Mitch McConnell shares GOP's ‘worst nightmare’ scenario of a Harris-Walz White House

Number 1

Nowhere in the constitution does it limit the amount of SC justices. We can have 9 or 9000 if we really want.

Number 2

DC and Puerto Rico should have been states decades ago. Guam, too.

Number 3

The policies of Harris/Walz are what 70+% of the country wants. If they are far left, then I am the Queen of England

Number 4

Tell snaggletooth to shut the fuck up and die already. This fucking lich has been the root cause of the court needing to be fixed

#VOTE!

During his speech, Spectrum reports that McConnell called the Walz-Harris ticket “the far left of the Democratic Party.”

“And by the way, that’s most Democrats today,” McConnell said, according to Spectrum.

Oh, no! Harris and Walz are representing the will of the majority of the people! Whatever the fuck is to be done about democracy?!

Is this guy delusional? After the way his party treated him in the convention, he still doubles down that the problem is the democrats?

Please just die already you turtlefaced googly eyed fuck

Fun fact, Congress can change the size of the Supreme Court at will for any reason.

They SHRUNK the court in 1866 from 9 to 7 because they just fucking hated Andrew Johnson THAT MUCH and they wanted to deny him a nomination.

After Johnson was out, they raised it back up to 9 in 1869, Granting 2, and it stayed that way ever since.

https://www.history.com/news/supreme-court-justices-number-constitution

"The Supreme Court had just ruled that paper money was unconstitutional, which would have 'wreaked havoc' with the U.S. Treasury, says Marcus. But Grant and Congress quickly confirmed two new justices who reversed the Court’s decision in the earlier case, saving the Republicans from having to undo the nation’s entire system of legal tender."

what an assholish shitstain.

he's totally okay with handing fascists over as long as those fascists "promise" to give him a seat at the table when they take over the country

and you know what they say about people who sit at the table of fascists? (they're also fascists)

So he doesn't want DC or PR statehood, giving federal representation to millions of otherwise disenfranchised US citizens because...he thinks they'll elect Democrats. Cool.

I see the man behind "making election day a national holiday is a power grab by the democrats"^[1] is rolling out some new hits. Never ceases to amaze that he can get away with saying this stuff out loud.

GOD if only they were RIGHT about how "dangerous" democrats were. IF ONLY THE DEMOCRATS WEREN'T COWARDS and would actually do this shit

By the way, on packing the Supreme Court ... you may know this already. It's unconstitutional.

The only things the constitution has to say on the matter of the supreme court are: there has to be one, the supreme court judges should be paid, and the president can appoint supreme court justices with the advice and consent of the senate. It is completely silent on matters of how many supreme court justices there should be, or how long their terms should be.

For all his many, many faults, Mitch McConnell is not a profoundly stupid man, so I'm sure he knows this. Since he very likely knows this already, he probably has a reason for lying to the public on the matter. If the president does appoint several more justices, it's not like the Republicans can sue: no lower court would take the case, and the supreme court would already be packed with people who will actually be faithful to the constitution. So legal threats are a complete non-starter. That just leaves non-legal threats, which is what I think this is. I think Glitch is previewing the Republican strategy in the case of Harris getting more justices hired, which is they'll stoke up the fear and hatred of their idiotic, mouth breathing supporters. It's a thinly-veiled threat of treason.

Isn't this fucker dead yet? I have a bottle of scotch waiting for this asshole's demise. Same as Betsy DeVoss and her shitty brother; and the final Koch brother...

McConnell called the Walz-Harris ticket “the far left of the Democratic Party.”

😆😆😆

This from Mr "elections have consequences" himself.

This motherfucker is actually older than a Galapagos tortoise. Also, when did they unpause him? I thought his OS froze and he was shuffled off to hospice.

“Oh, no! I could be held accountable for my unfathomable corruption!”

[ geriatric tortoise noises ]

Too bad polio wasn't a better shot.

whatever their 'worst nightmares' are, are more than likely just what we need, and what most of us actually want.

