Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell listens as the Senate Rules Committee holds a hearing. | AP Photo/J. Scott ApplewhiteMitch McConnell is putting Big Business on notice: There will be "serious consequences" if corporate America continues acting like "a woke parallel government."
“Our private sector must stop taking cues from the Outrage-Industrial Complex. Americans do not need or want big business to amplify disinformation or react to every manufactured controversy with frantic left-wing signaling," McConnell said in a lengthy statement on Monday. "Corporations will invite serious consequences if they become a vehicle for far-left mobs to hijack our country from outside the constitutional order.
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Tell him to read that constitution. Its first amendment guarantees this right
its only a bad thing when they dont do what the conservatives want .......
Am I missing something here? Talk about gall? Isn’t this the same Mitch McConnell that asks hundreds of businesses for campaign donations every year and is now telling businesses to stay out of politics.
Isn’t threatening the free market against democracy...
I am confused. I assumed the GOP believes that industry should look after the shareholder interest, not some pressure group...
Politico speaks of Mitch as if he is a Deity. Grow a pair, guys.
Who cares what he says?
McConnell needs to go away. His obstructionist ways have run their course. Americans are fed up. Take note Mitch... there are way more Big Business Leaders WILLING TO MAKE CHANGE HAPPEN to fight obstructionism from the likes of him.
Why would corporations want their “brand” affixed to GQPDomesticTerrorists who after Donald (t)rump dialed up a MAGA WhiteSupremacy coup attempt against our country, ALL refused to convict him for sedition in Congress?
Hey Moscow Mitch-Corp America-Who are They ? They is US-W/out US Corp America withers & Dies ALL WE have 2 do is turn OUR attention otherwise..Coke Dies-Folgers Dies-Fruit of the Loom Dies-FORD Dies-PILLOW GUY Dies-GOYA BEAN DIEs-We Redirect Our attention & $$$$$$ = DOA
Damn its almost like liberals were getting equal treatment from big business. The turtle cant let that happen.
They are your donors too Moscow Mitch
Sounds to me like an extortion attempt by MoscowMitchMcTraitor
Grifting is the new legislating. Gaetz, McCarthy, McConnell, Cruz, Graham, Greene, Boebert, Hawley. Disinformation remains THE strategy. Combined with gerrymandering, voter suppression & nullification. Need to pass S1 & S4 to save democracy or QOP will hold power in perpetuity
The people's will is going to be expressed. Partisans in government and media are too distracted to do it, leaving us at the mercy of the masters of the market. Crying is not leading. Cry tears of joy when your will and the people's are one.
Mitchie just doesn’t get it. Big business doesn’t like where Rep are going anymore than the major of Americans do. After presiding over the party for years he has lost control to the tRump crazies
Mitch so your okay with Walmart not proving Health care, Amazon not paying income tax? Billionaires investors not paying taxes? No help for the working folks? Employer health care with huge out of pocket expense.
He has no one to blame but himself. He oversaw the takeover of the Republican Party by Trump. He even enabled it. Corporations are greedy but not crazy.
The King of Obstruction
Is it so hard to believe that people who run big corps have a moral conscience ? This shows how big the R’s lust for authoritarianism is
Welcome to Citizens United, Mitch. They're persons now...remember? It's their First Amendment Right. Your chickens just came home to roost. ☺️
Corporate America putting Moscow Mitch on notice: the markets do the right thing when self-serving politicians don't.
Fuck MoscowMitch
Mitch McConnells slick tactics are starting to backfire. He does know big Corporations are donors or now he doesn't care.
Dems: “but imagine if Citizens United backfired on you. This is a bad idea.” Republicans: “nah. We good.” Also Republicans: “who do these corporations think they are? People? “
Total click bait. Mitch McConnell has been the most effective leader in the Senate’s history because he doesn’t cater to the flavor of the month. He just calls it like he sees it. Some like it, some don’t...best part is...it doesn’t matter what they think.
Well. Their party beliefs are aging out... even if they have the voting system rigged.
Lol and crumble they are... you hear that? It’s the winds of much welcome change..
