Mitch McConnell Says Trump Win Puts Americans In A 'Very Dangerous World
Source: huffpost
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) reportedly said that President-elect Donald Trumps victory puts Americans in a very, very dangerous world, stressing that he plans to spend his final two years in the Senate pushing back against the growing Trump-fueled isolationism within the GOP.
The 82-year-old Kentucky Republican, who last month stepped down from his role as the longest-serving party leader in Senate history, has a complicated record with the incoming president. While McConnell has worked to significantly move the country to the right much of it under the first Trump administration he is no fan of Trump and his isolationist worldview thats spreading throughout the Republican Party.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mitch-mcconnell-trump-americans-dangerous-world_n_675a09cae4b02802b83c4117
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1. Personal disposable income has grown nearly 6 times more under Democratic presidents
2. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has grown 7 times more under Democratic presidents
3. Corporate profits have grown over 16% more per year under Democratic presidents (they actually declined under Republicans by an average of 4.53%/year)
Average annual compound return on the stock market has been 18 times greater under Democratic presidents (If you invested $100k for 40 years of Republican administrations you had $126k at the end, if if you invested $100k for 40 years of Democrat administrations you had $3.9M at the end)
4. Republican presidents added 2.5 times more to the national debt than Democratic presidents
5. The two times the economy steered into the ditch (Great Depression and Great Recession) were during Republican, laissez faire administrations
**Why Are Republican Presidents So Bad for the Economy?**
G.D.P., jobs and other indicators have all risen faster under Democrats for nearly the past century. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/opinion/sunday/democrats-economy.html
**U.S. Jobs, Income, GDP Growth 'Startlingly' Higher Under Democratic Presidents** https://www.newsweek.com/us-jobs-income-gdp-growth-startlingly-higher-under-democratic-presidents-analysis-1566313
**Over the last 6 decades--60 years or so, history has tended to favor Democratic presidents in terms of economic performance** https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/10/28/which-presidents-have-been-best-for-the-economy
**During the final 3 years of Barack Obama's presidency 2014. 2015 . 2016 , the number of jobs added was 1.5 million greater than the number added during Trump's first 3 years in office 2017 2018 2019** https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-created-more-jobs-trump
**Trump inherited a booming economy and handed Biden a nation 'in shambles'** https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-inherited-booming-economy-handed-biden-nation-shambles-n1255033
**Trump to leave office with the worst jobs record since Herbert Hoover** https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-leave-office-worst-jobs-030044152.html
Trump will be first president since WWII to lose jobs during tenure. The U.S. lost 140,000 jobs in December 2020 in the final jobs report of Trumps presidency. This means the nation has about 3 million fewer jobs than it did 4 years ago UNDER THE BLACK GUY --OBAMA, meaning Trump will be the first president to lose jobs over his term since employment data was collected in this way. NBC News Now correspondent Simone Boyce explains how it all unfolded.
https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/trump-will-be-first-president-since-wwii-to-lose-jobs-during-tenure-
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The Trump tax cuts will pay for themselves he said
Donald Trump Built a National Debt So Big (Even Before the Pandemic) That Itll Weigh Down the Economy for Years The King of Debt promised to reduce the national debt then his tax cuts made it surge. Add in the pandemic, and he oversaw the third-biggest deficit increase of any president. https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump
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Republican tax cuts are the driving force behind the countrys worsening fiscal outlook.
If not for the Bush tax cuts and their extensions as well as the Trump tax cuts revenues would be on track to keep pace with spending indefinitely, Instead, these tax cuts have added $10 trillion to the debt since their enactment and are responsible for 57 percent of the increase in the debt ratio since 2001
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gop-tax-cuts-driving-us-160437971.html
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Stated on July 23, 2019 in a tweet: "Reagan took the deficit from $70 billion to $175 billion. Bush 41 took it to $300 billion. Clinton got it to zero. Bush 43 took it from zero to $1.2 trillion. Obama halved it to $600 billion. Trumps got it back to a trillion." https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jul/29/tweets/republican-presidents-democrats-contribute-deficit/
surfered
(4,074 posts)Hope22
(3,241 posts)His kids , grands and greats will get the same world. Jokes on him!
stollen
(619 posts)Everyone in line will be holding a cup of "water."
raccoon
(31,525 posts)maxsolomon
(35,423 posts)House impeaches, Senate convicts.
You're correct, but I'm glad McConnell intends to curb the crazy. Most of the Repuke Senate won't.
Arger68
(704 posts)you could have prevented this. Like if he'd been impeached you could have voted to remove him from office, and used your clout as leader to convince a few other senators to do the same thing.
Blue_Tires
(57,218 posts)More than anyone, he laid the foundation of subverting political norms that allowed Trumpism to germinate, become a reality, and spread around the world unchecked like a cancer...
