The transparency of this timing is almost too clear. A couple of days ago, the Koch network said they were going to drop back to a defensive position and look to retain their influence in the House and Senate. The next day John Thune announced he was endorsing President Trump. Deceptive Conservatives, aka “DeceptiCons,” are always positioning to retain power structures.
Today, Mitch McConnell announces he will step down from a leadership position in the Senate in November… DUH!! The greatest likelihood is that President Trump will win the November election; Mitch doesn’t have an option at that point. So, what we are seeing is DeceptiCon positioning. It’s all about power retention, which is to say, retention of money and influence.
John Thune has been groomed to replace Mitch McConnell for years. You might remember when Thune contemplated retiring a few years ago, and the professional donors convinced him to stay on “just in case” Trump returned to DC.
Thune’s recent endorsement of Trump is like Brutus welcoming Caesar back to Rome, the intents are analogous. McConnell will exit Senate leadership after the November election, Thune will rise, and the anti-Trump antagonisms will continue. Senators Barrasso and Cornyn will position to participate in the process.
Removing the stench of McConnell and his DeceptiCon crew from the Senate means much more than just removing Mitch McConnell from leadership. The apparatus of the Senate needs to be purged with solid primary contests to take down the power structure. Purge the crew, then salt the entire upper chamber, then bring in an exorcist and fill every room with sage smoke for a week…. or something.
Don’t fall for the trickery…. McConnell isn’t stepping down because it’s in Trump’s best interests. McConnell is stepping down as part of a strategy to oppose the America First agenda that Trump represents.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate leader in history who maintained his power in the face of dramatic convulsions in the Republican Party for almost two decades, will step down from that position in November.
McConnell, who turned 82 last week, announced his decision Wednesday in the well of the Senate.
McConnell said he plans to serve out his Senate term, which ends in January 2027, “albeit from a different seat in the chamber.”
He spoke at times haltingly, his emotions evident, as he looked back on his career. Dozens of members of his staff lined up behind him on the back wall of the chamber, some wiping away tears, as family and friends looked down from the gallery above. Senators from both parties — most of them taken by surprise by the announcement — trickled into the chamber and exchanged hugs and handshakes.
President Joe Biden, who has had a productive working relationship with McConnell, said he was sorry to hear the news.
“I’ve trusted him and we have a great relationship,” Biden said. “We fight like hell. But he has never, never, never misrepresented anything.”
Aides said McConnell’s announcement was unrelated to his health. The Kentucky senator had a concussion from a fall last year and two public episodes where his face briefly froze while he was speaking.
“As I have been thinking about when I would deliver some news to the Senate, I always imagined a moment when I had total clarity and peace about the sunset of my work,” McConnell said. “A moment when I am certain I have helped preserve the ideals I so strongly believe. It arrived today.”
The senator had been under increasing pressure from the restive, and at times hostile wing of his party that has aligned firmly with Trump. The two have been estranged since December 2020, when McConnell refused to abide Trump’s lie that the election of Democrat Joe Biden as president was the product of fraud.
But while McConnell’s critics within the GOP conference had grown louder, their numbers had not grown appreciably larger, a marker of McConnell’s strategic and tactical skill and his ability to understand the needs of his fellow Republican senators.
McConnell gave no specific reason for the timing of his decision, which he has been contemplating for months, but he cited the recent death of his wife’s youngest sister as a moment that prompted introspection. “The end of my contributions are closer than I’d prefer,” McConnell said.
But his remarks were also light at times as he talked about the arc of his Senate career. (read more)
Mitch isn’t going anywhere, so just skip this narrative nonsense. Mitch is simply stepping back from the microphone so that Thune’s fingerprints are on the anti-Trump dagger.
One of the more challenging facets, to awakening the general public on the scale of corruption within Washington DC, is the need for people to drop party designations.
This is never truer than within the U.S. Senate where the mistaken “us -vs- them” perspective remains a pesky hurdle.
The blue team and red team are mirror images of themselves. They are not opposites, they are mirrored – a big difference.
The policy objective is the same, and the business model within DC (K Street) benefits the upper chamber the most.
