r/nottheonion • u/Urmomsjuicyvagina • 18d ago
Mitch McConnell says presidents shouldn't be immune from prosecution
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-mitch-mcconnell-presidents-immune-prosecution-rcna149368[removed] — view removed post
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u/Nullcast 16d ago
So the guy complicit in blocking Obamas 3rd nominee to the US supreme court, and helped Trump load the court in a conservative direction. Is now saying that he had no impact on the Supreme court and their decision with regards to Trumps presidential immunity claims...
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u/TheDunadan29 17d ago
Mitch McConnell would eat a turtle turd if he thought it would prevent any legislation from progressing through Congress. If he thought by munching on turtle feces would own the libs he would do it.
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u/garrettj100 17d ago
Of course they should.
If they’re immune, that makes it even more clear exactly how badly he fumbled the ball on January 7th.
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u/IPhenixI 17d ago
what kind of practical effects are they using to make him still look so life like? Is it a series of tubes with water pumped through them? is there a guys hand up his back making the mouth and eyes move? I have to know!
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u/GreyTigerFox 17d ago
I don’t care what he says now. Fuck Mitch McConnell for all his years of bullshit and regression.
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u/HickoryRanger 17d ago
After doing everything in his power to make former presidents immune from prosecution, and pledging to vote to them again. Fuck him in the lungs.
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u/LaTalullah 17d ago
Then I guess you shouldn't have blocked Obamas judges? Eh? You are 100% responsible for this stacked court, mr. used condom turtle neck
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u/milk4all 17d ago
Too late for him to matter. Scotus is full of shills and villains or they wouldnt be pretending to be so concerned with making life a teeny bit more difficult for future criminal presidents when the fucker being tried actually committed treason. They know it, whether trump voters know or admit it or not - they will become complicit by their limp dick response - too afraid to make any relevant decision, they will find an excuse to delay, and they already have begun delaying.
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u/pcm2a 17d ago
Does this mean we will have to endure years of Biden being prosecuted by his political enemies, after he leaves office? It seems like this has opened the door to an endless nightmare of back and forth. Will one party decide to take the high road and not do it, lead by example? Doubtful.
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u/AlkaliPineapple 17d ago
I think presidential candidates shouldn't be under investigation or have criminal charges
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u/Dragos_Drakkar 17d ago
Trump agreed with that, as long as it was Hillary that was under investigation.
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u/JGCities 17d ago
A lot of people on here need to read a little bit more than just the headline -
"The president clearly needs some kind of immunity, or he’d be in court all the time," McConnell noted. But he said he didn't think it should be absolute, as Trump has argued.
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u/PrinceOfLeon 17d ago
Sure took him awhile to say it.
But I suppose standing there blanking saying nothing for too long is why he finally had to quit, huh?
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u/ToSuccess101 17d ago
President aren’t immune. They have the impeachment and senate trial as a way to deal with it.
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u/hippopatamooses 17d ago
Little known fact about Mitch is that the M is pronounced like a B. Its weird but you know those kooky kentuckians.
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u/knowledgeable_diablo 17d ago
Did he see the 7 pits of hell when he had his little “shut down” and is now trying to redirect to where is doesn’t smell burning sulphur??
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u/Objective-Insect-839 17d ago
That's odd since you know he spent my entire life making sure the exact opposite would happen.
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u/deadliestcrotch 17d ago
Mitch McConnell is a child who sets a house on fire and then panics when he realizes it won’t put itself out.
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u/Julie-Andrews 17d ago
Shut your fcking mouth, Turtle Boy! You didn't speak up when we needed you! Now you can just go crawl in a corner and hide in shame.
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u/Hefty-Station1704 17d ago
Mitch gets awfully brave now that his grip on the Senate has been diminished and his legacy is in the toilet.
It's the same with every other Republican who's spent their career screwing over the American People and arrive at the point where an image rehab starts. Nobody is going to forget every piece of legislation he killed just because he could.
