McConnell congratulates Joe Biden as president-elect, says Electoral College ‘has spoken’
BY Herschel Smith
4 years ago
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell congratulated Democrat Joe Biden as president-elect on Tuesday, saying the Electoral College “has spoken.”
The Republican leader’s statement, delivered in a speech on the Senate floor, ends weeks of silence over President Donald Trump’s defeat. It came a day after electors met Monday and affirmed Biden’s election win.
“I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden,” McConnell said.
“Many of us had hoped the presidential election would yield a different result,” he said. “But our system of government has the processes to determine who will be sworn in on Jan. 20. The Electoral College has spoken.”
McConnell called Biden someone “who has devoted himself to public service for many years.” He also congratulated Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, saying “all Americans can take pride that our nation has a female vice president-elect for the very first time.”
Sun Tzu said that “All war is deception.” McConnell is saying that this isn’t politics any more – this is war.
Okay. I think I’ve got it. The GOP is at war with the American people too.
On December 16, 2020 at 1:52 am, Jimmy the Saint said:
“The GOP is at war with the American people too.”
To which the GOP responds with this scene from “My Fellow Americans”:
https://youtu.be/WN9lSoh3O3o
On December 16, 2020 at 2:40 am, Hudson H Luce said:
The GOP Establishment is pretty much the same crowd as the Democratic Establishment. Trump, even though at various times he has been a member of the Republicans and Democrats (he was a Friend of Bill since 1992, was in the same social circle as the Clintons – they were family friends, and Hillary got him to run as a “pied piper” candidate to ensure her election), he’s never been a member of that Establishment. Wrong school, no clubs, NOCD property developer – he was despised a long time before he ran. He had to throw together a transition team at the last minute – he was headed off for a golfing vacation the day after the election – because he had no intention of becoming President. History said otherwise.
The GOP and the Democrats have one constituency – the Military Industrial Complex and the people who own it. The Deep State is another constituency – they’re the enforcers. The role of the American people – everybody else – is to sit down, shut up, and pay, and that’s all. The politicians from both “sides” fight like Punch and Judy in Congress, they don’t call it “kabuki” for nothing, but they manage incredible bipartisanship when funneling trillions of taxpayer dollars into the Military Industrial Complex, the National Security State (also known as the Deep State, the “intel community”, or the Swamp), and Wall Street.
In other words, both parties are fake, and not only is it a sham democracy, now it’s a sham republic. And the government abides by the Bill of Rights when convenient, which more and more isn’t very often or too much. This got its start in the 1880s, intensified in 1913 (Federal Reserve Act, income tax, direct election of senators), got a hell of a lot worse in the 1930s (see Garet Garrett, “The People’s Pottage”), and culminated in the foundation of the National Security State in 1947. The situation we have now is the product of the natural progression of these events.
There is no “reform” to be done in either of the parties, in any event, they’re private corporations, akin to private clubs, and unless you’re a member of the club, you’re not going to do anything. Very few are members, Donald Trump isn’t and never has been. The best that can be said is that he’s been a useful tool, although lately he’s been a bit of a bull in a china shop, and he got to be too troublesome to deal with, hence he got put out. He did manage to keep a lot of people sedated and calm, unlike, say, Hillary Clinton, who might have sparked a real resistance. No one like Trump will ever again be allowed within sight of the White House or, for that matter, Congress.
Is there any avenue to policy change, to restoring the free exercise of the rights in the Bill of Rights, and restricting the government to the powers delegated in the Constitution, in the present system? No, there is no route, none. The only difference today as opposed to 2016 is that a lot more people are aware of that.
You could say pretty much the same sorts of things about Republicans and Democrats on the State level, but they’re closer – potentially – to the people, and potentially more changeable. However, with phony elections, that may change, and in this election may have already changed – the states in which this has occurred should be readily apparent.
On December 16, 2020 at 1:41 pm, Adino said:
Separating the wheat from the chaff.
With an audience.