Mitch McConnell calls Biden's speech 'incoherent' and 'beneath his office'

[SouthBayDem]

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Source: CNN

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell blasted President Joe Biden's speech pushing for the Senate to change its filibuster rules to pass voting and elections legislation, saying it was a "rant," "incoherent," "incorrect," "beneath his office" and "unbecoming of a President of the United States."

"How profoundly -- profoundly -- unpresidential," the Kentucky Republican said Wednesday on Capitol Hill. "I've known, liked and personally respected Joe Biden for many years. I did not recognize the man at the podium yesterday."
Biden in Georgia on Tuesday equated supporters of Senate rule changes to civil rights icons and opponents to segregationists and a leader of the Confederacy.

"At consequential moments in history, they present a choice," said Biden in his speech. "Do you want to be the side of Dr. King or George Wallace? Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?"

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/12/politics/mitch-mcconnell-biden-speech-reaction/index.html

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What, did Mr. President touch a raw nerve with Con Man?

[elleng]

1. DAMN I hate them.

[BigmanPigman]

8. If there is a level that goes beyond mere "hate" then I am there.

I can't even put how much I despise him into words, there are no words.

[canetoad]

2. Because TFG

Gave such measured, well thought out, sensible orations that were totally presidential.

[PatSeg]

25. You can gauge how successful Biden's speeches are

by the level of faux outrage from McConnell and other republicans. Clearly, Biden knocked it out of the park and Mitch knows it. Comparisons to the defeated former president are inevitable.

[truthisfreedom]

3. Moscow Mitch can only hope his base didn't hear the speech.

Because it was completely coherent and on point.

[Bayard]

4. Absolutely nothing incoherent about that speech

It was righteous.

Mitch is so far, 'beneath his office', he has to shoo out earthworms.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. Jen Psaki laughs off Republican complaints over Biden's "offensive" voting rights speech yesterday

Link to tweet

[musette_sf]

6. Riiiiiight

projecting like a damn movie theater. TIFG* was the most profoundly unpresidential EVER.

*The Incoherent Former Guy

[Rebl2]

27. Absolutely!

[TomDaisy]

7. fuck you Mitch

[rockfordfile]

9. I agree

[SoCalDavidS]

10. What He Said

[C Moon]

11. The GOP is cornered. They thought tfg was going to win. He didn't.

Now they have no choice but to continue backing the lies tfg and his lawyers created.
In the mean time, it's becoming more and more visible that the GOP are traitors to the United States Constitution.
Even though 30% won't care, they will be up shit creek without a paddle if they continue to back the boneheaded failure.

[sakabatou]

12. McConnell can go to hell.

[trusty elf]

16. That's where he's from!

[Mawspam2]

13. Yo Mitch...

...show me on the doll where President Biden touched you.

[Botany]

14. Remember Mitch McConnell after blocking the House from hearing the tapes of Trump talking to ....

.... the President of the Ukraine or getting Amy Coney Barrett onto the Supreme Court
at election time 2020 or blocking the release of the information about Russia fucking with
the elections in 2020?

[bullwinkle428]

24. "McConnell is pictured here, watching a busload of orphans plunge over a cliff..."

[monkeyman1]

15. he's still pissed that the Russian aluminum in Kentucky flopped & screwed him out of rubles!!!

[Ziggysmom]

17. Moscow Mitch bragging about the political disruption he caused In Obama's presidency.

Wasn't that behavior beneath his office? He even called himself the grim reaper.

[Ford_Prefect]

18. Mitch got the call from his handlers that the monkey wrench won't be enough this time

and they're worried about that.

They only complain in this kind of language when their sacred cow is in the bull's-eye.

When the GOP leader who's owned the Senate for years is reduced to this level of vilification you know that Joe Biden was coherent, specific and precisely on point, as the President should be.

McConnell did not attack the substance of the speech nor the issues raised in it. He complained that the President wasn't playing nice and used bad language. You know you've got a bully scared when that happens.

[Evolve Dammit]

19. Such a lying sack of ___. Faux outrage from traitors. This picture needs to go viral.

[LaMouffette]

20. Mumblin' Moscow Mitch's hypocritical remarks almost made me spew "covfefe" all over my keyboard!

He is one terrified terrapin! I wish he would withdraw into his shell and stay there.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

21. McConnnell and his ilk would make it legal to enslave POC again, if they could.

Zombies still fighting the Civil War.

What's in your head, zombie?

[joshdawg]

22. Moscow mitch is beneath contempt........

let alone incoherent.
What an asswipe!

[Hieronymus Phact]

23. People seem to miss the point.

He's not talking to you, They never are. This is how they ignore you. He's creating sound bytes that can be fed to the his sheep. They'll record this and they'll play some doctored clip of Biden, and that's how they create their alternate reality. They are kept, in a cult-like way away from any conflicting information. They don't get any news that's not from a pre-approved source. It may feel good to tee off on his hypocrisy, but he knows who he's talking to and it isn't you.

You wonder how a person can be brought around to the idea that they need to be violent to "save the country"? This is it here, while you're guffawing over the hypocrisy, they are working themselves into a murderous mindset. It's not a light matter, this is more incitement, and it will get more people killed. It's the same as the stolen election BS. Ignoring the severity of this whole dynamic and the warped mentality it's nurturing is a mistake.

[Rebl2]

26. You are

absolutely correct.

[Wild blueberry]

30. Very good observation

Thank you.

[andym]

31. Accurate depiction: these are clips made solely for Fox News viewers and their ilk

to keep them gaslit.

[onetexan]

32. yup, it's also projection on the turtle's part

The one being incoherent & wreckless is him.

[Rebl2]

28. Unpresidential? Incoherent?

I think he must of been watching some of tfg rants/speeches-that’s stretching saying he ever did a speech. President Biden’s speech was neither unpresidential or incoherent!

[GB_RN]

29. This.

Besides, if you try to listen to anything Mitch says, it's like trying to listen to this (Authentic Frontier Gibberish).

[Omaha Steve]

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