America has a Moscow Mitch problem

[henrygandorf 29179]

i mean, that's an onion article.

 

or is it?

[Chad Fuck 17569]

4 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

i mean, that's an onion article.

 

or is it?

[Chooky 13302]

The American people deserve to know how Mitch McConnell and his wife got access to our Coke and what they put in it.

[atomheartbevo 89457]

Would enjoy seeing Mitch’s meltdown if the House opens a full investigation into his wife.   

And Trump would probably dump her in a heartbeat if the heat increases.  

[Hugo Stiglitz 23362]

Secretary Elaine Chao's Department of Transportation (DOT) designated a special liaison for grant applications in Kentucky, the home state of her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R), Politico reported Monday, facilitating awards totaling at least $78 million for projects favored by the GOP lawmaker.

The liaison, Todd Inman, reportedly stated in an email to McConnell's office that Chao had personally asked him to serve as an intermediary who could assist the senator and local Kentucky officials on grants with special significance to McConnell.

Those grants included a highway-improvement project in a McConnell political stronghold that had been rejected twice previously, according to Politico.

[Gengs1 2583]

4 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

Secretary Elaine Chao's Department of Transportation (DOT) designated a special liaison for grant applications in Kentucky, the home state of her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R), Politico reported Monday, facilitating awards totaling at least $78 million for projects favored by the GOP lawmaker.

The liaison, Todd Inman, reportedly stated in an email to McConnell's office that Chao had personally asked him to serve as an intermediary who could assist the senator and local Kentucky officials on grants with special significance to McConnell.

Those grants included a highway-improvement project in a McConnell political stronghold that had been rejected twice previously, according to Politico.

Her family like father is deeply tied to the Chinese gov and this bitch tried to remove shipping vessels training from transportation budget to help the Chinese gov. sabotage the USA from within.  

 

https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2019/06/07/shipping/bdnKl0nK2BMPy5jso1PgGK/story.html

[The Royal We 3066]

Swampy af.

[elfenix 34182]

2 hours ago, Gengs1 said:

Her family like father is deeply tied to the Chinese gov and this bitch tried to remove shipping vessels training from transportation budget to help the Chinese gov. sabotage the USA from within.  

 

https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2019/06/07/shipping/bdnKl0nK2BMPy5jso1PgGK/story.html

[Biff Tannen 45500]

7 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

Those grants included a highway-improvement project in a McConnell political stronghold that had been rejected twice previously, according to Politico.

[hayden_horn 11360]

16 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

the woman can't bake worth shit

[Brandywine 1313]

Mitch is a slime ball. There should be a massive investigation on him and his wife.

This administration and Republicans in Congress will go down as the most corrupt in history. They’ll all be in chains as they walk out of the WH. Trump, then Sarah, Kellyanne, Stephen Miller, Barr, Pompeo, Chao and so on. And over in Congress Mitch will lead that group. Marching out in a line, real Elliott Ness Untouchable kind of stuff.

[UpperWestside 6136]

Somehow this asshole survived Polio only to go on and become one of the most soulless and vile Americans to ever hold public office. He could've used his position in the senate to help those who cannot help themselves and paid it forward in a way after the help he received from kind-hearted souls when he was a child battling a life-threatening illness. 

I often wonder what it is that gets people like McConnell to choose to willingly be a terrible human being, but I think in his case it is just who he intrinsically is. He is bereft of anything good on the inside. Being a heartless bastard is a feature and not a bug. Helluva sad life he has led overall. History will be most unkind to him. 

[theaveragejon 976]

1 hour ago, UpperWestside said:

Somehow this asshole survived Polio only to go on and become one of the most soulless and vile Americans to ever hold public office. He could've used his position in the senate to help those who cannot help themselves and paid it forward in a way after the help he received from kind-hearted souls when he was a child battling a life-threatening illness. 

I often wonder what it is that gets people like McConnell to choose to willingly be a terrible human being, but I think in his case it is just who he intrinsically is. He is bereft of anything good on the inside. Being a heartless bastard is a feature and not a bug. Helluva sad life he has led overall. History will be most unkind to him. 

