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Checking in on Pierre and Liz
Senator Pierre Delecto is chagrined that Republicans like Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz are forcing Democrats to defend light sentences for pedophiles.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) reportedly believes it is “off course” for Republicans to attack Biden Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson for giving out lenient sentences to those in possession of child pornography.
Could you have imagined, even a few years ago, that Democrats would be defending lenient sentencing for child pornography on the basis that it’s just so easy to get; or because “Hey, man, all judges go easy on kiddie porn” or because “we should be rational” with child pornography distributors (where rational is a synonym for “lenient.” Or to use Judge Brown Jackson’s own defense, “I may sentence them lightly, but I tell them a sad story first.”
Could you have imagined Democrats a few years ago going to the mat for the right of teachers to have sexually explicit conversations with six-year-olds? I mean, personally, I would have totally believed that because I’ve always said if pedophiles were a voting bloc, Democrats would demand government subsidies for raincoats and tiny handcuffs. Nice to have the rest of the country catching up to me.
And I like that Democrats are force to go on television and support this stuff; which would not have happened if we played nice like Pierre Delecto would have us.
Anyway, here’s Liz Cheney admitting what we’ve known for a while. “I’m a Republican, well, not all Republican.”
Full disclosure, I’m not a Republican either. I’m very much a “global pandemic on both your houses” person. I can’t imagine ever affirmatively voting for a Democrat because that would be a tacit endorsement of the party’s policy agenda, corruption, and depravity. And there are far too many Liz Cheneys and Pierre Delectos in the Republican party and nowhere near enough Josh Hawleys and Ron DeSantises. But unlike Liz Cheney, I am not occupying a seat in Congress as a Republican or declaring myself a “Reagan Conservative” like Bill Kristol.
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National Review is outraged on her behalf, too.
Jesse Kelly continues to point out how the GOP has a golden opportunity to use issues like these to win the culture, . . . and they keep wiffing it.
Yep. When Dick Durbin is positively quoting National Review, . . . editors, you might want to search your souls . . .
No mean tweets, though.
What’s with National Review and Bulwark being pedophile tolerant? What is going on at those D.C. cocktail parties? How is this country going to eliminate human trafficking, if all our leaders are giving a wink and not to pedophilia?
People of Utah, what is it going to take to have you stand up to Romney? He has basically said that child rape is OK, if the child is wearing a surgical mask.
Pizzagate doesn’t seem so far-fetched anymore, does it?
Pierre Delecto’s former Chief-of-Staff (now part of the NAMBLincoln Project) and self-described “Reagan Conservative” Bill Kristol are excoriating Republicans and cheering Democrats at the KBJ hearings, leading Ace to ask:
Ace:
And:
The Democrats need her on the court when Hunter’s laptop filled with kiddie porn comes up for sentencing. I wonder if daddy got 10% of that.
Furthermore:
Maybe she does.
It appears that you have inaccurately quoted Liz Cheney. The segment is only 13 seconds long. She in a panel discussion. There is absolutely no evidence that she said this on the issue of KBJ and her sentencing of criminal defendants.
It is a bad look to quote someone misleadingly.
It appears that you have inaccurately quoted Liz Cheney. The segment is only 13 seconds long. She in a panel discussion. There is absolutely no evidence that she said this on the issue of KBJ and her sentencing of criminal defendants.
It is a bad look to quote someone misleadingly. It is a worse look to put her name in the title of your piece when she said absolutely nothing about this issue. Both are cheap shots which do not represent Ricochet well in the world.
Never said she did, chief. This is a whole separate topic. This topic is a politician admitting her true political leanings and then laughing at the people who elected her. The word “Anyway,” is a signal to the reader that the subject of the discussion has changed. And indeed, Judge Brown Jackson is not mentioned at all in the post following the word “Anyway.”
Anyway, I am not going to shed any tears for Liz Cheney. Should she lose her congressional seat, I am certain her daddy’s friends will set her up with a nice seven-figure lobbyist job on K-Street and a position at a “conservative” PAC where she can pursue her vendetta against Trump for the rest of her life, if she wants. She’ll be able to stay in her home in Virginia and socialize with her fellow political elites and not have to deal with those yokels back in Wyoming ever again.
So the only thing that Romney and Liz have in common is that you don’t like them?
This would be like me writing a post which is against Trump and the Designated Hitter Rule. I am against both, but (I believe that) they have nothing to do with each other, except that I am against both of them. ( Who knows, Trump is quick to opine on damn near everything; maybe he has held forth on the DH!)
It’s uncanny how my criticisms of Romney and Cheney track precisely to my consistent criticisms of the Political Class. Indifference and/or contempt toward their constituents; only being where they are because of inherited privilege and family connections; alignment with globalists and globalism; running as conservatives and then aligning with Democrats once elected. It’s almost as though I have a consistent political philosophy and standard of ethics and criticize those who deviate from it.
She was not quoted inaccurately. But it is certainly possible that Cheney was not referring to KBJ, as that was a very, very short segment with no context.
Does anyone need any other reason? But to answer you, no, they both seem to be out of touch with the voters they claim to want to represent. And out of touch in the same general direction and manner.
Seriously bro? I mean you’re digging really deep into the pedantry sack here. Think of it like this. If you wanted to write a post, that included a recent complaint about Trump, and a recent claim about the DH rule, you absolutely could. It would be fine. Weird people who like your posts would probably enjoy it. You could even name it “Checking on Trump, and the DH Rule.”