The same people losing their minds about Trump’s out of context Liz Cheney comment are the same people who said they wished Trump’s shooter hadn’t missed
@atrupar Wow, I’m so shocked that propagandist Rupar cut it off before this line: “They're all war hawks when they're sitting in Washington in a nice building saying ‘Oh gee, let's send 10,000 troops into the mouths of the enemies.' She always wanted to go to war with people.”
I remember the hotly contested election of 1968: both parties had a slew of viable candidates (RFK, Humphrey, Muskie, Wallace, McCarthy, Nixon, Romney, Reagan; I'm sure I've forgotten others). There was an assassination (RFK), and chaotic protests at the DNC. But nobody was saying, "Oh no, if Nixon is elected," or, "if Humphrey is elected, the world is going to come to an end!"
That's not just because Nixon and Humphrey were who they were. It was also because the national government had not yet assumed quite the tyrannic powers it now assumes: powers that extend into every schoolhouse in the nation, and into our very perceptions of reality. The vast administrative state was still a fat baby messing its diapers. Both parties were full of leaders who actually loved America, and who took pride in American history and American folkways, the history with all its faults, and the folkways with all their sometimes embarrassing virtues.
When, however, what you want from politics is the Unnatural or Unreal (such as that a baby in the womb is a mere growth, or that a man can marry a man, or that women who'd be overmatched by teenage boys can be tough GI-Janes, or that men who pretend to be women should be permitted to clobber them in sports, or that a nation can remain a nation without being strongly rooted in culture that transcends the generations, or that a society can thrive while its fundamental social institutions sicken and grow frail; and so on), then you must always be jittery, lest Nature reassert herself.
Anyway, I will be glad when the election is over. The nation is a basket case now, and it will be a basket case a week from now. A lot of work has to be done.
"I don't want people making decisions who don't pay the price of their decisions, and that's what politics is all about. You don't pay the price of the decision."
Folks, Trump didn't threaten to execute Liz Cheney. He actually was calling her a chickenhawk, something liberals said about her for ages.
Look at the context — Trump is talking about giving her a weapon. Typically, people put in front of firing squads aren't armed.
I recently traveled to NC and victims of Hurricane Helene told me nearly two weeks after landfall, the Biden-Harris Administration had STILL not provided them with all the resources they desperately needed.
But CBS selectively edited OUT ENTIRELY this first-hand perspective.