All he cares about is power. 

[UpperWestside 6136]

Just now, theaveragejon said:

All he cares about is power. 

Well that is obvious, but he still had a chance to do good with the power he had at his disposal. He chose to be a terrible human being instead. I cannot send anyone to heaven or hell, nor would I want to, but McConnell is not on the fast track to the first choice. 

[tx 3 putt 76420]

a piss poor human being

[UpperWestside 6136]

I work with a guy and we were briefly discussing some things today and he tells me that he was a registered Republican for most of his life. Mind you this is a gay man who most Republicans would just shun.

He says to me that if just one Republican in Washington would die he hopes it is McConnell. He said Dotard will die sooner than McConnell and he would be willing to ride that out vs more McConnell.  

[Hugo Stiglitz 23362]

McConnell’s tyranny over the last decade has been breathtaking. 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23362]

I hope he was worth it Kentucky. 

[Mdhorn 5911]

turtle shit waxes poetic:

 They plan to make the District of Columbia a state—that’d give them two new Democratic senators—Puerto Rico a state, that would give them two more new Democratic senators. […] So this is full bore socialism on the march in the House. And yeah, as long as I’m the majority leader of the Senate, none of that stuff is going anywhere.

Real cool that residents continue paying taxes though and again, DC has more people than Vermont and Wyoming. These mofo's don't give a shit about democracy.  

https://dcist.com/story/19/06/18/mitch-mcconnell-calls-d-c-statehood-full-bore-socialism/

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 19, 2019 by Mdhorn

[Mdhorn 5911]

 

 

 

[Longhorn_Fan68 33844]

[WhatTheBuck 28716]

On June 18, 2019 at 10:53 PM, Mdhorn said:

 

 

 

The GOP strategy for the 2020 election is to describe every Democratic policy initiative as socialism, and every Democrat as a socialist. They're just going to keep repeating those words over and over and over again. 

[Post Oak 20187]

Just now, WhatTheBuck said:

The GOP strategy for the 2020 election is to describe every Democratic policy initiative as socialism, and every Democrat as a socialist. They're just going to keep repeating those words over and over and over again. 

And it will work

[Js1 85127]

21 minutes ago, Post Oak said:

And it will work

They also tried that in 2018. 

It did not work.  Had it not been for Brett "I Like Beer" Kavanaugh, the Senate would have been at worst 50-50. 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23362]

 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23362]

 

[retread 2951]

McC can shove his history lessons all the way up.

[DixonHur 11233]

Sadly, I'm living in Kentucky right now and I can assure you he'll be reelected.  I hope to God I'm wrong, but...I'm probably not.

There's an election this year for governor, and the GOP incumbent's commercials start out with Trump spewing lies at a rally in Kentucky followed by a photo of Trump and the Governor together while doing the stupid thumbs up.  The negative adds toward his dem opponent just show him surrounded by images of Hillary, Nancy and AOC, with the words, "He's with them, not us."

  In this state, that's all they need to do.

[JimmyJames 12271]

6 hours ago, DixonHur said:

Sadly, I'm living in Kentucky right now and I can assure you he'll be reelected.  I hope to God I'm wrong, but...I'm probably not.

There's an election this year for governor, and the GOP incumbent's commercials start out with Trump spewing lies at a rally in Kentucky followed by a photo of Trump and the Governor together while doing the stupid thumbs up.  The negative adds toward his dem opponent just show him surrounded by images of Hillary, Nancy and AOC, with the words, "He's with them, not us."

  In this state, that's all they need to do.

I’m sure there’s a reason you do but you live in the dumbest state in the country right now. Mitch McConnel and Rand Paul? Complete trump support? What’s up with that? 

[DixonHur 11233]

2 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

I’m sure there’s a reason you do but you live in the dumbest state in the country right now. Mitch McConnel and Rand Paul? Complete trump support? What’s up with that? 

Long story, but short version is that I'm using it as a jumping off point for my impending move to Europe.

[TDunk 590]

24 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

Long story, but short version is that I'm using it as a jumping off point for my impending move to Europe.

