It’s been 44 days since we’ve last seen Mitch McConnell. It seems like most people in Washington are just fine with that.
It’s created an incredible amount of chaos in the Senate caucus. They can’t move multiple pieces of legislation forward, including the farm bill. Republicans haven’t stripped him of his committees or done anything else since McConnell is in violation Senate rules.
This is the perfect example of why nothing works in Trump’s Washington, D.C., right now. They only care about protecting themselves. They only care about protecting their donors. It’s a class of people that is intransigent and doesn’t believe it will ever be held accountable for anything it says or does.
The American people are sick of it. And if Democrats are serious about re-earning the trust of the American people, tackling serious reforms to our government and our democracy has to be a core part of that.
Term limits. Age limits. Radical transparency of financial and health records. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Run toward that, and we can win.
Tim Dillon: Trump says the voting is all fucked up and yet Republicans won 2016 and 2024. They have the House and the Senate. And they win the presidency. They genuinely literally right now have the House, the Senate, most of the Supreme Court. And they're going out and saying the election was stolen.
Wilson: I guarantee you there are 10 reporters in D.C. right now who know exactly what Mitch McConnell’s medical status is. Maybe more.
They’re not reporting it.
We know from people who are very clear that he’s in a certain rehab wing for acute cardiac failure, all this stuff, at the hospital. He is alive. Our source is not able to say if he’s conscious or cogent.
I don’t think the magical 20-minute conversations about Mitch McConnell—you know, “He’s perfectly fine”—are real. I think we’re going to find out all that was a lie because they want to run out the clock on the special election question in Kentucky.
If I’m Andy Beshear, brother, just declare the election. And if they want to prove that Mitch McConnell is alive and well, go do it. But that is not something I think they can prove.
When Joe Biden’s health scares started to mount up, we had 24-hour-a-day coverage. It never stopped. They were beating the White House down every single day about it.
When the July 7 debate happened in 2024, that was a clock that went off because the media drove the story. They pushed and pushed and pushed. They turned over every rock.
We don’t see that coverage about Trump. We don’t see that coverage about McConnell.
The irony of Republicans controlling all branches of government while
bankrupting the country, starting a war, sending money to fraudulent programs, violating the Constitution, giving corporations immunity...
but arguing that the biggest problem we have is “stolen elections.”
He gets a ballroom. An Arch. A new reflecting pool. 10 billion directly into his pocket from taxpayers. Billions from special interests seeking favors and pardons.
What has America gotten? Tariffs, a new war, higher gas prices, inflation.
Truly a golden age.
I have two principles in this life. Be authentic, and don’t be a hypocrite. To call a guy Sleepy for four years and then to ignore the many times your guy sleeps on camera violates those principles
Updated list of US House GOP bills that would honor Trump
1) Carve his face into Mt. Rushmore
2) Rename Palm Beach airport after Trump
2a) Rename Dulles airport after Trump
3) Require State Dept to award a "Trump Peace Prize"
4) Declare Trump's birthday a federal holiday
5) Award Trump a Congressional Gold Medal
6) Mint a $250 bill in US currency w/ Trump's image
7) Several resolutions urging Trump be given Nobel
Prize
8) Directing N.I.H. to conduct research on "Trump Derangement Syndrome"
A perfect image of the Trump era: A grandmother has to work at DoorDash in order to get by, while the president decorates his office in gold accent pieces.
I feel sick to my stomach waiting around today to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom that our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's really an indictment not just of the electorate but of our whole system of government. We're ruled by a mad king.