Just in Case There was any Lingering Doubt…
In the furor over the Mueller report in April, many Americans, included yours truly, missed Turtleneck McConnell rolling out the Republicans’ new campaign slogan for 2020 on Fox Noise. Was it his overseer’s idiotic Make America Great Again mantra? Nope. It’s worse. A lot worse. When asked if the American people were going to get Medicare for all, McConnell said, “Not as long as I’m majority leader. It ought to be called Medicare for NONE.” 
And there you have it…not only do the Republicans want to kick millions of Americans off of the ACA, they want to kick another 58 million, 50 million of whom are over 65, off of Medicare. Let’s think about that a minute. Before the ACA, there were about 44 million Americans without healthcare. That number today is about 27 million, not lower because of the GOP’s sabotage of the plan in the states. That’s not good enough for McConnell, though. He wants to take healthcare away from all those people and the 58 million on Medicare. Doing that would cost millions of lives and untold billions of dollars.
Let’s be blunt – The GOP is now fully under the control of criminals, political radicals, and the profoundly corrupt. They already have lifetime control of our only safety only net, the judicial branch; because of this, voters simply cannot allow them to control both houses of Congress and the WH again. Believe it or not, McConnell is more dangerous than Trump for two reasons – he has zero regard for the Constitution, rule of law, or common decency, and he’s using Trump as a blunt instrument to reshape America into his radical vision of every person for themselves and his social program, Fuck the Poor.
So, while you’re hyperventilating over Trump’s latest outrage, keep in mind the real goals of McConnell and the rest of the Republicans – destroying the US as we know it. Also remember their new campaign slogan –
GOP 2020 – Medicare for NONE
Always read your commentary. Cannot say I enjoy them, because they scare the **** out of me. I have long considered McConnell the most dangerous sociopath currently breathing air. At the age of seventy-two, I’ve seen a lot of changes in my life, mostly good. The horrid turn of our nation (and the world) tells me we’ve learned nothing from the past. I greatly despair of the country my grandchildren will inhabit. Hate all this doom and gloom, but am at a loss about what to do.
1I don’t get it. The average age for Fox viewers IS Medicare age. Do they not understand what that would mean to them?
2But ol’ evil b@st@rd Mitch and friends will keep their gold-plated government health plan and their retirement. And the tax payers will keep paying for it.
El Jefe, you said it right, F*** the Poor and everyone else.
I think more and more seriously about retiring in a country where Americans can live better than in the US.
3As if this was a surprise! Their “health” plan was simple. If you ar sick in any way just find a convenient dark corner and die. Ronnie Reagan felt the same way as The Turtle.
4This scares the living shit out of this 74 1/2 year old with A-Fib.
5I found what I think is the video that inspired this article. As much as I disrespect McConnell, I don’t think he was saying what was said here. From the video, his premise is it’s impractical and would be doomed to failure, thereby becoming “Medicare for None”.
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/mcconnell-no-medicare-all-long-im-majority-leader
6There is no excuse for Democrats to not play that clip over and over and over again nonstop from now until the election, especially in Kentucky since they are the ones that keep this traitor in power.
7@John You do know what CNS stands for, right? I’ll help you…Conservative News Service. Just go ahead and quote Fox.
8El Jefe, no Fox quotes- I paraphrased the video dialog.
9@John, your paraphrasing gives McConnell a pass on his lies about “socialism”, which is bullshit, and you cited CNS an extreme rightwing website known for amplifying said bullshit.
10The GOP just had control of the White House and both houses, and they couldn’t even try to get rid of Medicare. Even Republican rank and file would revolt over that. That would be sure fire political suicide for anyone supporting it.
11But, hey, never say never.
Hate Doctor Appointments?
12The waiting room, old magazines…
Vote Republican 2020
First time I’d ever heard about cnsnews.com. The Right News. Right Now.
Today’s main feature:
13Charlie Daniels: Only Two Things Protect America–The Grace of Almighty God and the US Military
CNS is extreme rightwing, peddling religion and nonsense as “news”.
14No one ever dreamed that McConnell would get away with sitting on a Supreme Court nomination for a year, but… And no one ever dreamed that the Senate would kill the filibuster for judge nominations, but… Seeing a pattern yet?