Within this dynamic, Mitch McConnell is the mirror image of Harry Reid. Mitch has been grooming his replacement for a long time; that replacement is John Thune. Senator Thune is in a position that demands stealth. Ideologically, think of John Thune as the mirror image of Gavin Newsom. They are not opposites, they are mirrored – a big difference.
The system of affluence and influence has been created to self-sustain regardless of party affiliation. The Senate is one club with one ideological perspective. Within that club rule #1 dominates: none of the members will ever expose another member. So, when there is corrupt activity within the Senate, no one from within the institution will expose another. This is the code of Omerta within the upper chamber. This is the way of the “my good friend” Senate and how it operates.
Current Senate Leader Mitch McConnell has a leadership group who carry out the institutional objectives of the upper chamber as a body. They include: Senator John Thune (whip), Senator John Barrasso (conference chair), Roy Blunt (committee chair), Todd Young (NRSC chair), Jodi Ernst (conference vice-chair), and Chuck Grassley (president pro tempore). None of these senators make a move publicly without approval from Leader McConnell.
In August of 2020, before the presidential election, Senate Whip John Thune rebuked the mail-in ballot concerns expressed by President Trump. Thune did this because ultimately the objectives of the upper chamber were more favorably aligned if President Trump was removed.
WASHINGTON DC – […] Asked if he agreed with the president’s repeated charges that mailed-in balloting will lead to a “rigged election” and “massive voter fraud,” the Senate majority whip told reporters, “I don’t.”
“Mailed-in voting has been used in a lot of places for a long time and, honestly, we’ve got a lot of folks that, as you know, they’re investing heavily in trying … to win that war. It’s always a war too for mail-in ballots. Both sides compete, and it’s always an area where I think our side, at least in my experience, has done pretty well,” Thune answered, adding: “I think we want to assure people it’s going to work, it’s secure and if they vote that way it’s going to count.” (read more)
(L-R) Barrasso, Blunt, McConnell, Thune and Ernst.
You often hear people wonder why the GOP doesn’t push back against the Democrats. The reason is simple; the GOP are the right wing of the UniParty bird, the Democrats are the left wing. They are mirror images of each other.
Both clubs are attached to the body of big corrupt corporatist government.
Watch the trade front. Watch international trade, economics, banking and multinational corporation influence. That’s the ‘trillions are at stake,’ and that’s where the opposition to everything MAGA comes from.
Sundance. Let me swing by, pick you up for a trip to the casino or the corner gas stop for some lottery tickets! Saw it today and said where did we get this prediction before !!! Boom🤣
No where but here at the most articulate and precise political blog on the web.
Batten down the hatches. We are sailing into the most hideous storm even Sundance
has survived….. and this one isn’t nature born.
Loved, loved, loved that McConnel brain freeze (the final photo with the attendant lady)
Total brain freeze
Total gear seize-up
Total synapse failure
Total neurotransmitter depletion
Motionless for about 15 seconds
Would like to see a repeat
So delicious
Decepticonnel is a clone of freeze brain puppet joe biden
They served together long-time in the Senate, doncha-know?
Birds of the UniParty feather….
What would be delicious would be a picture of Mitch in rigor mortis.
awww, that’s harsh Dawg
I’m just asking for some entertaining siezures
Mitch….assuming room temperature. (sigh) Such a lovely thought.
The only better McConnel moment was when his wifey had to protect him from hecklers……that was priceless.
It was none of those things …. He was having sphincter contractions and he wasn’t sure if the impulses were coming from his brain or his butt!
For all their scheming the US Senate (and Congress as a hole) is heading into its own perfect storm. The facade of the GOP being in opposition to the liberal Dims cannot be maintained if President Trump makes the right moves. The masks will fall. The wave of public resentment to any of their plots will be a true monster.
Oppose President Trump they must.
Very shaky times ahead
Well, bye.
So the current capital inflows to the US from Europe, etc. right now are just to try and stop Trump? What happens if he wins? Because we know what’ll happen if he doesn’t.
Capitol inflows from Europe to USA are due to that we still have a vital economy compared to Europe. The capitol flows have been in our direction for quite a long time now.
The de-industrialization of Europe is deliberate. “WHY?” is my question.
