The human cystic pustule, Ross Douthat, explains why he thinks (and secretly wants) Trump to win. I would say prepare to be surprised, but nah, this is who this fucker really is. Taint washing Trump
The point isn’t that the Cheneys will bring lots of other conservative voters to vote for Harris. The joy is in seeing the cracks in the former vile Conservative/Republican now MAGA party widen. I read Liz Cheney’s book with a huge grain of salt— and my takeaway is twofold:
One, she is still so far to the right that I wouldn’t want her to hold a government position again.
And Two, by working on the Jan 6 committee, she wrote how surprised she was at the competent and smart and ethical leadership of Pelosi, Benny Thompson, Jamie Raskin, etc on the committee. She said it opened her eyes to how incompetent and corrupt her fellow Republicans operated.
With every Republican or former Trumpet who votes/endorses or otherwise supports Harris/ Walz out loud, the MAGA apparatus crumbles a little bit more. And as every homeowner knows, if you put enough cracks in your basement, and pull out enough struts and supports from your walls and roof, your house is eventually going to collapse.
We are cheering for a total collapse, without bloodshed. Out if the ashes of that we can build a worthy new party.
I was impressed with bulwark and neverdrumfpers but a young wise person once explained to me how these nevertrumpers are still cfgqp and how Cheney, along with other gap, is against drumfp but still voted with him on the bills. So they're still the despicable, deplorable, cruel rwrethugs; they just want drumfp out of their cfminority minority party to rule the majority of Americans, and hope to salvage gqp, with their anti-women, pro-war, pro-tax cuts for oligarchs & generally anti-American agenda.
dickfcheny should have faced inquiries. cheneys, bushes, ramsfelds, barr, there were some others, may be abrahams, someone named paul ? the architects of the Iraq war on fabricated lies are sitting on piles of wealth soaked in the blood of American soldiers, (not contractors) AND of innocent Iraqis.
It's important to note that if gqp can they'll immediately bring on board the above thugs and fervently implement the unpopular policies. We can be assured that they'll pass constitutional amendments to outlaw voting, abortion+medicines, take down social security and Medicare and Medicaid and Obamacare.
We on the left need to call it Obamacare as rethugs called it "obamacare" before it's passed and became too popular and reality.
Similarly we need to start calling infrastructure bill as Biden bill as it would be, rethugliCons after voting against it, are using it in hopes of winning in 2024.
Someone here on social media should come up with attractive/flashy name.
I think Liz has been having a lot of eye opening moments lately (as has Kinzinger, who sounds more and more liberal every day). At this point I welcome anyone who opposes Trump. Politics makes strange bedfellows, the enemy of my enemy is friend, and all that. I’m not a fan of hers, but I do think having hard core Republicans endorsing a progressive candidates is good news (she’s also endorsing Colin Allred, hoping he’ll beat Ted Cruz).
As to unsubscribing, nah. We’re on the same side. Besides, your Substack is endlessly entertaining AND where would I get my music education!?!? 😉😂
I appreciate your takes on any subject. Darth Cheney was not a whole lot better than Trump which is a low bar. Liz was good on the J6 committee but she has been pretty horrible in the past too. I was appreciative at first that they openly voiced support for Harris, but no one will be with either in the voting booth. Call me cynical. I would be happy to be wrong.
TBF, Geoff, I think you’re wrong about Liz C. Honestly, I appreciate any backbone shown in light of all the politicians basically defenestrating their moral compasses for TFG (said in the parlance of my native Delco PA). But it’s cool. People can disagree. The prize here is to defenestrate 45.
Thank you for finally saying what should have been the caption to every “Liz endorses Kamala” headline: who fucking cares?! Only after she has NOTHING left to lose does she come out against the Mango Mussolini. Fuck her, double-fuck her Dark Side Dad, and all those never trumpers? Yeah fuck them, too.
The point isn’t that the Cheneys will bring lots of other conservative voters to vote for Harris. The joy is in seeing the cracks in the former vile Conservative/Republican now MAGA party widen. I read Liz Cheney’s book with a huge grain of salt— and my takeaway is twofold:
One, she is still so far to the right that I wouldn’t want her to hold a government position again.
