The New York Times is admitting something they previously pretended did not exist, Mitch McConnell is ready to fight Donald Trump. You guys have watched this battle before, and you guys know that John Thune is the exact same ideological construct as his mentor, Mitch McConnell. We do not need to pretend here.
An additional aspect to watch closely. We know the Intelligence Community, the “Six Ways from Sunday” group, are going to do whatever is needed in order to protect their equity interests from the return of President Trump. Again, no pretending is needed.
Currently, as Senate Majority Leader, John Thune elevates to the intelligence “oversight” group known as the Gang of Eight. Four members of the Gang of Eight (Go8) come out of the Senate, and four from the House.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, SSCI Vice-Chairman Mark Warner, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune are three of the four from the Senate. However, we still do not know who will join Thune from the GOP side. Who will be the Republican SSCI Chairman?
Internally, Susan Collins is now Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Mitch McConnell is now Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, a specifically taken position to retain control of Senate rules (think Cloture, Filibuster and importantly, Recess Appointments via Senate schedule).
With Thune on the Gang of Eight, Collins as Appropriations (spending), and McConnell in charge of ‘rules’, who joins Thune on the Gang of Eight?
The three most likely SSCI members who could be given the role are: Tom Cotton, James Lankford or John Cornyn. My suspicion based on the DeceptiCon playbook, and his skeptical statements about Trump intelligence nominations, would be to watch out for Senator James Lankford.
Cornyn who challenged Thune for leadership, is not currently in any of the leadership roles. Perhaps he will be given the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair; who knows. Senator Cotton, a Sea Island participant, would be another stealth move.
We need to watch closely who John Thune (with McConnell directing) puts into the role of SSCI Chairman. That’s part of the Intelligence Community weapon against the risk presented by a return of President Donald Trump.
NEW YORK TIMES – The last time President Donald J. Trump was in the White House, Senator Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican who was then the majority leader, played a crucial role in empowering him and pushing through his agenda.
But Mr. McConnell, the longest-serving Senate leader, is stepping down from that post in January. This time he appears to be positioning himself to do the opposite, choosing to focus on issues that could put him at odds with Mr. Trump on policy and personnel at the dawn of his second term.
In recent days, including during a late-night session of votes on the Senate floor last week, Mr. McConnell, 82, has told colleagues that his impending exit from leadership has left him feeling “liberated.”
He has signaled skepticism about some of the president-elect’s most divisive picks for his administration, staying mum on their selections and saying last week that the withdrawal of former Representative Matt Gaetz from consideration as attorney general was “appropriate.” And Mr. McConnell has telegraphed that as he moves to cement his legacy in his remaining time in the Senate, he plans to prioritize two issues that just happen to be subjects on which he disagrees strongly with Mr. Trump.
Mr. McConnell, whose current term ends in 2027 and who has not said whether he will seek another, has said he plans to focus intently during the next two years on advancing his interventionist strain of foreign policy, which flies in the face of the president-elect’s “America First” approach. He also wants to concentrate on preserving the Senate’s institutional independence at a time when Mr. Trump, who will have a governing trifecta in January, has made clear that he means to bend the chamber to his will. (read more)
Watch who Thune and McConnell make the SSCI Chairman.
What the fridge is wrong with these people! If you have a Republican Senator, get on them to support PDJT. Tell them we are watching and won’t forget their bad decisions!
Pray for God’s to expose these traitors and bring them to justice! 🙏 🙏🙏🙏
Senators do not answer to the People. They despise us.
Good point. Would like to add that nearly all senators most likely wish the American people did not exist(we have to some extent already been replaced). Their hatred towards us is that powerful, they want us dead.
No they have not been replaced as they have rigged the State Republican primary election system by putting multiple non-sense candidates into the Low Party voter turnout Primary first stage election so that no candidate get 50% on the first ballot requiring a runoff election where their Name Recognition advantage along with ballot gathering and machine voting to give them a win for the final Fall vote. Many state Republican (RINO) parties have used this for years to preserve their power. Many states now allow crossover voting in Republican primaries to further help entrenched incumbent RINO candidates. So you can now understand the Uniparty mechanism of maintaining power. Term Limits or Smart MAGA voters voting in initial state primaries are the only solution.
Their parasitic interest must be coraled if possible
Pitchforks and Torches.
One cannot despise these people enough.
I’m trying!!!!!
Cornyn was wamping up Ukraine support today with an idiotic TwiXter post. He’s probably political road kill in Tejas at this point. My money is on the lapdog Langford.