Today I feel very smartly educated by Professor Sundance as when I first heard about this earlier today, my take was exactly what the The Boss has outlined above…it’s all just becoming so obvious…if you want to see it for what it is.
Yes, you really can learn a lot at the Sundance Tree House School of Technology.
love your headdress, Seneca
even beats my hairdo
But what’s being taught here is a doctorate level course in Global Swamp Political Strategy Analysis…
…..at the 400 level or higher.
You can only be taught something if you are willing to learn. ✌🏻
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Roy Blunt is gone. Thank God.
John Thune does not look smart enough to pull off this position come November.
I guess my post didn’t make the cut.
They are all slacked jawed f——-ts. They do nothing accomplished nothing. Smart is impossible to their choice of life.
Thune, like Biden, is just a placeholder. Mitch the Bi+ch is not gonna give up the reins of power till he’s gone…..one way or the other.
Yes, I was just going to say that Roy Blunt retired. Eric Schmitt, an attorney who served as the Missouri Attorney General before he was elected to the United States Senate, was sworn in as Blunt’s replacement in January of 2023. John Hawley, the other senator from Missouri is a constitutional attorney who served as Missouri Attorney General before he was elected to the United States Senate. I’m noticing a trend, here . . . .
Isn’t it interesting that men who were previously so-called “politically-appointed lawyers” and who swore oaths to uphold and defend the Constitution are blatantly and willingly ignoring the Constitution once they maneuver their way into Congressional seats of power. And that they all become so much more wealthy while earning only a Congress member’s salary..
Oh yes. There’s definitely a trend.
Socrates is never wrong!
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/socrates-political-forecasts/
It’s not all reassuring, though. Strange times indeed.
Just remember that it’s pronounced so-KRATES, as in so-KRATES Johnson….and Bob Genghis Khan…from Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
I read that part of Cocaine Mitch’s thought process was that he knows that President Trump will be brought up on phony impeachment charges on one thing or another almost as soon as he takes his hand off the Bible in January 2025 and this way, Mitch can finally do what he has wanted to do all along – vote YES to impeach!
Thanks, needed some relief.
Either Elaine or God will get him first. I don’t think she’s taking her baby sister’s death by Tesla lightly. Angela a billionaire was ready to back out of a deal with China.
They all deserve the serpents bite
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“The end of my contributions are closer than I’d prefer,” surely is an odd phrasing of sentiment.
What is the meaning he meant to convey?
Was Angela what he would consider a contribution . . .?
What he means is ” exit stage left before I get caught…”
Wish we knew more about this story. (Though I pretty much assume it’s exactly what it looks like.)
Does trump have any responsibility to all of this? Yes he does, what we sent him to do. Remove the swamp. Blood or blister get it done. Or he will never have peace from this liberal crowd.
If they want to start playing that game , they’d best have their backs covered.
There will be over a hundred million patriots who will have finally seen and had enough.
I wouldn’t want to be in opposition to them if I valued my life.
Perfect summary:
“Thune’s recent endorsement of Trump is like Brutus welcoming Caesar back to Rome, the intents are analogous” .:… “Mitch isn’t going anywhere, so just skip this narrative nonsense. Mitch is simply stepping back from the microphone so that Thune’s fingerprints are on the anti-Trump dagger”
I hope Glitch “retires” permanently before November
More frozen domes please
Every day i read about good, wonderful people dying of the fake vaccines.
The bad, terrible people are the ones that actually should be.
McConnell will be dead soon, of old age, vaccines, etc.
I just wish he would cash-out asap, and not after the election in November.
America, and the World, will be a better place without him.
Ultimate Mitch is not going to be able to take his loot and his power with him wherever he is going.
Now ain’t that just too d**n bad.
… I wonder what it is like inheriting a betraying scoundrel’s criminal money. It’s not quite the same as blood money, but it is still tainted.
Wasn’t Congress exempt from the jab?
As soon as I heard about Thune’s endorsement, the first thing that came to mind was “you evil little sh$t!”
Ol mitch is the stealth torpedo targeting President Trump.
It will be his role until he croaks or retires.
In the typical practice of moribund DC politicians, he announces that he will “step down,” and then sticks around for another eight months, giving himself plenty of time to do more damage and collect more laundered money.