He likes them when they’re lining his pockets
What the GOP doesn't seem to understand is that the majority of Americans want fair elections, some sensible gun laws, fair taxation, healthcare, immigration reform, infrastructure and a functioning government.
F u Mitch
And they're acting woke to support the party that is going to tax them. Even big business knows the GOP is evil.
Far left mobs? Where? Outside of the Constitution? I thought GOP thinks Constitution is 'inconvenient' Is Grandpa Turtle face going to make corporations go to their rooms without dinner?
OMG Mitch, left-wing mobs?
I sure hope Mitchie's not planning on another term. Big Business might just have a gigantic '**** you' waiting on THAT eventuality.
Lol. Republicans and their voters will suffer the wrath of racist voter suppression laws.
But please continue to give us $$ fir our campaigns...
And what could those consequences be?
LeaderMcConnell Keep yelling it. If you want Big Business to stay out of politics, then hopefully Big Business will stop with their political contributions. God I hope so.
So we can control the first amendment but ignore the second amendment! Why? VoterSuppression GunControl StopHate NoToRacism
McConnell vs the Corporate Oligarchy 😆 shotsfired
Mitch ain’t got no power
The Republican Party will hypothetically stand up to big business on this issue, and make plain that the state can, should, and will dominate private interests when it needs to.
Hey Moscow Mitch, SIT ON IT!
LeaderMcConnell you work for us the people. All these years you think it’s the other way around.
So I guess mitch will now agree to Biden’s corporate tax hike for gop punishment
amandacarpenter Not when they can vote you out by withholding bribe money
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Yeah, he wants corporate America to act like a fascist oligarchy parallel government.
Yeah stay out of politics...except for the donations to my PAC!
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amandacarpenter Mitch is a hi-jerk.
Mitch is scared
He isn't doing shit lol
amandacarpenter This kinda sounds like a threat. .... LeaderMcConnell are you threatening business that if they stand up for people’s voting rights, you and the GOP are going to legislatively punish them? Cuz that’s what it sound like.
LeaderMcConnell corporations should not support sedition and voter suppression. Damn, you must be scared.
amandacarpenter Hmmm... seems like the GOP’s love affair with a Corporate Plutocracy wanes once they’re no longer an empowered minority party imposing their social agenda on the majority of Americans. 🤔
Mitch McConnell threatening corporations that are allowed to do whatever they choose and support whomever they want. 🤣
amandacarpenter Minority leader says what?
Let’s get corporate money out of politics then. Great idea, Mitch!
Maybe just maybe trying to destroy voters rights is too far over the line to suck up to you and your cohorts. Corporations do have some values they deem good for the country.
What is McConnell babbling about? People exercising their free speech are entirely working within our system of government-protected rights.
Don’t Mitch and his party receive tons of money from corporations?!
The left:
He forgets big business donors get to tell him what to do, not the other way round
So what's the threat then? He doesn't have the power. Empty threats.
Mcconnell is the one who needs to take this seriously...
Vox_Democracy That ‘s all the GOP does - investigate nonsense to smear adversaries, obstruct, and threaten. That’s just about it, oh and constantly lie, lie, lie.
The Republican Communazi Party hates anyone not rich and white. And they don't care who knows. 👿👿👿 They're consolidating power in preparation for another takeover attempt.
Good ole Moscow Mitch.
I bet they are shaking in their 🥾
It's Mitch McConnell way or no way.
Moscow Mitch says 'Nyet!' to free market, eh?
LOL the Supreme Court gave corporations personhood, so good luck...
Mitch McConnell can go retire already. He’s a freaking dinosaur.
Constitional order? What did he do in the wake of Jan 6th?
Wow, really Mitchie?
Nice try, McConnell. They own you. You would not be a rich senator if it wasn’t for their big donations.
Hahahaha. What’s he going to do? He has no power.
McConnell hates progress. He should put his nose to the grindstone & come up with some plans for infrastructure & health care. Quit preventing Biden from moving the country forward. Got a better solution, let’s hear it.
Sounds like a “sour grapes” complaint from LeaderMcConnell
Hahahahaha What is the party going to do, refuse their donations ? Not likely.
