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Voted "Disagree." Given the level of political awareness of most Americans, you could not swing a dead cat in a crowded theater - that is once the lockdowns are over - and hit anyone who has the vaguest idea of who the Senate Majority Leader is, let alone whether they hate him or not.
Just for the record, a survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania found that 67% of most Americans could not name their own Senators or Members of the House, 54% could not name the year the Declaration of Independence was signed, only 36% of Americans could name all three branches of the government and 35% couldn't name any of them. It also found over 60% of Americans don't know which political party controls the House of Representatives and the US Senate.
So at the very least, the most that can be said is that any opinions the public has of the Senate Majority Leader are, at best, apt to be superficial. It being added that politicians in general have a bad reputation because as we know, the American public hates government and thinks it is taxed too much - even as it merrily laps up every government program that comes along.
Indeed, that public has the following profile. 1 in 6 who works, works for government. 1 in 7 is a Social Security recipient. (SS having currently $21 trillion in unfunded liabilities - about the same size as the GDP itself.) 1/3 of all families in 2020 received some form of transfer payment - not counting COVID stimulus checks. 47% pay no Federal income tax AT ALL.
So any opinion the public expresses on political figures should be, perhaps, taken with a grain of salt. Being less a response to the arguments those political figures are making than a visceral reaction to issues that they do not understand.
As far as Senator McConnell is concerned, he is a shrew parliamentary operator who threaded the needle of a difficult political problem and called bluffs. The Speaker of the House and the Minority Leader of the Senate were all for $2000 COVID relief checks going to everyone and anyone, including those who were making yup to $700,000 a year and had not lost their jobs in the pandemic. Thus taking the tax dollars of the poor and giving it to the rich.
Details, details. This split his party. Indeed, it found the cordially loathed and recently defeated President Trump - of whom I will add that I am no fan - on the same side as the Speaker. (Pop quiz: To which party to the President and the Speaker belong? Yes, that was being sarcastic.)
So, Senator McConnell said, in effect, "We don't think writing $2000 checks at a time of massive national debt to people making $700,000 a year is a really good idea. However, we'll go along with it if the Democrats agree to something we want and exempt small business from COVID liability suits."
"Egad!," cried the Speaker and the Minority Leader, "we can't have that! Give free cash to people making $700,000 is noble and walks in the footsteps of God! Yet to exempt small businesses from liability for a disease that no one has yet figured out how to control is an offense against the laws of God and man!!! This we will never accept! So will fight the Republicans to the last drop of the public's blood!!"
You see, it just so happens that the higher a person's income, the more likely it is they vote Democrat. Also, the trial attorneys are one of the Democratic party's biggest supporters. So hmmmm, follow the bouncing ball. The GOP is supposed to give up a position that it believes in but the Democrats cannot be asked to give up something in return because it might hurt the Democrat's supporters.
McConnell may be hated, but if he is it is only because he called bluffs. People never like people who show them to be what they are.
Sounds like you have been preparing for this question for awhile. People who don't know much about the government probably don't even vote. They are only concerned with partying during COVID, watching porn, sexting during Government class where they should be learning this stuff, getting high, and in front of their computer surfing Instagram or watching TV.
@JuliaStyles Well, that is a little harsh. Politics, as George Will wrote, serves a vital jurisdiction but it is not central to the things that make for a happy life - as he put it, that would be "cheerful children, feisty friends and a strong bullpen." This I quote as a guy who has worked in politics, including time as a Congressional staffer, since the late 1980s.
To be sure, as per your point, America has some of the lowest voter turnout rates of any Western democracy. They rarely pay serious attention even in election years. Moreover, people are not as well informed as they pretend to be and that was part of the fallacy of the question.
Bottom line, strong feelings about McConnell or much else besides are not apt to last beyond their immediate cause. This too shall pass and the real issues will remain - and as likely as not will still have not been dealt with. In that, the public - and here I do agree with you - has no one but themselves to blame. Though no doubt they will point the finger anywhere other than back at themselves.
@nightdrot
Reducing non-nationalistic spending is one of the Republican objectives, but to secede the Republican position to drive this, risky gamble, no? Or do you think it will pay off?
@NoblesseObligeKK Well, not quite sure what you mean by "non-nationalistic" spending. If you mean foreign aid, here is the dirty little secret.
