If there has been one politician on these pages we have WARNED ABOUT over the years it is Senator Mitch McConnell. The Senate Majority Leader is the most conniving, cunning and Machiavellian member of the republican party.
With his positions solidifying CTH warnings for well over a decade, his actions over the past several weeks now highlight the dark background of his politics. Today, McConnell took the final stab at the people’s president as Donald Trump prepares to depart the White House. The bloom is off the ruse:
The institution of the modern UniParty senate chamber requires a voter to understand the shell game. The pea is never where you think it is. The Democrats and Republicans are two wings of the same vulture.
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.
As a majority leader with 52 GOP senators, McConnell needed 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.
With Democrats in the majority, and McConnell as minority leader, we will see much more legislation pass because Chuck Schumer is a more well financed buyer (K-Street) and McConnell is a much better seller. Whenever we have this republican 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 when 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…. they GOPe do not care what your opinion is about it.
I think Mitch underestimates the MAGA segment of the GOP, as do the rest of the RINOs. He assumes we will continue to vote for them because RINOs are the lesser of two evils. I can promise you that I will never vote for another RINO again even if it means a Democrat wins. And for those many people I helped board the Trump train, many have already registered as unaffiliated. Of course the GOP will spin it as Trump breaking the GOP but after watching today’s public display from Trumps own party, I think it’s time for a new one. I resisted believing we could just primary the RINOS but we all know this to be impossible.
I am on board for a new party or will vote independent.
I think you are right.
It’s over for you Turtle and the GOP. Enjoy your last night in the majority. The Republican Party will collapse into insignificance the minute Beijing Biden is put into office.
Never forget that McConnell helped engineer this theft of Sovereignty from the American People every bit as much as Pelosi. Obama and our Police State agencies.
And now he says he’s going to protect you from the Democrats he helped install.
btw, McConnell stole Democrat counties in his own election by using the CheatWare.
no mitch underestimates the leftists….
The idiot has served his use and will now be discarded by his Democrat pals.
Sometimes I wonder just how many of these so called Republicans really are Democrats. Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and Lindsay Graham in the Senate are obvious Democrats in hiding to me. There has to be a lot more of them in both the Senate and the House.
Bill Cassidy is a former D who lobbied for the President’s help in his reelection bid and was one of the first to stab him in the back.
You forgot this one,
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Pence was always the earworm…. the whisper that steered so many anti-Trump elements into the White House. Always remember who was in charge of 100% of the transition team.
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JUST IN: Vice President Mike Pence will not attend Trump’s sendoff event, will attend Biden’s inauguration – AP
That Pence won’t attend President Trump’s sendoff ceremony doesn’t surprise me. I suspect Pence won’t ever willingly be in President Trump’s near proximity again.
You know, I remember when Pence was in the same WH room with President Trump, Schumer and Pelosi. The press was in attendance. Trump was teasing Pelosi and Schumer about not being willing to go on the record with their proposals, while he was eager to do so with his.
Pence’s body language made it appear he could not have been more uncomfortable, and it seemed he bore actual antipathy for President Trump. He certainly wasn’t providing any support. I hoped at the time that I was just misreading Pence and that he was actually loyal. Clearly my first impressions about him were spot on.
Pence knows he betrayed President Trump and 75+ million Americans. I’d bet he has fearfully gone to sleep every night since then because he knows he merits the angry wrath of American voters. Even if no one actually intends him harm, to quote Proverbs 28:1, “The wicked flee when no man pursueth.”
I hope he lives a long life filled with people daily expressing their contempt for him and his family. Enemies are more honorable than traitors and Pence is just that–a traitor.
Susan Collins is only an “R” because at one time Maine was a Republican state and a Bush state. GOPe all the way. It underwent a metamorphosis as older people died.
“The idiot has served his use and will now be discarded by his Democrat pals.”
Did you read Sundance’s article that started the thread? His take is somewhat different from yours.
OK. It’s alright to differ on some points. He’s of no use to the Democrats, as far as I can see.
That $ob ought to start praying….
Donald Trump is no quitter.
~and neither are Americans.
More and more people are waking up.
The changes up n coming will wake up even more ; the complacent and willingly ignorant.
The best IS yet to come!
churchill.
InTheDark,
YES! It’s time for a new party to replace the ‘grand old party’.
We have wisely spoken against 3rd party attempt in the past. But with Trump leading the way, a maga party will hurt the GOP financially by about 50% and take away 95% of their voters in 2022. In 2024, maga party voters will be 105% of 2020.
However, this will work only if we can storm the vote counters en masses with eyeballs and cameras. All of our efforts in 2022 should be on electing Secretaries of State that will support true vote tallies.
I still say we take over the Democratic Party. They are overconfident, satiated, and have always been unaware. We get scores of conservative, yet low-key nonthreatening candidates to primary Democrat candidates, we, the mass Trump supporters, begin slowly switching parties over the Fall of 2021 finishing just before the primary and vote out their incumbents. Primaries are notoriously low voter turnout. Then combining the “hidden” patriot vote with the low information, always vote Democrat voters, we will win in the general election. If we could win say 30 seats in the House and a couple in the Senate we could lock up Congress until Trump returns in 2024.
