Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy❤
No. of Recommendations: 5
OMG, this is the end of times.
Dick Cheney???? OMG!!
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”Dick Cheney will be voting for Kamala Harris,” she said of her father, who served as vice president under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009. “If you think about the moment we’re in, and you think about how serious this moment is, my dad believes — and he said publicly — there has never been an individual in our country who is as grave a threat to our democracy as Donald Trump is.”
Well, it’s taken 74 years, but I finally agree with Dick Cheney on something. 😁
No. of Recommendations: 3
Are you ready for the chorus of angry screams from the Trump cult? Dick Cheney is a RINO!!
No. of Recommendations: 1
Of course he is.....
They all have manufactured many Gold Star Families and will do so again.
And, White Wall Street Liberals and 401K'ers have no space between them and Cheney.
It's a perfect match.
No. of Recommendations: 2
I *never* would have thought that we'd see the day where PA libs are celebrating the Cheney family. But here we are.
LOL@them. All that stuff they said was merely performance art, just as we always said. They really don't believe in anything.
No. of Recommendations: 15
I *never* would have thought that we'd see the day where PA libs are celebrating the Cheney family.
And Dopey continues with the deliberate spin or complete ignorance of the world around him.
No one is celebrating the Cheney family. They are acknowledging that even Dick and Liz are smart enough to see how bad Trump is.
Which leaves us wondering why others aren't aware of that. Are they deliberately turning a blind eye to the facts, or are they just plain stupid. Sometimes is pretty easy to tell. (Blind eye: most office holding politicians. Just plain stupid: most MAGAts.)
You can fix those turning a blind eye. But it's well known you can't fix stupid. And there's an awful lot of stoopid running loose all over the country, and even posting their stoopid on internet discussion boards.
--Peter
No. of Recommendations: 3
Dick and Liz are smart enough to see how bad Trump is. Which leaves us wondering why others aren't aware of that.
Are they deliberately turning a blind eye to the facts, or are they just plain stupid. Sometimes is pretty easy to tell.
I think it's pretty simple: Trump hates the same folks they hate*.
*See the Unite the Right rally...
Hundreds of white nationalists marched through the University of Virginia campus carrying tiki torches and chanting slogans like, "They will not replace us."
The marchers included neo-nazis, white supremacists, and other far-right groups, you know the MAGA base.
Some of the same individuals who marched in Charlottesville later participated in the January 6, MAGA attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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they are not doing this for any sort of exoneration of the damage caused by cheneys throughout decades.
and it doesn't.
No. of Recommendations: 3
I think it's pretty simple: Trump hates the same folks they hate*.
*See the Unite the Right rally...
I don't think Trump really hates anybody. Doesn't like anybody, either. He just says whatever the group he's speaking to likes to hear. He pretends to hate if that's what it takes to get a benefit for himself. Like votes or money. But mostly money.
So when talking about the KK ... oops ... "White Nationalists" rally, he says, they will not replace us. The next morning, he can go to a NAACP convention and tell them that he's been better for blacks than anyone else. (Which I don't think he literally went to the NAACP, but I'm sure I've heard him say he's been great for blacks.)
It's just that haters like the KK ... oops, almost did it again ... white nationalists are also among the stoopid I mentioned. They're not smart enough to see that they're being played. They just like to hear the hate, so they stick with that.
Trump's base is slowly getting whittled down to the truly stoopid. The "blind eye" republicans are deciding to stop being blind and - not exactly confess their sins - but acknowledge that Trump is bad for republicans.
--Peter
No. of Recommendations: 3
Sounds like we have a great trade!
Alan Dershowitz said today he's no longer a democrat. They can have the Cheneys; we'll take him.
No. of Recommendations: 2
The marchers included neo-nazis, white supremacists, and other far-right groups, you know the MAGA base.
Remember...Trump called them 'very fine people'. Yeh, right.
No. of Recommendations: 1
It's just that haters like the KK ... oops, almost did it again ... white nationalists are also among the stoopid I mentioned. They're not smart enough to see that they're being played.
Not entirely true. Many of the racists have said Trump is not really their best candidate, but he's the closest they can get right now. Trump would move the country in the direction they desire.
No. of Recommendations: 9
I don't think Trump really hates anybody...He just says whatever the group he's speaking to likes to hear.Let's agree to disagree on this one. Trump is the the modern day embodiment of the southern strategy.
Here's a small sampling of a lifelong racist saying and doing a bunch of racist things:
In the 1970s, Trump was sued by the Justice Department for discriminating against Black apartment seekers.
In the 1980s, Trump took out full page ads calling for the death penalty for the (later exonerated) Central Park Five.
Trump was a prominent figure in promoting the false "birther" conspiracy theory questioning President Obama's birthplace.
Research has found a strong correlation between birtherism and racist attitudes.
The birther movement represented more than just false claims, it was an ideological statement about who belongs in America, with strong racial undertones.
The birther movement is an extension of a process of "othering" that begins with anti-black racial animosity.
He retweeted white supremacist accounts and false crime statistics about Black Americans.
Trump referred to some African nations as "shithole countries."
Studies found that racial resentment was a stronger predictor of Trump support than economic factors. (I found this study to be particularly interesting.)
Former staff members like Omarosa Manigault Newman and Michael Cohen have alleged that Trump used racial slurs in private.
He called Covid "kung flu", a wildly racist term.
He tweeted an image that showed Hillary Clinton in front of a pile of money and by a Jewish Star of David that said, "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!"
At the 2017 white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, David Duke, the former KKK grand wizard, said that the rally was meant "to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump."
Here's the documentation proving that a lifelong racist said and did a bunch of racist things...
https://scholarship.depauw.edu/politicalscience_fa...https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of...https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21565...https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-trump-racism...https://www.vox.com/2016/7/25/12270880/donald-trum...If you prefer videos, here's a short one from Brave New Films:
Donald Trump: A Racist With Racist Policies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmBQb4nZ0yA
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No. of Recommendations: 4
Those folks are putting country before party. I can deal with Republicans like that. We may have huge disagreements, but if we can at least agree that country comes first, it's OK.
I intensely disliked Darth Cheney. Didn't agree on practically anything. But I can respect that he's putting the safety of our democracy over any other policy consideration. Alas, a dying breed among Reps with their "alternative facts" and other BS.
No. of Recommendations: 2
But I can respect that he's putting the safety of our democracy over any other policy consideration.
The polar opposite of this seems to be falling back on policy issues and ignoring Trump's problems. Watched a couple bits on TV since the Cheney announcement, where the token Republican on the talk show wants to skip past January 6 and turn the discussion to policy (tax, immigration, foreign affairs, pretty much any other topic). Good politics, I suppose -- ignore your candidate's weaknesses and focus on the strengths. I suspect that's mostly what you hear on right-leaning news commentary shows, and why so many folks in red states don't seem to care about Jan 6.
--Peter
No. of Recommendations: 2
Mistah Vader.... he dead.