They're scared of Democrats stacking the courts? Is that what was said? He reminds me of an old timey western card game where a player is accusing everyone of cheating with cards tucked up his sleeves

By the way, on packing the Supreme Court ... you may know this already. It's unconstitutional.

Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation.

So his main objection is a loss of power

Fucking die already.

You know, if the orange shithead is such a liability, maybe you should have condemned his actions leading up to J6, you melted bastard. Then maybe he wouldn't be the guy running the show.

During his speech, Spectrum reports that McConnell called the Walz-Harris ticket “the far left of the Democratic Party.”

“And by the way, that’s most Democrats today,” McConnell said, according to Spectrum.

I didn't realize the Dems were the far left party I'd been asking for. In this country, you can just say whatever and nobody checks. Apologies for multiple main-thread posts.

I see the necromancy is still serving him well.

Die mad about it.

Oh, he's more worried about the nightmare for the GOP. Not for the country. Imagine that - he's more worried about the potential for the power of a political party to be diminished than he is about the end of the country.

Mitch needs to go away. Retire already you old bag.

Sounds Iike an amazing dream andaybe we can curb stomp the fascists ideas into the ground.

That Turtle Mitch dares comment on packing the supreme court is just inconceivable

Is anybody writing this down? Sounds like an excellent roadmap to me.

Wow, a nightmare for republicans that everyone is fairly represented. That would be so horrible, wouldn't it be?

Come on. PR should have been a state a long, long time ago at the bare minimum.

Don’t threaten me with a good time, you creepy old shirtball!

Man, that's the worst nightmare scenario? Fucking weaksauce. They'd still be breathing, instead of, y'know, put up against a wall and shot, like SCOTUS has ruled is perfectly legal now. As always, every word out of his mouth is self-serving bullshit.

I thought someone finally destroyed McConnell's phylactery. Did he have a second one hidden away somewhere?

It's weird just how many things that are a Republican's nightmare are also in my dreams.

His nightmare isn't imaginative enough. What if the Cancun Zodiak Killer loses to Allred? What if the Dems grow spines and fix the gerrymandering? What if they impeach bribe taking Supreme Court justices? What if they amend the Constitution to reverse Citizens United (hah, like any politician favors that)?

He got enough time between TIAs to rattle off a complete though, eh? Good for him, so proud.

Recently Pete Buttigieg has been saying that Trump losing would actually be a savior to the Republican party. Currently Republicans who privately abhore him choose to support him because he is their ticket to power. If he is shown to lose 2 elections in a row, he would most likely lose his grip on the GOP, and you would see more adaptability in their positions.

If this were true, I'd be tempted to drop everything and volunteer for the Harris campaign.

McConnell continued. "By the way, on packing the Supreme Court ... you may know this already. It's unconstitutional."

Alternative headline 'McConnell Admits Packing Supreme Court Unconstitutional'.

Oh, no, many of the things he did. What a nightmare. Won't anyone consider the plight of the male, pale, and stale. Oh the humanity.

Oh is he still alive?

Is that a promise?

I feel like they should be a lot more scared of getting shot by a bunch of crunchy purple haired anarchists or cringelord neostalinists who basically get off to giving them the wall after they push their shit too far and do our propaganda for us.

but maybe I don't have the best understanding of fear.

Hey Mitch, freeze!

Flatly wrong about packing SCOTUS. It's probably a bad idea--as is ending the filibuster--but it's not unconstitutional.

As to why it's a bad idea - Republicans haven't increased the size of the court when they've held the legislature and presidency; packing the court would encourage them to do the same the next time they have power--and they will eventually, because that's the way politics have gone in this country--and we'd quickly end up with a court that's even more unwieldy than it is now.

The same principle applies to ending the filibuster; if it's ended now, then Dems can't use it when they are out of power in the Senate. Because, again, Republicans will win again at some point--possibly even this fall--and giving absolute power to a single party is a bad idea.

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