Nope I’m done! Voted in every election for an R since I was old enough to vote. I changed to NP after watching what they did to Trump since the election. I have no doubt they were in on getting him out by any means necessary.
I went online in CA and re registered as unaffiliated. I’ve been a R party member and straight ticket R voter for 45 years. Pence and this flubberfish face pushed me out.
Whoever counts the votes will win. Until that is fixed nothing will make a difference.
Fox did an interview with him with that picture of Mao well displayed.
Beware, it is appalling in my book. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyT7dbK98E8
Problem is, if someone is under 45, he doesn’t even know who Mao is.
“Trump said he would ‘accept the redactions proposed for continued classification by the FBI.’”
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So Trump didn’t actually declassify the Crossfire Hurricane docs.
He released what Wray, his second tier subordinate, let him release.
LOL Mitch honey, your time at the leftist hands will be coming, after all Mitch honey you did win your election riding the coattails of President Trump… so did Graham…Leftists know this.
That alone is high treason to them…
Mitch Honey, right after the election when fraud was being used on a regular basis, you sent out donation letters every single day for 3 weeks asking for money to help President Trump bring his cases forward to the supreme court. Leftists know this….
When your day comes… and it will come by the hands of a leftist… don’t think you are going to be immune…They have come to your house already, your wife had to defend you against a mob…your time this time is just around the corner….and no one is going to help you….I will donate as much money as humanly possible to that person to make the sure the job is done….
“That alone is high treason to them…”
Please read and try to understand Sundance’s article at the start of the thread.
McConnell couldn’t risk MAGA taking control of the party. So he blew it up.
BINGO!! Someone gets it!! Allowing actual everyday American voters to have any say over how their government is being run is contrary to everything Mitch and the Uniparty have worked towards in the past 50 years. There was NO WAY he was going to let it all be dismantled on his watch!!
I realize we can’t get 75 million to change there party affiliation but if we could get twenty percent maybe to go either independent or unaffiliated send a message.
We really have a fight on our hands against the establishment that we have to find a way to take control away from them.
Already done.
Done today.
I plan to announce it every month like the NeverTrumper bums.
The Republican establishment is comfortable being the Democrats wingmen in the Uniparty/Deep State. Nothing is ever going to change that. I think far more than twenty percent of the GOP will go independent in the aftermath of the Trump presidency, and I think many more will leave after the Democrats retain control of both the House and Senate in 2022. The Democrats are now entrenched and full of power. Dark days ahead!
If you are in a closed primary state I’d hold of on that until Citizen DJT lets us know if he wants us to primary the bastards and bitches that knifed him in the back.
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Notice how my Rep Brad Wenstrup shivs POTUS whilst wrapping himself in the flag in his latest email
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““President Trump’s actions and words during the violence last Wednesday were inappropriate. He failed to quickly and unequivocally condemn the violence wrought upon the Capitol, which was bravely defended by our selfless Capitol Police Officers. Today, the President’s legacy is already entrenched in the minds of every American, as is the legacy of all those who have called for or committed violence in America.
The course we are on will only cause more division rather than the unity we need. I will continue to work toward a more perfect union with peace, prosperity, liberty, and justice for all.”
You mean the brave capitol police officer that murdered a woman in cold blood?
Bastard!
Already done two weeks ago in Florida.
We REALLY need to find a way to get our 75 million to act together like the democrats do. If we acted in unison (peacefully) we would be a serious market force to help change things.
A trickle isn’t enough. We need 75 million to cut cable. In the same week. 75 million unregistered from the Republican party overnight.
These types of actions are what we need. In addition to fighting big tech with new freedom first tech where all opinions are welcome.
Our peaceful actions need to be in unison. Democrats get what they want because they are loud and intolerant. We need to be less tolerant and much louder.
Need Trump to set up a website or better disseminate info through sites like this one. Yes, setting up comms is the first step.
Already done thanks to Pence.
I read this evening that Trump is considering forming the Patriot Party. Personally I think it would work to clean house.
McConnell is traitor that works for the Red Communist Chinese Army! McConnell is no different then Aldrich Ames!
As the veil has come off his uniparty corruption, what’s keeping the fine people in Kentucky from recalling this piece of human waste. There’s a lot of assumptions that the republic will still be standing in 2022. Not sure what is going to set off the crash that will drive the nation into a depression. Hyper inflation is overdue and the real value of the dollar could crash without much effort.
It is the crash of the dollar that will be our opening to end the corruption in DC once and for all. That’s when the People can launch Republic 2.0. The key is to be ready for when the time comes. Network. Organize. Prepare.
Corrupt money leads to a corrupt society. After 50 years of the dollar being decoupled from gold, here we are.
The dollar is going to be worthless soon. They will try a scheme on digital currency that will fail miserably.
Prepare for self sufficiency survival.
Buy Physical Gold and silver in small denominations
Gold is going to soar
Members of congress cannot be recalled.
What do you suggest we do, Sundance?
You’ve educated this group on Treehouse for four years. We know who McConnell is. I’ve already written a number of senators and said,
“You DO understand by now, I’d think, why it is the RNC is having no success getting donations. You should understand that won’t change. No donations, no votes.
