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The Uniparty Turns Literal
SteynonLine ^ | September 9, 2024 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 09/09/2024 5:51:52 AM PDT by Twotone

~~The Democrat convention featured a full set of the party's presidents, save for Jimmy Carter, who turns one hundred next month. But, otherwise, there were present not only both Obamas but both Clintons, and even both Bidens, even though almost every one in that sextet loathes the other five, and certainly all six despise Kamala. But they're Democrats first, so they suck it up.

How's it going over on the Republican side? Well, former president George W Bush has announced he won't be endorsing anyone in this election. On the other hand, over two hundred Bush, McCain and Romney staffers have declared they're voting for Kamala. I'm not sure I've heard of any of them, but, as you know, the McCain and Romney campaigns remain bywords for hugely successful political operations, so no doubt many of those hundreds of staffers helped craft what are widely acknowledged to be two of the most impressive concession speeches in American history.

And then there's Dick Cheney...

NEW

Statement from Former Vice President Dick Cheney:

"In our nation's 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump. He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after... pic.twitter.com/TXDlTTLOvq — Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 6, 2024

(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2024; cheney; cheneyiscontemptible; marksteyn; tweedledemtweedlerep; uniparty
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1 posted on 09/09/2024 5:51:52 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

If I called Dick “Less” Cheney a rotting pile of foetid dogsqueezins, I would be insulting self-respecting piles of rotting, foetid dogsqueezins everywhere.


2 posted on 09/09/2024 5:55:13 AM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: Twotone

If Cheney dies before the “election”, he’ll still vote Democrat.


3 posted on 09/09/2024 5:56:17 AM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: Twotone

A Republican POTUS NOT endorsing Trump is a face saving de-facto endorsement of Harris.

Dam the RINOs…Cheneys, all of them. They are as destructive as the Dem campaign.


4 posted on 09/09/2024 5:57:51 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: kiryandil

The TDS is strong with Cheney for him to spew that quote

I’m surprised he didn’t swear/cuss


5 posted on 09/09/2024 5:59:02 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

He needs a time out.


6 posted on 09/09/2024 5:59:32 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Bush is keeping quiet at least. He’s politically retired so is intent on not uttering another word in public.

Those 2 had a lot of loyalty and respect among Freepers

What happened to party loyalty? They once demanded it


7 posted on 09/09/2024 6:07:22 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: dfwgator

This was only 20 years ago

In my lifetime (for once)

I’ve never seen such a dramatic change like this especially in politics


8 posted on 09/09/2024 6:11:12 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: Twotone

Cheney is a cuckold to his daughter. What a pitiful old man.


9 posted on 09/09/2024 6:11:28 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Phoenix8
Dam the RINOs…Cheneys, all of them. They are as destructive as the Dem campaign.

It's probably too much to hope for, but at some point, people really do need to come to grips with the reality that these "Republicans in Name Only" are the true Republicans. The Trump supporters/MAGA-ites are the outliers.

However the election in 2024 turns out, after Trump passes from the scene, one will have no choice but to decide whether one is on the side of the globalists or, rather, supports an anti-globalist/America First agenda. All Republican elites are globalists. All of them.

10 posted on 09/09/2024 6:12:50 AM PDT by DSH
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To: Twotone
IMHO, the money quote:

Whatever happens after November, there are no takers among the GOP base for a return to Bush-Cheney "conservatism".

But this observation is the chilling part:

Be that as it may, it quickly became clear - not least through multiple lies and obfuscations in Congressional testimony - that the Secret Service and other elements in the federal government created the conditions that permitted that bullet to hit a former president in the head (and kill an American citizen). And that's putting it at its mildest: even after the shooting was underway, it was a local copper - not the feds - who was the first to fire back and hit the alleged perp.

Consider the implications of that, especially if you're the family of Corey Comperatore. That's a far "greater threat to our republic" than the man those corrupted alphabet agencies failed to protect. Cheney is contemptible.

If you assume willful negligence to create the environment for July 13, the willingness to accept 'collateral damage' by the people behind it speaks volumes.

11 posted on 09/09/2024 6:14:55 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: RandFan
> What happened to party loyalty? They once demanded it

Until the average Republican voter caught on to their bad faith "America Last" agenda , that started by kicking Jeb! to the curb.

12 posted on 09/09/2024 6:15:56 AM PDT by SecondAmendment (The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ...)
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To: kiryandil

True dat


13 posted on 09/09/2024 6:18:09 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: dfwgator

Steyn: “ TweedleDem vs TweedleRep”


14 posted on 09/09/2024 6:20:16 AM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: RandFan
"What happened to party loyalty? They once demanded it"

It only goes one way.

Much like "our democracy"™ doesn't mean the same thing to the Uniparty as it does to Merriam-Webster. In my mind, "our democracy"™ and "international rules based order" are in a certain respect interchangeable to those people, and representative government is not part of those phrases.

15 posted on 09/09/2024 6:21:04 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: RandFan

Trump is probably the last time I will vote Republican as a ticket.


16 posted on 09/09/2024 6:23:00 AM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: Twotone

I had to chuckle when Steyn said that Trump has forced Dick Cheney into the same party as Ilhan Omar.

Shows you the actual small petty mindedness of the Cheneys.

They would rather side with enemies than respect the wishes of the American voters.


17 posted on 09/09/2024 6:25:05 AM PDT by dforest
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To: RandFan
"Those 2 had a lot of loyalty and respect among Freepers."

And they betrayed us from day one in office. The Bush Crime Family is a bunch of treasonous CIA spooks and criminals.

18 posted on 09/09/2024 6:26:27 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: Twotone
So Trump has performed a great service in driving the likes of Cheney to vote Kamala. The feeble charade of TweedleDem vs TweedleRep is designed to obscure the central fact of end-stage western "democracy" - that, on anything that really matters, nothing can be permitted to change. Thus, having Dick Cheney and Ilhan Omar formally on the same team is very helpful. Trump has driven the "respectable" political class to make the Uniparty literal, and its consolidation has freed up space for an actual second party. (On his recent podcast, my former National Review colleague John Derbyshire has more on this.)
19 posted on 09/09/2024 6:30:28 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: Twotone

On top of Steyn’s comments on individuals, it’s a good analysis.


20 posted on 09/09/2024 6:31:12 AM PDT by cymbeline
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