“I’m a constitutional conservative and I do not recognize those in my party who have abandoned the Constitution to embrace Donald Trump. History will be their judge. I will never stop fighting for our constitutional republic. No matter what.” - Liz Cheney
Happy Constitution Day.
Christians who let their politics drive their Christianity more than they let their Christianity drive their politics make an idol of politics and a mockery of Christianity.
Love 'em or hate 'em,
@ProjectLincoln
's pirate ship, take-no-prisoners approach is having a significant impact on our politics and electioneering.
Their latest ad targeting Republican senators already has over a million views, and it is absolutely brutal.
Tucker Carlson did a hit piece on
@TheRickWilson
last night and Wilson shares some of the incandescently brilliant rapier-like wit from some of Carlson's audience - comedy gold!
“A rally that went bad.”
–
@RepJamesComer
, describing 1/6
PHOTO: U.S. Capitol Police in the chamber of the House of Representatives with guns drawn in response to the threat posed by pro-Trump rioters/seditionists who bashed their way into the U.S. Capitol on January 6th 2021.
@Franklin_Graham
Christians who let their politics drive their Christianity more than they let their Christianity drive their politics make an idol of politics and a mockery of Christianity.
Eternal thanks to the medical professionals who have selflessly put themselves on the line to care for those afflicted with COVID-19 and myriad other maladies.
Powerful words from
@Liz_Cheney
at the Reagan Presidential Library:
"The reality that we face today as Republicans, as we think about the choice in front of us, we have to choose because Republicans cannot both be loyal to Donald Trump and loyal to the constitution."
Trump flitting from one stance to another is explained in part that he is a populist-opportunist lacking abiding principles and driven by daily polls/news cycles/stock market numbers, etc.
In essence Trump says, "There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader."
How soon before we see The EXACT same "conservatives" in the Trump media complex who FIVE HOURS AGO were saying "It was the right call to fire Crozier argle bargle" switching to, "Trump is a bold leader to fire Modley, who should NEVER have fired Crozier"?
Those who vote for Jim Jordan for Speaker are telling the American people they don't care about rule of law, respecting outcomes of legitimate elections, or their solemn oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Jim Jordan was involved in Trump's conspiracy to steal the election and seize power; he urged that Pence refuse to count lawful electoral votes. If Rs nominate Jordan to be Speaker, they will be abandoning the Constitution. They’ll lose the House majority and they’ll deserve to.
@RadioFreeTom
@Timodc
Not a few media creatures adopted an Anti-Anti-Trump stance because they saw it as their meal ticket to maximize clicks, cash, ratings, and revenue.
“I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: there will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.”
– Liz Cheney
Can anyone even imagine having Spies placed in a competing campaign, by the people and party in absolute power, for the sole purpose of political advantage and gain? And to think that the party in question, even with the expenditure of far more money, LOST!
Where
@TheRickWilson
reveals the
#MAGA
warriors who love to spew insults, put-downs, and name-calling curl up in the fetal position and cry softly like a little girl when they get it back.
1/ In the midst of something close to 2000 emails along the lines of "Suck it, looser" and "I'm going to kill you" there have been a few heartfelt messages expressing hurt over my "ten tooth" line.
Allow me to make a few observations about this current moment.
Opposition to Trump was *never* about "mean Tweets", "aesthetics", etc. - it was (and is) about the fact that Donald Trump is a disordered and corrupt man of low character who is unfit for high office.
@TheRickWilson
I'm going to enjoy listening to Roger explaining, "That wasn't a crosshair, your honor" like Team Trump tried to explain, "That wasn't a Star of David" during the 2016 campaign.
@joshrogin
That's unpossible ... the Greatest Negotiator in Human History has assured me, "There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea."
Trump said it. I believe it. That settles it.
@SenMikeLee
“There are no better defense dollars the United States will ever spend than the dollars we spend helping Ukraine destroy the conventional Russian military without having to spill a drop of NATO blood or fight on NATO territory.”
