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.
There is a man who sells sage, which he collects and weaves, at the Wounded Knee Cemetery. Charges $5, and says he uses the money to pay his utility bills. It smells good and is fresh. Buy some and use it to purify the Senate. Great suggestion, Sundance, to burn the sage.
Politicians and babies need changing frequently, and for the same reason.
The sage needs to be carted in by truckloads to purify the Senate. It is a filthy, toxic chamber at this point.
I know a man who makes dream catchers out of old toilet seats .
Agreed, but we may need something stronger than sage, frankincense, and myrrh.
Something like napalm.
Agreed after a beehive round.
I hope that the reference to burning sage is a metaohor as it is witchcraft. It is being done openly in the offices of the New York Legislature. Look what it has done for them.
Ken Paxton vs John Cornyn spit spat….
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Cornyn’s an arse…
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Cornyn is an anti Republic, totalitarian PO💩.
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Same ole …same ole.
Get these people OUT!
Paxton is a patriot.🇺🇲🪽
We need Paxton’s throughout government.♥️🇺🇲
Mollie Hemingway provides yet another example of why I trust her. Sees what is happening, states it, and stands for it calling on others to do the same.
Cornyn is almost as slimly as Schumer; almost as dishonest as Thune; almost as two faced as Rubio; about as crooked as Barasso; as cowardly as Tellis. In short a true sewer dweller.
Remove the modifier almost in each statement and you’ll be correct.
Can’t help but imagine what future history books would say about this recent time period. If they are allowed to be written.
To look back and read about the anti American criminals that were able to convince the sheep overall that it was worse to say the elections were stolen than it was to actually have performed the crime of stealing the elections. And that group think is what brought a once great nation down. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem. There really is no in between. The only thing left to be written is what happened after the people let it happen again after the destruction had clearly already begun. I pray that it doesn’t happen again. But not so sure praying will get us out of this one.
Soooo, who is literate and honest enough to write factually about this time in our American and World History, given the current state of decline and destruction of our culture and basic American education system??
Agreed. It may be like looking for a needle in a haystack but as long as we don’t let this country morph into ccp China then I’m hoping there will still be places like our CTH to call it like it is (or was)
SD
This FILTHY Corrupt Chinese Owned Marble Mouth GIMP should have been Euthanized for the benefit of Humanity, YEARS AGO.
I love this picture so much. It shows how close to DEATH this POS FILTHY MARXIST TRAITOR IS.
Hopefully the Clot Shot will work on this EVIL Reptile.
There is nothing else to say, but UNTIL The USA Stops “ELECTING” Senators, this chamber will always be Corrupt.
To me, this is the biggest problem of your structure of Government. You are not following the Framers Direction.
And it Shows. One corrupt clown from Kentucky can hijack your country for 40 years and drive it into the 3rd world.
Please build a statue for this FILTHY Destroyer so Dogs can pee on it.
Kentucky Sucks…
I don’t think that you have clearly stated what you truly feel! 😜
God help us!🇺🇲
We are surrounded by demonic fools.👹👿
The 17th Amendment needs repealed. That was the beginning of the undoing. No representation of the States.
I really enjoyed that pic of the four demons. ‘Talk about the four horseman….
Oligarchs 👹👹👹👹👹👹
Supreme Court to Consider Presidential Immunity Issue in J6 Case, D.C. Trial Date Indefinitely Postponed
(Julie Kelly)
https://archive.is/CB1vG
Matt Gaetz says House unlikely to impeach Biden…
Biden family is a criminal enterprise . 👹👹
They get off scott free.
Trump family has a legitimate American enterprise. 🇺🇲
They are being “law-fared” and bankrupted.
Protest the criminality of these treasonous oligarchs and you get destroyed.💀
Live a productive, patriotic life and you are the enemy.
Liars, paedophiles, and treasonous traitors are running the show.
Don’t stand in line. You are not allowed to buy popcorn. (It’s probably coated with some poisonous Bill Gates substance anyway!)🤮
The differences between Dems and Conservative Reps is a contrast as dark as midnight on a cloudy night and a bright blue bird cloudless sky in the daytime. It only shows how corrupt most of the politicians actually are and forget elections, money controls all the elections. Like the farmers in the EU the people have to stand up and be counted, quit giving money to the RNC and pay attention when you think you are giving to a politician that it is not going to WinRed, the RNC. Contact your Congressman and Senator, often and strongly, maybe a few will get the message, stop giving Republicans money, only donate directly to an individual politician.
Soviet show trials in America now. 2020 was a color revolution.
If he is not impeached and convicted, he cannot legally be tried criminally. This process is still available after he leaves the Presidency.
Moderate Republicans equals DiCC’s. (Democrats in Conservative Clothing)
Mike Benz
@MikeBenzCyber
I have a weird feeling about Mitch McConnell stepping down today
Video linked in tweet…
I’m glad Mike finally caught up. It was never going to just stop at Trump.