Talk to my hand, Cornyn.
it’s so funny how all these creepy bisexual boomers of the political-media class oppose term limits, campaign finance transparency laws, public record keeping for politician sexual harassment settlements and any other form of accountability.
Mine too. Not the sharpest tack in the box but smart enough to take direction.
This bunch has had their night of the long knives. Time for games is over. PDJT needs to have his turn at the knives. Use every one of them, one by one.
Time is not on China Mitch’s side. He had two min-strokes on live tv.
Vaxxes gonna vax.
Likely more on tap after Jan. 20…. .And The Honey Badger…..He don’t give a ……well, you know……
Praying and Hopium!!
President Trump must call out these bastards out because the IC controlled dirty Senate politicians do NOT like sunlight.
Where is Mickey giving his middle finger when we need him.
Kick a** Mr. President Trump.
My enduring hope is that Turtle gets investigated thoroughly and gets escorted from the Senate office bldg. to a waiting jail cell.
Turtle may suffer from another fall. You never know. He is frail and vicious.
One of his Senate friends may accidentally knock him over.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/03/09/senator-mitch-mcconnell-hospitalized-after-fall-during-private-dinner/
That’s what I keep wondering.
The Turtle’s chin looks more like a TURKEY’s wattle. He is another senile old man like Brandon that thinks he is “special.” At what I don’t know.
I have nothing good to say so I will stop typing now.
“Institutional Independence” – this is not the role of a Senate majority – they are there to back the policies of their constituencies respectively. In this case Republican Senate to promote and back the Republican President with a majority mandate!
the effect of the CIA created “Watergate scandal” (political assassination of Richard Nixon) was to empower a permanent political-media class led by congress and dedicated to perpetual war, perpetual debt and perpetual office holding.
I wonder if it even matters if the majority is R or D as we have to face an uphill battle regardless. Until those GOPe die off we’re stuck with DT having to go public with his agenda to pressure his own party into submission.
And why elevate that Gollumesque Collins? Her and McConnell are ancient artifacts.
Age isn’t so much the issue as is power lust and corruption.
Cornyn and Thune are the serpents in the nest. I do hope that God strikes them as he did with the Phillistine’s when they stole the Ark of the Covenant and not even inflatable cushions will give them relief!
The Nest hatched them. What kind of message did they want to send us?
LOL.
fwiw
We’re Just Days Away From Election Day & our MAGA Moment, Plus Interview with Sen Tom Cotton
-TRIGGERED Ep.187 (10/31)
Sen. Cotton talks campaigning in Arizona(Lake), Nevada(Brown), Moreno(OH), Senate majority @38:30
https://rumble.com/v5kxx5t-were-just-days-away-from-election-day-and-our-maga-moment-plus-interview-wi.html
With any luck Senator Collins can be voted out in 2026.
Didn’t vote for her the last time in that primary nor will I in 2026.
Though with that ranked choice voting in place I suspect an insurance policy exists against populist non-uniparty upstarts.
Maine has ranked choice voting? or are you thinking of Sen. Murkowski from Alaska?
Alas, it is true. Maine does have ranked choice voting, and was the first to use it for Federal elections in 2018.
The senate snake pit.
Our elders, Our betters, Our institutional integrity.
MAGA just demonstrated that we can change the make up of our Government.
Let’s take that accomplishment as fuel and turn on the after burners and get ‘er done taking back our Country for WE, The People and our Posterity!
Let’s Fire the Bums!
“You’re Fired! Get Out Of Here!!”
….and take their coats!
He can do what every one of the last 4 POTUS has done and skip over Congress by allowing unelected bureaucrats determine policy and law.
These people make me sick.
Alot of his stuff he can do as POTUS. And if he doesn’t get the people he wants, just sit them in a corner counting paper clips. If they twitch a muscle, they are fired. Heck, some high up being forced to count paper clips….hey, you can always leave……
plus a transfer to the Gary, Indiana office to count the paperclips there…
The number 1 priority of the RNC, as directed by President Trump, for 2026 should be the funding of and campaigning for primary candidates to defeat scum bag Republican senators. These include Collins, Cornyn, Graham, McConnell and others who impede the MAGA agenda.
Tillis!
Yes!!
Western NC county Republican parties have Tillis as a top priority on our RADAR. We have to quickly find a strong candidate to Run in the Primary. Representative Dan Bishop would be a great start if he is willing to Run for election once again.
Texans must primary uni 🌽 hole….he is despised by maga in Texas.
