Good day all. The current senate minority leader, Cocaine Mitch McConnell, will be stepping down when the new congress is seated next January. He won’t be missed. McConnell has long demonstrated that the only thing he has ever really cared about was his one wealth and power.
During the first Trump administration, about the only thing he really did right was getting all the Trump judges confirmed. He was also able to keep one of the most corrupt Attorneys General in a century or more, Merrick Garland, off the Supreme Court. Other then that, he has been a pretty useless RINO.
In the 2022 midterms, McConnell pulled funding from candidates that weren’t going to bend the knee to him, probably costing the GOP the Senate. He did the same thing again this year and may have cost the GOP an additional seat or two. Now this worthless jerk is demonstrating that he is completely out of touch with the majority of Americans when it comes to Foreign policy. Here are the details from Newsmax:
Ousted Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. – who leaves behind a fractured Senate that is struggling to replicate the Democrats’ unification on unilateral approval of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet picks – is now lecturing on how to lead.
And, in doing so, he takes a swipe at President-elect Donald Trump’s “America first” mantra that the American people resoundingly elected in a widespread mandate.
“Within the party Ronald Reagan once led so capably, it is increasingly fashionable to suggest that the sort of global leadership he modeled is no longer America’s place,” McConnell said in a Saturday night speech before the annual Reagan National Defense Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Politico reported.
Uh huh, Yeah. Obviously McConnell still thinks that the Cold War is a thing and that the United States must send troops everywhere. Someone might want to let this warmonger know that the Cold War os over, the Soviet Union no longer exists and Russia is getting the stuffing kicked out of them by a small country on the defensive.
“But let’s be absolutely clear: America will not be made great again by those who are content to manage our decline.”
Manage the decline? Last I checked, you were part of that cabal. There is a major difference between intervening everywhere, and only defending our direct interests. A classic case in point was the last 20 years. We went into Afghanistan to destroy Al Qaeda and the Taliban. We went into Iraq for no good reason. In both cases, simpletons like you decided that instead of destroying the enemy, we should do nation building, and make a ton of money off the taxpayers while you were at it.
Trump and anti-McConnell Republicans have long argued it was Biden and McConnell who were “content” to “manage” American decline, but it was the ousted McConnell invoking it on his way out the door for the change American voters elected.
Where was McConnell for the last four years when Biden and the Democrats were busy wrecking the military and throwing open the borders to every invader on the planet? Oh wait! He was busy enriching himself and holding on to his position as minority leader. (McConnell always appeared to be happier in the minority for some reason)
McConnell warned of “influential voices” spreading “a dangerous fiction” and forgetting the Cold War lessons and the growing threats of Russia and China – even as Trump and his backers like former acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell have long ripped the Biden administration for having the “cold” war-like, no-dialogue policy with Russia.
Russia has proven itself to be a paper bear. Their military has been ripped apart by a small nation that has it’s own problems. They’ve been so badly torn up by Putin’s Folly that Putin is threatening to use Nuclear weapons. (I doubt he will unless Russia were under a threat similar to what the Nazis almost did in WW II)
As for China? Yes, they are a threat and one you have done nothing to deal with. However, they are a different sort of threat, and currently are experiencing some serious economic and corruption issues. The real worry is that the PRC might decide to invade Taiwan. The best way to prevent that is to sell Taiwan all the equipment they want. We don’t need to put US Forces on the island, and the Taiwanese are quite willing to defend themselves.
Coincidentally, McConnell was being feted at the “Peace Through Strength” ceremony alongside Biden’s outgoing Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
Lloyd Austin should be prosecuted for all the damage he’s done to the United States military. We are in worse shape now then we were at the end of President Trump’s first term. (President Trump didn’t fully understand the threat Milley actually posed. There is talk that he should be recalled to active duty and face a court martial for Mutiny and other high crimes)
“At both ends of our politics, a dangerous fiction is taking hold — that America’s primacy and the fruits of our leadership are self-sustaining,” McConnell said in the speech. “Even as allies across NATO and the Indo-Pacific renew their own commitments to hard power, to interoperability, and to collective defense, some now question America’s own role at the center of these force-multiplying institutions and partnerships.”
Oh that’s funny! One of the long term problems with NATO is that the Eurotrash wouldn’t spend the money on their own defense. They preferred to have the American taxpayers pay for it instead. It was President Trump who “Laid down the law” and told them to pay up.
McConnell now drifts into the periphery of the Senate GOP, but he will remain front and center in battling Trump’s campaign vow to turn free foreign aid into loans, sitting with the gavel as the chair of the Senate Defense Appropriations committee.
So McConnell intends to continue screwing over the taxpayers? Why am I not surprised? But then, McConnell is like the Democrats. He loves spending other people’s money. I would not be at all surprised that if he causes problems, he will find himself removed from that chairmanship before the current session ends.
“The Pentagon is not equipped to meet the demands of protracted or multi-theater conflict – neither is our defense industrial base,” McConnell said.
On that everyone with a brain agrees, including President Trump.
“Patriotic companies have more work to do to expand production capacity. And they need to do it today, rather than wait for contracts we all know are coming,” he added. “We need to adopt new technologies more quickly and expand production capacity at the same time.”
And where are these companies going to get the money for this?
Notably, Trump has long criticized the Biden administration’s depleting of American weapons and ammunition stockpiles with massive aid packages to Ukraine.
President Trump isn’t the only one. Granted, a lot of that stock was coming up on it’s expiration date and would have needed to be disposed of. The problem is, neither the Biden Maladministration or Congress has done a thing about ordering and paying for replacements. I don’t recall Cocaine Mitch saying all that much about restocking our supplies. One thing about shipping the systems to the Ukraine, we now know how well they work and what needs to be looked into.
Also, regarding the Defense Department, we need to do a thorough review of the procurement system and ship building. The Navy needs to replace and expand the fleet, both combat and support vessels. We also can’t afford any more Zumwalt or Independence class fiascoes. We need to replace a large number of aircraft for both the Navy and Air Force that can mix it up with another first line military. (The F-35 isn’t all that great)
I don’t see McConnell being in anyway agreeable to fixing the problems with the Defense Department. He is to wedded to the Neocon idea of sending troops everywhere with no clear mission and doing lots of nation building. He thinks Team America, World Police is reality, not a movie. (Which the U.S. flat out sucks at. We’ve had two successes. Germany and Japan. It only took leveling everything and a couple of Nukes to set things up)
The good news is that McConnell has less of a chance to damage President Trump’s agenda this time and is expected to leave the Senate at the end of his term. He should leave now. He is the poster child for term limits.
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