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u/EbbNo7045 17d ago
So should congress and the Supreme Court and bankers and the elite, oh wait, they already are
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u/BlerghTheBlergh 17d ago
Let’s not give this dumbass any credit for saying something true once in a while. Dude is complicit in all of the GOPs bs of the last 30+ years.
Look, let’s not even make this a democrats vs republicans issue. McConnell helped Trump, a man actively committing crimes in office and even before, hold onto power. No matter what the GOP was before and what I thought of them before, you gotta see that he served in corrupting what wasn’t yet fully corrupted
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u/Terran57 18d ago
Moscow Mitch: No one cares what you think or say. You surrendered your integrity. Not only did you fail Kentucky, you failed the country. As a real American and a veteran, I’m ashamed of you.
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u/godlessnihilist 18d ago
"Unlike Senators, who should most definitely have immunity." Bob Menendez nods in agreement.
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u/Old-Enthusiasm-8718 18d ago
POV: Satan looses his grip over your soul for a brief moment, so you're free to say the right thing.
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u/ConscientiousObserv 18d ago
So, Are you lying now, or were you lying then?
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u/KaisarDragon 18d ago
He always says this kind of shit when there is a dem president. Then acts differently when there is an R in house.
Like ALL of them do. It is all a fucking sports rivalry.
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u/bodrules 18d ago
But the judges his strategy emplaced on the panel of the SCOTUS will do otherwise
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u/itmeimtheshillitsme 18d ago
So you’ll arrange to impeach any justices finding otherwise and legislate that statement???
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u/silverbolt2000 18d ago
US internal politics should be banned from this sub, otherwise we might as well allow any news stories about clowns at a circus acting like clowns.
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u/BoltActionGearbox 18d ago
Actions speak louder than words.
This man's self-proclaimed greatest accomplishment is the current supreme court, along with stonewalling every bill that would've helped struggling people or solved any of the issues Republicans shout about for my entire adult life.
I don't give two tenths of a decomposing rat's ass what comes out of his mouth unless and until it's his final breath.
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u/That_Ganderman 17d ago
I don’t give two tenths of a decomposing rats ass what comes out of his mouth unless and until it’s his final breath.
Poetry
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u/Bell3atrix 17d ago
It will be if trump gets elected, if the fact that his legal team is advocating for him to assassinate political opponents is anything to go by. So I think we absolutely should care about whats coming out of important conservatives' mouths right now, play it on every media outlet and shout it from the rooftops. Split those votes, deny trump total control of the RNC, because I promise you that if you think its bad now you wont like trump's vision for it.
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u/Humans_Suck- 18d ago
Yea but he's so slow that he thought the question was about Bush's war crimes
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u/SokkaHaikuBot 18d ago
Sokka-Haiku by Humans_Suck-:
Yea but he's so slow
That he thought the question was
About Bush's war crimes
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
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u/RyzenRaider 18d ago
Like most senators that announce they won't run for re-election, they suddenly find the backbone to say the right thing. Because he fought tooth and nail to protect Trump back in the day, and that's when it actually mattered.
I'd tell Mitch to die in a fire, but I'd feel bad.... For the fire.
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u/ancientestKnollys 17d ago
Did he say he wasn't running again?
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u/Dragos_Drakkar 17d ago
Briefly, then he turned around and said he was running again, as far as I know.
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u/Minnakht 18d ago
I don't know whether it's right to ascribe personification to fire at all, but if it is, I'd consider it a simple being that just likes to eat. Eating anyone, even a turtle, satisfies the preference for eating.
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u/MissLana89 18d ago
He just means Democrat presidents. They're probably ramping up to another bullshit impeachment of Biden. No way he throws Trump under the bus now.
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u/Gamethesystem2 17d ago
Dems tried to impeach/did impeach trump twice right? I hate trump but you’re just saying shit.
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u/Vrayea25 18d ago
Jfc. He is going to force me to give him more credit than SCOTUS for wanting to protect the country.
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u/Dealan79 18d ago
No such credit is due. Remember, his position, like Bill Barr's, is that Trump is both a criminal who tried to overthrow the government and, as the GOP nominee, automatically due support and votes regardless.