“The first step is dumping McConnell. He has actively worked against every working man and woman in America. He has actively worked for all corporations using slave labor outside our borders and robbing us of jobs. We know this. I’ve a feeling YOU do not know just how educated we are on the issues.
“We know the ‘swamp’ is an alliance between DC politicians, the intel community, Foggy Bottom, and K Street lobbyists. We know we are NOT your concern except you want our vote and will say anything to get it.
“Those days are gone. Democrats=Republicans=con artists.
“A baby step: Ditch Mitch.”
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What next to do, Sundance. Will there be a plan you and the alliance put forward?
Call me crazy but Mitch is acting out of character right now. He normally hides his feelings//thoughts. It’s part of his success.
He is NOT a stupid man. He also know we love Trump. While there may be others–Kristol, Hayes, the usual suspects–who think they can win back voters, that we’ll “get over” Trump, Mitch knows better. The man is from KENTUCKY, not Vermont!
I think there is something really upsetting him to be as open in his disdain as he is.. He knows his members will pay a price for this and maybe he thinks he will too.
He’s pandering and bowing to his new Marxist masters.
They will purge him soon enough.
Yes, I had the same feeling. Like the ship’s lookout just whispered “iceberg” to the coxswain.
He just got re-elected for 6 more years. He’ll either retire and become a lobbyist or think we’ll forget what happened by then.
As others have noted though (which he may not care), he just fragged the Republican party.
His re-election was never in doubt.
What he cares about is his power.
I have heard an opinion that a trial would actually give President Trump an opportunity to present the evidence of voter fraud to the nation because Pelosi said he made “false” claims of voter fraud.
Don’t know if it is worth a trial because if an angel of God told McConnel and the Senate to aquit they probably would not listen.
Read this and the previous article to which it refers about obtaining a declaratory judgement: https://puzo1.blogspot.com/2021/01/president-trumps-needs-to-make-his.html
It would allow President Trump to establish a factual record which could then be used to refute the basis of the impeachment.
“a trial would actually give President Trump an opportunity to present the evidence of voter fraud”
First you have to get the judge to allow the admission of your evidence to the court.
He is allowed a defense of the charges.
TURLEY:
Despite the strength of such defenses, the president must first decide whether he wants to sit for trial at all. He can legitimately argue that a private citizen cannot be impeached and that the Senate cannot remove a person from office who has already left.
Article I, Section 4, of the Constitution states that the sole purpose of an impeachment trial is whether “the president, vice president and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office.” While the Senate can later add a disqualification from holding federal office again, that is only after removal is decided — because it is a question of the penalty, not the purpose of the proceeding.
The Constitution refers to a present-tense status of “the president.” That status is key to other provisions bestowing official powers and privileges, which do not linger after leaving office. No one would argue that Trump could continue to exercise those powers once President-elect Biden is sworn in. Yet a Senate trial would insist that, while Trump has no continuing powers, he remains subject to continued penalties tied to the office. Moreover, the stated purpose of the impeachment trial is whether a president “shall be removed.” Thus, the only person constitutionally subject to an impeachment trial would be the sitting president, Joe Biden.
The absence of a defendant or defense counsel might not be the only curious element in this trial. It is unclear, for example, if Chief Justice John Roberts would be called upon to preside. After all, the Constitution stipulates that when “the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside” — but the president will be Biden, not Trump.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/turley-no-show-option-trump-could-sit-out-senate-trial-and-still-prevail
The major donors to the Republican Party may be able to keep their election coffers filled, but the GOP still needs the votes of its abused and ignored voters–conservatives, Christians and patriots.
Deny them. Sure, they may be able to manufacture votes with voting machines hooked to the internet, but they will have to do it without our help. Deny them.
#WalkAway
I’m not from the US but your #WalkAway from GOP suggestion is an easy way to show the GOP how serious you all are. Imagine if you got 20 million+ joining the movement.
“but the GOP still needs the votes of its abused and ignored voters–conservatives, Christians and patriots.”
Ahem!!! The evilcrats just showed them how to manufacture votes. When you can produce millions of votes out of thin air you don’t need voters.
We changed our voter registration…primarily due to you mr McConnell.
Adios M F.
Same here.
liar!
Rudy didn’t waste any time:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/boom-rudy-giuliani-unloads-liar-mitch-mcconnell-never-liked-liars-whether-posed-senators-anybody-else-video/
And not a word that Pelosi is/was solely responsible, as Speaker of the House, for Capitol Hill Security.
PS – RINO GOP is over with. McConnell and the likes of Haley are done done done.
Tucker just reported that McConnell told Pres Trump if he pardons Assange he will be convicted in the Senate for impeachment. What a scumbag.
As if Schumer won’t do it anyway, and immediately. Pardon Assange.
Exactly why he should do it and call their bluff. The GOP will be finished once and for all if they do.
I 100% agree! He should call their bluff, they promised he’ll to pay IF he filled RBG’s seat. They had the fraudulent election in the works for years. I actually believe it was in place in 2016…..so just think if if he had not filled old Ruth’s seat.
Screw them all, my Trump flag is flying tonight, but at 12:01 tomorrow, the Stars and Stripes will fly upside down! I may switch to the Gadson flag in a few days.
I think they plan on all retiring after their current terms anyway. After the Great Reset they will no longer be needed. They will be rewarded for a job well done.