- Frederick Kagan
1. Romney would have been a good POTUS
2. Romney was right about Russia in 2012; Obama ("the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back") was wrong
3. Romney has kept his honor clean and served his constituents and his country not perfectly, but honorably.
Hamas has made it very clear that as long as they exist, the lives of Israeli civilians will be at risk—not to mention the innocent Palestinian lives that Hamas uses as human shields. It is absolutely unacceptable for Hamas to continue to exist.
@GenMhayden
@davidfrum
@TuckerCarlson
knows this. However, he gets paid to stir up the gullible & outrage the credulous.
And he's good at it.
Carlson is to opinion/commentary what sugary energy drinks are to diet/nutrition.
Sounds like Bret Baier read Yuval Levin's piece in NR today.
Good for Baier.
Bad for Josh Hawley, a smart young man whose ambition has rendered him a faux-populist moral and ethical idiot.
Ronald Reagan led a highly functioning coalition of free marketers, social conservatives, and national security hawks.
Donald Trump presides over a shrinking collection of kooks, nuts, grifters, wild-eyed True Believers, and cowardly GOP politicians who enable his dysfunction.
David French is a man many hate with the heat of ten thousand suns—he has become a Twitter Rorschach test of sorts.
To me, French is a man of deep courage, intelligence, faith, and principle; may he go from strength to strength and he is welcome at my fire any time.
I'm leaving Twitter, for the indefinite future. The reason is simple: this site is becoming more like Gab every day. It's a font of hatred, lies, and harassment. And while it's never been great, at least it had its uses. No longer. At least not for me. /1
As a conservative, I'm for:
Limited government
Individual freedom
Constitutionalism
E Pluribus Unum
Free speech
Free trade
Low taxes
Property rights
Rule of law
Equality of opportunity
Religious toleration
A social safety net >social safety hammock
Strong national defense.
“As much as I despise almost every policy of the Biden administration, the country can survive a bad policy.
The country can’t survive a torching of the Constitution. That’s the one thing the country can’t survive”
- former Congressman Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio)
My politics are more conservative than
@DavidJollyFL
, but he is a fundamentally decent man, and I agree with his assessment of what Trump tried to do RE, Ukraine.
The whole
@BulwarkOnline
podcast w/
@SykesCharlie
is worth it, but listen to 25:14 - 26:02.
Charlie Sykes: “F*ck you, and everything you did, you pathetic f*cking sell-out. What the f*ck did you think would happen?"
Tom Nichols: “All I want to know, when the blowback comes: Are you going to go Liz Cheney, or you going to go Nikki Haley?”
I think a lot of Trump followers under-appreciate just how close the 2016 election was.
Folks like
@hughhewitt
&
@TheRickWilson
have good information that Trump himself was surprised at his victory.
Trump won the presidency on ~70K - 90K votes distributed between WI, MI, & PA.
I'm a lifelong conservative. 1st POTUS I voted for was Reagan in '80. I've voted straight Republican until 2016. I know all about MSM's left wing bias.
But the anti-Trump MSM can't hold a candle to the relentless, incessant, shameless pro-Trump propagandizing of folks like Kirk.
Why isn’t the largest single day point gain in stock market history a major story?
When stocks were falling due to China Virus, the media declared it “the end of the Trump presidency”
So why don’t they report on this historic rally?
RT so they can’t ignore it anymore!
Favreau's not wrong.
McConnell/Senate Republicans could have, via impeachment and conviction (especially the 2nd impeachment), permanently relegated Trump to Mar-a-Lago, but McConnell punted to the courts.
It's McConnell's biggest blunder of his career.
What would’ve definitively disqualified Trump from running in 2024 was more than seven Republican Senators voting to convict him for an attempted coup that most of them privately believed he was guilty of.
