Rachel Maddow Lays Out Mitch McConnell's Economic Treason

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Rachel Maddow Lays Out Mitch McConnell's Economic Treason

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/08/14/rachel-maddow-mitch-mcconnell-russia.html 

Posted on Wed, Aug 14th, 2019 by Jason Easley 
Rachel Maddow explained how Mitch McConnell has allowed Russia to gain an economic foothold in the US so that they can influence US politics from within. 

Mitch McConnell committed economic treason
 

The short story here about Mitch McConnell is that he, more than anybody else in Washington, has blocked U.S. efforts to constrain or respond to Russia’s recent attacks. That’s why they’re calling him Moscow Mitch now. But in this particular instance, his state, an economically disadvantaged part of his state, got a $200 million investment from a kremlin-connected oligarch immediately after McConnell personally stepped in to make sure sanctions on that oligarch were dropped, despite his role in what happened to our election in 2016 and despite bipartisan support even from his own party for those sanctions. But don’t just look back at this. Look forward. Right? I mean, the FBI says Russia’s going to do to our election in 

2020 what they did to it in 2016. No reason to expect 2020 is going to be any different. If Oleg Deripaska is one of the two or three oligarchs Putin looks to get his work done around the world, given what we know he did in 2016, should we expect Deripaska is going to be involved in Russia’s 2020 operations as well? You have to say the odds of that are better now than they were before Mitch Mcconnell sold off this corner of his state in his I mean, after all, before Mcconnell did what he did, Oleg Deripaska might have felt worried about participating in any Russian attack on us in 2020, right? He might have worried about those crippling sanctions that the U.S. Government put on him at least for a while after 2016. I mean, Mcconnell made sure those were gone, but maybe he’d worry if he did more in 2020, he would get those sanctions back or he’d be further sanctioned in his business activities. He might have had to worry about that before Mitch Mcconnell did what he did. But now, Oleg Deripaska’s business activities, the health of his business empire, that’s part and parcel of the hard-scrabble economy in one of Kentucky’s neediest economies. 

This is a plant that’s over a billion dollars. 40% owned by the company of this kremlin-connect bed oligarch. You’re not going to be able to sanction him no matter what he does to our 2020 election or whatever else he does at all. It would strangle Kentucky in the process. There would be hundreds, if not thousands of American jobs riding on anything you did to that Russian guy’s company or, frankly, anything you did to bother him. He now holds all of those American jobs in his hand. The U.S. Government does anything to bother him, he can take them away at will. You can’t do anything to his company, not without him exerting that leverage over Kentucky in response. And that damage has already been done.

McConnell did this to cement the relationship between Russia and the Republican Party. Republicans can now claim that Russian business interests, like the one in Kentucky, can’t be sanctioned, because if they are, it will hurt American jobs. 

If a future Democratic Congress and president would sanction a Russian oligarch with a business interest in the US, Republicans can use that to claim that Democrats are killing jobs. Moscow Mitch has gone beyond leaving the backdoor unlocked for Russia to interfere in US elections. He has rolled out the red carpet and given Putin a seat at the political table by inviting Russia in through the front door of the US economy. 

McConnell’s actions are nothing less than economic treason.

[NaturallyAspirated]

What a guilty scumbag.

Neal

[Jimmy Snacks]

26 minutes ago, NaturallyAspirated said:

What a guilty scumbag.

Neal

He really is a career DC shitbag but most here will dismiss it because A) He’s a Republican and B) Maddow.

[Edmo]

1 minute ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

He really is a career DC shitbag but most here will dismiss it because A) He’s a Republican and B) Maddow.

Both houses need a good flush and term limits to prevent these idiot lifers.

[Roosting]

wow a conspiracy theory

[Jimmy Snacks]

1 minute ago, Edmo said:

Both houses need a good flush and term limits to prevent these idiot lifers.

Amen...these fuckers get entrenched and it’s damn near impossible to root ‘em out.

[Zambroski]

Maddox still on Russia.

 

[Jimmy Snacks]

15 minutes ago, Zambroski said:

Maddox still on Russia.

 

You still stuck on stupid.

[Zambroski]

2 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

You still stuck on stupid.

Poor stupid Pouty.  Just lashing out at everyone giving an opinion different than his own.  Which, is weird because, from what I see, your opinion consists of just being to the contrary of people you don’t like here.

Fucking water brained retard.

[irv]

[DriftBusta]

30 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

He really is a career DC shitbag but most here will dismiss it because A) He’s a Republican and B) Maddow.

