I am waiting to see who will be the first ReTHUG

[malaise]

to condemn the President and Vice President for their claim to authoritarian power. I am not holding my breath.

[TEB]

1. Please do not

You will pass out first

[malaise]

5. Well well well - looks like the ambitious Liz Cheney is the first to condemn

the Con. PHEW!

[TEB]

6. Really Liz WOW

[sop]

26. Liz represents the extreme rightwing of the Republican party that still believes in and respects

the constitution.

[livetohike]

2. They give new meaning to the word "useless". Cowards

and hopefully all of them up for re-election this year lose in a landslide.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. You kidding? Nobody blinked when Shrub said this:

“If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier... as long as I'm the dictator. Hehehe.”

[Grokenstein]

16. Joking about dictatorships

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It seems to be an ongoing thing with Republickscum to "trigger the libz" by suggesting they will assume a dictatorship. No one's actually taken it seriously before, but Donny Littlehands is just spectacularly stupid enough to try it.

[rampartc]

4. some of their nuttier partisans may get all lexington and concord on this. maybe rand paul

but i doubt it.

[2naSalit]

23. rand paul is too f'ing lazy. ...nt

[patricia92243]

7. Collins will be concerned. Romney might speak out.

[Kaiserguy]

9. Collins will be concerned

and then she will vote in favor of the enabling act of 2020 just like she would have vote for it in 1933.

[SergeStorms]

14. Collins will be....

very concerned, and will do some major hand wringing before siding - once again - with Donald Trump. Her level of concern has me convinced that her heart is in the right place.

[MyOwnPeace]

8. What? And risk........

your state not getting medical supplies and ventilators?

Or, worse yet, having "Dear Leader" call you NASTY!!!!

[JTOL]

10. I assume

total responsibility goes hand in hand with total authority.

[gab13by13]

12. Trump claims, total authority, no responsibility.

Trump's cult will rationalize that some way. I have said this several times, we are living in a Farenheit 451, 1984, and A Brave New World, all rolled up into one. All of those books apply to the US today.

[gab13by13]

11. If there was ever any doubt about the demise of the Republican party

now replaced by the Trump party their silence confirms it. The former Republican party used to call itself the party of small government, the state's right party. It wasn't factual but it used to call itself that. With Trump going all out King mode with unlimited authority over states, over governors, there should be an uproar. 1 mouse squeaks, Liz Cheney. R.I.P. Republican party you did it to yourselves.

[IrishEyes]

13. The second he is defeated, every single republican will pretend that they were against him.

[moose65]

18. That's long been my thought, too

After Trump goes down in flames and they lose the Senate, they might lay low for awhile, but eventually it will be "Donald who?? Oh yeah, well he wasn't really a Republican. You know he was a Democrat for most of his life, right? He was even friends with... the CLINTONS <bom bom BOM> back in the day."

They will never take responsibility for him. They will find some way to blame him on the Democrats.

[malaise]

32. No No No

It will be the second they know that he is about to be defeated

[Jake Stern]

35. Highly doubt it

If he retains his messiah like status to the deplorable base they'll continue to bow and scrape before him. I fully expect to see candidates in future R primaries vying for the chance to kiss his ring first and thus get to brag about having his blessing.

[Tom Rinaldo]

15. This is the closest I've seen so far. Fail.

but it doesn't contain even a hint of condemnation. She is in House Republican leadership but not even the the word "President", let alone Trump, are mentioned in this tweet.



Liz Cheney
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@Liz_Cheney

The federal government does not have absolute power.

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” United States Constitution, Amendment X
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[treestar]

25. Yes, that's more aimed at the usual right wing

dislike of the federal government versus the states.

[malaise]

33. Yep that's the tweet

[TNNurse]

17. Please do not hold your breath

Go outside, take a deep breath (the air is cleaner in most places), do not let him destroy you.

[jmg257]

19. I have a feeling they will try to stretch the Emergency Powers Act as far as they can..

far enough to threaten to do all kinds of nasty shit.

[malaise]

34. Please proceed Don the Con

a Wisconsin is waiting for you

[johnthewoodworker]

20. I imagine he will use the Ukraine perfect phone call strategy. Extortion and blackmail worked before

[Buckeye_Democrat]

21. Right-wingers have always been authoritarians.

Putting more control in the hands of businesses and corporations is NOT freedom.

Every place that I’ve worked has been a mini-tyranny, with top management that behaves much like Trump. Employees can make “suggestions”, but true critiquing will likely result in job termination. Only management is allowed to judge performance. Edit: And I’ve never seen management who had to take tests to show they were “qualified” to do THEIR jobs.

It’s little wonder to me that many Americans aren’t surprised by Trump’s behavior. Many of them experience it almost every day at their jobs!

At least government provides a democratic voice — through representation, NOT BOSSES — to everyone; but the business world has successfully convinced many Americans, through years of propaganda, that government is the problem.

I’m not surprised that military personnel often support right-wingers too.

I hope that this country never elects a big business honcho again. At least lawyers are accustomed to making arguments for their case. (Same for scientists.) Business honchos are more accustomed to simply laying down the law, and you can get out if you don’t like it.

[Baltimike]

22. It's Liz Cheney!

The federal government does not have absolute power.

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” United States Constitution, Amendment X

Link to tweet

[Tom Rinaldo]

30. As I noted above (post 15) thsi is not a condemnation. At most it is legal commentary

Yes one can say that there is a implicit condemnation of Trump, but implicit and condemnation don't even belong in the same sentence. Not only is Trump not mentioned here, she failed to even use the word "President" or "Presidency".

[Baltimike]

36. Ummmm...ok then . nt

[treestar]

24. Yeah, let's wait

So many of them are into this unitary executive, or whatever it is. They are authoritarian followers.

[bucolic_frolic]

27. Sounds like a Rip Van Winkle strategy

you gonna wait a long time

[doc03]

28. Did they put a muzzle on Mitt Romney? Has Susan "I'm concerned" Collins said anything. Where

is Lindsey and the Turtle on this?

[sop]

29. It's probably not a coincidence Trump spoke with Putin several times in the last couple of days

before adopting this radical position. Putin recently forced Russia's government to resign, then proposed sweeping constitutional changes to prolong his stay in power. Is that what this "perfect call" was all about?

[BlueJac]

31. Cowards all!