I think Dick should invite Don on a nice duck hunting trip!
Or check his pockets for WMDs.
Dick and Don in da bungalow, with a shotgun
It’ll give ol Dick a chance to really…shoot the shit
Trump: "Tell me about the rabbits again, Dick".
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.
Exactly. This is one of those classic leopards ate my [daughter's] face moments.
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.”
televised military tribunals
Ripping a page from the playbook of the best 20th-century dictatorships
Retruth
Trumps a monkey wrench. Cheney fascism dreams were with the Bush family.
The straight one. Not the gay one
I thought the fucker had died already.
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
I remember people saying in the 2000 election that he was too old.
He also has no pulse. No, really.
Probably gonna live forever w that thing Darth vadering his ass through life
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.
Holy crap, why is that so horrifying
Cheney has gotten more than one heart since this article posted in 2011
The man who helped the party that got us into this mess is complaining about the uncontrollable monster it built. Get fucked Cheney.
If the boomers are gonna go around telling people “you’ll get more conservative as you get older and have money”
Can we start telling fascists “you’ll get less fascist as you get older and the same horrifying shit you were initially in favor of starts to threaten YOUR safety, in turn”
Idk, it’s not as catchy but I think it’s still short enough to make an impact
Cheney and people like him don't hate Trump because he's a fascist; they hate him because he's really bad at it.
A coup should either be really fast or really subtle, and Trump is neither.
The same people who stood by then the Supreme Court gave Bush Jr. the win in 2000 are finally getting the idea that SCOTUS needs massive reform.
The same people who stood by then the Supreme Court gave Bush Jr. the win in 2000 are finally getting the idea that SCOTUS needs massive reform.
Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Coney Barrett were all lawyers for GWB in Bush v. Gore.
It's literally the same people deciding it now who were arguing for it then.
Hm… maybe. I don’t think Cheney wants a fast successful Trump coup, though, because he (unusually among the CNN-addled dreck of consultants whose unrealistic mishmash of own-fart-smelling passes for strategic thinking in Washington) is acquainted enough with realpolitik to know what it actually might mean.
You'll get more conservative as you get older (with more money and privilege)
You'll get less fascist as you get colder (as the government you put in power let's civil infrastructure fall apart and/or straight up gun you down)
A place to stay Enough to eat
Somewhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street
Where you can speak out loud
About your doubts and fears
And what’s more
No one ever disappears you never hear their standard issue
Kicking in your door
You can relax
On both sides of the tracks
And maniacs
Don’t blow holes
In bandsmen by remote control
And everyone has recourse to the law
And no one kills the children anymore
No one kills the children anymore
“you’ll get more conservative as you get older and have money”
Wrong on both counts. Show me the X who has money not from inheritance or crime.
I think I understand your argument, but it's not hard to imagine someone telling a teenager that quote, prior to them getting steady work only a few years later.
It's also moldy advice. I recall this one getting tossed around back in the 1980's, by parents that absolutely went from zero responsibility to paying taxes on salary and a house, just after graduating High school. Things are very different now.
It's not even true for boomers. I'm (barely) a boomer and I'm much more liberal than when I was young, even though I have more money.
Man, when a scum bag says someone is a bigger scum bag, I feel like it's finally getting serious.
As the previous greatest threat to the American republic, he would know.
Takes one to know one!
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.
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
Good thing they did both: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot
So easy to forget how last generation's conservatives were doing the exact same shit as this generation's conservatives.
Not as devastating as getting confirmation that this ghoul is still alive.. Jerk! 😛
Says the second greatest threat to the republic.
More like the past damage. He already did his harm.
Yes. I meant from a historical perspective.
Is he afraid that Trump will cost him and Rumsfeld their legacy?
Bush Junior happy that the spotlight for worst president is off him.
Pretty sure that's Reagan.
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.
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.
Remember when Dick Cheney shot a guy and then the guy had to apologize for getting in the way?
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
According to the literally dude in second place in that running...that's something.
"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.
You know shit's bad when Cheney hates Trump.
Bull fucking shit. This man was