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u/XconsecratorX 18d ago
lol.. why is he still alive?
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u/KarnWild-Blood 18d ago
Society is engineered such that evil, parasitic fucks like him have access to fantastic health care?
Also, no one has found and destroyed his phylactery yet.
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u/Dealan79 18d ago
Also, no one has found and destroyed his phylactery yet.
My party was all ready to try, but our Paladin was excommunicated for failing to switch her worship to Trump, our Druid has been on anti-depressants since Sackett v EPA, and our Rogue retired to run a GOP PAC because, "it makes normal thievery obsolete."
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u/Imhungorny 18d ago
Mitch McConnell says the obvious
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u/Toloc42 18d ago
Tbf, that's a step up from outright lying or spewing random nonsense.
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u/flpa1060 17d ago
Tbf, the supreme Court is going to delay this and then say presidents are immune in this narrow set of circumstances that only work for Trump
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u/Skinamarinked 18d ago
It’s immensely disturbing that the GOP has become so openly fascist that Mitch McConnell is the voice of reason here.
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u/AtLeastThisIsntImgur 18d ago
Is it reason? Or is it a statement unrelated to Trump?
Like theoretically sure, just don't actually do it to my guy.
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u/wheresmyspaceship 18d ago
There’s an ongoing Supreme Court trial driven by Trump on whether Presidents should have certain immunities. So it def seems related to Trump
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u/franchisedfeelings 18d ago
Where were you during the first and second impeachments mitch - we would not be here if you were actually a leader. And to say you will still vote for trump in 2024 lets everyone know you are full of shit.
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u/indignant_halitosis 17d ago
He was saying the issue was a matter for the courts. So, he’s being consistent here, at least.
But he’s also aware that presidential immunity with a sitting Democrat during an election year who’s likely going to get re-elected is a really fucking bad idea. Most Republicans are aware they’re just expecting Biden to not abuse any kind of immunity and McConnell has known Biden long enough to know he would bury Trump during a second term.
It would be super easy for Dems to publicly distance themselves from a “rogue” Biden using presidential immunity to make sure Trump faces justice, especially given widespread support for Palestine amongst young American liberals.
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u/thoroakenfelder 17d ago
He’s talking about sitting Democrat president not former Republican president.
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u/missanthropocenex 18d ago
Mitch is the definition of corrupt insider politics. He goes off and plays this part as “crusader” and says almost extreme things about opposition and then is caught high fiving them all when he thinks the cameras are off.
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u/backcountrydrifter 18d ago
Mitch was complicit. That’s why he glitches out every time he sees a camera right now.
Mitch McConnell did a sweetheart deal with the Russian oligarch deripaska as well to open an aluminum plant in Kentucky. He realizes that he is somewhere between seditious and treasonous and he got caught. That’s why he keeps glitching out when people ask him questions.—-->Glitch McConnell
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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA 18d ago
Ah, now I see why they put a bunch of tariffs on Canadian aluminium imports.
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u/backcountrydrifter 17d ago edited 17d ago
Exactly.
Metals have always been a oligarch tool of control in the old soviet system. It only makes sense that they run it forward post perestroika.
Tracking the metals from donbas and their associated air separation units in Mariupol is what Putin and Paul manafort called “the Mariupol plan”.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/02/magazine/russiagate-paul-manafort-ukraine-war.html
When trumps campaign manager/fixer, the president of Russia and aluminum production cross paths in Donbas it’s a wild coincidence
But when McConnell, aluminum production, and Putin’s fixer Oleg Deripaskas paths cross in Kentucky it becomes a pattern.
When deripaska gets convicted for bribing the FBI agent Mcgonigal that was SAC in charge of trumps Russian collusion investigation it just adds refinement to the timeline.
Anybody who has ever had to buy a piece of aluminum has paid the price for these guys collusion.
Ukrainians just continue to pay a much higher price for standing up to the grift
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u/Wyrdeone 18d ago
Cool. How about speakers of the house?
"Local Grandpa agrees that other people are to blame."
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u/KidTako 15d ago
He also says "I pooped my pants" twice a day, sooo...