Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked a bipartisan effort to enlarge the COVID relief bill to $2,000. President Trump supports the enhanced relief package. As a consequence, in justifying his maneuver McConnell did something we are all too familiar with. It is time to expose the Decepticon game again; this time people will accept.
[POTUS Tweet Link – Washington Post Link]
At first blush you might ask yourself why Mitch McConnell would block this bill and put the Georgia special election senate races in question. He just handed Georgia democrats an atomic sledgehammer. However, what most people do not understand is how McConnell works; being in the minority position is not adverse to his interests. McConnell operates with a Machiavellian strategy, so we will explain.
Senator McConnell said the $2,000 bill would be attached to two other POTUS priorities including (1) section 230 reform, and (2) a request for congressional review of the 2020 election fraud, both have been requested by President Trump. This is how Mitch McConnell justifies; this is how the GOP will defend his decision; the creation of a false dichotomy is how McConnell works. But watch what he is really doing.
McConnell admits in his floor testimony the three stage bill will take time to assemble. In essence he admits publicly the $2k, 23o reform and 2020 election review committee will take longer than the January 5th Georgia runoff. So he is admitting the toxic political issue of the $2,000 denial will exist to benefit the democrats in the race. Accept this.
Second, McConnell knows a second bill with all three elements will not pass the House. McConnell knows it is a pure political posturing exercise that will produce nothing, yet provide more justification for his blockage.
Once you stop being a battered conservative; meaning once you accept that McConnell knows he is creating a dynamic that supports the GA democrats; then you move to the question: ‘why would McConnell take an action that would put him in the minority?’
On its face the question seems absurd; however, it only seems absurd because people don’t understand the schemes in the upper chamber, the Senate, under Leader McConnell and Leader Harry Reid before him. The institution of the Senate requires a voter to understand the shell game. The pea is never where you think it is.
Defenders of the Decepticon schemes rely on our inability to understand a hidden agenda; a secret agenda… However, with more eyes now open this outline will start to make sense.
First, McConnell doesn’t care about holding a majority position in the Senate. Whether he is a majority leader or a minority leader doesn’t matter to McConnell. In fact McConnell’s political skill-set does better in the minority than the majority.
The preferred political position for Mitch McConnell is where he has between 45 and 49 republican Senators, and the Democrats hold the Majority with around 55. Of course with Senator Harry Reid’s retirement, this would now imply Majority leader Chuck Schumer holding office.
Why does McConnell prefer the minority position?
The answer is where you have had to actually follow Mitch McConnell closely to see how he works. When the Majority has around 52 to 55 seats, they need McConnell to give them 8 to 9 votes to overcome the three-fifths (60 vote) threshold for their legislative needs. It is in the process of trade and payment for those 8 to 9 votes where McConnell makes more money, and holds more power, than as a sitting Majority Leader.
The 60 vote threshold, and McConnell’s incredible skillset in the minority, is where he shines. Each of the needed votes to achieve sixty is worth buckets of indulgence to the minority leader and those on K-Street who need the Senate to support their legislative constructs. The votes to get to sixty are worth a lot of money.
This institutional dynamic is the currency of affluence and influence in the Senate; this is why Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell never changed the Senate rules for legislative passage. This is why the filibuster was retained and why the 60 vote threshold was always beneficial to both parties. The color of the flag atop the spire matters not.
Except for budget passage (reconciliation); and McConnell being forced by intransigence in the era of Trump resistance to change the judicial vote threshold to 51; McConnell would never consider changing the legislative threshold (60 votes) to a simple majority (51 votes) because it would be removing his favored position.
A simple majority vote is adverse to the institutional interests. That is why McConnell retained it during his reign as majority leader; as did Harry Reid before him.
The process of selling votes to the 60-vote threshold in the Senate is where the UniParty operates; and where the status of maximum financial benefit for the minority exists.
Currently, as majority leader with 52 GOP senators, McConnell needs to purchase eight or nine votes for each legislative priority.
Mitch McConnell doesn’t like being the purchaser, he prefers being the vote seller where his skill-set as a broker really shines. McConnell is much better at extracting terms for his vote sales, than being the purchaser for the votes of an intransigent minority wing. This is why the current Senate doesn’t pass many bills.
If Democrats were in the majority, and McConnell was the minority leader, we would see much more legislation pass because Schumer is a more well financed buyer (K-Street) and McConnell is a much better seller. Whenever we have this minority dynamic it always leaves people confused because few really watch what McConnell is doing.
McConnell takes his favorite 18 controlled GOP senators (Decepticons) and he brokers their votes on an ‘as needed’ basis. The eight to ten senators he selects each time get compensated in the process. McConnell rotates the financial beneficiaries on a bill-by-bill basis. As a consequence each of the 18 or so McConnell senators get quite wealthy over time, and McConnell gains additional power and influence.
McConnell decides who takes committee positions, those committee positions are worth money to K-Street purchasers of legislation. That’s one aspect to his power.
McConnell also hand-selects which senators will provide the votes to the majority to reach the 60 vote threshold. He uses a formula of favoritism, loyalty and studies the election cycles to determine who in his tribe will sell their votes and gain. That is the second aspect to his power.
If any of the republican Senators attempt to disrupt this UniParty business model McConnell excommunicates them from the legislative process; the best reference for the ‘excommunicado’ approach is former U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC).
Additional references for how McConnell operates this scheme as the Minority Leader can be found in the Corker-Cardin amendment which allowed the Iran nuclear deal/payments under Obama; and/or the “fast track” Trade Promotion Authority deal for TPP passage, again for President Obama’s maximum benefit.
In these two examples McConnell worked with Harry Reid to flip the vote threshold from two-thirds (super-majority) need to approve, to two-thirds (super-majority) needed to deny. They flipped the dynamic in order to give Obama the tools he needed for the Iran deal and the Trans-Pacific-Partnership trade agreement (TPP).
