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.”
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
"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.