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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMitch McConnell is a Russian Asset.
This doesnt mean hes 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.
Lets call this what it is: unpatriotic. The Kentucky Republican is, arguably more than any other American, doing Russian President Vladimir Putins bidding.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitch-mcconnell-is-a-russian-asset/2019/07/26/02cf3510-afbc-11e9-a0c9-6d2d7818f3da_story.html#click=https://t.co/KuAIjV8bmv
malaise
(267,813 posts)to expose MoscowMitch
iamthebandfanman
(8,127 posts)you know, for as long as ive been around DU and seen you around for all these years...
that damn fake bug gif got me again just now. darn you. lol
malaise
(267,813 posts)Lil bug has a history - protest
volstork
(5,394 posts)was his refusal to allow hearings for Garland. He knew the fix was in.
It's TREASON.
onecaliberal
(32,485 posts)Their ability to cheat, lie, and steal another election.
The House has passed more than 100 pieces of legislation to help Americans, that no neck piece of shit has the balls to call himself the grim reaper. People are too stupid to believe him.
triron
(21,915 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,651 posts)The traitor earns it.
SunSeeker
(51,368 posts)Pepsidog
(6,252 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,674 posts)FM123
(10,050 posts)Why don't they just be honest and call themselves Russpublicans.....
Salviati
(6,002 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)as goes talk radio so goes the GOP
czarjak
(11,191 posts)Whack-a-Mole!
sandensea
(21,529 posts)Russian Moskmitch:
onecaliberal
(32,485 posts)Tell the America people who owns these rat bastards.
sandensea
(21,529 posts)Perhaps the conglomerates than own most media these days don't want it exposed, as they may often be at least a little complicit themselves.
That's another difference between us and most of the rest of the developed world (even some developing countries):
In many other countries, any public official found to be living unusually well for his/her salary, family circumstances, or other easily explained gains (like a successful book, speaking fees, etc.), is promptly subjected to media scrutiny - and possibly formal inquires as well.
Even excessive speaking fees are frowned on in many other places, as they can easily be turned into back-door bribery (I "speak" to Acme Petroleum for $200,000 - and, lo and behold, a month later that pesky bill Acme wanted gets passed).
Such "coincidences" usually become major scandals elsewhere - whether or not there was corrupt intent.
Here, it's bidness as usual.
Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)onecaliberal
(32,485 posts)They funneled money from Russian oligarchs through the NRA to republicans. Thanks to Citizens united this is basically legal.
Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)Not sure how hard that would be? I imagine they covered their tracks well.
onecaliberal
(32,485 posts)They didnt try to hide what the NRA gave republicans.
Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)onecaliberal
(32,485 posts)Its basically legal.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)a relationship cemented the old-fashioned way by marriage to a daughter of one of the Chinese billionaires with whom he had a mutually beneficial relationship. She brought wealth far, far beyond anything he'd known to the marriage. She also inherited quite a bit when her father died fairly recently. I forget what I read, but seemingly she received more than some of her siblings, raising eyebrows and speculation as to why.
Fwiw, Moscow Mitch has always been famous among those who know him in being far more interested in personal power than personal wealth. It's possible that, like so many others, coming to be surrounded by enormous wealth in DC caused him to eventually feel uncomfortably poor and wanting more. If so, he fixed that in a way that made him immediately and legally wealthy, money laundering through marriage.
sandensea
(21,529 posts)But it is illegal to knowingly receive proceeds from the cocaine trade - even if it is your father-in-law.
Or father outlaw, as the case may be.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)would be promising him ethical investigations and trials. So far as public knowledge goes, Moscow Mitch seems to have kept his activities officially legal, sometimes by writing and amending laws to make them so. Such as the law allowing Russians to donate unlimited dark money to his super PAC because donating to him directly is illegal.
From what I've read, the incidental cocaine discovered on one of his father-in-outlaw's cargo ships wouldn't be too illegal for the to be interested in, just far too small potatoes.
sandensea
(21,529 posts)Bitchy Mitchy may not be too big to fail - but he certainly seems to be too big to jail.
PatrickforO
(14,516 posts)is more than just a Russian asset. I honestly think he is a traitor.
onecaliberal
(32,485 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)And I will fucking well call him that forever.
paleotn
(17,781 posts)McConnell is complicit with the overthrow of part of the US government by assisting in rigging the 2016 presidential election. For all practical purposes, the executive branch is now controlled by a foreign power. A soft coup.
onecaliberal
(32,485 posts)ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Which is why I think Mitch is so frightened of Democrats being in power and investigating this whole Russian mess in earnest. He will spend the rest of his life in prison.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,063 posts)an R behind your name.
onecaliberal
(32,485 posts)Last edited Sun Aug 25, 2019, 05:37 PM - Edit history (1)
Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)I can't get Kevin McCarthy's quote to leave my brain, about the "two people I think Putin pays" (Rohrbacher and Trump). I think he said "swear to god" before Paul Ryan jumped in about it staying "in the family." Scum. All of them.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)Is advocating for something that is not in Americas best interests, and therefore, something that benefits our enemies. Im not saying we have to agree on everything, but if we dont, youre doing the work of our enemies.
GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)I'd bet money on it.
bdamomma
(63,654 posts)move to China.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)samplegirl
(11,415 posts)been a democrat that would of be locked up long ago!
Perseus
(4,341 posts)Democrats need to become more aggressive and not allow republicans to go after Democrats if they have not shown the same "courage" against one of their own when it merited.
When we say "a democrat would have..." it stops us right there, we go into "well, nothing happens to republicans", and all that has to stop.
PandoraAwakened
(905 posts)Mc Mike
(9,107 posts)Perseus
(4,341 posts)Unpatriotic is to subtle of a term for Moscow-Mitch, the reality is treason. Whether he conspired directly or not with Russia he became an accessory when he stopped Obama from bringing the issue to the citizens. Lets pretend there was no direct connection, he still helped the enemy attack this country, if that is not treason I don't know what is.
It is exactly what Benedict Arnold did, the only difference are the times and the technology.
sprinkleeninow
(20,133 posts)Right-o? Ain't that how the title reads?
Eyeball_Kid
(7,410 posts)So what is Mitch doing in return? Any guesses?
Moscow Mitch is compromised. He's now a Russian asset, and has been so since at least 2016. He's as traitorous as Trumpy. He has no loyalty to his country. He is only loyal to money.
onecaliberal
(32,485 posts)Over jobs.
bdamomma
(63,654 posts)come Kentuckians throw his ass out!! He's vile and he has been vile for a long time.