[SIDEBAR – Within TPP Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was again working on the priorities of U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue. McConnell and Donohue have been working together on UniParty trade and domestic legislative issues for around twenty years. It is well established that Senate Leader Mitch McConnell has one major career alliance that has been unbroken and unchanged for well over two decades. That alliance is with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and specifically with CoC President Tom Donohue.
CoC President Tom Donohue represents Wall Street interests and supports: all multinational trade deals, open-border immigration policies, amnesty legislative constructs, and all of the issues that have generally irked common-sense GOP voters for the same period of time. [SEE HERE and SEE HERE]. Tom Donohue is the biggest lobbyist spender in DC every year, by a mile.
To remind ourselves how Minority and Majority Senator McConnell took down the threat of the Tea Party revisit these old articles: CNN Part I and CNN Part II both showcase how McConnell works. Then do some research on how McConnell worked with Haley Barbour in Mississippi [SEE HERE] – END SIDEBAR].
Hopefully, now you can see how the business model within the senate is lucrative from a financial standpoint. Selling votes from the minority position is worth a lot of money. Additionally, the power dynamic is essentially even within this process. The majority holds political and financial power… and the minority holds enough political power to keep the majority in check (as well as mutually beneficial financial power).
For those who understand the dynamic the next obvious point is: what happens if Schumer takes the majority, eliminates the filibuster and takes legislative passage to a simple majority (51-votes)? This is, after all, what the far-left has promised to do.
From McConnell’s position if the Democrats are the party that changes the precedent for Senate legislative passage, he feels it will provide him ammunition to retake control in the 2022 mid-term; and he wouldn’t be the historic figure to have changed the rules.
McConnell counts on the GOPe machinery (RNC), the purchased and allied Wall Street media, and his K-street backers to assist him in getting back in power. The righteous donation requests from the political and financial class are always enhanced by the extremes and outrage. If Schumer kills the filibuster and takes the senate to a simple majority McConnell will weaponize the maneuver against his “friend across the aisle”.
That’s the way the Machiavellian processes work….
The solution to the problem of Mitch McConnell is in Kentucky. The problem of Rino Senator Pat Toomey is in my home state of PA and the problems in the voting in Philly are in Philadelphia and so on and so on……The solutions need to come from the local and state levels. The solution is in our hands. We need to rally the troupes nationwide, but on a local and state level, and get going for 2022.
On January 6 it would be nice if President Trump read this entire piece by Sundance out loud to the entire rally crowd word for word. What the hell does he have to lose?
Absolutely nothing. POTUS should link to this article in a tweet, it’s his most powerful way to communicate until Jan. 20th. Every conservative that has a platform should link to it. Uniparty must trend and be in the political vocabulary going forward.
Ted:
If you have twitter, I would suggest that you communicate with Pres. Trump so he will know.
In my case, I don’t have twitter.
I was blind to this dynamic before becoming a Treeper. Three key missing basics to complete the “why”.
1. Wealth. Most Congressmen are modestly well off, not really “rich”. Their wealth jumps in Congress, especially Senators? (POTUS was already a self-made Billionaire, like Ross Perot. Neither have to play silly games for a free trip to Jamaica or Maui.)
2. God. POTUS believes in God… I don’t know what McConnell believes in, beyond being a big shot in China.
3. Children. POTUS has 5 children, Turtle is childless… childless & Godless? So these power games are all he apparently lives for?
So it all may come down to Pence & Senators? Months ago, didn’t Sundance hint that Pence was a black hat plant?
McConnell has 3 children from his first marriage.
Opps. My bad. OK, 2 of 3.
If McConnell cared about his children at all, he wouldn’t be selling off their country.
Pence hired the Coronavirus Taskforce, he said so in an interview with Paul Bedard in May. In the interview he was still quoting the Ferguson Model Numbers that had been discredited by GP in March. He has been in DC for 20 years.
correct.
and to the POINT:
if ANYONE HERE or elsewhere it holding out some hope that VP Pence (Lord How I Hate Using that title for this imbecile), you will be sorely dissapointed.
Learn WHO Pence IS.! Let the truth of facts about his political career, bills he has signed, committees and “solutions” those achieved. Friends and business relationships.
Spoiler: Pence IS swamp….always has been.
Now you may be wondering: why Did President Trump chose him for the VP ticket? That’s obvious is some respects but not in others:
none of these things have anything at all to do with representing YOU or ME…and it most certainly is not conducting the affairs of this nation in a honorable decent manner either!
strong reminder: we are ASKING THE WRONG PEOPLE TO SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS!
Pence will NOT defend this President. Pence WILL ROB AND STEAL THIS ELECTION BY DOING NOTHING. He KNOWS he has the power to correct the fraud. He will refuse to act.
Pence is looking at a certain and predictable highly rewarded status for his last big hit at power in DC.
I will say this again…If you believe Pence is the answer…and that is your only remedy you have in mind, you will be very upset.
Pence IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. Pence is about doing whatever is required to benefit him and those that benefit from this fraud.
there are trillions at stake. he is going to take a pass at that prospect.
We will deal with him later! For now, the focus must be on solutions that do not depend on Pence.
We have time, but it is of the essence we not waste anymore precious time debating how Pence is going to rescue your vote. It’s not in his DNA. it never was.
My understanding is that Pence was selected by Jared and Ivanka, mainly because he is an Evangelical Christian. I do hope that you are incorrect and he comes through for President Trump (and us!). But I do understand your reservations. I was not happy with him at first, but he won me over because he has seemed to be extremely loyal to President Trump. I hope that continues to be the case. If he betrays President Trump on the Senate floor, it would be a literal E Tu Brutus kind of moment, it would be too much to take.
Pence helped destroy General Flynn.
Come to your own conclusions about that, but I dislike him for that and more.
PLEASE STAY ON TOPIC
THE TOPIC IS:
A Familiar Play – Mitch McConnell Blocks Attempt to Pass $2,000 COVID Relief Bill, Deflects Accountability to POTUS Posted on December 29, 2020 by Sundance
of course..you are correct.
and so am I.
it balances eh?