If the Senate convicts Trump, they will have convicted themselves.
Pardon him, Mr. President. There are no rules anyway. We’ll make sure your sham impeachment is ignored in Republic 2.0.
I sense a pardon announcement at 11:58 am tomorrow leaving the senate zero time for a trial before Trump becomes a private citizen. A big fu to Mitch.
I’m baffled as to why President Trump waited until it came to this? Why did he wait for the threats? I have a lot of questions that probably will never be answered.
Why should President Trump give a damn about their threat? He’s a private citizen as of noon tomorrow. What are they going to do to him? Steal an election so he won’t be President anymore?
God damn the lot of them. If there is ONE honest person in the House and Senate combined, I’d like to know who it is. To me, the lot of them seem corrupt to the core.
The GOP as long as McConnell is leading the senate is dead to me
But almost all of them voted for certification instead of sending it back to the States to have a real audit and investigation of the fraud.
They’re done, permanently.
It ain’t just Mitch, bub
This is correct. Mitch McConnell is a very skilled, very competent, and very well-compensated employee. He works for those who control the most important center of power which dwarfs all others especially Congress: the system of manufacturing/creation of money.
McConnell’s employers ‘print’ and funnel through their financial institutions as much as they need to keep the secondary visible centers of power (like Congress) reliably compliant. The visible is what we see, but they are puppets dancing on the strings. Our republic didn’t start out this way, but it is this way now.
When Mitch has ceased being an effective employee, he will be replaced by another face and retire to a gated community far from the hoi polloi and diversity, extremely well-compensated for his excellent service in thwarting the Deplorables.
GOP is dead to me no matter what.
The GOP is dead to me. It cannot be reformed, it must be retired–permanently.
Almost the entire current GOP Senate is dead to me. Not a single one is worth two cents except for Sen. Josh Hawley.
I actually got an RNC donation solicitation in the mail today, and still using President Trump’s name! No postage necessary to send back so I have written all over it.
All caps: “F (full word) YOU
GOP almost all traitors to USA , McConnell, McCarthy
Romeny’s niece lost the House, Senate, and Presidency, LOSERS!
Liz Cheney scumbag
Take me off list, don’t call or mail me again.”
And on back:
“Couldn’t wait to get back to selling us out to China, Chamber of Commerce, amnesty for illegals, Obamacare.
Voted GOP for 34 years. I am done so you can stop pretending. Let the Dems win and bring all the pain with it. Will not vote for any incumbent. Shoving the obvious fraud under the rug. You chose poorly.
And don’t even think about Nikki Haley faker, everyone hates her. We know she is a grifter and conniver trying and will fail at positioning herself. No one want her.”
Okay, it was a little immature, but it’s already written all over and I will send it.
There’s nothing immature about being forthright toward those who let democracy be stolen.
? ? ? ? You’re not immature, well……if you are, I’m more immature than you!
Hey I am going to send a nasty message next time I get a mailing from the RNC We all have to send them the message “ no way you betrayed us” no more money
great job! i would have done the same thing!
I got the same thing a couple of days ago. My response was slightly shorter than yours. At the top (where they solicit donations), I wrote HA! HA! in big, bold letters.
At the bottom (where there’s a photo of VSGPDT), I drew a heart in red ink, wrote the word “I” in front of it, then drew an arrow (after the “I heart”) pointing at my beloved president. I think they’ll get the message.
And postage pre-paid! Thanks, you fools.
Love the heart and arrow!
McConnell and Pence, in my opinion, were thwarting President Trump at every turn. The GOP has to be sent to the dustbin of history.
I know I’ve butted heads with SD on this before, but I don’t see how you reconcile these two statements:
“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.”
“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.”
If the Turtle prefers being in the minority, why would he be interested in retaking control of the Senate? In fact, having Schumer eliminate the filibuster would mean that the Turtle, if he became Majority Leader again, would lose the position of horse trading to get things passed.
No, I think Mitch loves the power of being Majority leader and instead of blaming himself and his cronies for losing the two GA Senate seats (passing the $2000 stimulus checks would’ve helped!), he instead is blaming PDJT for his demotion to Minority Leader.
Someone rightly dubbed Mitch as Senator yesterday. He’s tone deaf as to who makes up the bulk of Republican voters today. He and his cohorts think 2014 was the way forward for the GOP and along came PDJT who messed it all up for them.
There’s lots of Republicans who need to be primaried in 2022, but I’m heartened by people Hawley and alot of the freshmen House members like Gteene and Boebert. That’s something to build off of.
Primary? Normalcy bias prolongs the problem.
I agree there are inconsistencies here. There’s the one you mentioned about McConnell’s questionable motivation to return to the majority, and also the elephant in the room of a now entrenched election fraud system that will guarantee all Dem victories henceforth. Not to mention that there will be four additional Dem Senators from the “states” of DC and PR, making a GOP majority that much more unlikely.
I think the GOPe has cashed it in and they will all be retiring with fat bonuses for a “job well done.” The shell game just doesn’t make any more sense. Unless Schumer’s threats are all a bluff. But that would mean the Great Reset is a bluff, and I don’t think that’s the case. As far as the Anglo/American Empire is concerned, it’s time. The old empire system isn’t sustainable much longer and those in charge of that old system want to be in charge of the new system as it is brought on line. The fake opposition party will no longer be needed. They have served their purpose and I suspect they will be bowing out.
