She did very openly get close to the Cheney familiy during her presidential campaign, so she might very well think that according to her own values he had done nothing wrong.
It seems to me that one of the core problems of the Democrat Party leadership which has led to their candidate being defeated once again by none other than Donald “Sex Offender” Trump, is exactly that their values are pretty much compatible with Cheney’s.
So Abe Lincoln was going to put Simon Cameron in his cabinet. Cameron was kind of a piece of shit, and so Thaddeus Stevens when he heard this got alarmed. When questioned about if he was really saying that Cameron would steal, Thaddeus Stevens thought for a minute and said, well, “I don’t think he would steal a red-hot stove.”
So the story got around because it is funny. Abe Lincoln in particular thought it was one of the funniest things he ever heard (also while he made Cameron Secretary of War) and told many people. So eventually of course it got back to Cameron. Cameron was pissed, and angrily demanded that Stevens take back the slur on his character.
So Thaddeus Stevens after Cameron had yelled at him said, “Well, he is very mad, and he made me promise to retract. I will now do so. I believe I told you he would not steal a red-hot stove. I now take that back.”
He was one of the few high-profile Republicans willing to stand by his condemnation of Trump after January 6th, even when the party came crawling back and that stance became a huge liability for him and his daughter. I can respect that.
Not doing one out 1000 horrible things is not worthy of respect.
In fact, opposing it fits Cheney’s character because his entire evil persona was based on getting everyone else to do his evil bidding within the working government. Someone trying to overthrow a system he manipulated was a personal attack by Trump. Cheney didn’t oppose it out of his love for America or anything, he opposed it because it undermined his life’s work and he took it personally.
Yeah. And Hitler liked his dog. Definitely peoples-is-peoples kind of things but if i was a global political figure i might err on the side of quiet for some sentiments.
Trump’s gonna bite it one of these days and when he does, any self-conscious politician who hopes to win office with a progressive bent better watch their fuckin p’s and q’s.
Democrats are mostly reasonable, and responsible, but as in the last forty years, there’s an opportunity to destroy fascists (like Cheney) and the more they ignore it the more they lose. It’s a fine line, to be sure, between “responsible tomorrow / better jobs” and “BLOOOOOOOD!!!”. But they need to have thought that through again because their consultants are old and broken.
Justice and Politics need to sort their shit out yesterday.
Hitler didn’t actually like his dog. Or… it’s complicated. He threatened to kill Blondi because someone else played with her, he would beat all his dogs or hit them with a riding whip when they were disobedient (he said “it was necessary”), and when he decided to kill himself with cyanide, he told the doctor to test the cyanide first on Blondi. She died.
He did seem like he emotionally enjoyed being with his dogs, but he was too much of a psychopath to really have a normal human-to-dog relationship with them or to give them actual affection in return. The whole thing of him being a dog lover was mostly Nazi propaganda.
Yeah okay well he was gakked to the gills for a few years there so yknow. But he killed himself . . . they say . . . right afterwards so i like to think he thought he was taking his dog with him. Although yeah a complete nutter and history’s greatest monster.
(Recent history’s greatest monster? Ok nerds, I hear you shifting uncomfortably, wanting to tell everyone about Stalin, Pol Pot, Napoleon etc etc. Just relax. )
Allow me to modify an old saying:
You can’t say anything nice about Dick Cheney without lying so just shut up.
Who says that’s not her true opinion?
She did very openly get close to the Cheney familiy during her presidential campaign, so she might very well think that according to her own values he had done nothing wrong.
It seems to me that one of the core problems of the Democrat Party leadership which has led to their candidate being defeated once again by none other than Donald “Sex Offender” Trump, is exactly that their values are pretty much compatible with Cheney’s.
The nice thing is that he can’t do any more harm now.
So Abe Lincoln was going to put Simon Cameron in his cabinet. Cameron was kind of a piece of shit, and so Thaddeus Stevens when he heard this got alarmed. When questioned about if he was really saying that Cameron would steal, Thaddeus Stevens thought for a minute and said, well, “I don’t think he would steal a red-hot stove.”
So the story got around because it is funny. Abe Lincoln in particular thought it was one of the funniest things he ever heard (also while he made Cameron Secretary of War) and told many people. So eventually of course it got back to Cameron. Cameron was pissed, and angrily demanded that Stevens take back the slur on his character.
So Thaddeus Stevens after Cameron had yelled at him said, “Well, he is very mad, and he made me promise to retract. I will now do so. I believe I told you he would not steal a red-hot stove. I now take that back.”
He was one of the few high-profile Republicans willing to stand by his condemnation of Trump after January 6th, even when the party came crawling back and that stance became a huge liability for him and his daughter. I can respect that.
Not doing one out 1000 horrible things is not worthy of respect.
In fact, opposing it fits Cheney’s character because his entire evil persona was based on getting everyone else to do his evil bidding within the working government. Someone trying to overthrow a system he manipulated was a personal attack by Trump. Cheney didn’t oppose it out of his love for America or anything, he opposed it because it undermined his life’s work and he took it personally.
Well it might have been two things.
Yeah. And Hitler liked his dog. Definitely peoples-is-peoples kind of things but if i was a global political figure i might err on the side of quiet for some sentiments.
Trump’s gonna bite it one of these days and when he does, any self-conscious politician who hopes to win office with a progressive bent better watch their fuckin p’s and q’s.
Democrats are mostly reasonable, and responsible, but as in the last forty years, there’s an opportunity to destroy fascists (like Cheney) and the more they ignore it the more they lose. It’s a fine line, to be sure, between “responsible tomorrow / better jobs” and “BLOOOOOOOD!!!”. But they need to have thought that through again because their consultants are old and broken.
Justice and Politics need to sort their shit out yesterday.
Hitler didn’t actually like his dog. Or… it’s complicated. He threatened to kill Blondi because someone else played with her, he would beat all his dogs or hit them with a riding whip when they were disobedient (he said “it was necessary”), and when he decided to kill himself with cyanide, he told the doctor to test the cyanide first on Blondi. She died.
He did seem like he emotionally enjoyed being with his dogs, but he was too much of a psychopath to really have a normal human-to-dog relationship with them or to give them actual affection in return. The whole thing of him being a dog lover was mostly Nazi propaganda.
Yeah okay well he was gakked to the gills for a few years there so yknow. But he killed himself . . . they say . . . right afterwards so i like to think he thought he was taking his dog with him. Although yeah a complete nutter and history’s greatest monster.
(Recent history’s greatest monster? Ok nerds, I hear you shifting uncomfortably, wanting to tell everyone about Stalin, Pol Pot, Napoleon etc etc. Just relax. )