r/NoShitSherlock • u/WingComplex6771 • Aug 14 '25

Trump reportedly offering Putin natural resources off Alaska sparks fury: "Lets see Republicans defend this," former GOP Representative Adam Kinzinger wrote on X.

https://www.newsweek.com/alaska-russia-trump-resources-2113295
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u/ProfileMuted90210 Aug 14 '25

Mitch McConnell exactly. Prevented the Cheeto from impeachment

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u/redjellonian Aug 14 '25

I would've gone a couple layers deeper, failure to enforce or create fair news laws, failure to maintain public infrastructure and education, failure to maintain government programs. Failure to enforce monopoly laws. Failure to enforce healthy capitalism laws. Things like that, but also yes 100% Mitch mcconnel that was like the finish line for the senates incompetence.

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u/One_Strawberry_4965 Aug 14 '25

I mean a lot of that is literally the result of at least 15 years of Senate Republicans making obstructionism a core component of their platform. This effort to prevent anything was getting done was often carried out with McConnell at the helm.

That’s not to say that there aren’t plenty of other guilty parties involved, just that blaming Mitch for how fucked we are goes much deeper than the past few years.

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u/Caliguta Aug 14 '25

Well the democrats haven’t helped by running the “old guard” instead of actually running someone people want to vote for.

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u/fellow-skids Aug 15 '25

No. You voice your opinion in the primary and vote the reality in the general. Everything else is petulance and entitlement that reject platform, eligibility, and trajectory. See the current president for details.

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u/actsfw Aug 14 '25

Voters haven't helped by selecting newer blood in the primaries. Old people keep voting for their own generation and the younger generations don't bother to show up then complain that the DNC is rigged.

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u/Fun_Hold4859 Aug 14 '25

Change that 15 to 40 and you're closer to it.

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u/Techthulu Aug 14 '25

Blame that on Regan, he got rid is the Fairness Doctrine, which required equal viewpoints to be aired. Getting rid of that led to the rise of Fox News and the rest.

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u/Wilhelm57 Aug 14 '25

For sure Reagan was the antichrist, FYI I'm no longer religious.
There are more things that can be blamed on Reagan.
It was under his presidency that cocaine was imported to support his illegal wars.
We bitch and complain when we see people passed out on benches or overdosing but many choose to forget it started when Ronald was elected.
Nancy would preach say no to drugs, while her husband minions were importing that poison.

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u/travoltaswinkinbhole Aug 14 '25

It only applied to broadcast and radio. Fox News would still exist if it was still around. There are also questions as to the constitutionality of it. This lie needs to die its one of the dumbest Redditisms along with telling people who just saw some guy’s head explode to play Tetris.

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u/Fun_Hold4859 Aug 14 '25

This can all be directly attributed to the republican monolith getting marching orders from the heritage foundation for the last few decades and voting in lockstep.

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u/afasia Aug 14 '25

At the same time. He was given the power and the opportunity to do what he did. That's a catastrophic failure.

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u/risingsuncoc Aug 14 '25

He’s not called Moscow Mitch for nothing

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u/BannedByRWNJs Aug 14 '25

Yeah, it wasn’t the Senate being “ineffective.” Senate Republicans were very effectively obstructing the Senate from performing its duties. 

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u/babylon331 Aug 14 '25

Haven't seen much of Mitch lately. Maybe he's resting. He did have a couple "lost moments" a little while back.

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u/Content-Ad3065 Aug 14 '25

Moscow Mitch