Very insightful and makes sense to me.
DC can not become a state because then the government would become a constituency to itself.
Washington DC is not “the government”. It’s where the federal government (mostly) resides. It’s a “district”, with millions of non-government citizens in residence. So, technically, the district could be converted to a state. It’s been talked about by both sides for a couple years now.
“both sides” – hahaha! both sides are corrupt scum.
If the federal government has senators and representatives then they are their own constituency.
McConnell prefers being in the minority ONLY WHEN the margin is so close that he is needed by the Dems to sell Senate votes to the majority to pass Bills. (this is McConnell’s first preference because he controls, by vote sale, which Bills are passed. He PREFERS to have the power of vote selling over the power of being Senate Majority leader)
IF the Dems change the Senate rules from 60 votes to 51 votes to pass Bills, THEN McConnell has no power at all – he can’t sell votes, nor does he have the power of controlling the Senate. (McConnell hates this position because he has NO power whatsoever)
THEREFORE, McConnell will use the Dems vote change (from 60 to 51) as a campaign tool to regain the Majority. He still has no vote-selling power, but he regains the power of the Senate. (this is McConnell’s second preference because he has SOME power.)
I would argue that the Turtles favorite preference is loading up the courts with Federalist Society corporatist judges that always seem to find standing for causes of concern to the CoC.
THAT IS EXACTLY RIGHT. Those judicial choices are not to protect us but corporations.
^^^^^ THIS IS THE CORRECT ANSWER ^^^^^
Exactly as Sundance has explained in his article above.
“If the Turtle prefers being in the minority, why would he be interested in retaking control of the Senate? “
I think it means he likes taking control of the Republicon side of the Senate, not of the whole Senate.
My understanding is that if the schmukster eliminates the filibuster rule then that would be why chyna mitch would want to take the senate back. Without the filabuster chyna mitch has no power.
“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.”
Okay, but the GOP isn’t getting 60 Senate seats anytime soon.
That was not the point of my response.
Because he still needs the votes to be close, he can’t let them take full control to the point they dont need his votes, he takes majority then gives it back to balance his control.
Mitch is still living in the era of the Bush Presidency.
BTW, speaking of that. The Iraq War and W’s war on Saddam to get back at him for plotting to kill his daddy lost the GOP all kinds of voters.
Mr President, please declassify the “Congressional Slush Fund.”
Not only is he despicable, but also so ugly to look at. Sad thing is this man has more years behind him then in front of him….soon he will be ‘rewarded’ for his evil maneuvering with a nice hot seat in hell. He sold his soul to the devil long ago for power and money. Well you will soon get it turtle. Life is soo short.
I’ll dance on his grave!
When those who have been reading here for several years see what the H*ll has happened then they will realize that there is no easy solution to this problem.
Our President did everything he could to drive out the stench of the DC cesspool. But Ovomit and his minions have completed the infiltration of our so-called gubment and evidently the military as well.
So who does that leave? It leaves us, the Patriots of America.
“The United States will never be a Socialist country”-President Trump. So on 1/21/2021 I say we follow his order and take back OUR COUNTRY!
F the MSM, F the POLS Especially Mitch the Bitch, and totally F all those idiots who think voting will free us from these heathens.
NEWSFLASH- THEY JUST STOLE THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION! and now you think they will allow your new PARTY to win an election?
I know not what course others will take but for me, give me liberty or give me death.-Patrick Henry.
I know some here will denounce my words and so they may because THANKS to SUNDANCE everyone here still has a voice.
But I will not be subject to the lies, deceit and injustice that the Left and their MSM puts forth.
Tomorrow will either be the saddest day of our Constitutional Republic or a day that will live in infamy.
Sorry, first time posting. Long time treeper. I feel like screaming from the rooftops! Holding onto th is grievance and not letting the masses know what is happening is maddening!
Here’s the deal everyone, send this article to at least 3 Republicans you know.
Educate people.
“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.”
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This entire thesis by SD becomes 100% moot if and when the Dems get rid of the legislative filibuster.
It would be very useful if SD would explain his reasoning as to why he must think that the Dems WILL NOT toss the filibuster over the side.
Maybe the Turdle is so vocal about the filibuster is that he’s worried it’s elimination could ruin his game. Retaining the filibuster helps the Turdle and the Schemer keep playing their game and illusion of two parties.
Not Sundance but:
Maybe the Dems aren’t as stupid as we all think they are.
What happened to the Dems when they changed the number needed for court appointments?
Trump buried them in judges.
You don’t think they might realize the same thing could happen with the filibuster?
The only reasons Trump is not being sworn in again are Mitch and the gang and incompetent State Legislators in about 6 key states.
Do it, Mr. President. We have your back.
Do it anyway.
They’re all liars with no honor or conscience.
Forget “likely”. Schumer is guaranteed to do it. So what does PT have to lose?
So…THERE IT IS! The Turtle knows that Assange knows where all the bodies are buried…especially the ones that implicate him. THIS is why JA has been deep stated for years. HE HAS THE KEY.