He’s there until 2027.
Just in case his face freezes permanently, I suspect they have a taxidermist on speed dial.
I bet he’s gone before that. Just a hunch
Maquis: Yeah, 2027, but, I think his influence will wane rather quickly. Still, they’ll keep the body around as long as there’s breath in it, and then, only a year or two longer. Preservation during the hot DC summers is very difficult.
Somehow I knew you’d come through for us, Maquis! 😁😁😁
He must be planning his escape hatch out of the country for when the prosecutions and excommunications are coming. Wish it was sooner, sadly, so we could have mitigated this craptastic amount of damage. The uniparty has the midas touch of wrecking things.
I need body weight, I have been inspired and am putting a drop chart together for all my favorite lamppost decorations to be. 🤔
Charges of treason are coming their way. There is no escape for them. The end for some and making little ones out of big ones for others. Can’t wait.
His decision to step down was out of concern for his late sister in law’s health.
😆
What an amazing act of kindness. Sen McConnell is an inspiration to us all
You mean he’s itching for some new lakefront property? 😁
He’s hired a food tester…
Thousands of “conservatives” over at the GP are clueless in the ways of the Uniparty. Too bad conservatives don’t have some sort of central education center. They think Mitch is completely gone and we’re going to get Rand Paul or somebody instead of the Ghune.
When people ask me for proof that mail in voting is fraudulent, I give them two things:
– names of the people/organizations who are insisting it isn’t
– a list of things that are illegal if you vote in person (to prevent voter intimidation) that can be carried out illegally with NO enforcement at someone’s home
We have to find a way to kill it.
I’m reminded of just how much of that was enabled by ERIC that a number of States use to manage their voter records and just how many fraudulent records were found with the Fractal Programming Election Integrity System.
CISA getting the band back together too.
We have. Patriot Streetfighters in Wisconsin Can Show Republicans How To Win 2024 | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
EXCELLENT points, Hokkoda!
Then there’s this: https://coloradofreepress.com/how-to-practice-safe-voting-in-colorado-political-humor/
Great article, LAIG – and hilariously close to the truth (sayeth the lass from Colorado).
‘Thune’s recent endorsement of Trump is like Brutus welcoming Caesar back to Rome, , ,”. Lol, Truer words have never been spoken. The entire Senate should be indicted and convicted under RICO. That every time McConnell speaks he is surrounded by his faithful, arsekissing lieutenants is really sickening. They are really no different than the WEF. We must take them out. . .politically speaking of course.
Within that club rule #1 dominates: none of the members will ever expose another member. So, when there is corrupt activity within the Senate, no one from within the institution will expose another.
Thank you for helping me understand their motivation. I always thought they had their constituency at heart. Boy was I wrong!
Wasn’t it Josh Hawley who got smacked down for saying just that? Haven’t heard a peep out of him since.
>> “So, when there is corrupt activity within the Senate…”
Say what? Don’t you know they are “all, all honourable men.”
Which is why I continually count my spoons!
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Just look at how SLO-Joe characterized Glitch: “but he has never, never, never misrepresented anything”.
I suppose that is a roundabout way of saying that McConnell represented the Senate rather than his constituents . . .
His lips where moving, which means he was lying.
His lips where moving, which means he was lying….
Mitch “McCorporatist” McConnell best-represented his benefactors rather than his constituents.
Don’t they all?
If the State legislatures still elected their state senators instead of the state’s general public, by Const. Amendment now, perhaps our Senators would be more concerned for their individual State and it’s constituency.
Our Founders had it right as the States created the Fed Govt and the Senators were supposed to represent their individual state’s interest,… not their or their Donors’ interest.
Hey fellow patriot Americans,
I’m from Rapid City, SD and Mr. Thune is very much persona non grata in the western side of the state. I would encourage fellow treepers to go Sen. John Thune’s Facebook page and you’ll see just how intensely disliked Mr. Thune is. South Dakota sent Mr. John “Smith” Thune to the US Congress many years ago. He was a south dakota boy through and through. Over the years he played it right, brought home some bacon for the folks, got elected to the Senate, became a millionaire and is now a bonafied member of what George Carlin aptly called “the Big Club”, and yeah, us South Dakotans are definately not a member of it!. The folks are furious with Johne Thune, especially with his support for billions to Ukraine. If you don’t believe me, then go to Sen. John Thune’s facebook page and you’ll see for yourself. He submits PR articles and all the comments have nothing to do with the actual topic, but are comments taking young johnny “globalist” thune to task for his selling out South Dakotans for his own enrichement and power. He’s very much a classic case for “TERM LIMITS”!