“He has been in DC for 20 years.”
Are you talking about Pence? Why so, in a thread about McConnell?
BTW, Pence was the 50th governor of Indiana from 2013 to 2017.
As Governor he had a Republican super majority in the Senate, Congress of Indiana. Did nothing but hold the line. He reminds me of a Paul Ryan.
Other than graft, the reason congress critters get rich is because they exempted themselves from insider trading rules. For those of you who don’t know/remember this was a big deal right around 2000 – and yet they voted (yes voted) to exempt themselves.
President Obama on April 4, 2012 signed a law that prohibits the use of non-public information for private profit, including insider trading by members of Congress and other government employees.
but they have plenty of other dirty tricks they use to make money and gain power
A trip to Maui or Jamaic a really doesn’t cost that much. I managed two trips across the globe a year quite easily on a teacher’s salary. You don’t need to sell your country’s highest offices for it.
I imagine your holiday didn’t involve a 40 million dollar private jet, 5 star accommodating with all the perks, and meeting that result in multi million dollar deals and kickbacks…
yes, these people DO sell their “office” for money. That IS the point.
these are not the kind of vacation you and I save many months, years, to experience.
these people BY THE POWER OF OFFICE, spend next to nothing for these opportunities.
This is why President Trump is such a danger to these people. He WORKED privately without screwing citizens! And he has made it very clear since day one the level of utter disdain he holds towards these people and how they “acquired” wealth. His aim was to put them on notice and to drain the swamp.
So now that WE KNOW.
what has changed?
are these people experiencing ANY discomfort?
plainly, no, they are NOT!
why is that?
because WE THE PEOPLE have not acted in our own self interest to set things right.
but some of us…the few, will never give up or give in to this utter corruption of the state.
We are not defeated because the ordinary man and woman seems unmotivated and powerless.
like most things, changes will have to come from a small but powerful set of doers.
are you a doer?
And now we have more evidence concerning VP Mike Pence. https://www.newsmax.com/politics/gov-law-northam-pol/2020/12/29/id/1003534/
So Newman has uncloaked, and are openly another Fox News. In that article, they claim that all election fraud claims are unsubstantiated and emphasize that they have been thrown out of court. I tried watching the channel for a while, but most of the non-news shows seemed to be History Channel style propaganda, which raised a red flag for me.
Ugh, I was just about to watch Newsmax…thanks for reminding me not to.
Oh Treepers, I wish we could all be in our own little part of the country, in our own town, with our own Treeper Republic..
When we hire services that are not up to standard, we withold payment. Why can’t we withold paying taxes. Why and how can we “defind the politicians?”
I haven’t made a final judgement about Newsmax, but it is interesting to note that all of a sudden, 2 of the ones I like- Salcedo and Kelly- are on a somewhat long vacation.
Perot Conservative – Having children doesn’t matter to those in Washington. They are part of the elite whose lives aren’t affected by their legislation the way the rest of us are. They see themselves as the ruling class and know that they’ve built a protected society for themselves (never forget that they aren’t subject to most laws they pass).
As for believing in God, that doesn’t matter either. Most people say they believe in God but it really doesn’t matter. Even those who say they are Christian. The Bible says that many will show up on Judgment Day saying they know God and Jesus will tell them to leave because He never knew them. And He also said that the way to heaven is narrow and FEW would find it. Most people will not get to heaven. Many who call themselves believers will be exposed as phonies (that’s why it says that God will have to separate the real believers from the false ones because we aren’t able to tell the difference (He’ll separate the wheat from the chaff.).
And as for wealth, well, I think it’s long past the time voters should have figured out that there’s something wrong when over and over again people are elected to office and go to Washington with moderate means and after years there they are extremely wealthy. They don’t make enough for them many of them to become so wealthy. Sure, some might get lucky once in a while and inherit money or make a good investment. But not the majority. It’s not feasible to think that they become so wealthy any other way than through corrupion.
Has fraudulent election software rigged results for McConnell? (Posted elsewhere, but timely.)
The McConnell Puzzle
1. Mitch McConnell, despite being a Senator for decades, has recently had historically low approval ratings. Rolling Stone Magazine even quoted one poll at a staggeringly low 18%.
2. Yet McConnell won by 20%, and even managed to get 56% of the female vote, when running against a woman?
3. “Despite Security Push, Kentucky Struggles To Update Voting Machines”
4. Few Kentucky precincts have paper-ballot backups! Apparently the most powerful man in the Senate can send $700 Billion in pork to foreign countries, but only $6 Million to update Kentucky’s voting system. (Clearly by design.)
5. So are McConnell’s abysmal polls fake? Or is this more proof of rigged elections?
imho its a smorgasbord of corruption. Whatever gets the job done. Like a mechanic and his tools. If the objective is to get power and keep power, then what tools do you need to use? Fake polls, rigged elections, whatever it takes.
Rigged elections. Forget about how many people they say vote.
deplorable unperson: Mitch NEVER won in Elliott or Wolfe Kentucky.
But in 2020 he won these counties with mind boggling results Face with monocle
WOLFE COUNTY
Mitch Votes=1912
Registered GOP=943
McGrath Votes=945
Registered Dems=4527
ELLIOTT COUNTY
Mitch=1958
Registered GOP=860
McGrath=868
Registered Dems=4276
‘Election Insurance’ is expensive…but effective.
That’s what I’ve been thinking. I think Mitch paid Dominion off as well as Lindsey. They don’t want voting irregularities to be investigated.
We have a winner!
I think you are exactly right.
They want a Potemkin Polity: to pick the winners and losers themselves while pretending to conduct real elections and campaigns.
You think they’re bad now? What will they do when they believe that they can never, ever be voted out of office?
But you are missing the FACT that PDJT has all the information on this fraud since November 3rd.
