Former Republican Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney says that if Donald Trump is elected it will mean the end of the republic, and expresses alarm at how comfortable her party has become with the man and his lies.
Cheney talks with John Dickerson about politics, her career, and Trump’s White House run in a wide-ranging interview for “CBS News Sunday Morning,” to be broadcast December 3 and streamed on Paramount+. Cheney also talks with Dickerson about Speaker of the House Mike Johnson; her new book, “Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning”; and more.
With a fully complicit media. Gotta both sides. Gotta have that horse race. Gotta get those clicks and ratings.
That’s an optimistic interpretation. I fear a large portion of the country openly welcomes it – the opposite of sleepwalking.
Looks more like fully awake and cheering about it. Thoroughly brainwashed and delusional, but very wide awake.
Republicans aren’t sleepwalking, *they’re fine with it.* They will happily end the United States of America for their corrupt power struggle. They’re not good Americans, they’re just *republicans.*
It’s not quite like that. This is a little bit of a deep cut, but what it reminds me of is that scene in Evil Dead 2 where Ash’s hand is posessed. In America, we have this group that is a fairly small minority of the country that is dragging us into all of this crazy shit. They’re the hand in this analogy. And just like in the movie, I feel like in the long term the solution will be the same.
“But Biden is old!” -media
That dictatorship would last less than a month before normal Americans took care of things
I don’t think we citizens are all sleepwalking, though many likely are. I think we’re fed up with politicians not doing anything, and the probability for positive change being zero to none with Republicans holding any office and blocking any functional progress.
Liz voted against citizens numerous times with her party line towing until she became a bigger mouthpiece against trump. No sympathy for anything a hypocrite says. She enabled it until it fit her not to.
No, we’re racing towards it.
if we can keep Joe in the WH and tfg out, that’s another step in the right direction.
The problem is her. Did she stop her father? Did she stop her colleagues? I can point shit out. She was there, in the building, in the rooms, and what? michael steele is another one. You got paid to help the right advance, now you just talk about how bad the right is. And now msnbc is going to give steele a show? We’re doomed.
“The biggest threat to America today is not communism. It’s moving America toward a fascist theocracy.” – Frank Zappa, **1986**
She helped walk us this way.
Perhaps this is redundant, but I think it’s important to emphasize that it would be a military dictatorship.
The fact that every single institution, from the media to _both_ major political parties, isn’t doing every single thing possible to prevent Trump from actually destroying this country is unconscionable.
Even the GOP won’t benefit from a second Trump presidency … they’ll just be fucked in different ways.
You piped up a bit late
“Walk this way, talk this way”, Trumps campaign song.
You’re responsible liz.
Yea Liz, after you and your colleagues spent your whole careers getting us to this point.
No we aren’t, we are awake and watching this train wreck in slow motion.
How about those enablers Liz?
Oh it’s not sleepwalking. It’s very much awake and intentional.
More like running
Never in my life did I think I would find myself saying things like, “Ya know, I agree with Mitt Romney on this.” or “Everything Cheney just said is spot on!” What a wild ride the last ten years have been.
And she helped get it there.
(Obligatory Liz Cheney is dog shit note)
We already live in a dictatorship and the dictator is capital. Plain and simple. Try to chop it in any direction you want, but the extreme majority of all politicians capitulate to capital over the will of their constituency. Tis no democracy here, only a price tag.
What are you going to do to stop it, Liz? A lot of us are working against those who support and enable fascist dictators. What are you doing to join the effort?
Lots of us aren’t sleepwalking. I try talking about politics or warning people about the dangers of Trump and the modern Republican Party and I get hit with crap about “not wanting to talk politics”. If others don’t care what happens to them that’s their problem but it’s going to affect all of us – and a lot of us DO care.
Every non MAGA sees this.
Things are so bad right now in this nation, Darth Cheney’s daughter is a voice of sanity and realism on this front at the moment.
And it’s partially your damn fault Cheney
Oh, I’m not asleep. I’m it watching it in horror.
Her daddy helped set the table for this 20 years ago so she definitely knows what she’s talking about here
I don’t agree with a lot of her politics but she is completely right on this one. GOP and it leadership willing to end democracy to hold any power in our country.
“…that I helped start”
It’s not sleepwalking at all. A large minority is actively working towards that goal. Another smaller minority is trying pretty hard to point out what the first group is doing. Another critical minority may be sleeping and not paying attention, but if dictatorship comes, it will be because tens of millions of people wanted it to.
Liz Cheney is a generational part of that machine
We are not sleepwalking into it. We are sprinting with arms wide open.
Mote like a second civil war..and both sides have alot of guns.