He gets zero fucking credit for speaking out this late in the game...
chicoescuela
(1,713 posts)C0RI0LANUS
(2,266 posts)Hope22
(3,241 posts)DeeDeeNY
(3,613 posts)For sex
Hope22
(3,241 posts)They couldnt even scrape together a successful impeachment team for President Biden. They are the party of tearing down, waiting for the Dems to suggest plans or laws and then the rs employ a plan of destruction. They couldnt even get it right appointing a house speaker. Zero brain power available on the bench so to speak.
Hekate
(95,568 posts)Hope22
(3,241 posts)magicarpet
(17,215 posts)You let djt slip on by two times and wiggle off the hook. Now we will be revisited by the hauntings of this nightmare once again.
You could have put the word out back then that the Tangerine Traitor should be impeached and many ReThugs would have followed your advice after you explained to them how dangerous djt was to American Democracy.
Too late,... now we are fucked.
THANKS FOR NOTHING !
brush
(58,284 posts)couldn't run for president again. You blew those chances yet you voted for him again last month.
Again, STFU and retire. You've done so much damage the nation you belong in the same despicable collection of nation destroyers as confederates.
elleng
(137,221 posts)Autumn
(46,815 posts)SOb
Cirsium
(1,242 posts)Fetterman and Blumenthal go full MAGA on us, and McConnell declares himself to be opposed to MAGA. WTAF?
33taw
(2,951 posts)dhol82
(9,460 posts)Geezus, now, NOW, he wants to oppose?
Progressive dog
(7,312 posts)Your will be remembered for supporting Trump not for your cheap words.
Irish_Dem
(60,651 posts)Nice try, but crocodile tears won't work now.
no_hypocrisy
(49,440 posts)JMCKUSICK
(658 posts)Last edited Wed Dec 11, 2024, 09:03 PM - Edit history (1)
Why is it, that every Republican voter knows Dems want to change your kids sexuality during recess but nobody knows all those statistics?
Yes, part of it is the right wing noise machine, but the real truth is that Dems have only been saying stuff that "polls well" vs pounding the shit out of these stats!
PortTack
(34,930 posts)wnylib
(25,015 posts)Besides, McTurtle is a decrepit old has been. Nobody in his party would listen to him, even if he really did mean what he said.
The only time that McTurtle actually follows through on anything is when he promotes reducing the Republican deficit by cutting Democratic programs. He gets a special kick out if it if the programs that get cut leave even more people without food and health care.
McTurtle's soul is as evil as TSF's.
2naSalit
(94,013 posts)Thanks for getting us here, you fucking louse. Hurry up and fall off the planet.
Botany
(72,785 posts)... ties to Russia in 2016 and you worked to hide that from the American People and have
consistently blocked any work on the current voting systems.
Cirsium
(1,242 posts)I would say that Senator Mitch McConnell's coddling and enabling of Donald Trump has put Americans in a very, very dangerous world.
Susan Calvin
(2,162 posts)boonecreek
(327 posts)will pay for themselves. Still trying to push that Laffer curve nonsense that claims as taxes are reduced revenue increases. I know that's idiotic and I suck at math. I remember Al Franken saying by that logic if we did away with taxes altogether revenue would go through the roof.
CentralMass
(15,650 posts)Dave Bowman
(4,008 posts)🤬🖕
CousinIT
(10,615 posts)thucythucy
(8,796 posts)Quisling was the Norwegian former minister of defense who conspired with Hitler and sold his country to the Nazis. Ever since then his name has been synonymous with "traitor."
I think "McConnell" should be the American equivalent. A man who did more than anyone to dismantle American democracy. A McConnell should now be synonymous with anyone seeking to destroy what's left of our democracy for his own aggrandizement.
Just a thought.
NotHardly
(1,446 posts)3catwoman3
(25,838 posts)Why now?
Mrsfiddlegirl
(25 posts)During Hillary's run for president my late 96 year old mother warned me and stated emphatically that the most dangerous man in America was... Mitch McConnell.
She sure was right, wasn't she? RIP Libby. I'm glad you have joined the choir invisible and don't have to live through this constitutional tragedy.
EuterpeThelo
(7 posts)I feel the same about my mom, who passed in mid-2021 and had worked tirelessly writing 4,000 postcards to voters from 2017 to 2020. We went to marches throughout the orange menace's first reign of terror with me pushing her in a wheelchair, starting on inauguration day when it POURED rain here in L.A. as if the sky had opened up and was crying for us all. January 6 was bad enough to have to watch her endure. This betrayal by our idiot countrymen (and women) would be a bridge too far.
LudwigPastorius
(11,247 posts)block his cabinet picks and judges.
