Mitch McConnell Gets Standing Ovation After Taking a Subtle Swipe at Trump

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) took a subtle jab at President-elect Donald Trump during a speech on Saturday night.

Speaking at the annual Reagan National Defense Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, the Kentucky senator claimed that current “influential voices” were forgetting the threat of China and Russia and neglecting the history of the Cold War.

“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 per Politico which also wrote that he received a “standing ovation” after his speech. “But let’s be absolutely clear: America will not be made great again by those who are content to manage our decline,” referring to Trump’s slogan and seemingly taking a swipe at the president-elect.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mitch-mcconnell-gets-standing-ovation-034530482.html

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MarkPaul · 26-30, M

McConnell is right, but he's an active accomplice to the decline he has encouraged by trading with the (orange) devil. I don't take kindly to these complicit Republicans who suddenly want to hop on the fence by calling out Insurrectionist-Cry-Baby-trump while they enabled him.

McConnell is saying the right things, but his behaviour reeks of all the things he did wrong including sitting back while Cry-Baby-trump racially insulted his wife.

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RockerDad · M

@MarkPaul he wants it both ways. He’s single-handedly responsible for handing Trump three SCOTUS judges

MarkPaul · 26-30, M

@RockerDad Except, Insurrectionist-Cry-Baby-trump doesn't want to share credit for that. He claims he did that all on his own. So, with "the base" at least, McConnell has nothing to show for his complicity.

beckyromero · 36-40, F

@RockerDad

he wants it both ways. He’s single-handedly responsible for handing Trump three SCOTUS judges

A person can want conservative judges without supporting Il Duce.

But McConnell could have pushed to get Trump convicted on impeachment charges in January 2021 (with a prohibition tacked on to prevent him ever again running for federal office). With his support, the Senate could have gotten enough Republicans to reach 67 votes to convict. But McConnell, like others, probably thought Trump was finished without impeachment.

DogMan · 61-69, M

Let's be clear! Trump is NOT going to be content with managing Americas decline.
That is what the status quo has been for too many years.

That is the opposite of what he wants to do. Mitch needs to step aside, he is almost
dead anyway.

If the Dems are lucky, we will have another pandemic, and America will continue it's
decline.

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ElwoodBlues · M

@DogMan Oh, I get it! In your world, reich-wingers are allowed to spin all the conspiracy theories they want!

In your world, reich-wingers are allowed to pretend Covid was some kind of hoax! In your world, reich-wingers are allowed to pretend the 2020 election was some how "stolen." In your world, reich-wingers are allowed to pretend global warming & climate change are some kind of plot!!

But somehow, in your world, it's cray-cray to suggest that Elon, after spending $270 million to get Tяump elected, doesn't get to dictate any policy!!

DogMan · 61-69, M

@ElwoodBlues Hey, if Elon comes up with something good, I'm all for it. But we ALL know
that ANYTHING Trump or Musk does, will be horrible and scary for the left.

P.S. No one says Covid was a hoax. That is another lie made up by Dems. But we do
know that Dems do care to know where Covid came from. The Biden Admin has done
NOTHING to find the origins. Doesn't that make you wonder WHY? Fauci still says
it came from the wet market down the street from the Wuhan lab. We know that is not
true. But I'm sure you believe it.

ElwoodBlues · M

@DogMan says

P.S. No one says Covid was a hoax.

I've met encountered many people who said exactly that. Starting with this guy!

Many here have claimed Covid was just flu deaths re-classified. And of course “Now, I want to tell you the truth about the coronavirus. … Yeah, I’m dead right on this. The coronavirus is the common cold, folks.” — Rush Limbaugh, Feb 24, 2020

I notice you didn't address how the reich-wing has responded to climate change and global warming.

Biden Admin has done NOTHING to find the origins.

Actually, they've done plenty of investigation and of genome analysis. I'm sorry that Faux News never reported on it.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9874793/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10019034/
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2305081
https://www.bmj.com/content/386/bmj.q1578
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00074-5/fulltext

justanothername · 51-55, M

Good on him for saying that but unfortunately as the past has shown us, verbal swipes do nothing to the fat orange jumpsuit guy. They only give him more ammunition for his vendetta posts on Truth Social afterwards which effectively null and voids the original comment.

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