The Lincoln Project: Dick Cheney.... welcome to the resistance.

[melman]

Link to tweet

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Welcome to The Twilight Zone.

Shit's getting weird when Dick Fucking Cheney is doing something right.

[Renew Deal]

2. He has had a lot of medical trouble

[Ms. Toad]

5. And is taking heavy doses of immunosuppresants

Once you have an organ transplant, the only way you can keep your body from attacking it is to suppress your immune system. If your immune system is suppressed, you are at risk for catching everything going around - including COVID 19.

[LisaL]

8. It would be nuts if he didn't wear it.

Praising someone very high risk for wearing a mask is bizarre. It should be a given that someone that high risk has to wear a mask.

[Ms. Toad]

11. It should be -

But the adoring crowds probably aren't familiar enough with the aftermath of a transplant to know the extreme risk to his health. (I know close to 100 transplantees, because of my daughter's disease - so I am intimately familiar with the implications.)

So I'm in favor of modeling good behavior, because it might make a difference. If that takes a bit of praise for an idiot to encourage others to follow his example I can live with that.

[Hortensis]

23. +100. Though imo he's a villain and like his kind also an idiot.

[ismnotwasm]

25. Heart and lung transplants are instructed to wear masks anyway

Prior to Covid. At least the ones WE transplant. He’s not impressing me.

[Ms. Toad]

28. As I indicated in response to a similar thought

I'm interested in saving lives. Most people are not familiar enough with post-transplant protocols to know how vulnerable those individuals are.

So if I have to give a little undeserved praise to encourage modeling good behavior, I'm good with that.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Including a heart transplant, so of course he's medically fragile.

I just think it's surprising that he'd come out publicly in favor of mask-wearing, contrary to the received doctrine of the Trumpublican Party.

[LisaL]

7. All I see is a photo of him wearing a mask. Did he actually say anything about mask wearing?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Not sure. I expected his mask to look more like this, though:

[Lulu KC]

21. Excellent n/t

[LisaL]

3. Cheney had a heart transplant.

He has to take immuno suppressant drugs for the rest of his life. He is very high risk if he were to get covid. He is not resisting anything, he is trying to save his own behind.

[melman]

4. That's one way to look at this

Here's another.

Link to tweet

[sfstaxprep]

10. I Don't Want That Asshole In My Resistance

Darth Cheney can Fuck the hell off.

[Dem2theMax]

12. I cannot say what I'm thinking.

I cannot say what I'm thinking. I cannot say what I'm thinking. I cannot say what I'm thinking. I cannot say what I'm thinking.

(Picturing Bart Simpson at the chalkboard.)

[gulliver]

13. Maybe when he's on his hands and knees begging forgiveness (as he should be doing).

Cheney is Trump's political ancestor. There might be no Trump but for Cheney. Cynical manipulation of the media? Cheney. Pushing a an unnecessary war in an election year based on false pretenses? Cheney.

No Cheney, no Iraq War. No Iraq War, no ISIS and general destabilization of the ME. No ISIS and destabilization, no refugee crisis. No ISIS and no refugee crisis, no "president" Trump.

[misanthrope]

18. Wrong comparison

Trump is too simple-minded to be Cheney's descendant. Palin is the one who paved the way for acceptance of Trump.

[melman]

19. Thanks to the Lincoln Project's Steve Schmidt

What a guy!

[malaise]

22. THIS - fuck that war criminal n/t

[lpbk2713]

14. He purchased his masks with emergency no bid contracts.

By way of his friends at Haliburton.

[Progressive Jones]

15. I don't like my tax dollars protecting Cheney's life or health. I want him to die. nt

[Greybnk48]

16. It gave me chills to see this evil fuck again.

I despise this murderer.

[melman]

17. I think all decent people do

But not the Lincoln Project guys! They love him.

[GulfCoast66]

20. The "Enemy of My Enemy is a Friend" saying has limits for me.

Won’t lose any sleep if he meets Mr Covid.

[TheBlackAdder]

24. All that fucking money and he wears non-medical masks, not even P100, R100 or even N95.

[irisblue]

26. And the anti trumpers see a war criminal as a good resistance member

JFC!

[Paladin]

27. THAT'S how fucked up things are, now.

Even a piece of shit like Cheney is adopting a proper attitude.