When he lays this out to the American People (very soon), or perhaps he will Sec. of Def. Chris Miller or Ass’t Sec. Def Ezra Cohen to make the presentation to the American People and the WORLD of the PROOF the DIA has in it’s possession of the Election Fraud Committed by Foreign and Domestic Enemies….
Those Senators will have to cross that Red Line to stand with McConnell or anyone else, other than POTUS.
That was was message to them in his most recent tweet that referenced the Republicans having a “Death Wish”….
PDJT has all the ammunition to win this battle.
I’m sharing this one more time:
great Vid. To clarify, De Oppresso Liber is not the Army motto, it’s tgg he e Army Special Forces motto, it means “to free the oppressed”. Why has Trump turned to former SF? He knows they’re true Patriots.
Loved her fire and clarity. Learned so much that I didn’t know. She didn’t expound on law suits because there are other processes in the hopper. She tied things together. Important video by Leigh Dundas! A must watch.
Thanks Abigailstraight!
#5 – for sure, polls fake and rigged elections. McConnell has been cheating I bet.
Get a rope… make that 5,000 ropes. At 50 hangings a day we can drain the swamp in 100 days. Just in time for Summer Vacations to begin.
I love the smell of rope burns in the morning, it smells like ……Victory.
2k checks are a terrible idea even if POTUS likes the idea. I dont know why he does. It will do more harm than good. It is a staggering total payout to add to the others.
Where is the tea party ?
The idea of large checks, IMO, Potus knew would be blocked by the turtle company. The amount of 2k being floated was large enough to get the public attention. Now knowing the idea of more money for those in a world of hurt, being blocked by the swamp, is a headline grabber…more free advertising for the President, since Main Street still feels the brunt of swampy activity. Potus kind of backed ‘them’ into a corner.
Mr. Trump loves us Main Street occupants and knows 2k help would be significant. It is a beautifully orchestrated psychological tactic as the negative votes are now public. Build up hope for significant ‘help’ only to throw it against the rocks. $600 is something, but it is peanuts. Conversely, a family of 4 would feel significant relief from the 2k plan. (Oh gee, can’t have that now, can we? /sarc). And the stock market jumps on ‘600 hope’.
Mr. McConnell also knows that if the alleged ‘president elect’ Mr. Biden, becomes president, there will be further negotiations in federal income tax law which will negate the dollar amount looking forward. Putting it this way….in gambling, “the house never loses”, while they gamble with the money and financial security of “We the People”. Yet, food prices are up and packages are smaller. Gasoline in the Chicago suburbs has jumped 50 cents per gallon in the last few weeks…Pain is still there only it is in disguise. Either amount, people will spend and the loss, in theory, should be recoverable in sales taxes or investment taxes.
And there is still “Trillions at Stake” and “His kind must never be allowed to rise again”…
If you don’t want your stimulus check, please donate it to help a website like this, or a food bank, or an animal shelter.
I don’t want it, but I’ll probably need that $2k to buy myself a quart of milk after the massive inflation starts.
Fight this fraud like thunder so “it” WON’T start!
2 K checks are a great idea. It’s trickle up economics. Limit them to people making 75k a year or less and they will fuel the underserved part of the economy. Less chance of corruption.
There should be no money going outside the country in the pandemic unless we are buying goods.
If checks are sent should be sent to everyone regardless of economic status.
For one, the money came from those working, two, let people decide where they want their money to go, and three, current rules are determining who gets money based on 2019 tax filings and things have changed radically since 2019 for many people.
finally, I think it is well past time we take away the govt checkbook—tax revolt sounds like music to my ears.
hahahahaa.
In order for McConnel and Schumer to do what they do, all 100 Senators have to be corrupt. And they are.
Lets see if one Senator stands up for Trump.
And Tommy Tuberville got his talking to already by Mitch. Threatening him over standing up for our President.
Lets hope and pray that the incoming Congressmen and women remember that the constituents voted for them, with good reason and will honor their constituents wishes…novel idea?
If people start throwing tomatoes at judges and politicians they will slowly start to get the hint as the tomatoe deluge increases.
burn d.c. to the ground … hang what is left … and then nuke it all …….
Nuke it from Orbit, It’s the only way to be sure…
Can you imagine? Washington DC as the 51st state of the nation? That would be a dictatorship that we could all see and hate.
Ever seen or read the hunger games? It’s the capital… and we peons are here to serve their needs! (That’s how they see it anyway)
While POTUS and fam are out of town of course!
I’ll say it again, get President Trump and his family in the air and make the swamp part of the Atlantic. It must be destroyed!
Oh my, how good it was to read this written by someone else. I knew after the Tea Party fail within the GOP that this party is happiest in the minority. Thanks, Sundance.
With Schumer/ the Dems in the majority in the Senate, hasn’t Schumer already said he will get rid of the 60 vote rule?
If so, then McConnell is in for a rude awakening because Schumer will no longer need to purchase any votes from the Republican side of the uni-bird. Right?
If the vote to over-ride the President’s veto is put off until after this newfangled bill McConnell has said he will put together, the one with the $2,000 stimulus, 230 revision/removal and vote fraud commission, and if McConnell is saying that won’t happen until after the 5th, then the President’s veto stands because it’s a whole new Congress on the 3rd and what this Congress doesn’t deal with becomes moot. Right?
If the first is the case, where Schumer pledges to get rid of the 60 vote rule, there would be no upside for McConnell at all. And all the judicial seats McConnell has managed to see filled will also be moot because Schumer’s court packing scheme could simply appoint enough justices to over-ride any majority McConnell thought he had gained.
Just wondering out loud. Who knows what games these people are up to.
The Democrats are planning on ending the filibuster, McConnell has no excuse not to do it first and pass this bill with a simple majority.
They are good friends. It will work out just fine for Mitch and all insiders. They all want the same things regardless of their camera acting performance.
Communists always say you are their friends until they no longer need you. Mitch’s world will be rocked to it’s core if the dems take over the Senate. As will ours.
He just doesn’t grasp that yet.
He will get the grasp by the time PDJT is done with the day’s lesson.