Foreign aid is paid out in U. S. dollars, as you might expect. There is only one place that U. S. dollars can be spent - in the United States. Thus one of the reasons why foreign aid endures notwithstanding its' general lack of popularity. It is, in effect, a backdoor subsidy to American business and - in some cases - political interests.
Thus not only does it enhance US diplomatic influence. It also boosts the US economy through the backdoor. Sometimes directly, through purchases back to US companies. Sometimes indirectly in the international currency markets.
As to McConnell's gamble, in terms of the Georgia Senate elections it may have a marginal negative impact for the GOP. However, given all the other issues being debated and the overall sense among Republicans that they want to avoid complete - if nominal - Democrat control of the Congress, the effect is not lightly to be great.
Also, the Senate GOP candidates can now argue that the Democrats talked a good game about wanting to help the middle class. However, when it came down to brass tacks, they were not willing to do so if it came at the price of protecting the "mom and pop" store from the powerful trial attorneys.
Grant that in politics, the more you have to explain, the less effective you tend to be. However, it is a sufficiently terse argument that it should not do too much damage to the GOP in Georgia - at least that it would not be the fundamental cause if the GOP is defeated. In that sense, it pays off.
P. S. Also, just to add, McConnell did what he did to avoid an open split in the GOP right before the election. By preventing the vote, he made it so that no Senator was officially on the record and thereby all are able to appease, more or less, both the populist and conservative wings of the party. The Trumpsters - who are currently siding with Nancy Pelosi (speaking of odd couples) - will get another shot at it. The old school conservatives get appeased in their demand for keeping the COVID programs less expensive and more narrowly focused.
It is, as he is very good at, a case of McConnell playing the long game.
The guy actually proposed a $2,000 stimulus check to everyone. He attached it to and election fraud investigation and repealing 230… Democrats didn’t want it... As to the first bill, both house and senate passed $600 stimulus checks attached to a lot of garbage. Trump said remove the pork and give people at least $2,000. Nancy Pelosi required unanimous consent to remove any pork with the $2,000 stimulus check, thus it was automatically going to fail. She set it up to fail because she wants that money and doesn’t want you to get it. She then blocked McConnell’s alternative proposal. I don’t even like the guy, but you’re full of shit. That said, money printing is going more exponential than covid.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1
Mitch McConnell is your typical rich, old, out-of-touch, Republican, and conservative politician that refuses to help people in America during their greatest time of need, but wouldn't help hesitate to fatten his own pockets. Despite the fact that many people are still being locked down, laid off, and their jobs haven't called them back, or the fact that even the jobs that are hiring aren't paying as much, or still putting people at risk, he claims that $2,000 is too much for America to pay out, which actually isn't true in the slightest. However, he has no problem supporting huge tax cuts with no offset that could potentially put the country in trillions of dollars in debt. This means that the tax cuts that he supports would actually cost the country much more than the overall $2,000 stimulus payout. This debt would lower the standards of living for most Americans, especially the working class, but as long as he can get richer from not having to pay as much taxes, his standard of living would always be fine. Donald Trump is no better in the slightest because if he truly supported the $2,000 stimulus package, then he would have advocated it a long time ago, not at the last minute on his way out after spreading countless propaganda about election fraud.
Testify!!!
The funny thing is that McConnell drafted a similar bill that gave us the $2,000. Then he blocks it, the indian giver! Sure, the guy who makes big bucks and has a steady job stabbing those not so fortunate in the back. But fear not, he'll be more agreeable when it comes to re-election time.
#1 - McConnell is not the ONLY one opposed to increasing stimulus check to $2,000. There are other Republicans who agree.
#2 - Trump tied unrelated legislation to the increase. By approving, Congress would also alter terms of the Communications Decency Act. Social media companies would be liable for content posted by users. That would never be approved and severing the completely unrelated matters was blocked. Make no mistake, this was a deliberate and calculated move on Trump's part.
#3 - McConnell is an evil asshole. No argument. But he was set up to fail. It's Trump's last ditch effort to appear like he actually cares about American citizens. So sick of the manipulation. 16 more days...
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What was REALLY shitty is how that taxpayer relief bill metastasized like a cancer into spending even more money than the actual taxpayer relief on items that had no relation whatsoever to taxpayer relief. I wish enough Congress people had the cojones to tell their various fellow cretins in Congress to just deliver a clean relief bill with the more generous tax relief, with no horrid spending crap "riders" loaded onto it.