Isn’t Rapid City the largest population center in the state? I would think you folks could put and end to his career.
With machines flipping and/or adding votes and ballot stuffing, how can they?
The machines that can be manipulated to steal an American’s vote, our vote, is one of the core problems someone must fix. We cannot be a free nation until this has been terminated along with the other ways they steal votes – mail in ballots, ballot harvesting, poll workers processing ballots without oversight (State Farm Arena – Georga (see the on-line video), etc…If the (corrupt) people we pay to represent our interests will not fix these things, how do they get fixed?
What the Declaration of Independence says to do: “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
Note that it does not say we vote them out.
Do it yourself with some like minded friends
Actually liberal Sioux Falls with Chinese owned Smithfield is the largest city in SD, Rapid City second. Agree with Thune, being unpopular but to be honest the other senator Mike Rounds also voted to Ukraine first. BTW John Thune’s best friend in SD is…. Kristi Noem. They are such good buds that she will not run against Thune for Senator when he was thinking about not running because of President Trump. To finish the trifecta, Rep Dusty Johnson voted FOR Jan 6 committee. What runs politics in SD is international Big AG period, voters be damned.
In a nutshell, why I do not want Noem as the VP choice. SDakota trifecta, from my distant perspective, describes the SD congressional critters together as a peapod of likeminded GOPe sellouts.
The great necessity is to begin the process of taking out the trash in the primary elections.
Noem is NOT loyal to Trump. Just this year (Jan 31, 2024) see was complaining “Cartels Infiltrating Protected Tribal Lands”. The Native Americans banished her from one reservation for in essence stating that they were allowing the drug cartels free reign on their land , which by the way she also stated when she was a congress critter in DC. She then made this statement to cover her damage on Feb 15, 2024 ‘I think the last TWO administrations have failed our tribes’ (https://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/noem-i-think-the-last-two-administrations-have-failed-our-tribes/). Read the the article and see how she “supports” Trump.
Thanks for helping Trump with the 2024 vote Kristi. She is not to be trusted, XX Pence.
Thank you for confirming what I have suspected for awhile. What a disappointment she has been.
nope that would be sioux falls on the east side of the state.
Greetings to you, Black Hills patriot, from a MAGA family in the heart of left-wing Silicon Valley!
I have lots of relatives in Rapid, and used to love to visit there as a kid. Dinosaur Park, family reunions at Storybook Park, Mount Rushmore, Wall Drug, fishing at the lakes in the Black Hills.
In the past couple of years, I have had two siblings make the reverse move, Silicon Valley to Rapid, and they have never looked back. A couple more of us are thinking of the same thing, since the Demo-communists have just about completely ruined California.
Lip service thy name is Thune
I had a thought about his family recently losing a family member. Might make him rethink his craven power hunger stop.Then I remembered naw he’s holding onto power just like Pelosi.
his moral compass = 0, it never crossed his mind…
Touché Sundance. Hate to feed your ego but where would we be without you and just a few others?
Doesn’t McConnell’s term have two more years to run?
Wouldn’t KY Democrat governor Beshear be naming a replacement?
I believe the Republican held legislature is trying to put through legislation (?) so that they would have the authority to put together an approved list of candidates from which his replacement would be chosen.
Something is definitely hinky here….
The McConnell MO.
I amend my above post….
Stepping down from Leadership ( it’s been a long day…)
Is it possible that he has made this announcement to forestall a leadership challenge a la McCarthy?
The rest of my statement applies…
Something is definitely hinky here.
And to repeat…the McConnell MO.
Betsy, he is stepping down as minority leader. He will be finishing his term from a “different seat in the chamber”, much the same as Pelosi has.
Yes, I reread and got that…thank you. It’s why I amended my comment.