Interesting theory. Considering the desperation of the Deep State/globalist machine, I would not put anything past these lizard people. The 6 million illegal alien men of fighting age concern me more. However, they might become the enforcement mechanism for “protecting democracy.”
Interesting insight. Minnesota democrats passed a new law that calls for major political parties to certify they are adhering to their own rules, constitutions, and state law. They also raised the vote threshold from 5% to 10% making it nearly impossible for a minor party to ever get easy access to ballots.
The democrats have already used this to petition our courts to remove major party status from two weed parties. Isn’t it ironic that they do this while at the same time advocate for ranked choice voting so that all the little parties can be on the ballot.
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McConnell 2.0 is worse that the original.
Thune coming out the other day and “endorsing” Trump out of nowhere was ridiculous. Pray to God he sees through it this time and doesn’t choose a Uni-Rat like Tim Scott as his VP.
Endorsed by the devil.
Thanks, but no thanks!
Same Dance Different Thune. Good luck getting border funding, mass deportations and reshoring with vermin like this in place. Flimsey Gayman will make sure GESTAPOBAMA operatives keep their jobs, John Crony will block tariffs, John Bastardo will help block tariffs and decoupling from NATO, Lisa Demcowski will block military funds being used for border security et cetera ad nauseum.
Exactly! The Uniparty RINOS have seen the dance is going forward with or without them, and they are insisting they can stay and chaperone the dance. What part of GTFO do they not understand?
Thune’s endorsement, as well as the Koch admission, indicates that the ‘Republicans’ now accept that their candidate, more probably the president, will be Trump. They are now redirecting their sights to Congress and more local politicians, in order to thwart Trump from ‘underneath’….allow him to be president, but attempt to block everything he plans to do. One ‘positive’ aspect of the Republican endorsement may be how this plays out with the various court cases that Trump has. I imagine that they will continue to wither and drop from the vine, as the Republicans now set their sights elsewhere.
They’re probably pulling out their Rolodex now to see who all in the fourth branch is looking for some extra moolah
Thune will push for kristi noem to be VP. It will be 2016 all over again
Did you know “Thune” anagrammed is “He Nut.” 🤣
Not one person in the senate is worthy of a MAGA vote. And in the house, perhaps 1 or two may be MAGA. No one from South Dakota deserves a seat next to Trump. I trust Dr. Ben Carson for vp. James Woods head of RNC. Minority leader in the senate- Road Runner. We have had the stupid coyote long enough.
So far I’m ok with my Missouri senators. Hoping after President Trump is 47 that one of them will call for a recess. Appointment time.
From a distance, think MO senators are two that help create the seed group for an actual caucus that seeks to serve the American citizen – so hats off to Missouri.
Working to get Ohio to the same place. With JD Vance, I am happier with the results of my vote, than my expectations going in. Bernie Moreno has the same potential. Optimistic about success running against two Romney types in the primary, and then one of the most corrupt in the demon rat caucus – Sherrod Brown.
Of note that both Schmitt and Vance are 2022 electees.
I’ll never forget that the Senate worked together to make sure President Trump didn’t make any recess appointments, something I still hold against all that were members during that crucial period. He became the first President since William Henry Harrison (who died one month into office) to make ZERO recess appointments.
I’m not spiking any footballs over McConnell’s announcement. Sundance told us a loooong time ago that Thune would be getting the job, the latest of his Nostradamian predictions to come true. By the time the average Fox-News-watching voter figures out that he’s McConnell (or worse) in a different suit of skin, it will be years and much damage down the road.
I’m glad to see McConnell go, though he doesn’t deserve to slink off into any sunsets, praised by Uniparty mouthpieces from both sides of the “aisle”. I’d love to see him answer for what he’s done to our great Nation but I’m not going to set myself up for disappointment.
One thing is certain. Thune and the RINOs suck, and as Sundance has laid out, all of DC is uniting to thwart President Trump from doing anything good for our country. Scott Pressler has the right idea… we have to figure out how to rock the primary vote by getting the right fighters into the ring. I’m tired of choosing between Dem and Dem Lite in the general.
Cruz and Lee get my vote.
The vulgarity of the senate was depicted in the obscenity that happened a few months ago.
REAL Senate Republicans need to hold the line against any Minority Leader who does not support President Trump.
^. Blunt left the senate in 23. Happy about that. Eric Schmitt now.
Which moves the snake, the head or the body? McConnell just said he’s becoming a part of the body. What does that tell you? He’s only getting into a position of stronger strikes.
Glitchy Mitch is finally in the ditch.
Usually when people resign it’s end of day, end of week or end of month….NOT 8 damned months from now. Repukes need to demand it be immediately
Third time trying to leave a comment… keep getting booted offline…
Trust God. Fear not.
One correction: I believe it’s Joni, not Jodi, Ernst.
Both houses of Congress, are in desperate need of an Exorcism.
Ernst is Joni, not Jodi. But, yes, she is corrupted.