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
- Søren Kierkegaard
Followers of Donald Trump exhibit signs of being fooled both ways.
Rep. Liz Cheney: “It can be difficult to accept that President Trump abused your trust, that he deceived you. Many will invent excuses to ignore that fact. But that is a fact. I wish it weren’t true, but it is.”
@TheRickWilson
I was a sharp critic of Obama & Hillary, & I'm a sharp critic of Trump. Difference is now my Christian friends are slagging me for it now.
I keep going back to
@DavidAFrench
's 2016 piece where he recounts his experience in their Kentucky church when diet pill pyramid schemers swept through their church.
Donald Trump has done *writ large* what those diet pill con men did to his church.
"even if you think leaving Afghanistan is the right thing to do, it doesn’t matter, because this is the wrong way to do it
People who relied on us are going to be murdered
So please don’t tell me that’s in our vital national interest.
Because it’s not."
Mitt Romney:
* Would have been a good POTUS
* Is a workhorse, not a show pony
* Is boring (this is a feature, not a bug)
* Is focused on American interests, not cable TV hits/fundraising
* Is a great American who is serving his constituents - and his country, well.
35 years ago today (August 25th) I got married to my lovely wife, Kelly.
To celebrate we took a pic at the Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego, where we spent our honeymoon.
How did I get so lucky?
P.S.: Kelly takes note of how much larger my belly has gotten over the years.
"If this is the Protectionist-in-Chief’s idea of winning, when both domestic steelmakers like Nucor, and domestic steel-using firms like Ford, GM and Caterpillar are suffering from the steel tariffs, what exactly would losing look like?"
@tedcruz
Crowing about the current economic conditions when the deficit is ~$1 TRILLION and the national debt is over $23 TRILLION is like the captain of the Hindenburg boasting of his safe transatlantic crossing just before docking in New Jersey.
Liz Cheney is a modern day equivalent of the Prophet Jeremiah, who was despised by his countrymen for his incessant admonitions to them.
Or if you prefer Greek mythology, Cheney is a Cassandra figure, fated to deliver true prophecies that go unheeded by those who hear them.
.
@Liz_Cheney
: "There's a very small number of elected officials elected Republicans who actually believe what Trump is saying...There are many more people though who know what he's saying is wrong...but they're going along and accommodating, enabling, collaborating."
Mitt Romney was right about Russia in 2012; Barack Obama was wrong.
Mitt Romney is right about providing arms to Ukraine in 2023; J.D. Vance, Josh Hawley, Rand Paul, et al, are wrong.
Providing Ukraine arms to destroy Putin's military is an excellent investment for the U.S.
Romney: If we're going to have a piece of legislation that becomes law, it’s going to include support for Ukraine and as well as Israel. There may be other elements.. It's not acceptable to abandon Ukraine.
@DouthatNYT
@MZHemingway
Intellectual consistency is hard - all the more so for those who drop the pretense of their Anti-anti-Trump stance in order to let their Trump freak flag fly for clicks, contracts, career, and cash.
@scottlincicome
@realDonaldTrump
is to trade/commerce/deals what Rube Goldberg was to keeping things simple and straightforward.
'Trump' + 'Drama' = 'Trauma'.
“I am a conservative Republican, and the most conservative of conservative values is reverence for the rule of law. Each of us swears an oath before God to uphold our Constitution.”
– Liz Cheney
Kevin Williamson is right: McConnell could and should have relegated Trump to his Florida compound, and that failure is at least as heavy as the combined weight of his achievements - his failure RE, Trump is now his legacy.
Had McConnell retired in January 2021 & led the conviction of Donald Trump his legislative legacy would’ve been about the same & he would’ve saved the country from the anti-democratic threat he saw clearly. We would not be on the precipice we are on now if not for his
cowardice.
“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.”
-H.L. Mencken
“We want Barabbas!”
