re: #50 Charles Johnson

He’s been a Washington insider for most of his life. The fact that he’s making under-the-table deals with Mitch McConnell as a “friendship gesture,” despite the last fucking 20 years or so, tells you everything.

He still called them his “Republican friends” even in his speech about the destruction of Roe v Wade. They ARE his friends. This kind of stuff is why I didn’t vote for him in the primary, tbh, because I knew we were in a new reality and that old shit wasn’t gonna play any more. And it’s becoming a real problem, because people are noticing it more and more.

I’m grateful for Joe Biden, because he is - still, despite all this - better than the alternative. But we could still do better. And incidents like this are exactly why. Tell me an AOC or similar would be trying to do these kinds of backroom deals with snakes like McConnell.