Liz Cheney: The U.S. Is ‘Sleepwalking Into Dictatorship’

[kaz]

I'm not in the habit of taking advice from an inveterate liar like yourself.

I'd ask what lie I ever told, but you'd lie, MAGA man

 

[Meister]

From the OP:

After serving three terms in Congress, Cheney lost her Wyoming primary last year, an outcome widely attributed to her going against the GOP and voting to impeach Trump for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Actually, she lost her seat because she was no longer representing her constituents in the state of Wyoming.
That's why she lost.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Trump has "told us what he will do," the Republican former congresswoman said in preview clips from an interview.

Liz Cheney, the former Republican representative from Wyoming, expressed deep concern in an interview about American democracy’s ability to survive another four-year presidential term for Donald Trump.

In clips shared Friday from the interview that will air on “CBS News Sunday Morning,” Cheney told host Josh Dickerson that Americans can’t entirely rely on Congress and the judicial system to rein in Trump ― the clear front-runner at this point for the GOP presidential nomination despite facing 91 felony charges linked to his 2016 campaign, his 2020 reelection loss and his mishandling of classified documents.

“He’s told us what he will do. It’s very easy to see the steps that he will take,” Cheney said.

“People who say ‘Well, if he’s elected, it’s not that dangerous because we have all of these checks and balances’ don’t fully understand the extent to which the Republicans in Congress today have been co-opted. … One of the things that we see happening today is a sort of a sleepwalking into dictatorship in the United States.”

Johnson was one of the biggest cheerleaders of Trump’s ill-fated attempt to claim victory in the 2020 election won by Joe Biden. Shortly after the election, Johnson led an amicus brief backing a Texas lawsuit asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the vote.

Cheney raised similar concerns about Johnson during a podcast appearance last month.



In a quote from the interview released by CBS News, Cheney slammed newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as someone who “knows ... that what he’s doing and saying is wrong, but he’s willing to do it in an effort to please Donald Trump.”

Liz Cheney: The U.S. Is ‘Sleepwalking Into Dictatorship’​

I totally agree! It's a scary and dangerous path that we're on! What do you think?

I think Liz Cheney has formed a poor opinion in her head.

 

[berg80]

Supporters of Cult 46 like berg80 are just unbelievable, aren't they? Literally

It is often the case among Cult 45er's that they resort to projection due to an inability to defend their drooling sycophancy.

 

[IM2]

Free your mind from this lunatic propaganda.

Yeah the lunatic propaganda like this:

Appeals court strikes down key tool used to enforce Voting Rights Act​

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/20/politics/appeals-court-voting-rights-act-ruling/index.html

I get real tired of the white gasliighting. So STHU.

 

[surada]

Better than some dementia ridden asshole

Hamilton describes Trump in perfect detail.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Actually, she lost hr seat because she was no longer representing her constituents in the state of Wyoming.
That's why she lost.

Right, because she wasn't licking the boots of the cult leader. This has already been covered.

 

[surada]

When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the ability of military habits—despotic in his ordinary demeanor—known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty—when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity—to join in the cry of danger to liberty—to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion—to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day—It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may 'ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.'"

Alexander Hamilton

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

I think Liz Cheney has formed a poor opinion in her head.

Have you thought about describing why? And what's wrong with it?

 

[BS Filter]

Recognizing the difficulty in amending the mistake of the EC lacks an endorsement of its outdated mandate. Cat got your tongue?

Well I guess that's as good an excuse as any to trash the Constitution. People like you are the problem.

 

[BS Filter]

Not as stupid as they are. They didn't like having the actions of the wanna be dictator they support thrown in their faces so they removed her from office. Talk about shooting the messenger.

Democrats love democracy...until they don't.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Well I guess that's as good an excuse as any to trash the Constitution. People like you are the problem.

But you supported and still support an effort to overturn the results of the EC.

Is anyone else seeing this? Freakish.

 

[IM2]

Let’s review the record. Despite inveighing against “endless wars,” Trump massively escalated the country’s existing wars in multiple theaters, leading to skyrocketing casualties. In Afghanistan, he substantially upped the amount of airstrikes, leading to a 330 percent increase in civilian deaths. In Yemen, he escalated both U.S. counterterrorism activities and support for the devastating Saudi-led war against the Houthis. According to the United Kingdom’s Bureau of Investigative Journalism, there were 2,243 drone strikes in just the first two years of Trump’s presidency, compared with 1,878 in the entire eight years of the Obama administration.

Trump also came very close to tweeting the country into a nuclear war with North Korea in late 2017 and early 2018, a completely self-inflicted incident that seems to have been bizarrely memory-holed. Trump “didn’t merely threaten to attack North Korea if it possessed the ability to strike the U.S.,” wrote the Intercept’s Jon Schwarz. “He ordered the Pentagon to develop new plans, over the resistance of then-Secretary of Defense James Mattis, to do so.” According to former Pentagon official and Asia security expert Van Jackson, who wrote a book about the crisis, “The world was closer … to nuclear war, at that time than any time, since the Cuban Missile Crisis. And it was totally avoidable.”

In 2018, Trump bowed to Washington’s neoconservative hawks and withdrew from a working nonproliferation agreement with Iran, resulting in Iran scaling up both its provocative activities in the region and its nuclear program. According to current U.S. assessments, Iran could now make enough fissile for one nuclear bomb in under two weeks, should it decide to do so. Under the agreement Trump abandoned, it would’ve taken Iran at least a year.

The list goes on: Trump put the U.S. on a path to “great-power competition” with China, incited a failed coup in Venezuela, and increased support for reckless, repressive clients around the world. Indeed, Trump was seen as such a dangerous interventionist that Congress passed the first war powers resolution in history to try to end his support for the Yemen war. Less than a year later, Congress passed a second resolution to brush him back from a potential war with Iran after he OK’d the assassination of Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Commander Qassem Soleimani. Both measures passed with Republican support, making opposition to Trump’s militarism one of the very few areas of bipartisan agreement during his administration.

Calling Trump an Anti-Imperialist Is Nonsense

The anti-war left shouldn’t fall for this dishonest pitch.

foreignpolicy.com

 

[Meister]

But you supported and still support an effort to overturn the results of the EC.

Is anyone else seeing this? Freakish.

Your post?
No more freakish than the rest of your posts.

Liz is just butthurt that she was was defeated in Wyoming and when she went
to the darkside, the Democrats didn't want her after the clown show closed the curtains.

 

[IM2]

Actually, she lost hr seat because she was no longer representing her constituents in the state of Wyoming.
That's why she lost.

No, she lost because she refused to lie..

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Your post?
No more freakish than the rest of your posts.

Yet you can't say why. Just the usual, vapid crybabying.

Liz is just butthurt that she was was defeated in Wyoming and when she went
to the darkside, the Democrats didn't want her after the clown show closed the curtains.

How incredibly stupid. She said this long before she lost her seat. Not everyone is as shallow and low IQ as your cult leader, ya know.

 

[BS Filter]

No, she lost because she refused to lie..

She was voted out. Democracy.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

She was voted out. Democracy.

Yes, we all know the low information analysis. Some people go a little.deeper.

 

[IM2]

Your post?
No more freakish than the rest of your posts.

Liz is just butthurt that she was was defeated in Wyoming and when she went
to the darkside, the Democrats didn't want her after the clown show closed the curtains.

Actually she's trying to save thhiss nation. I don't like her, but she's right.

 

[Meister]

Actually she's trying to save thhiss nation. I don't like her, but she's right.

Both parties want the same thing, if you don't see that, then you are part of the problem.