You mean Russia? /Hugo

Edited July 11, 2019 by TDunk

[elfenix 34182]

Apparently has a 50% disapproval rating in his own state:

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/453802-poll-mcconnell-is-most-unpopular-senator

[JohnnyRage 1617]

I thought there would be mention of the minimum wage here. I guess he feels a hot economy is the wrong time to discuss raising the bottom.

But what do you guys feel like should be the minimum wage.

My large company, along with some others that have vast swaths of bottom tier entry employees, has already decided to raise the starting wage well above the mandate in anticipation of market trends and government action ~$13.

$10?

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20345]

Rusal, the aluminum company partially owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, announced plans to invest around $200 million to build a new aluminum plant in Kentucky just months after the Trump administration removed it from the U.S. sanctions list.

The new aluminum plant, slated to be built in the home state of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, will be the biggest new aluminum plant constructed in the U.S. in decades.

https://www.newsweek.com/company-russian-oligarch-millions-aluminum-plant-mitch-mcconnell-1397061
 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23362]

 

[DixonHur 11233]

Sign on a Kentucky highway...

 

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20345]

"Moscow Mitch"  is trending on Twitter and Joe Scarborough picked up on it this morning and used it several times.Scarborough said, "He is aiding and abetting Putin's ongoing attempts to subvert U.S. democracy.  According to the Republican FBI, CIA, DNI .... All Republicans are saying that Russia is trying to subervert U.S. democracy and Moscow Mitch won't even let the Senate take a vote on it. That is un-American."

I think there's a chance that this might stick.   It's the kind of simple meme that even the most simple-minded of Trumpkin Kentucky voters can understand.

[Gil Bang 25899]

I'm gonna use it. 

[swraith 336]

One can only hope.

[atomheartbevo 89457]

5 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

"Moscow Mitch"  is trending on Twitter and Joe Scarborough picked up on it this morning and used it several times.Scarborough said, "He is aiding and abetting Putin's ongoing attempts to subvert U.S. democracy.  According to the Republican FBI, CIA, DNI .... All Republicans are saying that Russia is trying to subervert U.S. democracy and Moscow Mitch won't even let the Senate take a vote on it. That is un-American."

I think there's a chance that this might stick.   It's the kind of simple meme that even the most simple-minded of Trumpkin Kentucky voters can understand.

There is a chance.  This is one of things things that's kind of hard to defend, and yeah, it's extremely simple and to the point.  There's no getting around Mitch trying to make it easy for Moscow to interfere.

[Horn Dog 9674]

This needs to be read by EVERYONE.....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitch-mcconnell-is-a-russian-asset/2019/07/26/02cf3510-afbc-11e9-a0c9-6d2d7818f3da_story.html?utm_term=.6f6da84f9ec8

Spoiler

Mitch McConnell is a Russian asset.

This doesn’t mean he’s a spy, but neither is it a flip accusation. Russia attacked our country in 2016. It is attacking us today. Its attacks will intensify in 2020. Yet each time we try to raise our defenses to repel the attack, McConnell, the Senate majority leader, blocks us from defending ourselves.

Let’s call this what it is: unpatriotic. The Kentucky Republican is, arguably more than any other American, doing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bidding.

Robert Mueller sat before Congress this week warning that the Russia threat “deserves the attention of every American.” He said “the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in our election is among the most serious” challenges to American democracy he has ever seen. “They are doing it as we sit here, and they expect to do it during the next campaign,” he warned, adding that “much more needs to be done in order to protect against these intrusions, not just by the Russians but others as well.”

Not three hours after Mueller finished testifying, Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, went to the Senate floor to request unanimous consentto pass legislation requiring presidential campaigns to report to the FBI any offers of assistance from agents of foreign governments.

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) was there to represent her leader’s interests. “I object,” she said.Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) attempted to move a bill that would require campaigns to report to the FBI contributions by foreign nationals.

“I object,” said Hyde-Smith.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) tried to force action on bipartisan legislation, written with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and supported by Sens. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.), protecting lawmakers from foreign cyberattacks. “The majority leader, our colleague from Kentucky, must stop blocking this common-sense legislation and allow this body to better defend itself against foreign hackers,” he said.

