“In our nation’s 246 year history there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our Republic than Donald Trump.” Dick Cheney pic.twitter.com/erBPBNy8ah
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) August 4, 2022
Former Vice President Cheney has breathed not a word of criticism about Biden. However, he views Trump as the greatest threat the Republic has ever faced. This of course is not really a political ad, in that his darling daughter stands not a chance in the primary, and in any case this video would only convince the most rabid Trump haters. The ad is interesting however. It is the swan song for Cheney and the administration he was part of, and a swan song of the pretend conservatism he was a master of. Make culture war noises, but the big donors get all the action. Fight forever wars without a clue as to how they will ultimately be won, and basically tell disgruntled conservatives they have no choice but to fall in line because there is no other option but the Democrats. It was a good gig for the Cheneys of the Republican party, and Trump brought that era crashing to an end, as he brought into being a new Republican party with more attraction for minorities and more focused on the economy and domestic concerns. Trump ended the gravy train and the power train for a good many people in the GOP and that is the primary reason he can never be forgiven by them An old order passing into history tends to be angry and Dick Cheney is a fitting symbol for that old order.
Thanks< Dick, for getting thousands of young GIs killed and maimed so you and your cronies could get richer.
Every thing that gut just said is a lie.
Who is ‘Linda’? His wife’s name is Lynnne.
Both Bush and Cheney have retroactively discredited themselves and a host of establishment Republicans have joined them.
Note, they are chiefs without indians. There is no indication that street-level Republicans were dissatisfied with Donald Trump at the end of 2019 when you added it all up; they may have been dissatisfied with aspects of Trump, but approving if you reduced the question to a binary. Those who did not accounted for about 8% of Republican respondents. Doesn’t matter who the President is, an irreducible share of Republican voters will be dissatisfied with the Republican president, much more than 8% in certain cases (as in the case of both of the men for whom Richard Cheney worked, who irritated about 1/4 of the Republican electorate). NeverTrump is an Acela corridor phenomenon, full stop. (Or, in the case of the Cheneys, Acela corridor denizens who own vacation properties around Jackson Hole).
We have a dear friend who was, for > 15 years, an aide to Sen. Susan Collins. Given his general political and cultural orientation, his employment, and his character and personality, you’d think he’d be quite antagonistic to Trump. His actual view was that Trump was a bull in a china shop and that limited what he could accomplish, but that he was more or less right on policy questions. The implication of his remarks was that the public weal would benefit from someone who was a better tactician. Our friend was so fed up with the working hours and the general atmosphere on Capitol Hill that he retired as soon as he thought he could afford it.
Note, the ‘threat’ posed by DJT is invariably left unspecified or reference is made to obvious fictions. They’re not telling you what is really getting their goat.
Trotting out the old man to attempt to throw a Haul Mary will actually be the nail in the coffin of her Wyoming political career. And the idea of her having national aspirations is a joke as well.
These people are odious frauds. They never were conservatives in any useful sense of the word. Spoiled little grifters are showing their true colors. One of Trump’s great talents was to get these types to expose who they really are. Seriously, what is/who are the Cheney family’s natural constituency these days? A couple mega donors who simply want cheap labor for their factories? Skeletor is being polite. What monsters.
This can’t help her chances of landing that MSNBC gig …
One would think after the resounding repudiation of the Bush-Cheney-McCain-Pence axis in the recent AZ primary election that Cheney would maintain his hitherto restraint. This comment by him is entirely self-destructive to his objectives.
But well said, “..An old order passing into history tends to be angry..”
Could be said of P. Francis as well.
Desperately. Here’s an issue voters need their elected representatives to clear up: Why are gasoline prices 100% higher today than January 2021?
They are taking their donor’s money and making a bonfire with it. Aside from stubbornness, the only thing that makes sense to me is that Lizard thinks she might be able to get enough Democrats to opportunistically register Republican to pull it off for her.
What’s odd is that the Wyoming electorate accepted her in the first place. She has her kids yapping about their great-great-granddaddy in her ads because, with the possible exception of the years 1977 and 1978, she’s never lived there, just visited. Her parents decamped to the University of Wisconsin in 1965; they owned property in Wyoming now and again but did not reside there, bar, perhaps, during those two named years.
This can’t help her chances of landing that MSNBC gig …
To steal a line, her new gig will be cosplaying Miss Piggy, who is, now and again, a guest on The View.
The blood in Iraq is on his hands. The ghosts of our fallen soldiers await him in the next life. Above all he and his boss are LIARS of the most evil kind. Cheney and Bush can go to Hell.
The blood in Iraq is on his hands.
Oh, for crying out loud? Do you think Iraq would be free from violence if the Ba’athist / Tikriti crew were still in charge? Have you bothered to ask yourself what share of civilian deaths were actually attributable to coalition forces? (per the Iraq Body Count, its about 15%). One can critique Cheney without peddling palaeotrash nonsense.
https://jonathanturley.org/2022/08/05/stay-tuned-cheney-declares-j6-holding-much-more-evidence-of-possible-crimes/
She’s now aping Adam Schiff.
HI YA
I have a great deal of respect for George W. Bush and even more for Dick Cheney. I don’t think they were right on everything – I hate it that on the internet you have to issue that caveat – but I respect their service and their intentions so much. The Afghanistan and Iraq wars were right, and in Iraq they did something that hardly any administration does when they recognized a problem and adjusted their strategy. I respect Bush’s intellect and humility, two traits that have disappeared from the White House since. He never punched back. That’s a virtue only historians will notice. I respect Cheney’s public service when he had clearly lost his passion for it, and particularly in his acting as the only voice against Obama in the early days of his administration.