-The assembled mob, choosing Barabbas over Jesus, John 18:40
Hard to imagine a more principled, true, and conservative statement in a more hostile setting.
Thank you for leading,
@AsaHutchinson
. The folks in that room may not appreciate you—but history will.
@CortesSteve
@AOCpress
I see it's time for someone to re-take First Amendment 101. In a nutshell: Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms are *private*. Kind of like your house is *private*, and you can invite in or kick out whoever you want.
Thanks for attending my TED talk.
Per
@JonahDispatch
: "I am not going to let go of a lot of my criticisms of the left; I've just had to let go of a lot of my defenses of the right."
FOX News—in particular their prime time opinion hosts—are, in the Age of Trump, purveyors of propaganda, disinformation, and lies.
“There are no better defense dollars the United States will ever spend than the dollars we spend helping Ukraine destroy the conventional Russian military without having to spill a drop of NATO blood or fight on NATO territory.”
- Frederick Kagan
@general_ben
100% this! Putin knows he failed in historic fashion. He knows he’s vulnerable. He knows military and intelligence elites are well aware that he’s grinding through Russian bodies. He knows his economy can’t continue. He’s losing. The only place he’s winning is in the media.
@Lawrence
@BillOReilly
TRUMP TO O'REILLY: "I paid $25 million for an entire fake university while you paid $32 million to settle just one sexual harassment case."
This from
@WalshFreedom
RE, Trump is true.
But it's also true folks who go to Trump rallies to worship their Orange demigod don't care, because there's a hole in their soul & they're trying to fill it by putting a politician where God/family/friends/puppies/etc. should go.
@RadioFreeTom
Who can forget how Trump stared down STD's with a steely eye and grim determination while Robert Mueller misspent his youth gallivanting around southeast Asia?
#PersonalVietnam
@cspan
@BenSasse
Somewhere deep in the bowels of the White House, a puffy-faced, orange-hued man stuffs his face with burgers and rages impotently as the attorney general defies him by standing up for the rule of law and refusing to let justice become politicized.
@TheRickWilson
practically hands a road map to victory in 2020 for Democrats here, but as for me and my house, I doubt Democrats, who are being led by the nose by their most fervent and wild-eyed far-left base will heed it, never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
@nycsouthpaw
Tucker Carlson is to media/commentary what sugary energy drinks are to diet/nutrition. He’s a shameless hack chasing ratings/revenue only.
Thread. I consider myself largely a Jack Kemp-style Republican, but now that the Republican Party has been hijacked by an opportunist Republican of convenience who is engaging in divisive culture war identity politics, I've never been so alienated/politically homeless as now.
When I read today’s tweets by the president of the United States about Baltimore and the people who live there, my mind immediately went to another Republican, the late Congressman Jack Kemp. Back when I was still doing politics, I had the opportunity to travel (1/6)
Listen to this fun
@BulwarkOnline
podcast with
@SykesCharlie
and
@TheRickWilson
.
Quite the quote from a leftist Yale professor who gave a back-handed compliment to
#NeverTrump
for keeping the Dems from going far-left batsh*t crazy.
High praise indeed!
Chris Christie is saying right things now and good on him, but I can't help but think of the incalculable opportunity cost of Christie and legions of other Republicans in 2016 and onward who knew Trump was a political train wreck, but they all fell behind Trump anyway.
One of the cornerstones of faith is character. I’m not afraid to say the quiet part out loud. Donald Trump is not a man of character. We all know this. Stop hiding from the truth.
@TheRickWilson
My career is as a water/environmental guy, and I'm always amazed at how technology is making clean water cheap and accessible to billions of people. Three cheers to ordered liberty & free markets that gives inventors the freedom that makes such breakthroughs possible.
The GOP under Ronald Reagan was a highly functioning coalition of free marketers, social conservatives, and national security hawks.
The GOP under Donald Trump resembles a dysfunctional collection of cowed apparatchiks in a sh*thole country run by a strongman.