Posted on 02/22/2023 2:51:35 PM PST by Impala64ssa
Liz Cheney is no longer a member of Congress, but that didn’t stop her from trying to pick a fight with Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-GA. Cheney tweeted from the unemployment line on Monday, lecturing Greene on the “governing principles of America” after the Georgia congresswoman proposed a national divorce.
Greene had tweeted earlier,
“We need a national divorce. We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government. Everyone I talk to says this. From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat’s traitorous America Last policies, we are done.”
Greene’s comments sparked disapproval from both sides of the aisle. Her proposal is still making headlines two days later. Cheney, who has been languishing in obscurity since getting trounced by 40 points last summer, decided this would be her moment to shine.
“Let’s review some of the governing principles of America, [Marjorie Taylor Greene] Our country is governed by the Constitution. You swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Secession is unconstitutional. No member of Congress should advocate secession, Marjorie.”
On both sides of the debate, Liz Cheney was the last person anybody wanted to hear from. Republicans especially were not interested in a lecture from the former January 6 committee vice chair.
“Where does the Constitution forbid secession?” Grabien founder Tom Elliot asked. “Seems weird the Founders would do so since secession is how the colonies broke free from King George III.”
Well, Liz,” wrote one commenter, “this may come as a surprise to you, but the Constitution very clearly states…
‘That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government'”
Former California Senate Candidate James Bradley, R, also said, “You swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. So did you, and then the first thing you did was betray a duly-elected president because the Democrats paid you better. Never think you can lecture us, honey.”
Bradley hits the nail on the head.
According to Cheney’s financial disclosure statements, her net worth exploded by as much as 600% during her time in Congress. By 2020, her net worth was estimated to be as high as $44 million, compared to around $7 million when she entered Congress in 2017.
Cheney is reportedly mulling over a potential 2024 presidential run. If she wants to win the presidency, however, she will likely need more than the $44 million and five supporters that she currently has. Perhaps a few more scolding tweets will put her over the top.
Soldiers will go where they’re told to go. Fight whom they’re told to fight. Kill who they’re told to kill. 90% of the Regular Army enlisted men remained in the US/ Union Army.
No worries. Thinking of that poem reminds me that one of my sisters always referred to illegal aliens as “wretched refuse”.
Right. Because the constitution didn’t exist when the declaration was signed doesn’t mean the declaration disregards the constitution. The constitution is just one possible resultant government the declaration claims as a natural Right. I’d submit therefore the declaration is the superior of the two.
I was a flight attendant where smoking was allowed.
90% of the people in smoking were non smokers - and not by choice. The smokers took the non smoking seats and would venture back to smoke but then go back to their non smoking seats because they couldn’t stand the smell or smoke. Same with this, I am sure.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.....
I guess you can keep on thinking that. I don’t. You do you.
I’m of the thinking that of the 20% or less, that are actually Combat Soldiers, won’t be doing much fighting against the people. Especially since so many of them come from the areas that want the divorce.
So true. Thank you pointing that out.
This
Lol.
Liberia.
Sweet!
This. After Lincoln set the standard, everyone will follow it now.
But yes, as a matter of fact, states *DO* have the right to leave.
You forget that the US military will drop dead from heart attacks as soon as they get a little bit excited. Those mRNA shots are doing their jobs.
Send the blacks to their homeland in Haiti and Cuba.
Exactly this author is an idiot. Someone credits the declaration as the constitution and then this author repeats it as fact…
Whole lot of stupid going on
The Declaration of Independence is one of the founding documents. If one wants to go by the US Constitution, it is null and void. Breached numerous times by the Federal government. How many wars without legal authority? A federal police force with powers in sovereign States? This country is supposed to be 50 different nation/states, bound together by a contract on how they will be bound together. It is not one nation, with teeny tiny govts that bow to the Federal behemoth. The United States of America is a dream from long ago, and it is dead. The rich and powerful know this, act like this is true, but keep their boot on our backs and tell us it is love of country.
“Never go Ugly and Full Retard”
You'd think as racist and horrible as this country is claimed to be they'd be lining up in droves to head back.
Nope.
Not only that, but the Articles of Confederation, which was replaced by the U.S. Constitution, contained the following:
”And that the articles thereof shall be inviolably observed by the states we respectively represent, and that the union shall be perpetual. “
There is no mention of “perpetual” in the U.S. Constitution.
And I’m sure that’s something that was debated in the Constitutional convention, if anyone wants to bother digging through those notes.
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