What a disingenuous bastard.
NoMoreRepugs
(10,698 posts)mahina
(19,192 posts)Dangers.
djacq
(1,683 posts)Mitch had one chance to stop Trump during the January 6 impeachment and he screwed America.
dchill
(40,888 posts)COL Mustard
(7,033 posts)You and your cowardly colleagues had the perfect opportunity in January 2021 to end this nightmare. Instead you showed your true character and screwed the rest of us. Enjoy Hell, because that's where you're headed.
AverageOldGuy
(2,253 posts)Kiss my ass. I hope you die a miserable death.
Rebl2
(15,107 posts)You had every opportunity to stop this bastard trump from destroying our country and economy, but you sat there and did nothing. F you.
Jack Valentino
(1,538 posts)Trying to have things both ways, again?? WTF worthless Mitch!
kevinore
(57 posts)Moscow Mitch made sure trump stayed in office by not doing his job...twice. Mitch supported trump in 2024. Mitch has done nothing to fix the situation he helped to create. Moscow Mitch should do to himself what he has been doing to this country.
Journeyman
(15,193 posts)Figarosmom
(3,650 posts)Geez. - he's not that dense.
cstanleytech
(27,230 posts)Old Crank
(5,082 posts)You did everything you could to get him elected. Now you change your stripes. Are you voting against his horrible cabinet picks? Lets see some action.
elleng
(137,221 posts)the growing Trump-fueled isolationism within the GOP.'
Will be interesting, even FUN watching McTurtle helping Dems, NATO, and U.S. electorate!!!
NO KIDDING, really COULD be fun!!!
usonian
(15,066 posts)Götterdammerung can't come soon enough for them.
Nazi swine into the Rhine.
Ray Bruns
(4,781 posts)Scrivener7
(53,431 posts)Plus, in 2 weeks he'll be kissing trumps ass. AGAIN!
Dem2theMax
(10,492 posts)raccoon
(31,525 posts)And as for Turtlehead: Whoever said "talk is cheap" was a genius.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(117,115 posts)mdbl
(5,557 posts)Disgusting human - if he is human.
Javaman
(63,211 posts)we all knew what was coming, you piece of shit.
Fullduplexxx
(8,381 posts)JohnnyRingo
(19,486 posts)They have astounding conversions on their way out the door.
Bengus81
(7,558 posts)that everyone in America should have access to affordable health care. A complete 180 from when Hillary Clinton was trying to do so when she was first lady.
Linda ladeewolf
(516 posts)Could have stopped whats coming. Merrick Garland could have stopped whats coming. The news media could have stopped what coming. There is a lot of blame to go around. None seemed willing to give a damn about people, just money.
Martin68
(24,805 posts)EllieBC
(3,400 posts)You had plenty of time. You did nothing.
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tavernier
(13,312 posts)You got him.
Toy Putin!
LetMyPeopleVote
(156,236 posts)Despite his recent partisan history, Mitch McConnell has thrown a lot of brushback pitches in Donald Trump's direction lately.
https://bsky.app/profile/stevebenen.com/post/3ldgr2fa5v22m
Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/mitch-mcconnells-latest-clashes-trump-matter-rcna184354
Anyone seeking the Senates consent to serve in the incoming Administration would do well to steer clear of even the appearance of association with such efforts, McConnell wrote. He added that efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed theyre dangerous.
It was a notable brushback pitch from a key GOP official, but it was also part of a recent pattern: McConnell has thrown a lot of these pitches at Trump and his team lately.
In an interview with the Financial Times, published last week, McConnell warned about the dangers of isolationism, which he seemed to tie directly to his partys incoming president. Were in a very, very dangerous world right now, reminiscent of before World War II, the senator said, adding, Even the slogan is the same. America First that was what they said in the 30s.
McConnell has a newly published essay in Foreign Affairs magazine, warning against the right-wing flirtation with isolation and decline. Referencing a signature phrase from Trump, the Kentucky Republican added, America will not be made great again by those who simply want to manage its decline.
The senators written piece echoed a speech he delivered earlier this month, rejecting his partys isolationist wing.
In Congress last month, Matt Gaetzs bid to become the next attorney general collapsed in the face of opposition from GOP senators. While there was no official tally on the scope of the Republican opposition to the former Florida congressman, The New York Times reported that McConnell was among those staunchly opposed to his prospective nomination.
When political observers take stock on Capitol Hill, looking for Republicans who might be a thorn in the president-elects side, they tend to focus on members such as Alaskas Lisa Murkowski and Maines Susan Collins. But what if McConnell whos expected to retire at the end of his term, and who doesnt appear to have anything to lose by standing up to Trump unexpectedly joins the faction of Trump skeptics?