They might have to pay a fair share, eh?
what is he saying? Far left government, hijacking corporation by making them pay higher taxes? Well the consequences is that greedy bastards like Mich will have less money, only millions, not billons and the rest of us 99% will have better lives. Sounds good!
Doesn’t Mitch get tired of threatening Democrats?
No Mitch....YOU'RE the one inviting serious consequences, in form of these same corporations cutting off any further campaign contributions to the GOP
Why is Mitch the leader in how things go in the government? Let the voters speak.🗨👀🗣
Well, isn't that Ironic. I thought Corporations were people. 😂
What is Mitch McConnell going to do ... tax the big corporations? Doubt it. Empty threats and they know it.
What 😳 they won't be able to Line his pockets 😕 Anymore?
Unlike the gop, acting like a dead parallel government.
What's Mitch gonna do? Don his Rambo costume, and destroy American businesses?
He needs them more than they need him.
Guess they shouldn’t have given them so much power. “But you’re supposed to be on our side!!” mitchswitch
Threats all the time. Please stop it and do your job. You are making yourself even more a dunsel.
So in summary, campaign contributions are 1A speech but any other kind is punishable by the fascist party.
Lmao so no issue when they were pushing products that push conservative policies? 🤨
Sounds like he's trying to do some cancel culture
Given that they are the ones who PAY FOR THE ELECTIONS they should be playing politics in the BACKFIELD but not in public. It used to be BACKROOMS where much of what's 'PUBLIC' now went down, sad that CORPORATIONS like SPORTS don't stick with what they do & POLITIC so openly.
Wow look at him doing his job for once. Yeah right, it’s just an act. He’s the poster boy for RINOs.
This is getting good watching McConnell bite the hands that feed him.
Mitch McConnell has corrupted the Senate with and without the help of big business money for years. Is he an exception to the rule? No. But do not act so righteous about things you'd destroy given any opportunity.
Is he threatening Corporate America? Sure sounds that way to me? Now no one is going to vote republican. He just dug his party in even deeper.
corporations have free speech when they donate truckloads of money to republican candidates but not so much when they oppose bad republican policies
Dear comrade mitch, it was your party who made them what they are, tax cuts were used to buy back stock instead of expanding employment, but that was ok with you and yours, don't act like we forgot about that part.
So tired of Mitch McConnell threatening “terrible consequences” if anything he doesn’t like happens. Such hypocrisy. ForThePeopleAct RepublicanHypocrites
Bring it turtle.
QuinHillyer Or what exactly Mitch?
They've been running the Government for years Mitch!
Or, to put it another way: 'Mitch McConnell threatens to bite the hands that feed them donations for supporting voting rights'
Give the GOP your money then shut up.
Maybe they should have thought of that before fighting to support corporate rights to freedom of religion and speech.
Where in the Constitution does it say Coca Cola and the MLB has to be racist and side with the Klan? Is that the definition of a more perfect union?
Bring it on, the business numbers do not work for them demographically, being a fascist racist party aint good for business LeaderMcConnell
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What's he going to do, raise the cooperate tax rate and make them pay their fair share?
There is so much to unpack here, I love how this clown basically just admit that corporate America is so powerful that it function as essentially a 'parallel government' and the only problem now is that parallel government's ideology is growing to be at odds with yours lmao...
LeaderMcConnell, you and what majority?
KattyKay_ I'm asking myself will things escalate or de-escalate? I don't know,ideologues do exist.
So the party bitching about cancel culture now wants to cancel companies? Got it.
Tell me he plans to raise the corporate taxes as a punishment 🤣
I thank the businesses who have stood up to the Republican bullies !!!
McConnell believes anyone cares what McConnell thinks. They know where their bread is buttered by.
Let's see......Like NRA/Supremacist and Republicans? Especially Senators?
When lust for power is your moral compass, Mitch is your guy
So ironic. McConnell uses these words to describe the recent stance of Big Business on recent voting restrictions, '...a vehicle for far left mobs to hijack our country from outside the constitutional order.' Jan. 6th, the former Pres. & the GOP's response... Need I say more?