15No surprise here. The Repug party has finally shown what they’ve always been: power hungry, misogynists who grab what they can for the rich and to hell with the rest of us.
16McConnell must be taken down, along with the rest of the
R criminals. They are all complicit with Trump and McConnell.
If they get rid of medicare can we sue the rePUKEian aholes for the money WE PAID INTO IT!!!!
17In addition to voting all Republicons out of office, let’s give them the send off they deserve. Strip them of their taxpayer funded healthcare and retirement checks, asset forfeiture every last dime they’ve stolen while in office grifting against our interests, and house them in the style they deserve: private prisons owned and run by John Kelly, Betsy DeVos, Bridget Nielsen and every other miscreant in this maladministration. By all means allow the inmates to run the asylum; let them own it and live in it.
18Now let’s talk about the Medical Program the Congress, President, Supreme Court Judges have….oooh that’s the one I want.
19Here’s another slogan for Mitch: Lotsa Crooked Cash for Some
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/is-this-the-reason-mitch-mcconnell-does-not-seem-to-care-about-election-interference/
Seems Kentucky (and, therefore Mitch) is getting a big investment in an aluminum plant from Oleg Deripaska, Putin’s friend. This after Mitch made sure that sanctions on Deripaska were lifted. Do you suppose the quid pro quo here will be Russian assistance with Mitch’s 2020 re-election campaign?
20You guys are killing the messenger.
Criticize CNS’s agenda all you want but CNS’s agenda is irrelevant here. If the actual story were as this site’s article portrays it, it would be covered by every real news organization, like NPR. And every real news organization would be showing the same Fox clip as in John 6 above. Yeah, that Fox clip is spin but it’s McConnell’s actual words and those words aren’t what are being mischaracterized in this article. Look at the video.
21McConnell is another candidate for an intervention; I hope the voters in Kentucky will do it!
22@John. We’re not killing anyone. Your source SUCKS. It’s good for two things – toilet paper and kindling. I immediately reject any opinion based on the manure they shovel, much less an actual citation with a URL. Second, you are ignoring the context. Turtleneck is LYING. He’s claiming that “socialism” (translation: the same system that works in every developed country on the planet) will destroy Medicare. That’s nonsense, and everyone who understands the facts knows that. One thing people need to understand about McConnell, just like Trump. Whatever he’s yelling about the loudest and accusing the Dems of is PRECISELY what he’s doing. McConnell is on record for over 30 years opposing Medicare, Social Security, and anything that might help everyday Americans and doesn’t put money in the pockets of his owners. Medicare for NONE is the appropriate characterization of his and the GOP’s position.
23John,
24From the entirety of Mitch McConnell’s comments and statements over the years, do you think if he could unilaterally do away with Medicare if he would? Social Security?
1) McConnel is scum.
252) Anything from the christianist must be assumed to be a lie, doctored or flat out false. Any time they accuratily report any real facts ( v made up “facts” that the delusional are so in love with) is purely coincidental.
3) It is unfortumate that that misleading title ( “News” hardly) unfortunely spills over on legitimate source bearing same initials (https://www.courthousenews.com also abbreviated to CNS)
4) Three days of facebook promoting known false video of Pelosi with meally mouth excuses of why they can’t take it down ( they are making too much money on these lies) and where is the outrage?
As I said before some one should doctor demented donnies interview with stern wher he lusts after his own daughter to make it about him bragging about how he “made her a woman” on her 13th B-day and see how long that stays up. Comparison would be telling.
facebook must be recognized and dealt with as an integral part of the whack jobs propaganda machine, just like faux, and avoided at all costs since any data they get a chance to scrape they will and then turn over to the authoritarian whack job right.
Since they even track the emails of those who do not belong to facebook, for even more unauthorized data scraping, but only communicate with some one who is any member.
It must be acknowledged that any member of facebook, or facebook page, is the equivilant of typhoid mary spreading the infection wherever they go and to whomever they contact.
