Strange times make for strange bedfellows

If you had told me four years ago that Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, Mike Pence, Mitt Romney, Chris Christie and Adam Kinzinger wouldn’t be supporting the Republican nominee for President I would’ve never believed you.

— Mike Madrid (@madrid_mike) March 15, 2024

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

This is the America the GOP has been building for the last forty years

We've got a society mobilized to ban kids from seeing books by Beverly Cleary in the library but not animal torture on Elon's Twitter https://t.co/ktyNQMUriW

— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) May 12, 2023

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

Sadly, this is probably truer than it should be

Vladimir Putin was the worst American President since Dick Cheney.

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) February 21, 2022

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

 

The original sinners

Can’t leave anyone behind if you never leave 🧠 https://t.co/gTD1StsL9U

— italien feeld (@julianfeeld) September 1, 2021

 People Who Refuse the COVID-19 Vaccine Are Why Our Lives Can't Return to Normal

Peace,

emaycee

War pigs

New: CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News are hosting some of the primary architects of the Afghanistan War to serve as expert voices, even though many of them are responsible for deliberately misleading the American public for years https://t.co/84JjHp6bk5

— Media Matters (@mmfa) August 30, 2021

 People Who Refuse the COVID-19 Vaccine Are Why Our Lives Can't Return to Normal

Peace,

emaycee

Public Enemy #1

“Today, it's easy to point fingers when it comes Afghanistan, and we are seeing a lot of that now,” @mehdirhasan says. “But let's not forgot that it all started with the guy who launched the so-called ‘War on Terror:’ George W. Bush.”https://t.co/UnYEm91Hfm

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 18, 2021

 People Who Refuse the COVID-19 Vaccine Are Why Our Lives Can't Return to Normal

Peace,

emaycee

Mainstream media incompetence personified

same press corps that said DeSantis “won” the pandemic is now sure Biden “lost” Afghanistan

— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) August 19, 2021

People Who Refuse to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine Are Why Our Lives Can't Return to Normal

Peace,

emaycee

 

Never forget who is ultimately responsible for the mess in Afghanistan

If you’re one of the architects of the endless war perhaps you should sit this one out?

— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) August 17, 2021

People Who Refuse to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine Are Why Our Lives Can't Return to Normal

Peace,

emaycee

 

Stinker to...

Out on another fruitless book selling tour, Dick Cheney called the foreign policy actions of President Obama as "...those of the worst President we've ever had."

Huh--I thought Dick Cheney was the worst President (two disastrous wars, economic collapse, Hurricane Katrina, just to name a few) we ever had...oops, that's right, he was Vice-President.

Silly me.

Peace,
emaycee

Nothing to see here

I haven't written anything about the recent report released on torture done in our names by the American government, but this poll sure opened my eyes:  by a 59-31 margin--that's right, almost 60% of us--Americans believe the use of torture is justified to obtain information from suspected terrorists.

And it's a slippery slope that leads from beacon of freedom to despotic nation.

I don't know exactly how one changes the thought processes of Americans on a policy that not only stains our national image but shows a decided lack of empathy for human suffering, but I have to wonder how most Americans would feel if rectal feeding or waterboarding were used by suspected terrorists on our men and women in uniform.

I fear I may not like our response to that one, either.

Peace,
emaycee

November reign

While I haven't seen any polls that make me giddy for this November's elections, it sure doesn't seem like 2010 either.  I mean by this time in 2010 election cycle, everybody on the left was warning that the November results could be ugly--they were and then some.

The feeling this time around seems to be that we might lose some ground but nothing is looking as catastrophic as the 2010 midterms (yeah, yeah, yeah--famous final words, etc., etc.).  It certainly doesn't hurt that republicans seem to have adopted a strategy which calls for shooting themselves in the foot on a regular basis...

...like having Dick Cheney scatter his mug all over TV criticizing President Obama for his Iraq War policy, which would be like the Democrats trotting out James Buchanan, the man who fiddled while the country smoldered, to criticize Abraham Lincoln for his guidance of the Civil War.  Trotting out Cheney is like a cruise line featuring the Titanic on the front page of its sales brochure.

Not to be outdone by the man who wanted to be king, some republican Senators are calling for a government shutdown to block the President's new environmental regulations.  Because the last one worked so well.

My dear republicans, in the immortal words of President Obama, "Please proceed."

Peace,
emaycee

What a Dick...Cheney

In many countries, a politician who did as piss poor of a job as Bush the Lesser's henchman Dick Cheney (collpapse of the American economy, asleep at the wheel on 9/11, two mismanaged wars, yawning while hundreds of Americans died in New Orleans) would be, rightfully, drawn and quartered.

In American, though, you get to go on TV and whine that the President would rather spend money on food stamps than spend even more in our morbidly obese defense budget.  Apparently the irony of more than $100 million in food stamps going to our military families is lost on Mr. Cheney--spending for a necessary evil trumping spending for the greater good and all that.  Fuck hungry children--what we need are more $435 hammers.

Frankly, Mr. Cheney and his ilk are enough to make a maggot puke.

Peace,
emaycee