“I object,” repeated Hyde-Smith.

The next day, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the minority leader, asked for the Senate to pass the Securing America’s Federal Elections Act, already passed by the House, that would direct $600 million in election assistance to states and require backup paper ballots.

McConnell himself responded this time, reading from a statement, his chin melting into his chest, his trademark thin smile on his lips. “It’s just a highly partisan bill from the same folks who spent two years hyping up a conspiracy theory about President Trump and Russia,” he said. “Therefore, I object.” McConnell also objected to another attempt by Blumenthal to pass his bill.

Pleaded Schumer: “I would suggest to my friend the majority leader: If he doesn’t like this bill, let’s put another bill on the floor and debate it.”

But McConnell has blocked all such attempts, including:

A bipartisan bill requiring Facebook, Google and other Internet companies to disclose purchasers of political ads, to identify foreign influence.

A bipartisan bill to ease cooperation between state election officials and federal intelligence agencies.

A bipartisan bill imposing sanctions on any entity that attacks a U.S. election.

A bipartisan bill with severe new sanctions on Russia for its cybercrimes.

McConnell has prevented them all from being considered — over and over again. This is the same McConnell who, in the summer of 2016, when briefed by the CIA along with other congressional leaders on Russia’s electoral attacks, questioned the validity of the intelligence and forced a watering down of a warning letter to state officials about the threat, omitting any mention of Russia.

No amount of alarms sounded by U.S. authorities — even Republicans, even Trump appointees — moves McConnell.

On Tuesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray — Trump’s FBI director — told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the Russians “haven’t been deterred enough” and are “absolutely intent on trying to interfere with our elections.”

This year, National Intelligence Director Daniel Coats — Trump’s intelligence director — told the Senate Intelligence Committee that “foreign actors will view the 2020 U.S. elections as an opportunity to advance their interests. We expect them to refine their capabilities and add new tactics.”

And on Thursday, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a bipartisan report finding that “Russian activities demand renewed attention to vulnerabilities in U.S. voting infrastructure.”

The committee concluded that “urgent steps” are needed “to replace outdated and vulnerable voting systems.” (The $380 million offered since 2016 is a pittance compared with the need.) “Despite the expense, cybersecurity needs to become a higher priority for election-related infrastructure,” the report concluded.

But one man blocks it all — while offering no alternative of his own.

Presumably he thinks whatever influence Russia exerts over U.S. elections will benefit him (he’s up for reelection in 2020) and his party.

“Shame on him,” Schumer said on the Senate floor this week.

But McConnell has no shame. He is aiding and abetting Putin’s dismantling of Americans’ self-governance. A leader who won’t protect our country from attack is no patriot.

 

[burntorangebongos 10681]

@horndog can you cut and paste? I can't get around the block.

[Horn Dog 9674]

3 minutes ago, burntorangebongos said:

@horndog can you cut and paste? I can't get around the block.

I did.  It's in the spoiler tab.

[Mach 1 1677]

This needs to move off the Opinion page and on to the front page of every major newspaper. 

I get discouraged with how the media seemingly ignores shit like this.  But then an intense expose drops after months of investigation (Trump finances, Epstein) and I feel a little better about the whole Amendment 1 part of our democracy.  Fingers crossed that is happening right now.

I know it doesn't fucking matter, the GOP supporters are way out of the fucking barn, but I'd just like to see someone print a detailed account of McConnell's (and his wife) corrupt and utterly traitorous actions dragged into the cold, hard light of day.

[atomheartbevo 89457]

Even the simpletons in Kentucky could understand something like this.

[WhatTheBuck 28716]

24 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Even the simpletons in Kentucky could understand something like this.

You must not be familiar with the Ark Encounter. 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11810]

Times like these make me want to believe in a hell. Because McConnell won’t be able to cheat and buy his way out of it.  

[Underdog 28457]

Kentucky is about as close to hell as you're gonna get. 

[Chad Fuck 17569]

Kentucky is about as close to hell as you're gonna get. 

Which is crazy because almost Heaven, West Virginia is right next door.

[Chooky 13302]

this is fine.