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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Funny, McConnell is one of the people most responsible for the state of the modern Republican party. Maybe even more than Trump himself.

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      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.

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    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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    While he voted for Trump in November, McConnell expressed concerns over Trump’s influence and the party’s direction.

    May the leopards eat face

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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        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

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    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.

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    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.