12/09/2024
Google, it would be nice if you would stop bothering me.
https://www.newsweek.com/mitch-mcconnell-speech-trump-reagan-national-defense-1997664
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McConnell states: U.S. “will not be made great again?” What is that suppose to mean? It is a good thing he is retiring – he has been in his position entirely too long and is as stale as “day old bread.” He could have left on a good note; but, the grouch had to take one last swing at a business man who made government work in his first term – something that the grouch could never do with all of the years he sat in his seat.
As bad as President Biden has performed in his job – McConnell never opened his mouth to call him out and never made any effort as a leader to try to stop him while Biden was taking us down. Why? That is not being a leader – especially, all of the years Obama was weaponizing our country and then what they have put President Trump through – McConnell never stood up for the Republican Party during President Trump’s time in office – even when his wife worked for President Trump.
That is not a leader when your own team is being “spat” on.
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Mitch McConnell Appears to Swing at Trump—US ‘Will Not Be Made Great Again’
Published Dec 09, 2024 at 11:32 AM EST
McConnell Calls GOP Sweep A ‘Referendum’ On Current Administration
By Ewan Palmer
News Reporter
Outgoing Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to criticize President-elect Donald Trump‘s foreign policies during a speech on Saturday.
The Kentucky senator spoke out against “isolationism” and praised the “power of alliances” while accepting an honorary “Peace Through Strength” award at the Reagan National Defense Forum. Around the same time, in an interview with NBC News’ Meet the Press over the weekend, Trump said he was open to pulling the U.S. out of NATO.
McConnell referenced the late President Ronald Reagan’s “peace through strength” mantra in his speech. He also emphasized the need for the U.S. to demonstrate greater commitment to alliances such as NATO and bolster its “military capability” to counter rising threats from nations like China, Russia and Iran.
“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 at the event held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.
“But let’s be absolutely clear: America will not be made great again by those who are content to manage our decline,” he added, seemingly paraphrasing Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan. “Let’s Make America Great Again” was also a slogan used by Reagan during his 1980 presidential campaign.
McConnell did not mention Trump by name during his speech. Trump has frequently threatened to withdraw the U.S. from NATO over cost concerns, criticizing other member countries for not meeting spending targets.
“If they’re paying their bills, and if I think they’re treating us fairly, the answer is absolutely I’d stay with NATO,” the president-elect said in the interview, which aired on Sunday. If not, Trump said he would “absolutely” consider the possibility of withdrawing from the alliance.
Newsweek has contacted McConnell’s office and Trump’s transition team for comment via email outside regular office hours.
During his remarks, McConnell described a “new era of great power competition,” warning that “influential voices want to leave the lessons of the last such competition, the Cold War, at the door.”
“At both ends of our politics, a dangerous fiction is taking hold—that America’s primacy and the fruits of our leadership are self-sustaining. Even as allies across NATO and the Indo-Pacific renew their own commitments to hard power, interoperability, and collective defense, some now question America’s own role at the center of these force-multiplying institutions and partnerships,” McConnell said.
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Undoubtedly, what McConnell did – didn’t work in the Senate – the whole government was weaponized and he didn’t open his mouth. We are trillions in debt and McConnell thinks we should support the whole world.
McConnell needs to understand – he was part of the leadership who have put us where we are in this day and time. The award “Peace through strength” was given for what strength – our Military is woke and were made to wear high heels?
Am I missing something here?
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