I think people have it wrong this time.
This is really different now. We are dealing with something that has only occurred once in our history…1876…and yet it is still different because it’s a different century!
President Trump should not be underestimated at this time.
Quite frankly I think Mitch and the Gang are testing waters they have never be in before.
Plus the American People are that much wiser this time around.
Not as many as we would like. Only a limited number of ppl know what is going on…as someone said earlier, we live in the CTH bubble.
It may be a bubble, but it’s a big movable bubble and I can see it rolling all over the country like a snowball gathering volume and speed. More people are catching on than you think. We cannot go forward with tyranny. The leftists aren’t the only ones who can do a RESET! Our reset must be guided by the Constitution not the CCP.
Hear, hear. Cocktails and dinner at 8. We’ll go to the floor and the cameras and play kabuki theater with the ‘masses’, the underlings, tomorrow. We will make them think we hate each other, when in fact we are the dearest of friends for 20Y now and counting. I’m Senate chair for a while, you are Senate chair for a while, see how the ‘game’ and the people are played? Such fools…they think we hate each other…laugh, laugh…waiter, bring us another cocktail.
repealing Sec 230 makes CTH a publisher also. then it will go by the way. it’s McConnel’s poison pill.
Are you sure that is what will happen? My understanding is that repealing would mean that they simply stop assuming that platforms are not publishers.
Not that every platform automatically gets called a publisher, and then is denied the opportunity to prove otherwise.
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the “by a mile” link above in the paragraph with Donohue photo returns a 404 wordpress
Some are starting to have an inkling of the Uniparty concept with readers of CTH at the highest level of understanding. At least a good number are asking “wtf are we doing borrowing boatloads of dollars to send to foreign countries ?”. A good number are disassociating with the R Party “weakness”. How do Sundance’s writings on the subject get spread in this climate of suppression? Sure wish POTUS would link to this article in a tweet.
I send links directly to friends as text message or in email.
Doesn’t this then mean that the “Evil” in the Republican Establishment Party is worse than the Democrat Party? This would be because of the seemingly endless “Judas” like Political Games that they play decade after decade…but yet…vote for them because they’re not as Bad as the other guys. There can be no greater Evil in Politics than when you constantly betray your own People…the Voters…and do so without Remorse. I believe even Judas felt Remorse as he gave back the money…
Yep.
Don’t know what to say. Just need to vent and try to ignore the inevitable destruction of this once great nation. The CCP is proud of McConnell as well as being proud of so many politicians from both sides. The SUBVERSION came very slowly so as not to be noted. Probably started in 1962 when school children were told they no longer needed to say “God bless you” to their teachers in the morning. And from there now we have a GOP “leader” married to a CCP spy, helping to finish what’s left of the only truly free nation on earth. With out God all is lost. Rejecting all that is anti-God is not being antisocial, racist, or any -ism nonsense. It is the right thing to do. The end is near!
There is no “IGNORE” in this situation, BOB. Always stay alert to danger. You may have more courage than you think. God told us He will never leave us for forsake us. Remember?
Mike’s going to fold.
Told you.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/disgrace-pence-disagreed-louie-gohmert-electoral-college-vote-lawsuit/
Well, I wish I had more confidence in Pence doing what it takes – we will see – however, I don’t read this as Pence himself necessarily disagreeing but that his lawyers disagree.
This is a “controversial” move and some lawyers – and others – absolutely believe the VP has total, uncontested power to make this move while others do not.
This is because the Electoral Count Act (ECA) of 1887 was put in place to amend the 12th Amendment which itself amended Article II. This is my understanding. Prior to the ECA the VP discarding a set of electors where there are dual electors, etc., is the way that a conflict would be handled.
And so since then the process of the VP receiving and counting the electors has been done according to the ECA – and within the ECA is the process we’ve been discussing where a Senator and a Rep would need to object, it would go to a 2 hour debate, and vote, etc.
That’s why Louie is trying for a ruling that will say Pence alone has the authority to decide how to handle the dual sets of electors – i.e. – that the ECA is in conflict with the original Article II powers/process.
Louie was on Rush’s show this afternoon after Sidney and discussed this at length.
Can an Act amend a Constitutional Amendment? That might be a question to explore.
Would not be disagreeable to the same legal eagles if dems were exercising this power.
Georgia results are already decided, Dominion has already programed the machines. Trucks are filled with fake ballots and BLM terrorists will deliver them to the right place.
Then we found out today, at least I did, that Stacy “The Steal” Abrams sister is a judge in GA and sees no reason to recuse from making election decisions.
I heard that too. These people are absolutely lawless from top to bottom – there is 100% no question that she should recuse and was told she should, but of course she refused.
Been sayin it for awhile now,…
McConnell is public enemy #1.
McConnell is LIKE a magician. He never wants the audience (us) to see what he is doing.
Pelosi? Hah! She ain’t young, pretty or (thank God!? ‘scantily clad’, but she serves the same purpose as the magicians assistant;
To DISTRACT the audience, so they won’t see what Mitch is doing.
One of the reasons for Nanzi’s more crazy behavior; PDJT has required Mitch to be more obvious than he would like, so Nanzi has engaged in more crazy behavior i.e. she has ramped up the distraction.
SHE is NOTHING; a Magicians assistant. Mitch is the key….
Put another way, the Conmunists NEVER could have taken our center-right country, so far left, if we had hsd a genuine right party, seriously fighting for our policy priorities.
CONgress controls the Executive, LegislativeAND Judicial branches. The President and his political appointees are figureheads, for everyone to focus on.
And, as we have seen, with a non-compliant President (Trump) CONgress controls his Cabinet, as well.
And FOUR people control CONgress; Majority and Minority leaders of both Houses.
All the rest of the 531 are proxies.
Some say “Our problem is public educationhas become conmunist indoctrination, we need to address that, First!
CONgress made it that way, through legislation and budget, and the Four have no interest in undoing what they did.
Some say “its the Fake media,we HAVE to fix that!
