Summary
Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell reportedly warned that there will be no recess appointments, directly opposing Donald Trump’s plan to bypass Senate confirmation for controversial cabinet nominees, including Matt Gaetz.
Gaetz has faced allegations of drug use and sexual misconduct.
McConnell’s stance sparked widespread discussion about a looming constitutional showdown.
Critics argue recess appointments could undermine Senate authority and pose national security risks.
Observers question McConnell’s influence, noting potential leadership changes, while others see this as a critical test of Senate integrity against Trump-aligned Republicans.
Just a reminder that Mitch McConnell could have prevented this not once but twice.
Good luck (seriously) trying to keep the monster you created and continuously enabled under control. I also hate that I’m implicitly rooting for McConnell here.
Don’t worry, Trump now will see him as The Enemy and use everything at his disposal against him.
McConnell just might be the first one to draw the ire this term.
I mean, probably. Unfortunately, McConnell’s actually right for once. Whether he’s right for the right reasons is irrelevant at the moment.
The enemy of my enemy.
We can agree with him and root for him. Just keep in mind who he is and what he’s done. Don’t allow a short memory to curb that perspective.
In the meantime, while the monsters fight we should be collectively working to shore up things in our communities. I’m working on mine.
We’re still pissing on his grave.
Oh 100%.
Accidentally right is still right!
Any chance McConnell will fall out a window in the near future?
I’m with you, but I don’t see Trump going after anyone on his personal revenge list before Obama and Biden. Won’t start the deportation/concentration camp bullshit in earnest until after a few of those because he has to prove to the legislature that he controls them before he does anything too unpopular or evil.
McConnell realizes that Trump’s a lame duck. The Congresscritters want to remain in office in '26 and after. They don’t give a shit what happens to Trump.
Just thinking back to how easy it would have been to never have Trump in our lives again, to get off this worst timeline, if just a handful of people had a tiny bit of courage at the impeachment trials.
Maybe they all thought he was cooked and they could once again forget about doing the right thing one more time, to endear themselves to his rabid supporters. It’s dizzying to think they could have protected the Constitution with a single word, and failed to do even that.
Stop depressing me with a historically accurate recounting of events that happened.
The impeachment vote shouldn’t have been a public ballot. If it had been private I have little to no doubt he’d have been gone the secondtime, possibly the first. Pence was middling but he knows the game.
Hear me out, people could not have voted for this bullshit.
We get what we deserve. I can only hope we manage to preserve our republic and we don’t become an autocracy. An oligarchy is bad enough as is.
The good news is in party fighting is s good sign that they won’t be able to consolidate power as quickly or completely as they wanted to. The bad news is, they now know who to come for on the night of long knives.
There is consensus that the current nominations for cabinet are heavily oriented to separating the disloyaistlls in order to define targets. McTurtle in his prime was a competitor, but I imagine it will be easy to move against him these days
When the worst guy starts fighting a twice as worst guy, you have a relative good guy to root for.
The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy, but I want to see the former hurt the latter first.
If my enemies destroy each other, I’m certainly saved some effort. Go for it, champ!
This enemy of my enemy is not my friend, the moment is merely a temporary truce for the greater good.
Moscow Mitch took hundreds of millions in Russian ‘investments’ for I think an aluminum plant.
He’s dirty as fuck and just needed a call from his handler to remind him which way to vote on that.
Bad people can do good things sometimes, and you should never interrupt or shame them for doing it. Many people on the internet forget that.
No one is entirely good or entirely evil.
Never thought I’d see the day where I hoped a McConnell plan would work in any capacity.
He’s allowed Trump to exist so project 2025 can happen.
Moscow Mitch will do anything to make project 2025 happen, maybe he was convinced the “normal” Republicans can mitigate Trump’s penchant for treason and sedition against America and that mitigation risk was worth the project 2025 payout.
Hopefully he is right about mitigating Trump. Otherwise, I hope McConnell is the first Republican publicly executed because Trump absolutely wants to be able to publicly execute anyone he doesn’t like.
As much as he probably wants to please Big Daddy Trump I think he also wants to assert himself a little by saying, “Here’s your McDonald’s. I took a few fries and yes, I’ll do it next time too.”