Pinky you are correct that both Cheneys spoke out against Obama. I have altered the post accordingly.
An uncanny resemblance Art 😀
Pinky, I’m wondering how you could possibly know what Bush or Cheney’s intentions were.
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As for their public service, I agree, W’s service on the Yale cheerleading squad was exemplary. But as for Cheney’s? It’s been said that, when praised for his service, he replied: “I am an unprofitable servant, I have done only what I have been programmed to do”
and in Iraq they did something that hardly any administration does when they recognized a problem and adjusted their strategy.
Creighton Abrams replaced William Westmoreland’s strategy in VietNam in 1969, to good effect.
I respect Bush’s intellect and humility, two traits that have disappeared from the White House since. He never punched back. That’s a virtue only historians will notice.
That’s not a virtue. It was demoralizing.
Bush wasn’t the idiot partisan Democrats made him out to be and he was a bibliophile, atypical among recent occupants of the office. (Truman and Nixon. Not aware of any others). However, he was a man who had commitments, not convictions. Nixon, Bush I, Bush II, Mitt Romney were and are men for whom issues are fungible, for the most part. Ford and Dole were immersed in legislative minutia, had certain biases but no architectonic understanding of the aims of public policy. It was Ronald Reagan who knew his own mind, and was derided for having a concise set of criteria for evaluating ideas. It was also Reagan who knew how to build and motivate a workforce.
That having been said, the Bushes blithely betrayed everyone who ever voted for them.
It’s a virtue in normal times. I think it was probably a virtue then as well, but it’s just harder for us to tell because our parameters for civil conversation have taken such a beating.
Cheney R: “never been a greater threat to “Our Republic””…
Pelosi D: “never been a greater threat to “Our Democracy””…
What they really mean is “Our Oligarchy”.
President Trump showed us it doesn’t have to be this way.
Their corrupt, incompetent oligarchy [everything they touch turns to shite] is extremely lucrative [like $$$ trillions] on the taxpayers’ dime.
So, it isn’t about mean tweets.
It’s natural fear and loathing of the outsider who IS the main threat to their trillion dollar plundering of the American people’s substance.
It’s a virtue in normal times.
No, it is prudent now and again. It is mistaken for a virtue by capons.
One thing is for sure, dopey Dubya had better speech writers and could read a teleprompter better than Chinese Joe or Kamela Harris.
Speaking of ‘capons,’ in shocking news from the world of science a recent study discovered low levels of testosterone [mostly among Democrats that identify as males.]
Hell! They’re all low-IQ, low-info anyhow; and now they’re low-testosterone, too. That explains a lot.
I prefer calling them ‘eunuchs.’ However, most wouldn’t comprehend either pejorative.
Dick Cheney isn’t a capon or a eunuch. He’s a military/industrial complex crook with an eight-figure net worth from ki8lling almost a hundred thousand of my friends and a few million darker skin youngsters.
Though many light years preferable to Algore, dolt Dubya was a useful tool of the above crooks and $cumbags. He didn’t punch back because they didn’t tell him to punch back.
Looks like the transcriber messed up. If you listen to the audio itself, it sounds like he says “Lynne.”
That is the rumor, but as Byron York pointed out the other day, the math doesn’t work for her.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/is-liz-cheney-toast
There are only 282,207 registered voters in Wyoming, according to the latest numbers from the secretary of state. Of them, 34,925 are not affiliated with any party, 43,285 are Democrats, and 200,579 are Republicans. (The remaining few are Libertarians, Constitution Party, and others.) It does not take a math whiz to see that if Hageman has a huge lead among Republicans, which seems to be the case, Cheney cannot win by asking Democrats to switch parties and vote for her.
He’s a military/industrial complex crook with an eight-figure net worth from ki8lling almost a hundred thousand of my friends and a few million darker skin youngsters.
He did not kill anyone, your friend or no. He had an advisory position in the government. No, American forces did not kill 100,000 coalition soldier, Iraqi civilians, or 100,000 of anyone. About 280,000 combatants and non-combatants have died in Iraq since 2003. About 15% of these deaths are attributable to coalition forces.
Looks like the transcriber messed up.
The ‘transcriber’ works for his daughter. His wife’s been a public figure for 35 years or more. They have a campaign employee who does not know what her name is? Does said employee think his name is ‘Dirk’?
He did not kill anyone, your friend or no. He had an advisory position in the government. No, American forces did not kill 100,000 coalition soldier, Iraqi civilians, or 100,000 of anyone. About 280,000 combatants and non-combatants have died in Iraq since 2003. About 15% of these deaths are attributable to coalition forces.
Quite right Art.
You’re right.
I was almost as unfair to the despicable Cheneys as they are with President Trump.
Yes. Typos happen. I hear most transcribers are but mortal men. Did you listen to the actual ad? You can jump to the 0:26 mark and hear for yourself.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/07/prosecute-trump-january-6-doj/670511/
Two of the three shysters pushing this are Bush i appointees.
Yes. Typos happen
That’s not a typo. That’s a correctly printed name. It’s not her name.
Yes, THAT is a typo. Typos can include correctly spelled words if they are the wrong ones you autistic dum dum. That’s why there is an entire meme section called “autocowrecks” where auto-spelling corrections screw up messages. It. Happens.
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2022/08/08/pictures-of-torn-up-paper-notes-in-trumps-toilets-emerge-in-wh-correspondent-maggie-habermans-book-after-he-denied-flushing-oval-office-docs-donald-says-pics-are-fabricated/#disqus_thread
Maggie Haberman of the Sulzberger Birdcage Liner beclowns herself.