Unfortunately Senate ruling party leader Mitch "The Turtle" McConnell is all too often outwitted by the smarmy and sleazy Senate opposition party leader, Charles "The hare Schumer.
Well its only because democrats don't see Trump as threat anymore that they hate mcconnell more (but thats how they have always been). Republicans like McConnell but Trump supporters hate him because while they were never really big fans of republicans they tolerated them but now that McConnell has stabbed the president in the back and has openly shown that he was just trying to use Trump to strengthen republican voter turn out, the Trump supporters hate him (which is most of the republican base and all the moderates). So sure though again, that is only because democrats no longer need to hate trump (next conservative who is in office will get the same treatment as trump while democrats talk about how Trump wasn't so bad in comparison as they did with Bush).
@Year3000 I feel like your just throwing words out their without knowing what they are. Globalist is some one who is not a nationalist which trump, his entire campaign was America first, and he proceeded to do pretty much just that, put us first. That is the exact opposite of a globalist.
As for bad economy, we had the best economy we ever had under him until the democrats locked down most of their states, so thats not even accurate.
So yeah, I don't think those words mean what you think they mean.
Mitch is just being a big baby because the Democrats want to give so much of this Covid relief money to other countries. I know there's a lot of Americans who need money right now, but Pakistan needs 25 million of that Covid money for gender studies.
@MCheetah
Even if there were no Covid, we shouldn't be pissing money away like this. Let's create American jobs with that money and fix our infrastructure.
Oh good grief, are these figures true? Why are we supporting a billion other people who should be supported by themselves instead of our own? What good are taxpayers who lose it all without help?
@JuliaStyles
Exactly. Charity begins at home. We pissed away 7 trillion dollars on two wars, and we now owe 27 trillion dollars. We will never pay that money back. America needs to stop being the world's ATM and police force.
Wait what the fuck?
Is that the current covid deal or was it the one proposed by the Democratic party?
@disgustingweebtrash
This is what the media won't talk about. This is why the big, bad Republicans don't want it.
The left just tricks you into believing this is about you not getting your 2 K
They never talk about, WHY, you're not getting it. I've been very lucky that my job is deemed
"essential" But my heart goes out to struggling families that are not so lucky. They really need help, but the Dems keep putting pork into the bill. It's disgusting at best.
Seems that people have forgotten that McConnell has ALWAYS been an asshole. HE was the problem during Obama's entire 2 terms as well. It's ironic that after trump's win in 2016 ---- hey Republitarts --- did you hear that? I said "after trump's WIN in 2016 !! Yeah, he won - it wasn't rigged !! Get that? Are you idiots listening? -- excuse me, I digress. Ironically, after trump's win, he became soooooo horrific that everyone forgot what a shit head McConnell was. Mitch had the perfect deflection.
Now it's back on him, and nothing has changed, except America's #1 ass hole now hates America's #2 ass hole. #3 resigned - Bill Barr. The others are still vying for position.
How does one person hold up the whole deal? Who is this guy? God? What happened to majority vote? This grump looks like he just got out of an elevator which was going to the 70th floor where everyone had beans for dinner and was gassing him out.
To downvoters. Either explain or bite me!
definitely stealing this!!
And this is why the senate run off in Georgia is so important. This isn't about democratic or republican (well, the Georgia run off is), but you get what I'm saying. This is about the people.
If they vote republican in the Georgia run off, Mitch stays in power. If they vote democratic in the Georgia run off, Mitch loses his power.
At this time, people need to stop thinking about party loyalty and do what is right. What is right is to get Mitch out of office.
There are probably at least a dozen guys out there who engender far more resentment and loathing than Mitch. Cuomo, Newsom, the abominable upChuck Schumer, the moronic hysteric Adam Schiff-For-Brains, and the list goes on.
You'd be amazed of how utterly stupid democrat supporters/voters are with how they actually think any of the guys you mentioned, along with Nasty Piglosi, ever gave a crap about them and think the Democrats as a whole are a completely innocent humanitarian party.
Agree fucking MCconnel!! Mitch says the survival checks are "socialism for the rich", but mitch has no problem signing that over bloated defense authorization act, with 740 billion dollars for defense contractors and war profiteers, many of whom are immensely rich. how the hell is that not soicalism for the rich? when he is giving endless money to already very rich defense contractors at a time when war spending is at an all time high, and higher than the next 8 countries combined. Mconnel is one out of touch bastard!!
