Cheney Responds to Attacks

"Today, Trump attacked Cheney and others who investigated the events of January 6, 2021, as 'dishonest Thugs.'

Cheney responded: 'Donald, this is not the Soviet Union. You can’t change the truth and you cannot silence us. Remember all your lies about the voting machines, the election workers, your countless allegations of fraud that never happened? Many of your lawyers have been sanctioned, disciplined or disbarred, the courts ruled against you, and dozens of your own White House, administration, and campaign aides testified against you. Remember how you sent a mob to our Capitol and then watched the violence on television and refused for hours to instruct the mob to leave? Remember how your former Vice President prevented you from overturning our Republic? We remember. And now, as you take office again, the American people need to reject your latest malicious falsehoods and stand as the guardrails of our Constitutional Republic—to protect the America we love from you.'"

Letters from an American Historian

The Donald! What a turn of events. Liz was one of the bad guys a short time ago. Her dad is an unapologizing public enemy in the republican party's slide into torture and unaccountable police violence  and hostility to common sense gun controls over the last quarter century. And now Liz is one of the most direct and forceful voices of resistance to the kind of pol, above the law, targets his enemies with violent threats, her dad helped make possible. Not that I'm complaining. We need Never Trumpers, former republicans, rich people, anybody with some common sense and human compassion that will speak out against the lies and corruption. Diehard republicans might wish to counter that there's always lies and corruption in politics. Sure, but if you can't tell the difference you're not paying attention, or worse willing on the tyranny over truth. Dark speculation for the day: If looking back this period marks a significant turn away from democracy and public faith in the rule of law and legal justice the crucial date will be the SCOTUS decision last summer to "pardon" Grump for Jan 6. The miscarriage of justice in that decision is obvious already but we'll learn over the next four years how bad a miscalculation it was.