Liz Cheney concession speech

[Lux Interior]

PeterB wrote:
She is just such a class act.

She is the typical, horrible republican.

I admire her for defending democracy instead of bending the knee, but she is not someone I would support politically.

[DeusxMac]

Lemon Drop wrote:
Both of these people are children of great privilege, silver sppon kiddos.

Both privileged, but one's CV presents a greater depth of experience and, if you will, worldliness than the other. One is a doctrinaire conservative I disagree with, the other is a corrupt clown.

[August West]

- University of Chicago (JD)

I can respect that.

[Lemon Drop]

DeusxMac wrote:
[quote=Lemon Drop]
Both of these people are children of great privilege, silver sppon kiddos.

Both privileged, but one's CV presents a greater depth of experience and, if you will, worldliness than the other. One is a doctrinaire conservative I disagree with, the other is a corrupt clown.
I can see that.

[gadje]

DeusxMac wrote:
...


Carlson
- Trinity College (BA)
- Tried to join the Central Intelligence Agency, but his application was denied
- Fact-checker for Policy Review
- Opinion writer at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- Columnist for New York magazine and Reader's Digest
- CNN (2000–2005)
- MSNBC (2005–2008)
- A contestant on season 3 of the reality show Dancing with the Stars in 2006
- Fox News Channel (2009–present)

Interesting, I didn't know he worked at CNN and MSNBC

I am curious where he goes next after being kicked out from Fox.

[PeterB]

Lux Interior wrote:
[quote=PeterB]
She is just such a class act.

She is the typical, horrible republican.

I admire her for defending democracy instead of bending the knee, but she is not someone I would support politically.
Well I dunno. The typical, horrible Republican is following/supporting Baron Trumpkonnen right now. I agree that I wouldn't support her politically, but it does take some courage to do what she and Adam Kitzinger are doing-- to put country over party, knowing full well that you're sacrificing your political career by doing so. The rest of her party are apparently willing to sell their souls to the devil.

[mrbigstuff]

RAMd®d wrote:
This is what is called, "an uneasy alliance."


No, not at all.




THIS is an uneasy alliance.

Or at least much closer to one than Cheney.

Perhaps it's how one interprets the word, "alliance."

Cheney voted with Trump 93%. While Manchin and Sinema voted 90% plus with Dems.

[$tevie]

Aside from the fact that Harriet Hageman looks like a circus clown who had 50 pounds of collagen injected into her face, and Cheney looks like a serious person who can use logic and empirical knowledge, this election isn't going to change how that seat votes in the Senate.

What it does mean is that Cheney can finish up her January 6th hearings unencumbered by having to run for the seat, and can devote all her venom and intelligence to going after TFG and anyone who runs a campaign based on loving TFG. So that's a good thing.

I respect her decision to use her position to try to defeat Trump, knowing that this decision would make her lose that position. I don't agree with people who say this is like praising someone who only did what they should have. Maybe 50 years ago it would have been, but in this day and age it is real courage and I respect that even if I don't respect her politics or her father.

PS: you just know she is getting death threats every day, probably directed at her and her dad and everyone else in her family. So that is something she must have had to consider. So chalk up another reason that I say she is courageous.

[vision63]

mrbigstuff wrote:
[quote=RAMd®d]
This is what is called, "an uneasy alliance."


No, not at all.




THIS is an uneasy alliance.

Or at least much closer to one than Cheney.

Perhaps it's how one interprets the word, "alliance."

Cheney voted with Trump 93%. While Manchin and Sinema voted 90% plus with Dems.
Joe Manchin standing by while Biden signs the Inflation Reduction Act Manchin helped write.

[$tevie]

vision63 wrote:
[quote=mrbigstuff]
[quote=RAMd®d]
This is what is called, "an uneasy alliance."


No, not at all.




THIS is an uneasy alliance.

Or at least much closer to one than Cheney.

Perhaps it's how one interprets the word, "alliance."

Cheney voted with Trump 93%. While Manchin and Sinema voted 90% plus with Dems.
Joe Manchin standing by while Biden signs the Inflation Reduction Act Manchin helped write.

I love the video of this. Joe says more with his eyes than a lot of people can say with their mouths. It's pretty hilarious.