Nevertheless, on thinking ahead, I think it’s worth considering an obviously ill McConnell might not make it to the end of his term. In which case my original comment becomes relevant.
He is just giving up his leadership position in Nov and plans to continue his term until either he or his term expires, whichever comes first. That way he can sabotage Trump until the election and participate in the attacks on Trump after the election.
“Within that club rule #1 dominates: none of the members will ever expose another member.”
Thus the need to abolish the 17th amendment.
Boy howdy!
Amen.
A bunch of scheming old buzzards without teeth. You’d think with all the money she’s pilfered Joni Ernst could afford a better wig.
Didn’t she run as Tea Party?
That was then, before she was elected a Senator.
At which time she immediately latched onto McConnell’s …er…rear end. You never see a photo of him without little Joni hanging out in his shadow. Disgusting bunch of pervs.
ya kinda have to wonder if ernst isn’t positioning for more power too.she is always right behind the turtle.
So is that leather faced Smelly Moore Capito from my State of WV. Smelly is as bad if not worse than “How Low Will You Go Joe” Manchin.
Retire Turtle….to the Turtle Club, permanently…
Maybe he’ll go the way of Feinstein and fade away.
I hope not, he needs to be tried, found guilty and the appropriate sentence carried out.
You are Incredible, Sundance!
Simply Incredible!
Thanks
MAGA Senate candidate (IN) John Rust was removed from the Republican primary ballot by un-elected commissioners. Decepticon candidate Jim Banks now set to breeze to victory in November.
https://apnews.com/article/indiana-senate-candidate-rust-ballot-removal-542aea4e1391d3c57c3b99ada2cfd328
Thanks for letting us all know. Am sure it is happening same way in other GOP state level operations.
It’s good that we can all know where and when; too bad we can’t know the names of commissioners.
The only positive I see from Thune taking the leadership position is they’ll be momentarily loathe to shred Thune’s reputation with conservatives when the next Trump impeachment happens. Most normal Republicans barely know who Thune is, if they can even name him. This is a position they hope he retains for many years.
We are headed for a third round of impeachment against Trump. That’s the easiest solution for the Deep State when Trump takes office in 2025. They’ll move heaven and earth to have a narrow Dem majority in the House for 2025 so they can rein in any move Trump potentially makes in office.
You can bet Mitch and crew threatened Trump with a successful impeachment trial during the last days of his first term if he didn’t play ball. It would explain some of Trump’s decisions in those last days. Any Senate Republican leader who is there during a successful impeachment trial would be immediately ostracized from the party and would have to step down or be a lame duck.
The ink won’t be dry on the 2025 Inauguration Documents when they file impeachment articles.
They’ll probably file before the inauguration!
The House of Representatives has to impeach; so long as Mike Johnson is Speaker I think that is pretty unlikely.
You are forgetting the fact that many of these congress critters have committed treason. I have a feeling that once the election is over, the military will be doing the job they are sworn to do. Protect the Constitution. I have no doubt that this has been happening for the last several years. The traitors higher up will be the last to go.
Oh, Lord, Sundance, thank you so much. The Treehouse is the absolute best. Unfortunately, we’re in a world of hurt.
Thune, just another puppet, with a puppet master pulling the strings. The more things change, the more they remain the same.
We have to find a way to get rid of cornyn!
why nibble around the edges??? the only way the US survives is if some good soul drops 15 or so MOABs on DC. and while the good soul is at it drop a few nukes on Seattle, Portland, San Fran, Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, Birmingham… just burn the whole place down and leave the countryside.
“The only way to be sure’ -E, Ripley
yep! only way to be sure we get every one of those repulsive creatures.
Hold on now! As a resident of the Seattle area I might have a little problem with your proposal. Not that I disagree with your reasoning.
That would not make a bit of difference.
Unfortunately, there are no good Senators. The whole Senate is comprised.
The 100 Club.
“comprised” of the compromised.
I like what you did with my mis-spelling. Very clever
Rand Paul isn’t bad.
He does put on a good show. I would love to agree with you.
They all need to hang, if only to make the point that the next one to raise their hand and give the oath KNOWS there will be a price to be paid for dishonoring said oath.
Bring back the gallows! Or maybe the guillotine. Either way would work for me.