Will President Trump do what he should do, must do, and pardon Assange? If so he should already be on a Presidential jet now, with some serious protections. Frankly not sure there is any way he can remain safe.
Please Mr. President, pardon Assange and expose the Turtle as the traitor he is. Burn…them….down.
He should do it. What difference does it make if he’s convicted at this point, other than securing yet another mention in the history books.
It would legally prevent him from running again. But Schumer is going to do it anyway so McConnell’s threat is moot.
It hasn’t been determined that a Senate trial after office is legal at all.
They are blackmailing the president. I believe they intend to do this for years.
Tucker Carlson: Mitch McConnell “sent word over to the White House: if you pardon Julian Assange, we are much more likely to convict you in an impeachment trial.”
So now we know Assange will be pardoned.
If McConnell really said that, he should and then he can use it as part of his impeachment trial defense
If I were POTUS, I’d not be worried about McConnell as much as assassination by the intel community. They killed Wm. Colby, the former Director of the CIA, when he testified in front of Congress that yes, the CIA had assassinated people and it was wrong.
Read this book-I urge you
The CIA has a LOOOONG history of doing dirty deeds
Am just reading John Loftus’s book which has been updated with a second printing. I doubt that the print edition has been updated but the Kindle one has
The CIA tried to suppress this book. Now US bureaucrats(CIA) have arranged that this book never be reviewed by a major newspaper
The author a DOJ lawyer, had a 30 year restriction on publishing
So many revelations eg The Muslim Brotherhood was an Arab-Nazi construct with the British supporting them to foment terror and keep Jews out of Israel.
Still is.
The DOJ obstructed his investigation into how the US govt smuggled Nazis into the US. Some were used in Europe as assassins for the CIA
Even the prologue/foreword is very illuminating
America’s Nazi Secret
An Insiders Story
The CIA, FBI and DOJ all complicit
Even the publisher whose father was CIA says this:
There are 3 leviathan levels of control with 3 parts to each level
He tells of how the WaPo and NYT have been coopted by the CIA and FIB since before WW2
How Eric Holder went to the funeral and gave a eulogy for an agent who suppressed and aided the Nazis
And how Wall Street and the Prescoott Bush cabal were involved in supporting the Nazis and how the Bush family and some Wall Street millionaires made their fortunes from investing in the Nazi machine
There are Sway pieces inthe media–Take us here with one official opinion, then take us there with another. Soon we are fighting each other and since none of the info is complete or true it taints civil dialogue. Then disgusted in the whole shebang, we lose interest allowing corruption to run rampant
You can click on the Kindle book at top left and read a part of it. I urge you to read this
Explains the CIA and FBI
So does all the fuss about JA mean that he does have knowledge about the non-hack of the DNC ?
Who knows? Some DC folk just see him as a major enemy over previous work, but perhaps it could mean what you suggest
If he’s going to pardon him, do it because it’s right, not because he thinks it will be good for him politically or bad for the pols politically.
Once out of isolation, Assange isn’t ever going to risk going back so anything he know might stay w/in him forever.
I’ve seen people sort of dancing around this Alexander Solzhenizyn essay by quoting bits and pieces of it. So, I finally decided to do some web searches to get the full context.
The whole thing is far better than the snippets people cut and paste into memes or social media posts:
https://honestyculture.com/alexander-solzhenitsyn-live-not-by-lies/
I’ve been focused on the core nub of things lately – that we no longer have to believe the lie – in the comments here and elsewhere. It’s fun to see that I appear to be in good company, intellectually speaking.
Dear Hokkoda, The GULAG Archipelago is a three-volume work by Solzhenitsyn. It covers the labor camps comprehensively, and is worth reading parts of it, at least. I understand from Jordan Peterson that Vladimir Putin made it mandatory reading for Russian schoolchildren.
My favorite chapter is “Ascent” in Part IV, Vol3. It is very philosophical, and addresses moral issues of suicide, survival, and ethical treatment of other prisoners.
Here is a link to the complete three-volume set. These are in pdf form.
The Gulag Archipelago in three volumes : Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
I will check it out, thanks
If we are going to fight the swamp we cannot fall for their trap of fighting them in their territory under their terms.
We must set the rules, and terms, place and time.
It’s useless to use the justice system, it’s theirs. They control it. Let’s not finish any battle they start. It’s a trap.
Be smart, we have other means. The power of our wallet, time and unity.
United, organized we are unbeatable. Let’s organize some boycotts and attack them from behind with that.
They want us to show-up in DC where they wait for us to unleash the full power of *their* corrupt justice system on us. That’s a losing battle. Think outside the box.
Let’s all go for MSM boycott. Movies, Music, Show Biz, TV, Major Swamp Corporations, Leftist Social Media.
Come one Patriots, Let’s Roll!
Corporations are easy to target, they have come forward threatening our side. We have the list. Its’ acting time. But WE MUST HAVE UNITY AND ACT TOGETHER.
Let’s get a list together –
Targets for boycotts we can all get behind.
If we were to list the 10 most evil people in DC, ol mitch would be on the list. He sold us and the free world out for money He has presided over the demise of the gop and is a major reason we have lost our birthright. We as conservatives will not recover with him in the way. He and his ilk must be voted out. I say no more money for win-red.