John @ 21, perhaps I among many overreacted to what that sociopathic ghoul McConnell is purported to have said, but it still gives me enough pause to reconsider the kitchen and family room remodel until after 2020. Also, K @ 25 – I enjoy my Facebook, but veer away from anyone on there who claim to have 639 friends. That’s waaaaay too many spurious re postings and dogs and babies.
26Just to be clear, we will never have a “liberal” Congress in our lifetimes, or our children’s lifetimes. Apart from the intentional polarization by the RNC since 1970, most Americans–most people everywhere–are neither completely liberal nor conservative, and the extremes we see today are just that: edge dwellers with influence but no real power.
The problem we have is the current misunderstanding of the meaning of words, or one word, “compromise.” It is not “compromising” on legislation if it can be better described as “My way or none at all.”
27@Linda Phipps #26
28Unfortunately the way that facebook operates you are supplying them with numorous data points not just about you but your “community” online.
Even those who do not subscribe to Facebook that you may communiciate with are exposed to their data mining.
I know nothing about you but let me establish a theorical example.
say you discuss books online with some one, not on facebook, the book, the subject of the book, your comments about the book and your correspondents comments about the book and the comments of anyone on the conversations comments about the books are not grist for facebooks packageing of data for sale.
With their obvious thuglican allegiance they can help craft messages that make one question “reality”.
Like knitting start seeing how the green new deal threatens the world upply of wool. Like wine how “regulations” are costing you more. and so on and so on.
Interesting study shows how many facebook users recognize how facebook may try to manipulate them but they think that they are “smart” enough to see it and ignore it it is everyone else who is at risk.
Just like herion addicts who start with the belief they can control it but in the end it controls them.
Has it supplied some pleasure, ease of connections and sense of community? Not to be denied. But at what cost to your privacy, the privacy of your contacts and the body politic.
Just as opiods do have a limited medical usages but left unregulated do well documented harm to the body politic and individuals, so does facebook offer some surface benefits to mask the manipulative, and insidious, stripping of privacy and total commercialization of your data to be given to thuglicans so they may thwart any good that you may hope to aicheve.
@Linda Phipps #26
29Oh not to mention that membership is helping to create profit for them to continue to host doctored video of Ms. Pelosi.
Nothing like hosting smears of Speaker Pelosi that is, in part, subsidized by liberal and progressives who stick to facebook.
In the alt right community that is a win-win
From technologybreakingnews.com:
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McConnell was asked about a proposal by his colleague Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to make Medicare available for all. The Kentucky Republican said that was a sign of just how the Democratic Party has embraced socialism. “Not as long as I’m majority leader. It ought to be called Medicare for none because as the setup piece pointed out 180 million American’s would lose the private health insurance that many of them negotiated for at work. Medicare itself — the current recipients have been paying into all these years would be completely drained by adding all these additional people.”
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If we’re not loading this loathesome reptile into the tumbrel, but just talking about him, we should be careful not to misrepresent what he says.
His claim is largely true – the general population will be trading their expensive, private insurance for the cheaper, tax-supported insurance. I’m retired, and Medicare is great. I also have private supplementary insurance plans (subsidized by AARP). Nothing preventing rich …people …from getting extra insurance. I never had any choices while I was working – I always used what my then-current employer offered. I’d say that we have to make it clear to the Trumpanzees that tax-supported medical insurance would be cheaper than their current set-up (if they have one), but I fear they are ineducable.
30@kermit (not the frog)
31Bogus.
I went to the articles I could find about this including the thuglican page and he was being very clear that he was serious about Medicare for None and the fig leaf he tried to attach to that statement is just to try for some weasel exit if he gets pinned on the subject.
Stating that Medicare would die and all those who have paid into it is just fearmongering.
While it may, by a stretch of legic, be “accurate” the reality is that if it is replaced with actual Medicare for All it would not die and no one would lose their “investment” since every plan does inject more funds.
So NO
This was a bogus arguement made by a bogus human being ( more turtle) just trying to obscure the truth,
The Progressives accuracy is not in question.
Nor is mcconnells, we know he lies avery time he opens his pie hole.
Well, everyone else has writ plenty of words so I’ll just say this little bit, again! As I think we all ought’a remember it.
32Mussolini was hung by his heels in a town square.
Jus’sayn’!