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Former Republican Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney says that if Donald Trump is elected it will mean the end of the republic, and expresses alarm at how comfortable her party has become with the man and his lies.
Cheney talks with John Dickerson about politics, her career, and Trump’s White House run in a wide-ranging interview for “CBS News Sunday Morning,” to be broadcast December 3 and streamed on Paramount+. Cheney also talks with Dickerson about Speaker of the House Mike Johnson; her new book, “Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning”; and more.
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With a fully complicit media. Gotta both sides. Gotta have that horse race. Gotta get those clicks and ratings.
That’s an optimistic interpretation. I fear a large portion of the country openly welcomes it – the opposite of sleepwalking.
Looks more like fully awake and cheering about it. Thoroughly brainwashed and delusional, but very wide awake.
Republicans aren’t sleepwalking, *they’re fine with it.* They will happily end the United States of America for their corrupt power struggle. They’re not good Americans, they’re just *republicans.*
It’s not quite like that. This is a little bit of a deep cut, but what it reminds me of is that scene in Evil Dead 2 where Ash’s hand is posessed. In America, we have this group that is a fairly small minority of the country that is dragging us into all of this crazy shit. They’re the hand in this analogy. And just like in the movie, I feel like in the long term the solution will be the same.
“But Biden is old!” -media
That dictatorship would last less than a month before normal Americans took care of things
I don’t think we citizens are all sleepwalking, though many likely are. I think we’re fed up with politicians not doing anything, and the probability for positive change being zero to none with Republicans holding any office and blocking any functional progress.
Liz voted against citizens numerous times with her party line towing until she became a bigger mouthpiece against trump. No sympathy for anything a hypocrite says. She enabled it until it fit her not to.
No, we’re racing towards it.
if we can keep Joe in the WH and tfg out, that’s another step in the right direction.
The problem is her. Did she stop her father? Did she stop her colleagues? I can point shit out. She was there, in the building, in the rooms, and what? michael steele is another one. You got paid to help the right advance, now you just talk about how bad the right is. And now msnbc is going to give steele a show? We’re doomed.
“The biggest threat to America today is not communism. It’s moving America toward a fascist theocracy.” – Frank Zappa, **1986**
She helped walk us this way.
Perhaps this is redundant, but I think it’s important to emphasize that it would be a military dictatorship.
The fact that every single institution, from the media to _both_ major political parties, isn’t doing every single thing possible to prevent Trump from actually destroying this country is unconscionable.
Even the GOP won’t benefit from a second Trump presidency … they’ll just be fucked in different ways.
You piped up a bit late
“Walk this way, talk this way”, Trumps campaign song.
You’re responsible liz.
Yea Liz, after you and your colleagues spent your whole careers getting us to this point.
No we aren’t, we are awake and watching this train wreck in slow motion.
How about those enablers Liz?
Oh it’s not sleepwalking. It’s very much awake and intentional.
More like running
Never in my life did I think I would find myself saying things like, “Ya know, I agree with Mitt Romney on this.” or “Everything Cheney just said is spot on!” What a wild ride the last ten years have been.
And she helped get it there.
(Obligatory Liz Cheney is dog shit note)
We already live in a dictatorship and the dictator is capital. Plain and simple. Try to chop it in any direction you want, but the extreme majority of all politicians capitulate to capital over the will of their constituency. Tis no democracy here, only a price tag.
What are you going to do to stop it, Liz? A lot of us are working against those who support and enable fascist dictators. What are you doing to join the effort?
Lots of us aren’t sleepwalking. I try talking about politics or warning people about the dangers of Trump and the modern Republican Party and I get hit with crap about “not wanting to talk politics”. If others don’t care what happens to them that’s their problem but it’s going to affect all of us – and a lot of us DO care.
Every non MAGA sees this.
Things are so bad right now in this nation, Darth Cheney’s daughter is a voice of sanity and realism on this front at the moment.
And it’s partially your damn fault Cheney
Oh, I’m not asleep. I’m it watching it in horror.
Her daddy helped set the table for this 20 years ago so she definitely knows what she’s talking about here
I don’t agree with a lot of her politics but she is completely right on this one. GOP and it leadership willing to end democracy to hold any power in our country.
“…that I helped start”
It’s not sleepwalking at all. A large minority is actively working towards that goal. Another smaller minority is trying pretty hard to point out what the first group is doing. Another critical minority may be sleeping and not paying attention, but if dictatorship comes, it will be because tens of millions of people wanted it to.
Liz Cheney is a generational part of that machine
We are not sleepwalking into it. We are sprinting with arms wide open.
Mote like a second civil war..and both sides have alot of guns.