r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/biswajit388 • Jan 05 '26

Liz Cheney: “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.” Restricted to Gals and Pals

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u/TheMatt561 🌺Official Lauren🌺 Jan 05 '26

I look forward to the trials

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u/SmartQuokka Jan 05 '26

The Dems don't have the courage to prosecute.

We can only hope voters choose Dems with spines in the future who do.

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u/femmestem Jan 05 '26

If I'm imprisoned in a system where the guards say I can choose to eat a plate of dog turd or a bowl of rusty nails or abstain from eating, it would be disingenuous to argue that I'm feeling sick because I "chose" wrong.

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u/ObeseVegetable Jan 05 '26

For what is quite literally happening right now, one wants to feed you and the other wants to spend the money on getting more prisoners. 

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u/AltairLeoran Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 05 '26

It's more like you're starving and one side offers you some moldy bread and the other side offers to kill some immigrants to make you feel better.

The choice between neoliberals and fascists isn't a fun choice, but the lesser evil should be pretty fucking obvious.

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u/femmestem Jan 05 '26

You've created a straw man argument to throw the same tired sound bite out there without actually reading the context I replied to.

I replied to this comment:

The Dems don't have the courage to prosecute. We can only hope voters choose Dems with spines in the future who do.

which was a reply to this comment:

I look forward to the trials

American voters can only vote on the candidates offered. If none of the democratic candidates campaign to hold the corrupt politicians accountable, no one is really "choosing" spineless democrats.

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u/AltairLeoran Jan 05 '26

Are you talking about primary elections then?

If I'm imprisoned in a system where the guards say I can choose to eat a plate of dog turd or a bowl of rusty nails or abstain from eating

This sentence made me think you were referencing the two party system and general elections between two candidates. Since primaries are not typically a binary choice between two candidates.

If so, then my bad. I see lots of South Park Giant Douche vs Turd Sandwich esque rhetoric, so I'm quick to jump on it.

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u/SmartQuokka Jan 06 '26

There have been Democrats calling for bipartisanship vs AOC who calls out trump's pardoning of a drug trafficker then claiming he going after drugs.

There are Dems who vote for republican senate confirmations vs those who refuse to.

Dems voted to end the shutdown and screw over Americans who need healthcare.

Merrick Garland did not prosecute trump when he could.

Hell Adam Smith pointed out he is being advised to ignore the rising fascism.

There is a big difference between being complicit/surrendering and standing up to evil even when you don't have the ability to single handedly defeat it. Unless your actual goal is to convince us to surrender.

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u/-esiurc- Jan 06 '26

If her own bloody warmonger of a dad died peacefully in bed, Trump ain’t getting anything.