The Washington Post Mitch McConnell is a Russian asset

[Botany]

This doesn’t mean he’s a spy, but neither is it a flip accusation. Russia attacked our country in 2016. It is attacking us today. Its attacks will intensify in 2020. Yet each time we try to raise our defenses to repel the attack, McConnell, the Senate majority leader, blocks us from defending ourselves.

Let’s call this what it is: unpatriotic. The Kentucky Republican is, arguably more than any other American, doing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bidding.

Robert Mueller sat before Congress this week warning that the Russia threat “deserves the attention of every American.” He said “the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in our election is among the most serious” challenges to American democracy he has ever seen. “They are doing it as we sit here, and they expect to do it during the next campaign,” he warned, adding that “much more needs to be done in order to protect against these intrusions, not just by the Russians but others as well.”

Not three hours after Mueller finished testifying, Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, went to the Senate floor to request unanimous consent to pass legislation requiring presidential campaigns to report to the FBI any offers of assistance from agents of foreign governments.

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) was there to represent her leader’s interests. “I object,” she said.

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[FakeNoose]

1. It's also a quid pro quo

... because somehow Putin helped McConnell get re-elected. Something funny/not funny happened in Kentucky in 2014 when McConnell was up for re-election. McConnell almost lost, but by some "miracle" he snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. Sorta like how it happened for Chump, 2 years later.

[Botany]

3. I might be wrong but I think the 2015 Governor's race in KY was way dirty

The Democrat (either the State A.G. or Sec. of State) was up by 5 or points going into
election day but then lost by 9 points with no real reason. McConnell knows that the
voting machines and elections are dirty and likes it that way.

[FakeNoose]

4. Wouldn't surprise me at all

... however I have no personal knowledge, just my own suspicions.

These dirty Repukes need to be shown the door.

[Scarsdale]

9. Every single so-called "representative"

needs to asked, on camera "Why are you against fair elections?" We all know the answer is because tRump and the gop would lose power if elections were fair.

[Funtatlaguy]

2. Moscow Mitch is such a ...

[usaf-vet]

5. What can a person say other than Moscow Mitch is a Russian asset.

Moscow Mitch is a Russian asset.
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Mitch McConnell aka Moscow Mitch is enriching himself while ignoring his country and the oath he took. I would call that traitorous behavior.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Moscow Mitch

is Putin's xxxxx

[olegramps]

7. It is not just Moscow Mitch. Every damn Republican supports these traitors.

We can only be glad that they were not running the government when Hitler was in power. These modern day fascists would gladly be doing the Nazi salute and throwing us to the dogs in concentration camps.

[Princetonian]

8. His net worth has increased by $23 milliom since 2005. I wonder how????

Nice OP.

[certainot]

10. the same can definitely be said about the talk rafdio gods who worshipped putin and

have pushed whatever anti-democratic moves the kremlin would want for at least a decade

[Botany]

12. I wonder if Putin has been backing Rush and Fox News?

I read someplace that Russian money was behind "The Apprentice."

[certainot]

17. idk apprentice, but why is "hannity" redacted in the glossary of the mueller report?

he's mentioned 5 times in the report and others in the report mentioned fewer times are listed in the glossary

there's redacted name between GRaf and HAWker. hannity is on about 500 stations, but limbo is the guy they would really want to feed/use if they could

sam nunberg says he "listened to 1000s of hrs of talk radio" in 2014 for trump

why? they could just read limbaugh transcripts unless they want to hear various other talkers - was that to listen to local talkers in different states? the states the russians targeted later?- he needs to be asked. that's what he told gabriel sherman for new york magazine 4/3/16 issue. he said trump was getting his reports. that was the same year a russian troll said he "got a list of topics to write about". stone was part of that and he goes way back with talk radio to boasting he used it to stop the 2000 recounts.

imo kremlin's been using talk radio since at least 2008 when manafort was mccain campaign cochair, also had russian clients before/during? limbaugh witheld his support for mccain unotil minutes after mccain picked palin, on the fri before the gop convention. the announcement was timed for minutes beffore the limbaugh show started that fri, so he could tell the flock he could support mccain - or the convention would have been a disaster.

then the tea party. "climategate" 2009 started from a russian hack and limbaugh did a lot of the initial selling and repetition 5 days after the emails were made public. wikileaks was also involved.

then debt default. why would americana billionaires want limbo to sell debt default for 2 months straight in 2011?

there's a lot of other to suggest the kremlin figured out how to a long while back.

a lot of the heavy redaction in the mueller report is around corsi but i don't think it's for wikileaks. corsi is the guy who repeatedly wrote about ebola in 2014 pushing it into talk radio - like he initiated the kerry swiftboating and various other hits. the ebola scare was big and worked for the cons, especially with immigration and theborder stuff. now ebola's going to be used x10 - they're selling the afriocans incl congolese coming across the southern border on radio, and meanwhile someone's encouraging attacks on ebola clinics in congo.

dem party needs to look into it and be ready for trump to call national emergency etc.

[seta1950]

11. Paper ballots

We should all demand PAPER BALLOTS simplest solution. Canada does it.

[DENVERPOPS]

13. Paper Ballots, Paper Ballots, Paper Ballots

Paper ballots are read by an electronic scanner, the same as test answer sheets in schools across America.
The electronic scanner is basically PROGRAMMED to read the marks and interpret and tabulate the totals?????
I would imagine that unless the paper ballots are hand scored, by a republican and democrat both looking at each and every one of the ballots, that the votes could still be swayed by the electronic scanners????? Of course, then the compiled numbers are transmitted electronically to bigger compilers and so on and so forth?????. Transmitting electronically could be tampered with??????

[bucolic_frolic]

14. It's an example of class consciousness

Mega-wealthy have more in common with other Mega-wealthies than they do with America, or the rest of America. They stick together. In fact they stickup together.

[Dustlawyer]

15. One thing that gets overlooked and that may explain Republican actions towards

Russia is that the RNC emails were hacked by Russia as well. How much dirt do they have on all of these Republican stooges?

[triron]

16. To say this is merely "unpatriotic" is absurd imo.

Borders on treason.