This relic has caused irreparable damage to our country and quality of life while financially enriching himself and his chicom wife, and the additional damage he can cause between now and November must not be allowed!
I called / emailed my senator to demand that this destroyer step down immediately. if you have a Republican senator, please, please call / email and demand that MM step down immediately. Godspeed Treepers!
Screw each and every one of those traitors. Don’t be pussies. FIGHT!
Hopefully some of the few conservative senate members will throw sand in the gears and we can end up with… Rick Scott as the best realistic option? I guess he is the best option that could get the job. Maybe Scott can be as good as Johnson has been in the House, which is to say, not very good but much better than the terrible leadership of decades past.
No to Mr 🚩 Rick Scott.
I’m no fan of his, but what are the better options that could gain enough support? I’m not even sure who would make a good leader among all of them anyway, let alone restricting it to realistic candidates.
Rick has moved some positive legislation in the last year or so for Florida and some for the country. He is NOT MAGA but he is not the same level traitor that Marco Rubio and many, many others are. That said Rick has always been corrupt even while governor. Surprisingly, both Scott and Rubio are against the illegal invasion. Maybe not enough to oppose Ukrainian kick-backs, but enough to work against being overrun by illegals.
Bannon has on some actual MAGA senators from other states from time to time. They would be better choices but I am at a loss for names.
Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin would be a good replacement!
Johnson’s a hard-core corporate wh@re who’s happened to do a few decent things in regard to the shot, but that’s about it.
I know he isn’t really MAGA. But I consider being actually MAGA makes a senator an unrealistic option given the membership of the senate. Sundance says there are about 17 true decepticons in McConnells pocket, that means 17 hard No votes on any real maga senator. I don’t think we have 17 maga votes to balance that out. Which is why I land on Scott, someone who has opposed McConnell in the past, going so far as to challenge him in a leadership bid. We have to face the music, either allow one of the John’s to be about as bad as McConnell, or pick someone who will be bad, not MAGA, but not McConnell level of bad.
Maybe Johnson would be that guy, maybe not. I don’t know.
The States should retake control of The Senate.
Poor Mitch and this coming off the heels of CEO Angela Chao dying a strange and Fuddy death…
good one, Mac, but it’s pretty obscure, I think a lot of people won’t get it
Call me stupid but I don’t get it.
Loretta Fuddy.
Yes, that Loretta Fuddy — the Hawaii state health director who approved the release of Obama’s long-form birth certificate and who has apparently succumbed to a nasty case of post random plane crash induced arrhythmia.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/01/barack_hussein_soebarkah.html
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Loretta, in the ocean, with a falsified birth certificate . . .
Anyone figure out what Mitch did/did not do to invoke that kind of wrath from the ones in power?
Him and Thune are right now planning one last “screw Trump” caper as a parting shot. Be sure of it.
Rand Paul for Speaker.
No
RP or Mike Lee would definitely be an improvement as replacement for McConnell. Perhaps J.D. Vance.
Still glad to see McConnell go. He may be replaced by someone equally awful, but there IS a chance to replace him with someone who will work with Pres Trump. Keep the faith, don’t give up hope, even while you remain realistic.
There’s a much higher likelihood McConnell’s replacement will not be able to exert the kind of force McConnell did in the Senate when he wanted the Senate to achieve a certain outcome for a price. That would definitely benefit Trump, but, Thune is the same kind of snake that McConnell is, just younger. Definitely not to be trusted and will undermine Trump every chance he gets.
McConnell will still be there working (maybe) behind the scenes for the next two years. He can still whisper “sweet nothings” in the ears of those senators who might want to buck the McConnell system. Promises of money or promises of payback.
For some reason I keep on wondering if Florida Senator Rick Scott, former Gov. of Florida, is going to make a move to become the next GOP Senate Leader. Always seems like he makes the necessary moves to get into positions of power.
Likely, it would be Scott’s MO.
I live in Texas and we are in the second week of early voting for Republican primary March 5. Not much going on in the federal level as Trump will receive 75% of the vote against Nikki, our main Senate RINO, John Cornyn is not up for reelection till 2028, Ted Cruz has no real opposition and my RINO Congressman Chip Roy has no challenger.