 What’s your opinion on the matter big Jim?    Oh that’s right you don’t have one, you’re just here to insult people. No one is making excuses but seriously Rachel Maddow? Only you and mainecat would put any weight into what she says.   Mitch McConnell could’ve gotten lost along time ago as far as I’m concerned as can any career politician 

[Jimmy Snacks]

43 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

He really is a career DC shitbag but most here will dismiss it because A) He’s a Republican and B) Maddow.

 

11 minutes ago, DriftBusta said:

 What’s your opinion on the matter big Jim?    Oh that’s right you don’t have one, you’re just here to insult people. No one is making excuses but seriously Rachel Maddow? Only you and mainecat would put any weight into what she says.   Mitch McConnell could’ve gotten lost along time ago as far as I’m concerned as can any career politician 

Right there in black and white Magoo and you just proved my point...thanks!

Edited August 15, 2019 by Jimmy Snacks

[DriftBusta]

4 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

 

Right there in black and white Magoo and you just proved my point...thanks!

Oh, so you think Im defending McConnell, and that Rachel Maddow is credible,  thanks for proving mine, along with your consistently piss poor reading comprehension.  👍

[DriftBusta]

Still no opinion from Jim....shocker.    

[XC.Morrison]

18 minutes ago, irv said:

You dumbfuck.  Maddow is a Rhodes Scholar with a doctorate from Oxford.  Sean Hannity meanwhile, didn't graduate from college. 

[frenchy]

3 minutes ago, DriftBusta said:

Oh, so you think Im defending McConnell, and that Rachel Maddow is credible,  thanks for proving mine, along with your consistently piss poor reading comprehension.  👍

whatever your thoughts are on her as a person she isn't wrong on this one.

[racer254]

3 minutes ago, frenchy said:

whatever your thoughts are on her as a person she isn't wrong on this one.

Actually, she keeps relating to what "russia did to the 2016 election"  Um, last I heard, the russian narrative was proven WRONG.  It's laughable how she has to "lay" it out for all the little liberal minds.  Almost like manipulation.  LOL

[racer254]

8 minutes ago, XC.Morrison said:

You dumbfuck.  Maddow is a Rhodes Scholar with a doctorate from Oxford.  Sean Hannity meanwhile, didn't graduate from college. 

Ah yes, the litmus test for the intellectual elite.  Education accomplishments.  And all she could do with herself is host an opinion based political tv show.  Wow, maybe she isn't all that smart. 

[Zambroski]

13 minutes ago, DriftBusta said:

Still no opinion from Jim....shocker.    

Yes, I’m floored.

12 minutes ago, XC.Morrison said:

You dumbfuck.  Maddow is a Rhodes Scholar with a doctorate from Oxford.  Sean Hannity meanwhile, didn't graduate from college. 

And she’s just as much of a partisan shitbag and all that edumacation, I believe Hannity is still beating the shit out of her in ratings.  So...what does that say/mean?

11 minutes ago, frenchy said:

whatever your thoughts are on her as a person she isn't wrong on this one.

She lacks credibility...at her own hands.

Like everything else, there’s more to this story.  “Moscow Mitch”.

Russia!!!!!!    Come on.

[snoughnut]

14 minutes ago, XC.Morrison said:

You dumbfuck.  Maddow is a Rhodes Scholar with a doctorate from Oxford.  Sean Hannity meanwhile, didn't graduate from college. 

Big fucking deal, this just proves you don't have to be a college educated idiot to  become a MSM talking head idiot.

[racer254]

2 minutes ago, snoughnut said:

Big fucking deal, this just proves you don't have to be a college educated idiot to  become a MSM talking head idiot.

I think you must be gay or lesbian as well.

[XC.Morrison]

6 minutes ago, snoughnut said:

Big fucking deal, this just proves you don't have to be a college educated idiot to  become a MSM talking head idiot.

She may be an unabashed liberal but she speaks truth and possesses an uncanny ability to juxtapose current events with historical context with the utmost of integrity.   Sean Hannity, on the other hand, is obviously just a talking head idiot whose whole goal is disinformation. 

[Zambroski]

2 minutes ago, XC.Morrison said:

She may be an unabashed liberal but she speaks truth and possesses an uncanny ability to juxtapose current events with historical context with the utmost of integrity.   Sean Hannity, on the other hand, is obviously just a talking head idiot whose whole goal is disinformation. 

They are the same.  If you cannot see that well, welcome to partisanship.  Try the veal.

[XC.Morrison]

16 minutes ago, Zambroski said:

And she’s just as much of a partisan shitbag and all that edumacation, I believe Hannity is still beating the shit out of her in ratings.  So...what does that say/mean?

Perhaps Russia is rigging the ratings????

[Zambroski]

Just now, XC.Morrison said:

Perhaps Russia is rigging the ratings????

 

How’s the veal?