I haven't been following this, because corruption always seems to win nowadays and we always get f*cked over, so I doubt anything will come of it. Americans will probably get less than $600 when it's all said and done, while illegal aliens and Pakistani social justice warriors get to buy brand new cars with American money. I'm so through with the government. Someone just nuke DC, already.
Some people hate Nancy Peloski too. She mostly be helping out the underdog. But why some thugs destroy her house with fake blood, graffiti slurs, & a decapitated pig head? They should’ve been doing it to Mitch but it seems he isn’t the most hateful person. Nancy did not deserve what she got served.
He's been trash for ever but remember that Pelosi rejected the stimulus deal earlier that was much better because she thought it would help Trump win. She said he just wants to put his name on cheks. And she was pushing for the 600 dollar stimulus the most saying it was a good deal.
I'm not a US citizen, but McConnell should be hated, but then again most conservatives should deserve to be viewed negatively. The other problem is that the democrats went along with Mitch, so they didn't help>:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ifxW5j4X24A
It all depends on your education level and how much you believe in the theories. Specifically, people whom follow Austrian economic beliefs will ultimately agree that McConnell was correct and see him as a pillar of good. However, if they believed in MMT, fundamentally, they would agree that McConnell is wrong.
Considering the average person probably doesn't know anything about aforementioned, they would probably side with the MMT, because they want money.
I wonder if Trump put him up to it. He wouldn't want to be the scrooge president or have people think it was an act of spite so I reckon he's paid mitch to be his whipping bitch.
Why would Trump do that when McConnell has always been a Never-Trumper type of Republican since Trump started running for president?
Shameful. Would rather the poor suffer than offer any kind of aide, because it might be called "socialist." And then has the audacity to call himself Christian. When people were in need, Jesus gave them bread and fish. McConell would have us watch them starve in the streets.
Get used to it. He and Joe Biden have been pals since the mid-1980's.
But as for McConnell? Meh, I pretty much hate all of these politicians who treat the people as pawns, whether it is lording relief over them or destroying their futures through idiotic regulations and restriction on liberty.
He looks like that hand-eyeball monster from Pan's Labyrinth. That's the first think I think of when anyone mentions him and I'm sorry if you now see the resemblance too.
Maybe for Democrats Nancy Pelosi is the most hated American for Republicans maybe they can share the title most hated Americans.
personally I find cocaine Mitch is slow speak hilarious “ leverage what leverage?”
I don't disagree with you there that Nancy Pelosi is definitely up there among the most despised people in America. Sadly, Democrats are utterly retarded enough to think Pelosi ever gave two shits about them in the first place just because of her political party affiliation.
McConnell is watching out for the country. Dems do not givexa damn as they drafted up a 6000 page bill and only gave a few hours for it to be read. There are multiple things in it that do not belong and have nothing to do with stimulus. Billions of dollars to other countries. pelosi and her bitches use this crisis to try to further their own political adjende and enrich their bank accounts. McConnell is trying yo protect this country where dems do notvgivexa damn.
I disagree. But was wondering now that the press has taken down Trump and can’t vilify him anymore who do they now consider enemy #1? Pence would be the obvious choice but maybe they are shifting to McConnell.
Only by people who know he's the only reason there's no route through the Senate for the bill (by not allowing a vote), and don't believe his lies about it being a giveaway to rich Democrats, when it doesn't go to people earning more than $75,000.
"P. S. Also, just to add, McConnell did what he did to avoid an open split in the GOP right before the election. By preventing the vote, he made it so that no Senator was officially on the record and thereby all are able to appease, more or less, both the populist and conservative wings of the party."
Yes, there's nothing better than protecting politicians from the consequences of their beliefs.
I've hated mitch mcconnell a long time. Glad to see he's getting the hate he deserves
I don't know who he is & already I heard he's a dickhead hmmmm... 🤦
Don't be silly.
The issue is not the 2000, but the rest of the package going with it.
Don't understand why dipshits don't read past the headlines.
The 2k is most definitely an issue, but bills have always been multilayered with the obvious thing that will be approved followed by the not so obvious.
they keep blaming trump for everything,😂
they literally slammed a bill on his desk like a day before he's supposed to sign it and expected him to to not upset the people. what a coward sneaky move of the democrats
Most hated person is a tie between Nancy Pelosi and crying Chuckle Schumer.
