Liz Cheney is outraged about the possibility of being shot in the face, and not because she’s going hunting with daddy Dick.
You remember Dick, the guy who accidentally shot a fellow hunter in the face with a shotgun while quail hunting in February 2006. It was not until this faux pas was reported in the media that Cheney and his people came out to report and attempt to explain the whole thing.
Leftists had a field day at the time and they were righteous on this one. Such carelessness with firearms is reprehensible and reflects poorly on all lawful gun owners.
The shooting victim was reported to have been released from the hospital a week or so later – after suffering a heart attack in part due to being shot – and subsequently fawned over Cheney. The victim said at a press conference that he and his family were “deeply sorry for everything” Cheney and his family had to endure in the wake of the shooting.
So, the victim was sorry about being shot in the face by Cheney and that this had inconvenienced the then-sitting Vice President.
As to Dick Cheney being sorry, apparently not so much. Reports online indicate the victim was asked if Cheney had apologized and he didn’t answer the question. This likely indicates we got an answer with the non-answer.
Fact-forward to 2024 and Cheney, plus daughter Liz, are Kamala Chameleon converts. This is a longstanding trend in the Republican Party, which remains butt hurt by the Donald Trump takeover of the party. Elites like the Cheneys and Bush clan resent populists like Trump, not to mention his success.
Unlike Cheney and too many Republicans, Trump refuses to see never-ending wars as being in the best interest of the United States. Trump parts ways with many Democrats on this issue, too.
Liz Cheney paid the price for her blind hate toward Trump by being ousted in the 2022 Republican primary. Repeat, Liz, an incumbent member of the U.S. House from Wyoming, got beat by 30 percentage points or so in her party’s primary.
The party members of her state showed her what they thought of her anti-Trump actions, including her vote for his impeachment.
Liz vowed revenge and the years since have seen her working feverishly to hamstring Trump, most lately by campaigning with the empty pants suit known as Cackling Kamala. We can only hope the Cheney effect helps Kamala to a 30-point loss.
Cheney and her ilk rail that Trump is Hitler, that his followers are Nazis, etc., etc., etc.
Trump has fired back – rhetorically. He asked the very same question I would ask of war hawks like Cheney, and including petty little guys like Zelenskyy. That question is, how tough would they be if they were in the front lines with people shooting at them?
I don’t think they’d be very tough at all, but maybe I’m wrong. Let’s send them to the front with a rifle in their hands and find out for certain.
And so, Trump wondered how Liz would feel if there were rifles trained on her face, prepared to shoot back. This, notably, from a guy recently shot in the head who had risen to his feet afterward and encouraged that Butler crowd to “Fight, fight, fight.
Liz rushed to social media to whine about Trump being a mean would-be dictator with his comments about her.
It was ironic since Liz now aligns with the party that helped incentivize at least two assassination attempts on Trump. Even after those, Clueless Joe Biden’s commerce secretary was out in late September saying Trump should be “extinguished for good.”
I can’t be sure of this, not having taken the time to search her social media history, but I doubt Liz Cheney was quick to lament that choice of words.
An Associated Press report on Trump’s Liz Cheney remarks was predictably sure to brand him as “using increasingly threatening rhetoric against his adversaries and talked of enemies from within undermining the country.”
The report goes on to use this to justify those calling Trump a fascist and, presumably, forgiving things like trying to assassinate him.
Compared to armed leftists either shooting Trump – literally – or attempting to do so, saying Liz Cheney might be a little more restrained if she faced the danger herself instead of just being quick to send the military into harm’s way, seems pretty minor to me.
Bottom line: Relax, Liz. You’re safe as long as you don’t go hunting with daddy.
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