And the Dem base detests him.
This is the pile on effect. I cannot believe this SD. No I don’t mean that McConnell would do this; wait, yes that’s exactly what I mean. As slippery as these bastards are I have never considered any of them stupid except the hardcore leftists. My jaw is on the floor, this is political suicide for the GOP. There’s no other way to describe it. Mitch is not a fool I do not think? We are the ones with the long memory at least I thought. Had the GOP considered us brains dead lefty voters that can be lied to and manipulated easily?
This just seems so strange to me. Especially tonight after Trump gave a nice farewell speech which was an effort to heal; it won’t lol. I’m not listening to the audio or digging into it. I don’t care.
I live in FL so will still try and support DeSantis and people like him on a local level. Trump helped McConnell get re-elected. I don’t get it whatsoever. Smh
How big was McConnell’s majority in his senate race win ?
The harsh reality is that the immigrants we have been getting since 1965 (and many before) vote OVERWHELMINGLY Democrat. The data is crystal clear. Different peoples have different preferences for how to organize themselves socially, economically, and politically. They are not interested in the preferences of the historic American people. They have their own and vote for what they want.
McConnell and fellow travelers know this and know that as immigration continues we WILL be a one-party state with Democrats running everything at the country-level. The writing was on the wall. The only uncertainty is how many years it would take.
McConnell’s masters own (literally: they are corporations with investors who pay for services) both political parties. While they are not happy that they have had to burn assets and political capital with the vote fraud to stop Pres. Trump’s insurrection within the Republican Party, their interests will continue to be served as long as they continue to control the Democratic Party.
Deplorables in blue states should quit voting Republican and vote for whatever Dems will upset McConnell’s Democrat transnational financialist counterparts (example: Schumer) in the Dem Party. Deplorables in red states should vote for defiant American nationalist.
This is OUR land.
This is bigger than what you speak of. The riots of the summer and the lockdowns awakened many (except for my girl) ughh. There were counties in TX because of the Mexican American population usually go blue that went red. So many Hispanics were turbo charged to get out the vote for Trump. See it’s funny no one like to be locked down or their cities burned while watching there fellow citizens get beat.
This doesn’t have a damn thing to do with immigrants so get that point if nothing else. Blacks came out in doubled their support for DT this year. It turns out most people don’t like their cities being ransacked.
We were all screwed. The libs don’t know it yet but they will soon enough. Sorry I don’t have a plan that involves doing anything because no matter what we do they are only going to cheat us more. “You vote your way into communism, you shoot your way out.” It’s sad we didn’t even vote for it but here we are.
I fell the same way. All the military and DC Gestapo is unsettling. Are we going to be attacked tomorrow? A coup does need military to take power!! But I have anxiety the uncharacteristic actions by GOP! We are attacked every day from the socialist but Mitch? I know Hillary and Obama wanted Assange dead. Ghislane hearing was today? Haven’t heard anything yet? So many lies and plots! I cried for joy the night President Trump won! The 1st man I actually liked and was endorsing ! He spoke of America being good kind charitable full of good works. It is good to protect our border from gangs drugs sex trafficking! Men don’t belong in girls bathrooms! He had daughters granddaughters and he felt like us! We protect our children. I prayed we were so close to overturn Roe Vs Wade! That’s why I am so sad about the continued Genocide in USA. Of the most innocent. God will turn his back on America, without our Lord we will perish . How much longer will he wait for us to defeat it! Dear Lord have mercy on as we are trying.
Solomon reporting on 1st declass. Said he’d stay up all nite to get reporting out before Trump leaves. Sounds a lot like foreign interference to me
Christopher Steele admitted to the FBI he leaked the Russia collusion story during the height of the 2016 election to help Hillary Clinton overcome her lingering email scandal and because he believed Donald Trump’s election would be bad for U.S. relations with his home country of Britain
https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/first-declassified-russia-document-steeles-confessional
Go ahead and assume the declass will be so redacted it will amount to nothing.
Also the FBI didnt pay him and Burrows of Orbis security
The he leaked to Mother Jones
So some spite may have been invovled
Is it too late to pardon assange?
No. PDJT has a list of 100 pardons but word out is that it’s now up to 150 as they are working on the paperwork as we speak. Should be out tonight by midnight.
No.
The 2020 election was decided two minutes after the polls closed in November of 2016. That’s when the Uni-Party decided they would steal this election from Donald Trump and the American people.
They could have saved all of us a lot of trouble by announcing their selection long ago without making us go through their evil charade. A brutal dictator is more honest than these subtle tyrants. The brute sticks a gun in your face and tells you he is stealing your freedom. These snakes stick a ballot in your hand and then steal your freedom from you while telling you that it was your own choice.
They crave the one thing they can never have: moral legitimacy. They want to control others because they cannot control themselves; the unbridled greed, the ubiquitous perversion and the mad power-lust bar them from living within our system of honest elections. They want to control others’ speech because they cannot silence the chorus of lies pounding inside their own heads.
Apocalypse is not just a great battle. Apocalypse means a Great Unveiling. Every single Public Institution of American Life has been unveiled, and proven themselves broken, perverted, coerced or corrupt. Every. Single . One.