Hoping AGPaxton will primary him
The US Senate might be the sleaziest organization in the world.
Might be?
Unfortunately, mcconnel is there for another 2 years. Even if he decided to retire for some reason before his term is up, we get a demorat for a replacement as beshear has said he will ignore the law the legislature passed and appoint a demorat . This is what happens when the pubby party ignores senate races. The senate races we should have won are in Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada. IMHO these were all “stolen”. Kari Lake got hosed by mcconnel in Arizona. This would have given us at least 56 senate seats and some breathing room. Old mitch is a pain where we sit.
Spook Mike Rogers is worthless anyway
Fate shall intervene. The signs are all there.
$400 million slush fund
“Imagine if Mitch McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund had actually given Kari Lake some of the money…”
Kari Lake was booed at an Arizona GOP function following the public release of a recording she made, leading to the state party chair’s resignation.
-The incident occurred five days after the audio, suggesting a bribe offer from former state party chair Jeff DeWit to dissuade Lake from running for Senate in 2024, was released.
-Jeff DeWit’s resignation came after Lake exposed their recorded conversation, where he seemingly offered her money to not run for Senate.
-Lake faced significant backlash at the Arizona GOP annual meeting, with attendees booing her, especially when she criticized the integrity of Arizona elections.
McStain still stinks up the place.
So much corruption in our land.
I pray PDJT effects a purge; Live by Kompromat, Die by Kompromat.
And they made damned sure she didn’t get elected. I despise these people more every day!
Executive order – No more NATO approved government contracts. Watch them implode.
I wonder if McConnell’s name is on the list of congress persons for whom damages have been paid to victims of sexual assault? If so, it might give the WH some form of leverage.
If not that start looking at his Chinese in-laws shipping business.
There must be something, no one believes McConnell is clean.
The difference this time is many more patriots (treepers) are watching & listening closely to the wiles of these senate demons.
Trump could take their security clearances away, take away clearances for the staff, de-certify the Congressional SCIF, de-certify the Congressional rooms where secret briefings are held, etc.
He should definitely do some of that for Schiff at the very least.
As J6 showed us, the president does not control the capitol. Nanzi and Muriel Bowser were the ones who waved off PDJT’s offer of the National Guard.
In order to present the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, the President must receive an official invitation in the form of a letter from the Speaker of the House.
What are senate Republicans fighting for? It doesn’t appear they are fighting for the American people. It doesn’t appear they realize Trump won the presidency and maybe the majority of people want Trump’s policies which are generally good border, trade and foreign policies. What do the senators loyal to McConnell want?
Lankford was my first guess as soon as the question was posed. He is a slitherer, of the first order.
Mine too
I think we just know that for the past 4 years or longer Trump and the Military have been planning for EVERY eventuality. They are just ready for whatever is thrown at them, it’s going to be interesting to watch.
Trust Sessions.
McTurd will go down in history as treasonous scum. He definitely has changed though. My question, to myself, is was he always a deep state scumbag or did he descend into this UniParty loser persona through degrading loss of faculty brought on by age? I believe that one of these medical emergencies truly changed him and therefore old people should be possibly constitutionally banned from office. At the very least we can insist on cognitive tests like our DMVs and MVAs perform on our fellow citizen drivers.
I feel like we should target one or two Senate Repubs, raise a ton of money, and drive them out of office. “Get on the team or GTFO.”
It would be a shame if some of them had ethics violations of their own…..just sayin’
Hopefully Trump learned his lesson and the Six Ways from Sunday crowd will look like amateurs compared to the pressure we put on these bastards. All of them are dirty. Leak and threaten until we get what we want. They are done. Period. Release all their taxes, release their insider trading, release deep fakes with them sodomizing children for all I care…just bury them deep.
I think PDJT will do the “High Noon” thing with these “fossil’s.”
However, as with Kane, (Gary Cooper) and the townspeople, PDJT will find minimum support among the Senate. However, you can bet he will show up for the gunfight!
It would be interesting to find out what the FBI has on these jokers. And then use it as needed.
It’s too bad the Dem party didn’t have some wise Democrats that could have impeded the egregious policies of whatever corrupt group was making all the decisions during Biden’s last term. ie oppose Open borders
Only the Republican party has enough corrupt members that are willing and able to impede the policies of their own party’s elected gov’t with a mandate to heal America, save lives and so on. It doesn’t matter to them that they’re countering the wishes of their voters by impeding those they elected to actually serve the people and MAGA. That is what they’re picked to do. They love the power and whatever other benefits they might receive.
