Mitch McConnell says Trump win puts Americans in a ‘very dangerous world’
Mitch McConnell says Trump win puts Americans in a ‘very dangerous world’
The GOP's outgoing Senate leader said he plans to spend his final two years in office pushing back against the Trump-fueled isolationism within his party.
Summary
Sen. Mitch McConnell warned that Donald Trump’s presidency places Americans in a “very, very dangerous world,” likening Trump’s isolationist policies to pre-World War II “America First” rhetoric.
McConnell, a staunch interventionist, criticized the GOP’s growing resistance to U.S. global engagement, particularly Trump’s stance on reducing aid to Ukraine.
While he voted for Trump in November, McConnell expressed concerns over Trump’s influence and the party’s direction.
Recently stepping down as Senate GOP leader, McConnell plans to focus his final term on countering isolationism within his party.
McConnell helped to stack the supreme court with the same right wing hardliners who torpedoed any attempt to prosecute Trump. McConnell helped install judges like Eileen Cannon. McConnell refused to impeach Trump. There are so many ways in which what is happening now is directly his fault.
I think McConnell vastly underestimated to what extent those judges were going to be supporting Trump over the country. I distinctly recall that when McConnell voted against the second impeachment, he said something to the effect that it was up to the Courts to apply any punishment. Well, guess what? The Courts have said that it was up to Congress all along*! I thinking in the fleeting moments of clarity in between episodes, he really wants that vote back.
<p></p>* = more specifically, that Presidents have an immunity from prosecution over their Official Duties, which the Courts themselves define, and have defined to benefit Trump wherever possible. The only way around the self-referential power the SCOTUS gave itself is impeachment.
I thinking in the fleeting moments of clarity in between episodes, he really wants that vote back.
No he doesn't. It was classic McConnell hypocrisy. He will say one thing and do the opposite when it's for his team.
He'll vote for Trump's plans in Congress while pretending to be the reasonable politician to manipulate opinion.
I mean, based on those supreme court ruling, Biden would be able to just 'remove' the conservative justices and have trump and his co-conspirators tried for treason by the military as an official act due to national security concerns. The judges would have to take their case to the supreme court that they would no longer be sitting on. The most reasonable ruling would be that due to the previous precident that was just set, Biden would have immunity for that official act, and so he violated no law/precident at the time, but that moving forward presidents would not be immune from prosecution. The judges are still out of the SC, and Trump wouldn't be president. Declare martial law until a new election can be held and pack the court with recess appointments before the next election.
Given that Trump is a massive national security concern, and has previously requested that our advisaries interfere with our elections, as well as personally interfering with our elections, oh and he also paid for the travel and hotel rooms of the main organizers of the January 6th Insurrection, which would definitely be considered providing material support to people trying to overthrow the US government.
The people who were worried about violence if Trump lost don't seem to really understand the gravity of whats happening. There was always going to be violence
Pay it no mind, every now and then he says something sensible due to memory corruption, then the GOP remotely reboots him and he is back to his original programming again.
McConnell, you motherfucker, you could have stopped this. You could have had your caucus in the Senate vote to convict, and ended the nightmare. You don't get to complain about the "very dangerous world" you helped create.
He's probably saying this because he's seeing how there is a number of people that have shown they do not agree and will not be a part of people's lives who do. That coupled with the fact that Trump will probably become obviously stupid and Evil because he'll have no one to stop him. In other words, the danger he is talking about is that Trump will make it obvious to many people that they are getting fuckedd. Maybe that's just wishful thinking though
Funny, McConnell is one of the people most responsible for the state of the modern Republican party. Maybe even more than Trump himself.
Makes me think of Anton Drexler. Leader of the Nazi party. He used Hitler's popularity to further the party. Until they had a falling out and Hitler said it was Drexler or him. The party couldn't afford to lose the most popular member so Drexler was out and Hitler was put it charge.
Too bad you never had the opportunity stop him, by say, voting on the articles of impeachment presented to the senate by the house.
Moscow Mitch is just as guilty of Treason as Trump and his associates, and people are getting sick of pussy footing around it. He fucked around, it hurt the entire country, and its past due for him to get the Aaron Burr treatment
OH WOW, MITCH! THAT'S VERY FUCKING HELPFUL, MITCH MCCONNELL!
Remember that time back in March when you endorsed Trump instead of disavowing everything he stands for and then he made fun of you for it during a November campaign rally? That's some really fucking winner shit, asshole.
Anyway, thanks for warning is about the impending disaster that you helped cause over decades of abusive politics.
