Posted on 11/22/2025 5:24:48 AM PST by MtnClimber
“. . . the Democrat Party is no longer a political party. It is an insurrectionist crime syndicate that will torch the Constitution to stay in power.” —Stephen Miller.
The old joke goes: A-list actor is having lunch with studio chief. Studio chief says, Didja hear so-and-so (well-known Hollywood agent) dropped dead this morning. His heart. A-list actor says, Gee, I didn’t know he had one.
Kind of brings to mind the late Veep Dick Cheney, who actually did have a heart, but one so grotesquely diseased that he had his first near-fatal infarction at age thirty-seven, followed by surgeries galore, and finally, at age 71, a heart transplant that, quite remarkably, kept him going another thirteen years — long enough to function behind-the-scenes as a senior Deep State cheerleader and strategist through the Trump years. Daughter Liz Cheney, of course, did the political dirty-work, most notably on Nancy Pelosi’s sketchy J-6 Committee, prior to being voted out of office in the 2022 Republican primary for Wyoming’s at-large U.S. House seat with 28.9 percent of the vote to Harriet Hageman’s 66.3 percent.
And so, yesterday, Dick Cheney’s funeral took place at Washington’s National Cathedral, the greatest assemblage of bloodsuckers since the Hammer Film Studio went out of business in 1979. Joe Biden was there, perky as all get-out for somebody with stage-four prostate cancer, shaking hands with Mike Pence, who pulled him over the finish line in 2021. John Brennan, coupster superbus was there. Ditto John Bolton (awaiting trial). Most cheekily of all, Dr. Fauci, the father of Covid-19 and its little helper, the Covid vaxx, was seated next to MSNBC’s loss-leader, Rachel Maddow, who famously declared in 2021, “The virus stops with every vaccinated person!” (Not.)
Also on hand, former president “W,” Mitch McConnell, Al Gore, Nancy P, Adam Schiff, Chief Justice Roberts, Veep-of-all-Veeps, Kamala Harris, and many more. Mysteriously absent: both Clintons and both Obamas — though Bill’s office explained that he had “a scheduling conflict.” Notably uninvited: President Donald Trump and Veep JD Vance, a downright snub, let’s be plain about it. And with it, perhaps a message: Behold the whole gang that has labored tirelessly for a whole decade to run you out of office and stuff you into a prison cell is here to gossip and plot against you some more! Nyah, nyah. . . .”
The contrast was pretty stark: MAGA against everybody else inside the DC Beltway. Mr. Trump was certainly at the funeral as a sort of spectral presence, since you can be sure that the only thing they were chattering about was how they were finally going to get him. . . somehow! (After years of spectacular failure and astonishing reversal-of-fortune.) You might also sense what desperation lurks behind their elitist bravado. Some of these birds are headed into court themselves, perhaps to prison. The prospect must seem acutely unreal to them.
Meanwhile, Mr. Trump has become the Scarlet Pimpernel of US political history, brave, intrepid, and resourceful, driven by a chivalric hatred of tyranny and injustice while seeming to be a comedian, mocking his persecutors as he escapes one plot after another. Don’t you wish you’d been a fly-on-the-wall at the funeral, and whatever after-party they were all at? The odor of fear must have been eye-watering.
The whole wicked business appears to be lurching toward crisis now as Mr. Trump works implacably to disassemble the treasonous scaffold they operate off of. At midweek, a claque of Democratic Party Senators and Congresspersons, led by former CIA-employee, Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin, released a social media video appearing to prompt mutiny in America’s armed forces. Their script implied that Mr. Trump was issuing illegal orders, which officers could (and should) refuse to carry out. They offered no examples of such illegal orders.
It’s probably safe to say that they want Americans to think that any order issued by Mr. Trump as Commander-in-chief is ipso facto illegal because. . . because. . . well, because Trump! And it is all of a piece with their former rallying cry “our democracy,” flaunted by the worst gang of ballot fraudsters, free speech squashers, and lawfare lizards ever seen in this land.
Mr. Trump responded a bit intemperately on his Truth Social platform, telling the claque that their seemingly seditious act could be answered with the death penalty. He was in error on that. That is the penalty for treason outright. The law on “seditious conspiracy,” US Code Title 18 § 2384, calls for a fine of not more than $250,000 ((adjusted for inflation under 18 US Code § 3571), and a maximum prison sentence up to twenty years.
Anyway, that stunt was not exactly a win for Party of Chaos, but it does make you wonder what their next move is going to be. A Seven Days in May style military coup, perhaps? More likely this was a lame rearguard action by a party in retreat and disarray. The angels of justice are coming for them and they know it, despite the machinations of their allied judges to gum up every earnest Article II effort attempted since 1/20/25 to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. Even while the people try to settle into the cradle of Thanksgiving hearth and harvest, the wicked creep around setting their traps.
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James Howard Kunstler ping
I have not been a big Kunstler fan, but I really liked this rant.
I’m sure Maddow was all tingly sitting next to her hero, Mr. COVID.
Now there's a Kunstler-turned phrase if there ever was one. He's brilliant (of course you knew that).
DemoKrats sure seem to have the corner on ugly women!
And half the American people don’t know it, don’t care, or support it.
Agreed. All except for “cheney actually had a heart...”
I bet she couldn’t walk after...
All these treasonous rats were created by Obama. He is the fount of evil in America.
Perhaps now that this piece caught your interest, you might go back and reconsider his past writings - a gold mine IMHO.
I’ve had changes of mind like that several times. For example, I didn’t care much for Elton John’s music - maybe because I’m ‘homophobic’ - then, around 2010, I saw a rerun of the movie Almost Famous (2000), and was utterly blown away by Tiny Dancer (1970), nearly 40 years after its release. Since then, I hear anything by Elton John with completely different ears.
Strange how these things happen.
What does one make of the advice that each soldier can determine the legality of any order? Are they prepared to go to court to defend their refusal to follow order? Going to be some examples made. President Trump’s DOJ knows where to begin.
Bump
It was like a mafia funeral with the different families forming a rogues gallery.
Elliot Ness did not attend.
What does one make of the advice that each soldier can determine the legality of any order? Are they prepared to go to court to defend their refusal to follow order? Going to be some examples made. President Trump’s DOJ knows where to begin.
Anyone who disobeys an order should be prepared to go to court at the minimum. One of the first tests, which is used a fair amount of the time, is to be asked to be given the order in writing.
“to be asked” should be “to ask”
?Well, he did have one. It just originally belonged to someone else.
Yep, what a bunch of spineless fools. Almost everyone in the ‘Madcow’ picture despised any and every thing Bush/Cheney, now that he and his spawn daughter stood up to DJT, they’re the toast of the town.
Makes me sick!
The whole lot needs run out of town on a rail!
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