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Liz Cheney: Fingernails on a Chalkboard?
You can’t possibly be as tired as I am at listening to and watching the media push Rep. Liz Cheney around like a woman in the center of a dodge ball game. As she becomes the only one left standing, she’s clearly not the winner, and it’s annoying and could be destructive to the Republican Party’s future.
Cheney is apparently prepared to play this fiddle as long as she can. She seems enraptured by The Big Lie, and every time the media asks her about it, she continues to embarrass herself. And I can’t figure out what she is trying to accomplish.
Is she determined to win this verbal/media war with Trump, at the risk of alienating her colleagues in the House?
Is she willing to be removed from leadership the Republican Conference Chair as the price she will pay?
Does she really think she’s being “picked on” because she voted for Trump’s impeachment? (So did 10 other Republicans, some in leadership positions, and none of them were penalized.)
Does she think that any publicity, good or bad, is worth her efforts?
Do you think she’s preparing for a Presidential run in 2024?
Or has she become so obsessed with Trump that she has simply lost her mind?
Meanwhile, her actions are being promoted by the media that like to say the Republican caucus is in chaos.
It’s not. So will the impact of her stand be forgotten in a couple of weeks?
Or could she be doing some serious damage?
It’s time to get on board, Liz, or step down while you still have an ounce of dignity.
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Well thanks RufusRJones! I hadn’t taken you seriously, and then I got an invite today, and I signed up for the “Rally for Liz” on Tuesday from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. I have an Initial Consultation at 2:00 p.m. but if I am not hired, I will be able to listen live. Thank you for your recommendation. I will keep you posted.
Except for Biden who got 7 million more votes.
I really don’t think so. I see Reagan as a Classical Liberal, which while being a conservative, is nothing like a populist. Reagan believed in free trade, and in legal immigration, both of which seem to be in disfavor with populism. But it is within the realm of possibilities that I am wrong about this.
Yes if you believe the story. Given where they occurred, how they occurred, why we can’t look at most of them objectively, how he didn’t campaign, why he’d never won outside of his state ever, the votes are hard to believe. Anything is possible, but fraud is credible, the win isn’t.
Yes. Global free trade when Reagan was president was smaller total than North American trade today. Some industries have infinite economies of scale. They are a problem we have to deal with. Then there’s China. They are in charge and are going to replace us as the leader and that’s not going to be good for anybody, not even the Chinese. Democrats act as if they were our old friend, good old China.
We are set up all wrong for the wade deflation and job destruction coming from globalized trade and automation. This is a very thorny topic. Watch interviews of Jeff Booth. He doesn’t even mention trade most of the time.
It might be good for them, but I’m curious what happens if it changes the currency of international trade from the US dollar to the Yuan.
Currency manipulation will be fierce in service to the CCP accelerating its global dominance.
This topic is really complicated. For one thing they don’t have decent property protection, so nobody’s going to want it in that sense. I forget all of the details, but it would really complicate what they want to do as a country that is basically a mafia with an army.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/most-republicans-wish-they-were-reagan-trump-actually-ncna801471
Reagan won in 1966 as a result of running against the poor job California’s elites were doing. The riots, the crime, the campus protest, championing the working class. Read Lou Cannon’s books of Reagan on the campaign trail and also as governor.
The problem with free trade is there is no such thing. It is a unicorn. If there were free trade existed you wouldn’t need huge legalistic treaties employing hundreds of lawyers.
Who is opposed to legal immigration? It’s a question of numbers. And the impacts it has on different sub-population groups. Populists are opposed to illegal immigration. Populists are opposed to sanctuary cities and want to deny them any federal money.
Free trade is deflationary. As in wage deflation and job destruction. Our government and financial system requires inflation.
Good luck resolving that.
It’s weird how people will claim that Trump is an aberration, yet try so hard to tarnish anything he did and otherwise try to destroy or eradicate him.
That’s fear.
Have you ever considered that you are the one who has “bought the Big Lie”?
This is all boiler plate when you are talking about policy.
This is a lot more complicated right now. Trump was plenty inclusive with non-whites in the last election.
When has the GOP been like this, really? We have gone so far the other way you can’t just make statements like that, particularly with healthcare, but with other things too. Trade.
We just have gone so far past the Rubicon on big government.
This is a very complicated subject right now. It just isn’t that simple. Plus nobody in power ever really wants a strong dollar. It’s just a big lie. For a whole bunch of reasons they would rather have a weak dollar and try to make it up with redistribution.