Imagine being on death's doorstep and knowing your legacy will forever be helping to put a fascist on office.
He's likely to die before the monster he helped create is back in office. Spent his entire life fucking over the American people for what?
Rot in shit, asshole
MCCONNELL ENDORSED HIM.
What a piece of shit
If only there was something he could have done to stop it.
I actually don't understand his take AT ALL. Spineless. Absolutely spineless. Then he has the audacity to wag his finger saying "I warned you". Was January 6th not enough? Where were you when he was impeached twice? You lead your caucus to acquit.
The stroke must have taken more than just a couple of neurons. His frontal lobe must look like Swiss cheese bro.
It's all your fault you fucking geriatric turtle!
of Fuck Mitch McConnell. This is his fault and he is a piece of shit who deserves misery far greater than the misery he's passed onto the world.
While he voted for Trump in November, McConnell expressed concerns over Trump’s influence and the party’s direction.
May the leopards eat face
Reading this BS from McConnell made me ask if a face eating leopard could eat its own face, and if so, would it even realize it.
Then I pictured an oroboro with his face instead. I'd do a mock up, but I don't want to look at his face that long. I feel McConnel has been playing this game with "not supporting" Trump for far too long now.
I don't think Mitch has surpassed Kissinger for biggest bastard overall, but he's tried damn hard. He's always gloated about what an ass he is, and nothing he says now is ever going to redeem him.
stfu you old turd. maybe if you didn't fucking help him so much the first time we wouldn't be here today.
Yep, this fucking coward could've gotten enough of the gop on board with impeachment after j6, and it would've solved the orange shitstain problem. He knew he was at the end of his career and plenty of his party hate Dump privately. Just from a pragmatic standpoint (bc it's not like the gop is any better than the gqp) it was the smart move, but he couldn't gird his loins for even a second in his long career as a POS.
McConnell's just jealous Trump's going to do more long-term damage to the US than he did.
isn't this the same guy that fucked over obama, directly leading to trump getting 3 supreme court picks?
You exonerated a fascist because your goals were aligned. You don't get to cry about what other people did when you signaled that he was in the club.
The guy attacked the place where you work with violent intent and you just shrugged because you hoped the Dems would take out the trash for you.
Once again the Party of Personal Responsibility expects other people to wipe their ass and flush for them. Go fuck yourself, McConnell.
Once again the Party of Personal Responsibility expects other people to wipe their ass and flush for them. Go fuck yourself, McConnell.
I just wanted to say it myself: GO FUCK YOURSELF MITCH MCCONNELL, YOU MORALLY BANKRUPT HYPOCRITICAL MEATBAG.
Fuck you mitch. You helped get us to this point and now as you get ready to croak you start to get a spine? Just leave already
THANKS TO YOU,FUCKING HYPOCRITE!
"Oops lol", McConnell continued.
"Did I do that?"
No shit you dumb fuck, thanks for helping him and preventing the wheels of justice to work. Also thanks for handing the Supreme Court completely to the fascists. This dangerous world was birthed by your actions Mitch. Fuck you
Have another stroke asshole.
This, coming from a man who damn well knows he could have single-handedly put a stop to it by voting to convict Trump in either one of his impeachment trials. He still had more than enough power and influence in the GOP to get other senators to vote for a conviction. We are here because he chose not to do so. He decided, as he usually did, to put party over country. And now that the hunter has become the hunted, he has no idea what to do.
And he voted for this asshole.
This man knew the leopard was campaigning on eating his face. He voted for the leopard anyway, and is now shocked and surprised that the leopard is going to start eating his face. Fucking moron.
Fuck you mitch, you are responsible for so many things that enabled fat donnie and the other traitors to destroy the USA. Hope you're happy. May you burn in the hell you believe in.
Imagine putting party loyalty ahead of your own sense of right and wing. I mean, can you? Because I can't imagine it.
I can understand selling out for money. Enough significant digits on a check buys a certain amount of moral flexibility. But that dude has enough. For way less than that guy has, I'd retire someplace with warm beaches and spend my days engaged in utter debauchery.
Once a person has enough money to do that, I can't understand the need for anything more.
Imagine putting party loyalty ahead of your own sense of right and wing. I mean, can you? Because I can’t imagine it.
I wouldn't describe it as "party loyalty" but I've voted straight D for over 20 years.
2008 was the only time I felt like I was voting for "right", every other time has just been the least worst option.
