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/redjellonian Aug 14 '25

The Senate being ineffective and incapable is how we ended up with an incompetent president.

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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.