As you very well know, I am no defender of Mitch McConnell. But what you’re about to see is just wrong. McConnell is an elected official in our government and an elder statesman. He does not deserve this. This, to my mind, is not America.
Mitch McConnell mercilessly booed. https://t.co/SUPnernohs
— Ursula Faw (@ursulafaw56) August 6, 2023
I even wondered if this was doctored but I found it in Ron Filipkowski’s Twit-X account and he posted this to Meidas Touch. Both of these sources are credible.
That said, I am reeling that McConnell encountered this in his home state. This was Filipkowski’s text.
Mitch McConnell was greeted with a chorus of boos and jeers at his appearance this weekend before Kentucky’s annual Fancy Farm Picnic. The aging Senate Minority Leader who has suffered a series of health scares over the past couple of years has drawn the ire of both MAGA Republicans and Democrats, and the displeasure seemed to be bi-partisan with virtually the entire crowd urging the Senator to hang it up.
I do not respect many of McConnell’s actions, to put it mildly. The Merrick Garland stonewalling was egregious enough but when he reversed his own policy 100% when Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, that was pretty much the last straw for me and any respect I might have ever had for the man. And when he inferred that Trump had some “legal right” to challenge the election results in January, 2021, I cringed.
That said, I think it’s bad that our country is unraveling to this extent, where a sitting U.S. senator, let alone one of McConnell’s lineage, is getting this kind of a reception in his home state. This is ringing all the wrong bells for me. Dianne Feinstein is up in years, too, but I cannot conceive of this happening in California.
And in Feinstein’s case, she’s got a method to her seeming madness. If she retires now there’s no guarantee that her replacement on the Judiciary Committee would be a Democrat. In fact, there’s every reason to believe it would not be. So Feinstein, like Ginsburg, is trying to hang on. This isn’t my opinion solely. Hillary Clinton has made the same observation, among others.
Back to McConnell and this clip: this is the kind of hair trigger sentiment that existed prior to the firing of the first shot of the Civil War. A angry chant like this and an unruly mob are not separated by that many degrees, let’s put it that way.
Hosea 8:7 “For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.”
They should know this biblical quote by now.
If not, NOW is a good time for learning.
He was instrumental in allowing this criminal traitor to remain in power. He stood by as this traitor destroyed families with hundreds of children lost to their families. He wrecked the Supreme Court with his lies and hypocrisy. He stood by as the pissant killed over a million citizens by lying about covid and standing by because it was killing more black people than white. He grifted with his wife, living rich, while throwing the poor to the dogs. I could go on and on, but I don’t feel any goddamn sympathy for that robber baron. No more than I do when I think of Hitler eating a bullet. He’s a nazi pure and simple and because people like him steal power, CHILDREN SUFFER AND DIE. FACT. George Wallace was a ‘statesman’, a goddamn governor. When a bullet found him I didn’t cry a single tear. The country is already around the bend. Time to fight for our very survival and save our tears for the innocent. He’s far from innocent.
I’m right with you, Scott. McConnell has done more to bring about the decline of America than even Donald Trump, with his long, corrupt career as a “lawmaker.” The man deserves every boo he receives and I couldn’t care less if the boo’s arrive from right or left. Some flying tomatoes would have been nice to watch. Then run him out of town on a rail.
For those not familiar with Fancy Farm, it’s like WWE without the physical contact. Each side tries to get their supporters in the seats to boo the other side. This was not the smackdown those not from KY think. He got a very warm welcome at the GQP breakfast that morning. While he is not beloved overall in KY, he still controls the state’s party apparatus. The turtle has been routinely booed at Fancy Farm for years.
McConnell was part of the machine that brought the republican party to where it is right now and what it is right now: the party of trump. Problem is, McConnell doesn’t want to be known as the complicit p.o.s. he is so he is trying to back away from it which makes the magat crowd act as they did. He deserves everything he gets from the crowd he helped to loose on this nation.
Sorry Mitch, I’m having a big cup of conservative tears right now. I’ll get back to you when I finish which will be, hopefully, on the fifth of the month of Never.
This is all on bitchMitch! He promoted this sob and enabled him all along because he was so useful to his agenda of ‘the south shall rise again’! Get a rope says I 😡!
McConnell had several chances to rid the GOP of Trump, but was too craven to take them.
He’s now reaping what he has sewn.
I have no sympathy for the old tortoise.