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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Washington Post Mitch 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.
Robert Mueller sat before Congress this week warning that the Russia threat deserves the attention of every American. He said the Russian governments 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 leaders interests. I object, she said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitch-mcconnell-is-a-russian-asset/2019/07/26/02cf3510-afbc-11e9-a0c9-6d2d7818f3da_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a622c0a1937b
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And please DO NOT pass this around the internet ... Moscow Mitch would be upset.
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FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)... 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
(70,516 posts)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
(32,645 posts)... however I have no personal knowledge, just my own suspicions.
These dirty Repukes need to be shown the door.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)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
(10,878 posts)usaf-vet
(6,188 posts)Moscow Mitch is a Russian asset.
Moscow Mitch is a Russian asset.
Moscow Mitch is a Russian asset.
Moscow Mitch is a Russian asset.
Moscow Mitch is a Russian asset.
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
(108,023 posts)is Putin's xxxxx
olegramps
(8,200 posts)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
(1,501 posts)Nice OP.
certainot
(9,090 posts)have pushed whatever anti-democratic moves the kremlin would want for at least a decade
Botany
(70,516 posts)I read someplace that Russian money was behind "The Apprentice."
certainot
(9,090 posts)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
(932 posts)We should all demand PAPER BALLOTS simplest solution. Canada does it.
DENVERPOPS
(8,835 posts)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
(43,176 posts)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
(10,495 posts)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
(22,006 posts)Borders on treason.