Great Task retweeted
Rarely has so much ignorance and ahistorical BS been crammed into a single tweet. I know you and @realDonaldTrump are busy surrendering to a KGB butcher, abandoning the cause of freedom, and destroying the security of America and her allies, but you would do well, @JDVance, to spend some time actually studying history. Start here with Ronald Reagan: “Perhaps you and I have lived too long with this miracle to properly be appreciative. Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. And those in world history who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.”
This is moralistic garbage, which is unfortunately the rhetorical currency of the globalists because they have nothing else to say.
For three years, President Trump and I have made two simple arguments: first, the war wouldn't have started if President Trump was in office; second, that neither Europe, nor the Biden administration, nor the Ukrainians had any pathway to victory. This was true three years ago, it was true two years ago, it was true last year, and it is true today.
And for three years, the concerns of people who were obviously right were ignored. What is Niall's actual plan for Ukraine? Another aid package? Is he aware of the reality on the ground, of the numerical advantage of the Russians, of the depleted stock of the Europeans or their even more depleted industrial base?
Instead, he quotes from a book about George HW Bush from a different historical period and a different conflict. That's another currency of these people: reliance on irrelevant history.
President Trump is dealing with reality, which means dealing with facts. And here are some facts:
Number one, while our Western European allies' security has benefitted greatly from the generosity of the United States, they pursue domestic policies (on migration and censorship) that offend the sensibilities of most Americans and defense policies that assume continued over-reliance.
Number two, Russians have a massive numerical advantage in manpower and weapons in Ukraine, and that advantage will persist regardless of further Western aid packages. Again, the aid is *currently* flowing.
Number three, the United States retains substantial leverage over both parties to the conflict.
Number four, ending the conflict requires talking to the people involved in starting it and maintaining it.
Number five, the conflict has placed--and continues to place--stress on tools of American statecraft, from military stockpiles to sanctions (and so much else). We believe the continued conflict is bad for Russia, bad for Ukraine, and bad for Europe. But most importantly, it is bad for the United States.
Given the above facts, we must pursue peace, and we must pursue it now. President Trump ran on this, he won on this, and he is right about this. It is lazy, ahistorical nonsense to attack as "appeasement" every acknowledgment that America's interest must account for the realities of the conflict.
That interest--not moralisms or historical illiteracy--will guide President Trump's policy in the weeks to come.
And thank God for that.
Great Task retweeted
Thank you, former Atty Gen’l Gonzales:
“All of us in the legal profession have a special obligation to abide by and to protect the rule of law.”
“And no amount of rationalization to support Trump because of his policies can overcome the disqualification of this man based on his lack of integrity.”
Opinion: I can’t sit quietly as Donald Trump — perhaps the biggest threat to the rule of law in a generation — eyes reelection. That's why I support Kamala Harris for president, writes former Republican AG @argonzales.
politico.com/news/magazine/2…
Great Task retweeted
Let’s be clear: This is illegal and unconstitutional. The American people had voted. The courts had ruled. The Electoral College had met and voted. The Governor in every state had certified the results and sent a legal slate of electors to the Congress to be counted. The Vice President has no constitutional authority to tell states to submit alternative slates of electors because his candidate lost. That is tyranny. Our institutions held on Jan 6 because Mike Pence refused to violate his oath to the Constitution. Trump picked JD Vance because Vance will do whatever Trump wants, including violating the Constitution. They are both far too dangerous to serve. It’s our duty to stop them.
No matter what your policy views are - no matter if you are a conservative Republican or not - Donald Trump cannot be trusted with power. He is a risk that we simply can’t take, and he has to be defeated.
As a conservative, as someone who believes in and cares about The Constitution, I have thought deeply about this, and because of the danger that Donald Trump poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, but I will be voting for Kamala Harris. -@Liz_Cheney
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Mitch McConnell knows Trump provoked the violent attack on our Capitol and then “watched television happily” as his mob brutally beat police officers and hunted the Vice President. He knows Trump refused for hours to tell his mob to leave and “even then with police officers bleeding…he kept repeating his election lies and praising the criminals.” He knows Trump committed a “disgraceful dereliction of duty” and is a danger to our Republic. Trump and his collaborators will be defeated, and history will remember the shame of people like @LeaderMcConnell who enabled them.
Two years ago today @Liz_Cheney said:
“To my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.”
Still true today.
Great Task retweeted
“A country must be great to call for the sacrifice of such men. America will always be great because such men have fallen in order that the principles expressed in our Constitution will endure. The people of America will realize what that gold star means…and will resolve to keep America worthy of such men.”
Letter from LTC James Rudder to the mother of Cpl Willis Caperton who was killed at D-Day.
Today, we remember the courage of those who landed on the beaches of Normandy 80 years ago to defend freedom and defeat tyranny.
America deserves a president as good and steadfast as our nation, a president of character, driven by a noble purpose, one who honors the sacrifices of our troops. Not a man consumed by spite, revenge, and self-pity.
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Great Task retweeted
Donald Trump is unstable and dangerous. He knows this is a lie that could again provoke violence from those who blindly follow him. Rs in Congress: You know Trump is unfit.
When will you put aside your cowardice and stand up for what you know is right? abcnews.go.com/Politics/trum…
Great Task retweeted
Trump’s continued use of Nazi rhetoric is un-American and despicable. Yet too many Americans are brushing off the glaring red flags about what could happen if he returns to the White House.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
Trump posts a new ad foreshadowing a second Trump term that says he will create a “UNIFIED REICH,” echoing Nazi Germany
ALT An screenshot of an ad posted by Donald Trump, foreshadowing a second Trump term that says he will create a “UNIFIED REICH”
ALT An screenshot of an ad posted by Donald Trump, foreshadowing a second Trump term that says he will create a “UNIFIED REICH”
Great Task retweeted
Actually, @GovDougBurgum, Trump didn't just negotiate with terrorists, he invited the Taliban to Camp David on the anniversary of 9/11 and had his Secretary of State sign a surrender agreement with them.
In an ominous foreshadowing of what would happen on Jan. 6, Donald Trump called armed Michigan militia members who stormed the State Capitol in Lansing "very good people" on this day in 2020, and thought the Governor should give into their threats of violence and intimidation.
On this day in 2017, Donald Trump wrote another chapter in his long obsession with authoritarian dictators, calling Kim Jong Un "a pretty smart cookie," a day after the North Korean dictator shot a ballistic missile directly over the second-largest island in Japan.
American presidents should never kowtow to our adversaries. We can't allow it in the future.
Great Task retweeted
POTUS has no official role in the 1/6 count. When a candidate pressures/threatens the President of the Senate (Pence), pressures and lobbies state legislatures & members of Congress, and oversees a fraudulent elector scheme, his acts are private. And plotting to appoint an AG in a quid pro quo for help on 1/6 parallels CJ Roberts’ bribery hypo.
Trump told SCOTUS in his 12/9/20 brief that he was filing in his “personal capacity as a candidate.” The Court need not resolve more difficult immunity Qs not at issue here. Rule quickly and decisively.
.@Liz_Cheney: "Americans want to be reminded that not only are we a great country, but that we're a good country...and you want your president to be somebody that you're proud for your children to look up to."
Last night, @Liz_Cheney joined historian Jon Meacham at @WNCathedral for a conversation on the need to rise above partisan politics to defend our Constitution and elect leaders of principle and integrity.
Watch the full conversation here ⬇️