The state contests, however, are hot and heavy as we the people try to take down the RINO’s in the state legislature who voted to impeach AG Ken Paxton last year. In my House District 53, the House Impeachment Mgr. Andy Murr saw the writing on the wall and decided not to run again. All of the others in the state who voted to impeach Paxton are facing conservative challengers from grass roots opposition. Millions are being spent on State House elections as these corrupt RINO’s try to hang on. Every day my mail is full of flyers, the TV and radio is all political ads and my phone is blowing up with constant text and emails from candidates. Almost all the claims made by the RINO incumbents are lies.
Good luck to y’all in Texas!! The RINOs and the Lefties are trying really hard to take your state from Red to Blue. Praying for true Texas to rise up and take it back!
Sundance always brings his A game.
Received an invitation to see Nikki this Saturday night in Massachusetts before Super Tuesday, which has the feel of a last hurrah before exiting. Wondering why, of all the super Tuesday states, she’s choosing to “campaign” in solidly Democrat Mass? So gonna go and see if anything can be learned, see Nikki, or at least talk to some Decepticons. Will report back if anything interesting happens.
Don’t know if Mass has open primaries but that could be why she’s going there, maybe to persuade as many dems as possible to vote for her.
” The greatest likelihood is that President Trump will win the November election”
At the risk of being carted off to the stake.
Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything (Josef Stalin).
And in just the last 3 years Slow Joe – actually Fast Joe in this case – has brought in 10 million new early and often democrat voters.
Very astute observation, you shall not be taken to the stake but willl be whipped untill all your knowledge is given up…
Nostradooming suits you.
Impeachment has been mentioned a few times.
Don’t forget, they are not really trying to take the Senate or hold the House.
All the easier to impeach Trump or push the Biden agenda. And stop any Trump agenda.
But Mitch, like Piglosi, has overstayed, and already hung around after losing too many times.
Losing again likely would arouse an effort to replace him with MAGA. This way he shortcircuits any future ouster and ensures his approved replacement is installed.
Blunt is not an US Senator any longer! He was replaced when Eric Schmidt was elected in 2022! I still wonder if Thune has the smarts, cunning or ruthlessness to be an effective replacement for Darth Vader from Kentucky? He could end up being another hapless Dennis Hastert type!!! 🤔
Let’s hope so. Gives Trump a chance.
“Purge the crew, then salt the entire upper chamber, then bring in an exorcist and fill every room with sage smoke for a week…. or something.” This is surely more effective
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Staying until November is meant to allow Mitch McChina to sabotage the elections and lose to Democrats again, as is his habit.
Fear not, child of God.
Ezekiel 34
The Shepherds of Israel
34 Then this message came to me from the Lord:
2 “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds, the leaders of Israel. Give them this message from the Sovereign Lord: What sorrow awaits you shepherds who feed yourselves instead of your flocks. Shouldn’t shepherds feed their sheep? 3 You drink the milk, wear the wool, and butcher the best animals, but you let your flocks starve. 4 You have not taken care of the weak. You have not tended the sick or bound up the injured. You have not gone looking for those who have wandered away and are lost. Instead, you have ruled them with harshness and cruelty. 5 So my sheep have been scattered without a shepherd, and they are easy prey for any wild animal. 6 They have wandered through all the mountains and all the hills, across the face of the earth, yet no one has gone to search for them.
7 “Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: 8 As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, you abandoned my flock and left them to be attacked by every wild animal. And though you were my shepherds, you didn’t search for my sheep when they were lost. You took care of yourselves and left the sheep to starve. 9 Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord. 10 This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I now consider these shepherds my enemies, and I will hold them responsible for what has happened to my flock. I will take away their right to feed the flock, and I will stop them from feeding themselves. I will rescue my flock from their mouths; the sheep will no longer be their prey.
Yes, Father God! Yes and Amen!
I’m so sick of you being right SD! Blessings to you.
They’re problem trying to move Mitch over because the public hates him. Look at those disapprovae numbers!
Tom Bevan
@TomBevanRCP
News-driven factoid: Mitch McConnell’s favorability rating is the lowest of any major U.S. political figure – by far. His net rating is -38.7, more than double Kamala Harris….