Perhaps our Heavenly Father has chosen to set aside President Trump–our duly-reelected President of the United States–while he deals with the rotting corpse of our Whore of Babylon-government. None could blame Him.
Selah.
Rule #1:
Vote out the incumbent.
I prefer he be frog-marched out.
Did McConnell blame President Obama for instigating BLM riots across the country in the Ferguson Hoax “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” when five Dallas Police Officers were murdered by a BLM ACTIVIST. Did McConnell want to impeach Obama for causing the officers death? You know that answer! McConnell is a cuck!
Every rep in Congress, every senator, needs to get an email: every expect to get us back, EVAH? First step you must take to prove you want us…and even then, there is no assurance you get us. TAke out Mitch.
Hey, just going through channels and up comes Hannity: he’s calling for Mitch to step down.
My personal protest, in my total boycott of swamp corporations I am changing my lifestyle a little bit and going more minimalist then before. ( I was already that way, but now even more)
This is a great time to declutter your house and focus on your family and people! Not stuff and TV, and culture, advertisement, shopping, more more more.
Here’s a cool video about a Christian mom talking about minimalism. It’s actually in line with the Bible, less about acquiring stuff, more purpose in life, more family time. Happiness.
It would be a shame if our side, our churches started to encourage this biblical lifestyle. Major corporations and the import-junk-from-china, people would hate it.
If we are not consuming as much, China wouldn’t prosper as much.
Thank you for posting this video.
Au Contraire! I plan on purchasing more – just from small and medium businesses.
No big box stores, no Walmart, Target, etc., no large grocery chains (Kroger), no Amazon, etc.
And no merchandise from China.
I agree completely with what you say.
I have been thinking along the same lines.
She might be a minimalist but she’s making a lot of money on youtube.
My Dad used to say, “Money isn’t everything, but have you ever noticed you can’t get along without it?”
Boy, there have been times I said to myself that the Turdle can’t be as bad as Sundance says. He is every bit and more. I admit I was deceived by his cunning and cleverness.
At 68 and poor health I still hope to outlive mcconnell so that I might have the privilege of driving across the Brent Spence bridge and piss on mcconnell’s grave!
They have plotted and schemed and should be arrested for treason!! The whole swamp! Mitch & Wife, Nancy Pelosi, Schumer, Biden Harris Obama. Pence. Plotting to overthrow USA !
Mitch, we the American people out here in the hinterland will not forget your betrayal of our President and us…
If what Tucker is reporting is true, POTUS should call Mitch’s bluff and DO IT. Pardon Assange.
President Trump has the support of of massive chunk of population that will not simply go quietly into the night. Mitch would be responsible for a fiery revolution.
I don’t think the establishment realizes how tenuous their control is at this point.
Anyone saying the GOP is “almost all” traitors you are wrong. They are ALL traitors. Stop and think about which Senator called recess the last four years. NOT ONE.
Every last one of these people are traitors. The handful in congress that speak up for Trump are plants. They are time bombs put in place for a later date. Josh Hawley etc. those that stood against the left and with Trump were given permission to do so.
We need to start thinking ten steps ahead like them. We got played. F all these people.
mcconnell’s treachery was in our faces from the very beginning of the Trump Administration inasmuch as mcconnell kept congress in session for FOUR YEARS thereby denying POTUS DJ Trump the ability of making recess appointments.
What is really sad is that when you look at our elected ‘leaders,’ I can count on my hands the number of them who are good, honorable people that one would be proud to call a friend. Most are lying, conniving scumbags like this guy–
I loathe this SOB, and have his entire political career
I’m assuming that was why it was so easy for Rona McDaniel to win another term as head of the RNC after such a poor performance…
Mitch is upset that his gop has been replaced by Trump’s gop and he finds himself powerless.
As Sundance pointed out, Mitch is a seller and he is quickly heading to a point he will have nothing to sell.
Planning to fly my flag half staff Inauguration Day
…pls help spread the word
Current consumerist American culture led by Hollywood has us enslaved. Cut those chains off. Be free!!!!!!! Hollywood culture is also the opposite of the Biblical principals. We have gone too far away from our roots. That’s the problem.
If we did that, it would be a HUGE middle finger to CoC, Tom Donahue and the swamp. 80 million of us, suddenly going minimalistic, living a life free from this rotten materialistic culture buying junk from China. The swamp controls us way too much, tv is poison. It’s time to detach, get back to simplicity, GOD and family. Everything else… dump it.
These swamp creatures have no respect for you, me and our families, They hate us and say it openly. What are we doing supporting them?
We lost the balance, respect, the swamp sees us as their slaves. Hollywood, media are used to controlling us, getting us addicted to their stuff. Corporation think they can just discriminate against those not in line with their political views.
Let’s show them the kind of power 80 million of us have. I refuse to humiliate myself and be part of their system. It’s about dignity.
Support your local small business, also Hobby Lobby. The rest…
We aren’t enslaved. We’re lazy and sit around on our duffs waiting for somebody else to speak up for us or act on our behalf because, like the people we elect, it’s easier to sit around and complain about what’s going on and not take any direct action.
All empires start with wooden sandals and end in silk slippers.
We wear silk slippers…
Kleen: Unfortunately, most of Hobby Lobby’s inventory is made in you know where.
Words escape me!