CONgress MADE it that way, thru allowing regulators to keep changing the limits on media ownership.
Its Justice, we need JUSTICE!Cry still others.
The DOJ and FBI are EXACTLY what CONgress i.e. the FOUR, want it to be. Coverup for THEIR crimes, and political persecution of anyone who stands in their way.
ALL the rampant corruption during the Obama era, was whitewashed by CONgress,because the FOUR were complicit.
THATS why Obama could claim his admin was clean; because he was actually a junior player, doing exactly what the FOUR wanted.
CONgress has ALL the POWER. We can cry out for Justice (“Wheres Barr?) till we are hoarse, but until we wrest control of Congress away from the Four, it is fruitless to demand Justice, or education reform, or breaking up of msm or Big Tech.
We ARE under tyranny, from CONgress. We can’t primary them out.
And, they HAVE an unofficial but well established “line of succession”; if something happens to McConnell, THUNE moves into his place.
When Ryan left, McCarthy moved up.
I think the only way to break them, is an exposure of their true nature so great, so eggregious, that no one can accept it, and the Republicon party is stripped of its base, like Fox has been stripped of its viewership.
Affirming the Fraud Biden as POTUS, would do it, IMHO.
Destroy the Power of the Uniparty (McConnell) and the Dems are NOTHING.
AFTER all, take away the magician, and all you have is a scantily clad assistant.
I disagree. Even if Trump somehow pulls one out of his hat, and even if McConnell & Thune are revealed as complicit in Biden’s false win, and come under greater risk in their next election, they can be assured of surviving any future challenges the same way Biden got in, by fraud. So, the Uniparty and by extension the CCP are here to stay, without a miracle from The Creator.
YEP, let’s all just go back to bed and pull the covers way up over our heads then the monster won’t see us hiding there. That’ll do it. As Leigh Dundas said being willing to fight for our freedom starts in our heads.
Sundance’s take on Turtle wanting to be in the minority, even if it once were true, falls apart for one reason: the Senate demonrats will nuke the 60 vote rule. Everything will be done on a simple majority vote if they win the two GA seats. Turtle is well aware of this.
Mitch is rat, not doubt about that, but he knows how inconsequential his next two years (at least) will be in the Senate if he’s reduced to minority leader.
My take on what Turtle is doing with the $2000 deal is to make a half assed attempt at looking like he tried to do something about the 230 provision, knowing it won’t go anywhere. The $2000 will go thru once the tap dance plays out.
No. Sundance is spot on. Its just that McConnell’s been told to carry on the game, the jig’s not up. He is chum.
It helps if you read the article.
just to add my advice.
I often find that I NEED TO READ, and re-read, and read again several times your articles. Not because you are doing anything poorly. No sir. Simply that, your WORK stands above and BEYOND any political analysis out there. What is “out there” is so doped with DC speak and the decades of having engaged with it, means my pre-set notions of how things operate make me an awful estimator of truth. So I read and re-read your work. And THEN I LET IT SINK IN. I wrestle with it. I pray about it. This is Key! This is something I have found helps make the truth easier to acquire. The gentle but powerful still moment of the mind to explore fresh what is going on.
I often find this difficult. I imagine this is true for many people my age group (50-60) who have been “using” so much of the “regular” media spin and political meat heads who are PAID to dope “news”.
When I read your WORK, I go about it as if I am taking a very important university course where MY PERFORMANCE is directly tied to how well I understand the material. A student.
SO I take my time. I read it..set it down..mark it up, go after the key points and even have a notepad for key topics that I need to understand more to get a better more well rounded view.
Your work has been enormously powerful for me.
My personal story is probably not unique. I know this by reading so much of the feedback your receive.
What I do find very satisfying is that you continue to engage with a gentle reminder about what your work is really about..and the care you demonstrate to make sure we are asking the right questions…and that truth has no agenda.
You are highly respected and no matter what happens, this election or the next, you keep it coming.
Long Soldier X
regitiger
I just bookmarked your comment as it is one of the most valuable I’ve read here. You are a very wise person. Thanks for your advice and for the admiration for Sundance and his gifts to us. You are so right.
I did and you spent quite a deal of time witb Mitch excelling at using the filibuster to maximum advantage and then saying he’ll run the campaign in 2022 on the dems illiminating the fillibuster. You honestly think the public at large gives two cents about that as a campaign issue?
But it the bigger question is: why lose the Senate now only to use the loss of the fillibuster to retake it in 2022? Sure, if you retake the Senate you can then say “hey, it was the democrats who got rid of the 60 vote threshold!”, but you may end up in a smaller minority just as well and become the least powerful minority leader ever.
I truly respect your opinions, SD (it’s why I’m here!), but like the “Mitch will remove PDJT from office” impeachment take, I think Mitch may be a slightly different type of rat than you peg him to be.
In other words, McConnell can obtain more money as a seller than as a buyer. Basic microecon.
I predict a rope shortage before this time next year.
Many people i have spoken with see McConnell as a back stabber not republicans in general.
I am wondering who they think will be supporting them? Most Republicans were silent during impeachment, and now election fraud. They haven’t supported their own party. Just how irrelevant do they actually want to be?
They don’t need us for our votes or donations any more. They will just increase taxes and fees. We mean nothing to them.
Until we have a way to communicate with the masses.
Without exception’s.
Organization is impossible.
They say we are THIS.
Only info and oppinion’s that say THIS are allowed to spread.
Anything not THIS is ridiculed, been debunked, only immoral people would even repeat such a thing as THAT.
we need to solve the communication problem also to be successful.
McConnell is dirty in China and does not want to be exposed and that is why he is undermining DJT and helping the DEMs. His China ties go back a long way and he is simply covering it all up as the criminals within always do. Is he a deceiver like Ryan and is it time to get rope ?