2020 the candidate I voted for became president, I didn't feel like I won though. I thought moderate policy wasn't able to effectively fight fascism and Biden would move too slow to hold anyone accountable for 1/6.
I was right, but in 2024 we didn't get a primary and my only option was Kamala, and even though I had the same concerns I still had my nose. But not enough other people did. Even if they had, we still wouldn't have "won" just lost less.
If everyone put their own sense of right and wrong above loyalty to either party, we'd have a third party president. Because both parties are wildly corrupt and care more about rich donors than voters.
I think Biden was too moderate on justice, but I'd be hard pressed to think of a more progressive president than him in my lifetime. Since you said you were only happy voting for Obama in 2008, I assume you are similarly disappointed in his performance compared to his campaign, and I can't think of anyone else even in the running. So I don't judge his moderation harshly. A more progressive candidate probably can't win the swing states, and I think Kamala demonstrated that (though racism and misogyny and such also played a role, I'm sure).
As for third party, I did that for years. I think up to 2000, I always voted third party. Obviously did no good, but it was never because I wanted the candidate to win, but as a protest vote against both parties. I always imagined if they wanted my vote, they would have to adopt a platform closer to my personal way of thinking. Instead, Republicans sprinted hard right away from me, so now I've got no one to vote for but Dems.
I have no party loyalty at all (don't even see myself as a Democrat), but I thought Obama was a good leader even if he wasn't everything I wanted. Same with Biden. He doesn't get nearly enough credit for the "soft landing" and one of the lowest inflation rates anywhere and his dedication to student loan relief. But what I really loved about him was he wasn't Trump, and I admired Kamala for the way she also wasn't Trump.
Even if I were still a conservative, I would still vote for a moderate Democrat on that basis. I don't understand why McConnell didn't.
You still chose based on right and wrong, and at the end of the day that’s all most people can do in your fucked up system and that’s ok.
People like McConnel are the ones with the real power to create the options that the people vote on and when they just vote in line with what their party says every single time they have simply failed as representatives of the people.
Shut the fuck up bitch mitch, this dude acts like he didn't free the fucker from impeachment charges. Maybe you should've whipped your party to convict him, but you just had to be a spineless bootlicker.
None of this would have been possible without Moscow Mitch to begin with.
Dr. FrankenTurtle regrets building his monster.
Oh shut the fuck up. I know exactly who you voted for, you piece of shit. You defended him and allowed him to pack the courts. You had EVERY opportunity to stop him but didnt you fucking spineless traitor.
Then why didn’t you convict his impeachment so he couldn’t run again numbnuts!
Man who repeatedly stabbed a guy says repeatedly stabbing a guy is bad for that guy.
I voted for him, but I don't think it's a good idea... is that about right?
LOL and he didn't? Wild for him to see someone working the system the way he did and go "That's bad." Yeah no shit fuck face, then why'd you do the same fucking thing.
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Fuck you Mitch.
Trump would be getting his prison sentence about now if turdleass hadn't blocked convicting the two impeachments.
His entire career is based on 1. saying what people want to hear, then 2. stabbing them in the back. This is nothing new whatsoever. Everyone laments step 2 so much that people forget about step 1.
Mitch McConnell was right there behind him, and neither side will see it differently regardless of what that crone says.
Lol enjoy hell fucker. One floor substrate change away from licking Satan's asshole. Then presumably when he's done with servicing Trump he'll answer to actual Satan.
Thanks for your input Moscow Mitch.
Besides the fact that he could have stopped this, his issue is Trump's isolationist stances. McConnell wants to keep the US being the world police force.
Now, many on the left would say the US should stop being the world police force, and I would agree. However, Trump's methods would result in China taking over instead of the US, and that's not an improvement. Trump also seems determined to keep financing the military-industrial complex, even though we'd only need a fraction of it if we stopped sticking our noses everywhere.
Fuck off and die.
Did Putin tell Moscow Mitch to say that? Was it Monsanto? Or, did he have his own thought for once?
Don't mention post-WW2 America First rhetoric
Yeah? Thanks for the help Mitch.
Didn't pay any attention. He's teetering on the edge of the afterlife, and he is getting a view of the hellfire. He's just making a half-assed effort to scam his way out of damnation.
Mitch is right to say so.
Yeah, I know, I have to live in it.
it still lives
I guess he's finally gone completely senile.
Or maybe he is having a lucid moment where he is realizing how insane it was for him and his party to back an actual fascist.
LOL. That's a good joke. McConnell realizing insanity. It's a real knee slapper that one.
Ahhh Trumpkin probably screwed McConnell's recent donors.