Only the Republican party would cut their most feared and best hitter Gaetz from the team roster only days before their 1st game in the 2024 World Series . (Unless it’s a ploy to skip past the anti Trump Senate and rehire him as SC–unlikely?)
A flood of punishing ads should be disseminated across the USA that will expose the Senators that are impeding the gov’t they elected and each Senator should be named and their obstruction described in detail. Local ridings should be bombarded with the treacherous details of their own Senator. (I guess I got carried away but the idea felt good.)
i have a hunch that there is going to be massive public blow back to the snapping turtle’s move’s.
Watch the X account of Bo French. He is the Tarrant County (Fort Worth) GOP Chair. Was recently at Mara Lago and at the X rocket launch. He will either Primary Cornyn himself or will be instrumental in the primary campaign. Big MAGA guy
I would absolutely love to see them all outed for their many treasonous acts, in broad daylight, with the appropriate justice to ensue!!!
I don’t know why McConnell can’t be stopped by exposing his wife’s family’s business and put a screeching halt to their transport/freighter company…I have no doubt, if investigated thoroughly, there’s enough there to put the kabosh on Mitch and his lovely bride…time to play hardball with these scumbags who’ve pillaged our treasury and tried to ruin our country.
I do not think McConnell is directing anything, he’s a vegetable.
I do believe his communist spy wife is delivering orders straight from the Chinese intel community and they will be obeyed.
The Games afoot
I thought the turtle was retiring.
oh no. merely in remission.
If Cornyn has been on X tweeting about defense spending, I think he is seeking Mitch’s support for the SSCI spot.
Mitch is set to chair the Appropriations Defense subcommittee where he can try to extract yet more money to flush into the Ukraine debacle.
Cornyn and Mitch can be mutual enablers.
Within a week or 2 of taking office Trump will control the 6 ways to Sunday and have the information to do the screwing.
hopefully, i believe there is going to be a struggle and the six ways round mouths will be crushed. its all truth vs what isn’t now.
President Trump won in a massive landslide. But somehow, magically, senate seats in swing states went blue in WI, MI, AZ, NV
Republicans Lost Nearly Every Race In NC Other Than The Presidency
Murkowski because she’s a declared enemy of MAGA. The others will pretend to be friends while ready to betray the People.
Refuse to give them ANY briefings. Pull Schiff’s Clearance.
“Investigate” them 6 ways to Sunday.
Winning the election did no good with McConnell in charge.
At least McConnell is losing his spot on the Gang of 8.
if Trump and the House pull the plug on the Ukraine debacle, Mitch McConnell will have his position as the chair of the Appropriations Defense subcommittee and no money for Ukraine.
I guess Mitch will have to devote all of his energy to opposing Trump.
To be replaced by Thune in the GO8 and in general. The Senate IS NOT going to approve any of Donald’s nominees who seriously threaten the corrupt status quo and I don’t know why anyone thinks otherwise. They aren’t about to effectively commit suicide by approving them. To make any major and sustained fixes to The Blob/Deep State, Trump would need dictatorial powers which he does not have.
Ever heard of Recess Appointments.
Agree and watch for a SCOTUS ruling on the Brunson Petition on or before J5. That will convict at least 308 members of Congress and clear the decks of the riffraff.
i’m sure you are aware that Mr McConnell also chairs the Rules Committee…and he most definitely will not allow recess appointments…unless the incomming President has some hidden leverage…last time he traded his wife’s position at Transportation for ?(who knows, but the Court appointments was a win win, IMO).
Ever heard that Trump had zero recess appointments from 2016-2020 — first full-term president unable to do so? Because Mitch never allowed the Senate to go into recess. And that’s his plan again.
Dream on. Trump has vast powers he can tap that the seante can only bray about.
They are damned if they do and damned if they don’t so which way will they go. If they don’t approve, it will not stop Trump this time. So, I believe they will vote to approve with some halfway agreement that they think protects them. But it won’t.
He will and thus far has WON in the past and thus far is WINNING. He has TRUMP neutered in the Senate except for EO which go when TRUMP goes.