The article seems to describe a “business as usual” scenario. But if the election questions are ridden over by the Uniparty cart and left in the dust, there won’t be “business as usual”. The nearly total shutout by the states, courts, press, etc. of the election questions isn’t being done to restore “business as usual”. It’s to further a marxist coup. Every bit of lip service to due process and even “normal” corrupt process will disappear rapidly.
What if McConnell is working to get what the president wants?
McConnell has in fact said exactly that.
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“McConnell outlined three priorities Trump said he wanted Congress to address when he signed the coronavirus relief and government spending bill into law Sunday: larger direct payments, Section 230legal liability protections for internet platforms and unfounded concerns about widespread election fraud. McConnell said that “this week, the Senate will begin a process to bring these three priorities into focus.”
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https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/29/covid-stimulus-update-senate-considers-vote-on-2000-stimulus-checks.html
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For those posters bitching and moaning about McConnell and advocating for the notion McConnell is some kind of unworthy POS: Get your facts straight, then speak.
I base my opinion of McConnell on his silence during impeachment, and election fraud to name just 2 reasons. That’s a big enough POS for me, thank you.
Whatever he does now? Great. It’s about time he did something. It’s been crickets for about 4 years now.
His actions speak much more clearly than what he says.
Perzactly! If Mitch’s actions mirrored his words then McConnell would not have supported the Porkulous Omnibus Bill, but he did.
He could have supported direct $2,000 payments in the COVID bill. But he did not.
He could have nixed including the Section 230 in the Defense Bill in the 1st place. But he did not.
He could have supported the President and We The People in ensuring no fraud in the election or spoke out against the fraud after the election. But he did not.
He could have made sure there were not enough votes to over ride the President’s veto. But he did not.
He could have brought up and passed the House $2,000 direct payment bill yesterday. But of course he did not.
But McConnell SAYS he is doing it all this way as that is what President Trump wants.
BS!
So when McConnell warned all the senators to not stand up and support President Trump during the Electoral Vote count process because they would be required to make tough decisions and tough votes, that was in support of President Trump? Is that what you think? That McConnell is doing what President Trump wants? Sorry, but you are delusional. Read Sundance’s article again, and then again.
If this move by McConnell is what you say, that he’s delivering what President Trump asked for, then why didn’t he include the removal of all the red-lined spending cuts as part of this new bill? I’m pretty sure the President was adamant to McConnell that he wanted that spending rescinded.
In the infamous words of candidate Xiden – “Come on…man!!!”.
In 1776 there were patriots, tories, and fence sitters.
McConnel is either in the Tory camp or the Fence Sitter one. Given his position today he would have been dealt with roughly in 1776,
Was there ever a source for that claim that McConnell warned all the senators to not stand up and support President Trump during the electoral vote count process?
(asking because my computer has been wonky and sporadically turns itself off, for the past few days so missed a lot of details with so many things to catch up on when I can get it to work.)
It is so much simpler, than the comments I’m reading. If McConnell gets rid of Trump, he keeps getting his CCP check, until he retires.
Nothing else matters.
If President trump doesn’t win this battle, and Biden is seated as President.
We become a lawless Republic. The left is already lawless.
We will be the only leader we trust. Our Republic will be fractured.
That is not acceptable. We have to get 4 more years of President Trump.
I agree with SD that McConnell stands to gain more from being in the minority but he could be doing this to protect himself if Trump has a win on January 6th without his help.
McConnell is smart enough to protect himself no matter who is in the white house and he obviously underestimated Trump with the Russia Hoax and then had to support Trump during the impeachment or he would have lost his leadership position.
He could be hedging his bet by providing the Senate as the venue for all the election fraud to be shown to the American people
directly without the media filter and by changing the rules for the tech companies. Both would help Trump cement his legitimacy and undermine the propaganda dispersed by the media.
Bravo on displaying this!
McConnell is in for a very nasty surprise in 2022 if this is his game and if there is a democrat party sweep. The puppet masters will have proven they no longer need the dynamic SD describes as they will have proven they can control elections, they controlled media can spin the lies, they OWN the social media infrastructure and can control the 50% ambivalent part of the populace while the democrats control their zealots as well as provide the control vector. Shanghai Mitch and GOPe House leader Charlie McCarthy will no longer be needed. New puppets will take their places if Mitch and McCarthy don’t like it. There will be no issues or actions that can “weaponize” as the media can control the narrative.
By the way, I disagree that Mitch is any good leading anything. The number one reason he wants to be minority leader is that he is responsible for nothing but gets to be called “leader” or “senior member”. President Trump proved that his first 100 days in office, when he exposed the “GOPe shovel” ready replacements for Obama Care and Tax relief, claimed by Ryan and McConnell, as lies.
Schumer is going to go scorched earth, majority voting and the media will use McConnell as the excuse to justify it. The only limit on the democrats will be the requirement to keep the 50% ambivalent mollified and keep their zoo Brownshirt Fraternity under control.
The model has changed and we are headed for the China Inc. model. McConnell’s model works only if their is some form of balanced mass media reporting to give him a platform and a court system that will act reliably to help check the actions of the democrats.
None have ever done anything but steal their elections.
They are all
Crooks.
Let’s hear President Trump call out THE HAMMER.
Absolutely stomach-turning.
Congress is a sewer, filled with rats of the most disgusting variety.
As the saying goes, “there’s a special place in hell…”
The challenge is for WE, the People, not D or R, to TAKE BACK CONGRESS from these conmunists.
CONgress, on Jan 6, surrounded by say,…2 million people, denies the election was stolen, and affirms Biden the king of corruption as POTUS,…..
Seems to me there will never be a better time, to literally take back Congress, and pull every one of those miscreants out by their scrawny necks, and hang them, or just mob them to oblivion.
“Gonna need a NEW Congress!”
And, the message is sent, to any subsequent Congress, terminal, er I mean TERM limits, for Congress IS an option.
