

D’s got to blame McConnell for their own failures, and fundraise off of his specter, R’s had McConnell get them out of tricky votes, the press got a ton of sensational stories out of the whole thing, and McConnell himself gained reelection without challenge.

All because we overlook that a simple majority of senators can override McConnell, just like any other senator, if they really wanted to.

It’s been sad to watch. Can we finally tear him, and the leader position, down now?

#USPolitics #Senate #McConnell #parliamentaryprocedure

Show threadBonnie SonderSep 5, 2023
@JuliusGoat
Omg, that would be so perfect and the biggest kick in his ass for replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Amy Coney Barrett. Then there’s replacing Thurgood Marshall with billionaire’s toady Justice Thomas. Putting a Democrat in Mitch McConnell’s seat would be historic justice.
Show threadTrump & Epstein: Biz partners.Sep 5, 2023
@JuliusGoat Well put.
Show threadCatherine is not complacentSep 6, 2023
@JuliusGoat Mitch will never step down.