NOT just HE has Trump neutered in the Senate. The Senate has any nominee threatening radical change neutered. All they need is four of these to vote “nay.” And on getting MAGA into the Senate, note the “Years in Senate” column:
Liberty score:
https://libertyscore.conservativereview.com/
The “F” rated “Republican” Senators (name, score, state, years in Senate, next election)
Susan Collins F 20% ME 25 2025
Lisa Murkowski F 29% AK 20 2029
Rob Portman F 36% OH 11 2025
Roy Blunt F42% MO 11 2025
Lindsey Graham F 43% SC 19 2027
Shelley Capito F 43% WV 21 2029
Mitch McConnell F 44% KY 37 2027
Richard Burr F 46% NC 17 2025
Thom Tillis F 49% NC 7 2027
Roger Wicker F 50% MS 15 2025
Jerry Moran F 51% KS 11 2029
John Thune F 51% SD 17 2029
Todd Young F 52% IN 11 2029
Mitt Romney F 52% UT 3 2025
Mike Rounds F 52% SD 7 2027
John Cornyn F 54% TX 19 2027
Cindy Hyde-Smith F 54% MS 4 2027
Bill Cassidy F 55% LA 13 2027
Charles Grassley F 56% IA 41 2025
The “D” rated “Republicans” in the Senate:
Richard Shelby D 61% AL 35 2025
John Hoeven D 62% ND 11 2029
Joni Ernst D 62% IA 7 2027
John Boozman D 64% AR 11 2029
Dan Sullivan D 64% AK 7 2027
Kevin Cramer D 64% ND 9 2025
Deb Fischer D 66% NE 9 2025
Michael Crapo D 69% ID 23 2025
95% of incumbents won re-election
November 25, 2024
https://news.ballotpedia.org/2024/11/25/95-of-incumbents-won-re-election/
For some reason so many think that Trump’s election means that our insanely corrupt and fully armored system where trillions are at stake incentivizing his obstruction has somehow disappeared. It hasn’t and I call that irrational exuberance.
Richard Burr was forced to leave the Senate when it was made known that some in his family were beneficiaries of Insider Trading. Don’t know why Pelosi wasn’t pushed out on the House side since hubby Paul has literally made millions if not billions on info from Nancy. I might have said “pillow talk” but I’m not sure that there has been any “contact” between them in decades. From all appearances, this was a marriage arranged by the mafioso for the convenience of the bosses.
I think if they don’t play ball some incovenient past dirt will surface….that could unseat some of those blocking Trump’s agenda. There is more ‘light’ on what’s happening behind the scenes this time I think than last time.
Winston, none of those senators is up for re-election in an odd-numbered year.
Roy Blunt, Richard Burr, and Richard Shelby all left the senate 2 years ago.
Mitt Romney will be leaving the senate before the votes start on Trump’s nominees.
Not Funny how everyone below 60% is well, not a reliable vote…Sundance opened my eyes to the vote for wealth schemes likely occurring here…my math says 1/2 of the conference will not likely vote against money and power, unless their job literally depended on it. Mitch doesnt need the job, he likes the power, and now he has no voter fear…Hopefully the incomming has some leverage or a trick or two…not likely recess appointments will be allowed.
hahahaha. mcconnell will be a victim of……truth. he’s a joke.
Mitch McTwisted
He’s so brain addled he couldn’t run a bath. 🛁
Popular President – not so popular senate leadership.
I know the senate leadership can bruise the Presidents heel, but the president can crush its head! Amen
Amen! We will not be neutered! We fought hard, and we will not stop with the goal in sight.
Mitch McConnel is reprehensible. The voters of Kentucky who continue to return him and his evil self-serving devices should be ashamed of him.
Mitch McCorrupt
I loathe that scum…..
Trump could have stopped all of this EARLY if he stood up and put VANCE in charge of the Senate leader role . He also could have used recess appointments and federal vacancies to fill appointments. His own fault. ALL they need now is JOHNSON as Speaker and the RINOS, Deep State and Uniparty have all their players in place to STOP TRUMP for 2 years.That is all they need. TRUMP will not FIGHT the RINOS and they know it.
We are still in the 118th congress.
Trump is not yet the president.
We have three separate branches of government. The executive branch is not superior to the legislative branch. The president cannot make changes in the senate roles.
Trump could not and cannot use recess appointments because the Senate under McConnell did not and will not (under McConnell’s toady Thune) recess. See: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell record, 2016-2020
During President Trump’s first term the corrupt Mitch McConnell never “recessed” the Senate.
Trump did not make one single recess appointment during his first term.
Our government unfortunately has long been irreversibly corrupted.
When I look at the likes of McConnell and Pelosi, I am reminded of how much physical damage the evil within them seems to do. McConnell is barely functional as are so many others who have been in congress for too long.