Trump stands to mess up the money flow for anyone but himself and his buddies should he be elected. Cheney isn’t his buddy, so of course he will be an outsider and stand to lose money. That’s what is likely the issue. Not Cheney suddenly manifesting a conscience.
"Guy who is currently running for President is the worst person in history" is so fucking time worn and thread bare.
Trump's bad because he exists right now and Andrew Johnson isn't so bad because he died 150 years ago. It doesn't have to be a contest, though. They can both suck nuts and we would be better off if neither of them had taken office.
Otherwise, if we're talking historical potential future Presidents, please use your time machine to find Benjamin Butler and bring him here so he can run in Joe Biden's place.
He has a pulse now:
"On March 24, 2012, Cheney underwent a seven-hour heart transplant procedure at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Woodburn, Virginia."
He was pulseless for 15 months though.
He's attacking Trump because Trump attacked his daughter. It's personal for him. Otherwise he'd be quietly cheering on the advance of fascism like every other right winger in america.
One post that he [Trump] circulated on Sunday singled out Liz Cheney, the former Wyoming congresswoman who is a Republican critic of Mr. Trump’s, and called for her to be prosecuted by a type of military court reserved for enemy combatants and war criminals.
“Elizabeth Lynne Cheney is guilty of treason,” the post said. “Retruth if you want televised military tribunals.”
This has always been the problem. For some reason, the very people you want to stand up and take notice of your political satire are frequently the kind of people that are just going to not understand. As they say: "you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into."
If the J6ers had caught up with Mike Pence, Lynne Cheney, and Mitch McConnell, I genuinely wonder whether Trump would actually be in jail right now instead of cruising around the country soliciting more fascists to his cause.
I am grateful I didn't see the National Guard mow down a bunch of civilians that day, but I also feel that the low loss of life is what has let a huge chunk of the population write off the events of that day as basically a "boys will be boys" moment, when it was really something Earth shattering in our country's history.
Historians could very well one day mark it as a turning point in our nation's history where we took a severe turn on the road to ruin. I really hope we can pull ourselves back, but since it seems to be a world wide trend, I have more anxiousness than I'd prefer.
The lack of action/inability to prosecute those found pulling the strings is what's really frustrating. Sure, send the brainwashed people to jail, but those will just be replaced by the people behind the scenes...
This stuff started decades ago with all the people that felt Nixon did nothing wrong and have worked throughout the media, the courts, and the government itself to show that "government doesn't work" to undermine the integrity of all these institutions and to get the people to support individuals rather than a collective.
They've poisoned our systems this whole time, and need to be rooted out if we want to continue being free.
Though there might be a line between "attacking" and "tribunal for treason". I have a feeling the latter is a step too far even for Dick Cheney when it comes to his daughter.
Definitely an all time "worst person you know just made a great point" moment.
There's obvious connection between today and the 2000 election's Bush v Gore court case. I suspect he doesn't see it that way, and there's a kernel of truth: applying political muscle to cause a clear coin-flip election to land your way isn't the same as riling up a mob after a clear loss. It's still categorically the same though.
Goes to show the current authoritarianism in the GOP isn't new. What's new is scope, and what enables it is the lack of guardrails within the party.
That said, the upcoming threat needs to be taken seriously, and I'm willing to bite my tongue for just about anything that helps push back.
That dude is giddy that it's gotten worse. It makes it easier to rewrite his own blood-soaked legacy, and he's insulated from the worst of it by his wealth.