And Two, by working on the Jan 6 committee, she wrote how surprised she was at the competent and smart and ethical leadership of Pelosi, Benny Thompson, Jamie Raskin, etc on the committee. She said it opened her eyes to how incompetent and corrupt her fellow Republicans operated.
With every Republican or former Trumpet who votes/endorses or otherwise supports Harris/ Walz out loud, the MAGA apparatus crumbles a little bit more. And as every homeowner knows, if you put enough cracks in your basement, and pull out enough struts and supports from your walls and roof, your house is eventually going to collapse.
We are cheering for a total collapse, without bloodshed. Out if the ashes of that we can build a worthy new party.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_mjeBjxhjI/?igsh=djZla3BnaGNqbzky
Why should your "spicy take" cost you subscribers... we don't have to agree with you to respect you and enjoy what you write. ✌️✌️
I was impressed with bulwark and neverdrumfpers but a young wise person once explained to me how these nevertrumpers are still cfgqp and how Cheney, along with other gap, is against drumfp but still voted with him on the bills. So they're still the despicable, deplorable, cruel rwrethugs; they just want drumfp out of their cfminority minority party to rule the majority of Americans, and hope to salvage gqp, with their anti-women, pro-war, pro-tax cuts for oligarchs & generally anti-American agenda.
dickfcheny should have faced inquiries. cheneys, bushes, ramsfelds, barr, there were some others, may be abrahams, someone named paul ? the architects of the Iraq war on fabricated lies are sitting on piles of wealth soaked in the blood of American soldiers, (not contractors) AND of innocent Iraqis.
It's important to note that if gqp can they'll immediately bring on board the above thugs and fervently implement the unpopular policies. We can be assured that they'll pass constitutional amendments to outlaw voting, abortion+medicines, take down social security and Medicare and Medicaid and Obamacare.
We on the left need to call it Obamacare as rethugs called it "obamacare" before it's passed and became too popular and reality.
Similarly we need to start calling infrastructure bill as Biden bill as it would be, rethugliCons after voting against it, are using it in hopes of winning in 2024.
Someone here on social media should come up with attractive/flashy name.
I think Liz has been having a lot of eye opening moments lately (as has Kinzinger, who sounds more and more liberal every day). At this point I welcome anyone who opposes Trump. Politics makes strange bedfellows, the enemy of my enemy is friend, and all that. I’m not a fan of hers, but I do think having hard core Republicans endorsing a progressive candidates is good news (she’s also endorsing Colin Allred, hoping he’ll beat Ted Cruz).
As to unsubscribing, nah. We’re on the same side. Besides, your Substack is endlessly entertaining AND where would I get my music education!?!? 😉😂
I appreciate your takes on any subject. Darth Cheney was not a whole lot better than Trump which is a low bar. Liz was good on the J6 committee but she has been pretty horrible in the past too. I was appreciative at first that they openly voiced support for Harris, but no one will be with either in the voting booth. Call me cynical. I would be happy to be wrong.
TBF, Geoff, I think you’re wrong about Liz C. Honestly, I appreciate any backbone shown in light of all the politicians basically defenestrating their moral compasses for TFG (said in the parlance of my native Delco PA). But it’s cool. People can disagree. The prize here is to defenestrate 45.
Thank you for finally saying what should have been the caption to every “Liz endorses Kamala” headline: who fucking cares?! Only after she has NOTHING left to lose does she come out against the Mango Mussolini. Fuck her, double-fuck her Dark Side Dad, and all those never trumpers? Yeah fuck them, too.
I take it you're not going to unsub over that? 😀
Yeah, it bugs the fuck out of me how much they are fawning over her sole moment of doing the right thing.
But it isn't going to move a single other vote
Yeah, I’m not going anywhere🤘
I’m willing to bet VP Harris’ response to Liz’s “generous” endorsement was at most an eye roll.