Ordinarily I never wish death or injury on anyone, but since McConnell has proven to be an enemy to the American public, I hope he has a heart attack and dies or gets incapacitated so the American people can get what they need.
I was thinking the other day why doesn't Mcconnel just get hit by lightning. that happened to a guy in my neighborhood the other day, why can't that just happen to Mcconnel?
Once again, we don't HATE him or Trump. We hate that "moscow mitch" won't allow the Senate to discuss and vote on bills the House has passed.
(Donald Trump may not think highly of anyone but himself.)
Some people would rather not receive the stimulus or might have reasons for not accepting it. You should have a choice whether to accept it.
If you don't want it or need it, take the money and give it your local food bank - you know, the one that has the 4 mile long lines.
don't know but his inverted smile really depressing, tired of seeing it. We need a leader who smiles more.
I am Not a Hateful Person Butt--I am Disappointed in this Cock Rooster. He is Probably up There for Many As: Most Hated."xx
He should be and should have been for a long time. This stimulus thing now shouldn't shock anyone who knows anything about him. You'll have a hard time finding a more heartless piece of shit excuse for a human being than him. He should rot in hell.
No. The Trumptards love him, the other half of the population hates him though. So it's more of a 50/50 situation I guess
He's a slime covered douche. Not offence to douches.
I do think he just got himself crossed off of a lot of Christmas card lists.
Hope he just gets a lump of coal this next Christmas the old Scrooge.
I’ve never heard of him.. Trump still trumps this in my country
He's the most powerful man in the Senate in the US, and the 2nd biggest ass hole in the country. It's funny that the 1st biggest ass hole now thinks Mitch is an ass hole. LOL
@loveslongnails irony :)
I'm shocked that he's still alive.
Is everybody's gun in the shop or something?
Trump still did what he did but this guy definitely is a piece of shit biggggg time
Right now he is the bane of the American people. He is even screwing Trump. I'd be up for dethroning him, anyone else?
I mean, there are a few of them, but he's definitely top as of right now
The government should stop printing up valueless money.
I don't agree or dissgree. But if the government keeps printing money and printing money then the value is going to drop. Which it already is but nobody's talking about that.
As long as everybody is willing to accept it, does it really matter?
It does matter. Other countries are not going to want to trade with America if the dollar is worthless and America doesn't really make half the stuff that are available in grocery stores😭😭😭. Just a loaf of bread is going to cost a fortune with inflation... At this point it'll be better to spend these stimulus checks on stuff like canned food and rice because that's whats really going to be worth something.
Darlin... the dollar has been worth only what it is "perceived" to be worth for a very long time, but it's propped up and accepted in the marketplace, at the moment. It will crash soon enough. You're too young to remember when the price of bread doubled and tripled when a drought caused a big wheat shortage. Well it came back and prices never went down. Nor were you (or I ) alive when there was a supposed "gas shortage" because we were running out of oil? Bullshit - refinery production lagged behind demand so the oil companies made billions and didn't build a single additional refinery in the USA, even after one burned down.
Mitch McConnell is a perfect example of what happens when a person stays in Washington too long. They simply lose touch with the common man.
He just got re elected in Nov he doesn't care who hates him.
Its pretty bad when the left and the right hates you.
After today I have to admit to seeing more leadership than previously. Also I am not surprised that your post is 6 days old
more mo ney is fine i'm not really against it, but you are bribing yourself with your own money. you are going to need to pay it back in taxes
just sayin...
He's hated by the morons that want to give all of our money to other countries.
Thats why we should have ditched mitch!!! 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
He has probably always been hated but now more are saying it out loud
Maybe because he looks like a looney tones character 🤣🤣
It honestly baffles me that Kentucky keeps voting for this asshole. Like come on!
The Republicans always bend the knee to daddy Mitch.
Maybe not THE most but he is one of the top contenders.
I couldn't honestly say. I'm sure you all know by now how I feel about Mitch.
Maaaaybe, but I don't think he is quite as hated as Trump yet. Or that cop who killed that black guy and started the BLM uproar last year.
Liberals and democrats hate him, even some Trump supporters and republicans hate him so yes!
I see him as a typical flip-flopping RINO, who's refusing to help President Trump STOP THE STEAL
I always laugh when the Trump haters think the Trump supporters ever liked McConnell to begin with or that McConnell and Trump were ever together just because they happen to be a part of the same political party.
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