Senate Republicans elect John Thune as their new leader, replacing Mitch McConnell
www.nbcnews.com
Thune, of South Dakota, beat out Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Rick Scott of Florida in a secret ballot election to replace Mitch McConnell.
    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
      151·
      8 days ago

      I don’t know anything about Thune yet, but I’m very familiar with Scott and thankfckinggod it wasn’t him.

      • Riccosuave@lemmy.world
        20·
        8 days ago

        Thune is at least a proponent of NATO, and supporter of Ukraine in so far as it repels Russian aggression in the region. So at least we know the mandate in the Senate for the moment.

        I wouldn’t go anywhere near saying he was a good choice, but he was the least bad choice of the three options by a country fucking mile.

        • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
          151·
          8 days ago

          I don’t think any of that matters. Trump will say what he wants, and everyone’s principles and voting records will go out the window. They will fall in line.

          The literal VP-elect under Trump is on record as a “never Trump guy”. Same principles applied. Trump spoke and everyone grovelled.

          • Riccosuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
            15·
            8 days ago

            I upvoted you because of the hardcoded pessimism in me, but I think the reality is a bit more complex.

            Everyone directly in the Trump family loyalist orbit obviously wants permanent hegemonic control of the Executive branch. However, the bro-ligarchs really want President VC “Vulture Capital” Vance at the helm. From their perspective this has been a Trojan Horse operation the entire time. The Senate leaders want to maintain power, and they are all thinking of their own long term political careers. Who knows what the fucking House GOP wants because it is filled with reality television freaks at this point, so their opinions don’t really even matter anymore.

            The interests of these different factions may be publicly aligned from a PR perspective, but behind the scenes I can assure you that it is going to be a fucking gladiatorial circus of quietly slitting each others throats in order to maintain power for many different diametrically opposed groups that owe fealty to their own wealthy benefactors.

            If we learned anything from the first four years of Donald Trump it is that he has a short fuse, a tremendous inability to rally long term support from even the most sycophantic cucks in his orbit, and that eventually the shit starts seeping out from behind the drywall whether they want it to or not. All will not be well in the kingdom of fools for long…