In case you went to sleep last night and you woke up with the details being foggy;
McConnell is the devil’s executive minion, Thune got promoted to devil’s executive minion.
9/10ths of both chambers need to be run out of dodge on a rail.
I know 1 or 2 in the upper, I might trust, but reserve that opinion for a second and third confirm.
I am not sure I can come up with a name in the lower chamber, I would trust.
Everything this morning is still at beyond disgraceful level.
The stuff of daydreams… I’d pay good money to see someone run McConnell (and ALL of his friends) out on a rail.
Cleaning out the Senate will be a long, hard road.
The turtle said after the announcement that he was as surprised as anyone about the announcement. His aides all laughed, said “great joke”, and quickly escorted him away.
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All very true – so they have the back up plan being formed just in case PDJT somehow overcomes all the Uniparty election efforts at cheating , roadblocks, dirty tricks , inadvertent mistakes and basic backstabbing?
I only hope when, hopefully PDJT does overcome that and wins the election – he knows exactly what to do this time and with no ‘benefit of the doubt” foregivenes to the DC Rats who will be waiting to undermine him every step of the way going forward…
McConnell is.. well maybe we can get lucky and his health issues will show up.. Wish we could get rid of Cornyn, ballot fraud has held his position for the past 20 years.. Note none of the betos challenge him he always runs unopposed, there is a reason for that
“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.”
Give me a big AMEN brothers and sisters!!!!
I spent a fair amount of time in, on, and around Capital Hill as part of my job from 1980 until 1994.
It’s said by many, “You don’t want to see sausage made.” Well, you don’t want to see what goes on, on Capital Hill where legislation and hearings are concerned.
It was bad in the 80’s and early 90’s. I was appalled when I saw what went on behind the scenes then and I can’t even imagine what it’s like 30-40 years later.
We should all start to focus on a MAGA alternative for Senate Republican Leader. Senator J.D. Vance is the most obvious alternative. Any other non-RINO suggestions?
Too many years and too much damage.
Most of the problems with the Senate would be ameliorated by repealing the 17th Amendment.
Don’t forget Joni Ernst in that group of leadership DeceptiCons. With respect to the “turtle”, we can only hope that God intervenes and removes him from the Senate.
“Tucker warned us EXACTLY who Mitch McConnell was”…
I don’t divide candidates along party lines.
My division is very simply, good guys versus bad guys.
Example: John Cornyn is a Republican but he’s on the bad guy list, so no votes for him.
Texas has to come up with a strong MAGA primary opponent for Cornyn; in Cornyn’s last primary, he had an opponent, but won handily which was a shame since he definitely is a black hat; on the other hand, anybody know what Turtle’s net worth is compared to 1985 when he entered the Senate and since he’s been on China’s payroll, he married Elaine Chao after he went to the Senate as I recall.
Jeremy Carl’s piece on the Federalist website (https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/29/mitch-mcconnells-entire-legacy-is-misunderstanding-politics/) should be mandatory reading for all real and self-identified Republicans contemplating their future in the party.
McConnell should be in prison for all the money he and his wife make off china.
This won’t be popular here. I am a retired 100% disabled veteran with multiple combat tours in both Afghanistan and Iraq. I think Ted Cruz would be a very solid Senate Majority Leader. 2nd choice since the illegal and stupid ranked choice voting has infected the Republic would be Mike Lee.
As was stated yesterday, we need to keep our focus on getting PDJT back to the White House. If we don’t get that done, MAGA and the USA will fold up like a cheap suit. We need to show our neighbors why it is important to ignore all the race baitors and wokesters and forge straight ahead towards our objective. If we win we can put our Country back on track towards its greatness. The eventual goal of destroying the stranglehold the Leftists have on our culture will take at least a generation, but we can’t give up, ever!
Our Constitution was written to prevent another “Fall of Rome” and the Romans had the same dilemmas as we are being subjected to. Only the form takes a modern shape. As a homework assignment, we should all read the Alinsky bible that is read and followed by the Godless Lefties, “Rules for Radicals”. You have to know your enemies before you can defeat them.
Thank you, Sundance. Always MAGA 👊👊🙏🏻🙏🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️❤️
Perhaps Senator Scott (FL-R) can make a run at and win the GOP Senate Leadership? Wouldn’t that stunt the DeceptiCon’s big plans?
Thune’s recent endorsement of Trump is like Brutus welcoming Caesar back to Rome,
Classic!
Too bad the step down was not immediate. Hopefully Senators will not allow the leadership to be handed over to either Thune or Cornyn, both useless empty suits. The Senate R’s have a chance to redeem themselves!!
Those celebrating McConnell’s service to the country need only look at the decline, financially and morally, of America under his leadership in the Senate and realize their real and faux praise is unwarranted!!
“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.”
I pray to our Father that American Patriots of strong moral fiber — and even strong stomachs — step forward and do this very thing for both the Senate and the House. Then prepare to tackle the embedded Swamplings.