He's suspiciously silent on the subject of pillow company politics.
Every citizen has the right to vote. Don't mess with it and then claim the victim when corporations use their wallet. And, Don't forget this was all started on a big lie.
My god, shut up already with your threats LeaderMcConnell
What you gonna do Mitch.....make them pay higher taxes?
This is the relationship LeaderMcConnell embraces/promotes between Government and Big/Private Business.
What can the GOP do to threaten them? Not take bribes from them? Not go work for them when they lose their seats?
This from the guy that tried to hijack the country from outside the Constitutional order
Projection much, Mitch?
How about the GOP get on board with our nation and stop the bullshit.
Mitch is definitely less woke and has lost the plot. Just like all of his GQP have.
So, the GOP has gone from bribery to extortion. And they don't believe in evolution?
McConnell and rest of Republicans can put that word, woke, up a
Corporations have first amendment rights of free speech so long as they are exercising that speech to make contributions to Republican candidates.
You lost me at Mitch McConnell says.........🙄
I call on big corporate on America, to leave KY , and teach MMC some lesson on consequences... Republicons are no good.. deplorable
How old is Mitch McConnell? I no he should be about to meet his maker ?
It’s okay for GOP to attack the country from outside the constitution (like passing the Georgia Voting Restriction Act which will allow a hand picked GOP board to instruct the Georgia electors to do the boards bidding and overturn the votes of the people).
The GOP is scared. They emboldened big corporations by taking thier money and are now afraid that Big corporations are turning on them after they tried to take too much power.
Everybody who disagrees with me is a vehicle for far-left mobs to hijack our country from outside the constitutional order because i am the country and I am the constitutional order.
Since when did voting move “outside the constitutional order”?
What will you do, cancel them?
Minority Mitch
I’m sure corporations are so afraid! 🙄
Hes an idea to punish them....tax them,
McTurtle Needs To GTFO!
LeaderMcConnell is now threatening corporations for calling out 2021 jim crow laws.
Funny how Antifa just evaporated!
Lol yeah but it’s okay to let TRUMPS TERRORISTS INVADE THE CAPITOL .. what a joke!!
LeaderMcConnell is nervous because he has always avoided governing
Oh what BS. GOP has been loving checks they’ve written for lower taxes & regulation. Now that GOP has become an anti-science & anti-fact mob that hates all government, Corps are taking a stand against the autocratic madness. It’s good business when all their customers thrive.
Ooohhhh, im so scared.
Has he met Koch?
I guess that’s what Putin suggests?
I wonder if this sane America we have now is going by the wayside when these pirates get their drug back
What happened to free speech?
It's called paying taxes
But it's OK that Big Business has been so supportive of Republicans all these decades, regardless of corruption?
Dear Mitch: You made this bed. Now lie in it before fucking directly off to hell.
Rs need to take a breath, and tone down that crazy rhetoric.
I’m old enough to remember a little thing called “Citizens United”
But Mitch, the free market?
😂😂😂😂
Translation ? Stop taking positions on matters that can hurt republicans.
LeaderMcConnell can't get past the fact that he's the MINORITY leader now and not as relevant or powerful as he thinks he is. Corporations make politicians like McConnell. If he threatens them, they'll take him down.
Wow. Mitch finally admits that there is such a thing as 'private government' and private law. Talk about 'woke'.
Sounds like a threat. I PERSONALLY deal well with such things and would call his bluff. It would be real interesting and a shame if his corporate services that he uses to get his message out start acting funny.
Oh no, The Turtle is girding his withered loins for battle
This is the 'shut up and dribble' to the corporations.
Corporations, who fund campaigns, will face consequences?
Like you hijacked every bill in the Senate for 4 years, Mitch
And in Georgia, big businesses are telling the GQP that voter suppression and the Q's push to harm POC is not acceptable. McConnell is putting a big bull's eye on himself and the party as the Anti-American Party
McConnell thinks he’s still reigning.
Yes...how can corporations become tools of the Left...when the Far Right Conservatives has been paying them off for at least the last 100 years? That would be like...unethical...hypocritical...back stabbing...those are Moscow Mitch's calling cards!!
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