McConnells big “claim to fame” is all of the “conservative” judges plus the 3 new SCOTUS judges he got seated. Seems pretty peculiar that not ONE SINGLE judge, PLUS none of the 3 new “Conservative” SCOTUS judges would even hear any of the voter fraud testimony brought before them.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1344142386935570434?s=20
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1344142388063821825?s=20
why don’t Twitter threads have a date on them? I don’t do Twitter so am not up to speeed re that…
BREAKING NEWS: Republican Louisiana Congressman-elect Luke Letlow, 41, dies from COVID-19 just over ten days after testing positive for the virus
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9097681/Republican-Louisiana-Congressman-elect-Luke-Letlow-41-dies-COVID-19-10-days-positive.html
This is horrible.
Mc(CCP)onnell and his henchmen/women in the house and senate are witting or unwitting treasonous scum.
This is no longer undeniable.
Are we clear? Yes sir. ARE WE CLEAR? CRYSTAL.
I think Mcconnell is missing the point. Our eyes are wide open. We know exactly who betrayed us and why. 75 million people are not going to accept this fraudulent election. We are not going to just be quiet and buy cruise fundraisers. On January 6th they will go on record and show us their true colors. We will finally see these scumbags for who they are. 2022 Is going to look a lot different from what Mitch thinks it will be. We will only support MAGA candidates. Anyone who does not fight this fraud will be voted out of office! If they stay silent they will be voted out of office! Our eyes will never be shut again!!!
They don’t need our votes if they get to keep Dominion in place.
I don’t want to see PDJT’s tweets any more, I just want to see his actions: Wray is fired, corrupt officials are arrested, Dominion machines are confiscated…
I understand the concept of the selling of votes from a minority position, but what still doesn’t click is HOW the payment/transaction takes place. Votes are sold to pass legislation, and Senators leave much richer than they should be, but how is the wealth transferred to them? I’d love to see a Sundance post on this part of the process (or a link to an old one I may have missed). The details of this part always seem omitted.
Hi, merican. Here is a link to an article where he explains it. The part that’s relevant to your question is near the end.
Excerpt:
“When a House or Senate member becomes educated on the intent of the legislation, they have attended the sales pitch; and when they find out the likelihood of support for that legislation; they can then position their own (or their families) financial interests to benefit from the consequence of passage. It is a process similar to insider trading on Wall Street, except the trading is based on knowing who will benefit from a legislative passage.“
Thanks I’ll try searching for that quote. In the meantime do you have a direct link?
Found it here: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/12/26/rage-against-the-machine-its-simple-really-president-trump-asks-legislative-branch-to-use-covid-relief-to-help-americans-no-one-else/
Quite recent, too!
And why McConnell congratulated Joe Biden on his “victory.” And why McConnell is telling Senators not to object to Electoral College votes.
And finally, why VP Mike Pence disagrees with Louis Gohmert on how the Electoral College votes are counted.
Full Story here: https://www.newsmax.com/politics/gov-law-northam-pol/2020/12/29/id/1003534/
It looks like the “Deep State Swamp” was right with President Trump all along. It’s over!!!
How exactly are “Machiavellian processes” compatible with Representative Government of, by and for the people? And if McConnell has 18 or so “Decepticons” in his pocket, that still leaves over 30 other Republican Senators out there. If this kind of “Politics”, “Political Games”, whatever you want to call it, is “normal” performance of this particular “Job”, I do not recall them ever telling their own voters that this is what they do, how they act once they get the Job. This is simply repugnant to me…and I think no reasonable person of any Party should find this as acceptable. If Sundance is correct and this is how McConnell conducts himself and his 18 others…then don’t the other 30 plus Republicans…if they are Honest, have an affirmative obligation to all come forward to the American People and tell the Truth about this kind of “Mafia” type system? And what does it really tell us about the entire lot of them that they all are keeping the mouths shut…for Decades…so that their “Little Prince” Games within Games can continue…without accountability…without consequence…without any seeming regard and respect for their own Voters. I no longer recognize my own Country and neither would my Father I’m sure (1931-2017, USMA 1953).
This is why I was vocal about letting Mitch lose his re election. At least they will know we are serious. Its not about Democrats or Republican anymore, its about Traitors vs. Patriots and there are very few Patriots in politics right now.
Sundance,
One of the best written articles have ever read. Granted, am not much of a reader. Being a video guy, everything’s usually visually ingested (at some level).
This latest ‘play’ and all his other plays are succinctly summarized in the second to last picture – he requires three ‘Johns’ to handle his ‘business.’
McConnell is like a demon in a turtle costume.
The institution of the Senate requires a voter to understand the shell game.
I want to understand the shell game like Alexander wanted to understand the Gordian Knot.
This is sick. I trust Donald Trump implicitly, and so however he was handling the COVID and budget bills was fine with me. I knew he would do the best he could, no matter the opposition. And so had he said that $600 is the best he could do, I was willing to accept that. If it was the only way to stop some of the other garbage in the bill, I was okay. But once he started to push for $2K and other things, I was really glad. I mean because I admit our family absolutely CAN use the money… $4K (my wife and me) is actually a big deal to us. Even so, like I said, if I thought Trump opposed that higher level, then I would totally back him on that decision, no matter how much the $$ would mean to us.
But NOW? Now we’ve got OTHER people trying to prevent the American people from getting it?! Yes I totally understand that Pelosi and most Dems are just as bad as certain Reps (like McConnel) when it comes to helping us… no matter what they say in front of the cameras, they really couldn’t care less. They may “support” the $2K, but for all the wrong reasons. But at least they ARE supporting it, as opposed to Mitch and some others who aren’t.
Anyway, yeah. I’ve kept quiet about this when I thought it was important to support Trump should he need to keep the amount lower for some reason. But now… well now, I am not a bit ashamed to say some of us NEED that money! 🙁
On 11/8/22 McConnell will have lost his last gambit.
Suckers vote knowing election outcomes are predetermined. We could at least stalemate the racist, murdering, lying, traitorous, incompetent Dems. But not the combined armies of the world arrayed against us. ♪♫”we are leaving, you don’t need us♫♪ CSNY-Wooden Ships
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