It’s The Trump Party Vs The Cheney Party

By Caitlin Johnstone

It’s time to look at the Outlaw US Empire’s election circus where the ancien regime continues to maintain its grip on power via providing candidates that will do nothing to alter the status quo. That’s not that some aren’t trying. Jill Stein is the strongest of the Third-Party candidates and will be my choice. But the reality of what will occur must be looked at with a clear eye no matter its ugliness, and that’s what this short essay by Ms. Johnstone does. Those who reached the end of the Eastern Economic Forum’s transcript will have read what Putin had to say in response to the Q about the circus to which he responded in circus-like fashion. Why? Because the Cheney Party is rather predictable in what they’ll do policy-wise, which is to continue their actions over the past 30+ years, while Trump is unpredictable, although his past actions aimed at Russia & China cast him in as negative a light as can be imagined.

Caitlin’s article’s being mirrored at MoA and by other sites as this analysis needs to be circulated as widely as possible and now follows:

One of earth’s most evil living beings, Dick “Darth Vader” Cheney, has officially endorsed Kamala Harris for president. His daughter, Liz Cheney, has also endorsed Harris.

“In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” said the former vice president in a statement, adding, “As citizens, we each have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution. That is why I will be casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.”

Cheney was a charter signatory to the notorious neoconservative think tank Project for the New American Century, and as vice president played a leading role in the George W Bush administration’s soaring warmongering, militarism and authoritarianism, including most famously the invasion of Iraq. He has the blood of millions of people on his hands, and he should be living out the rest of his miserable life in a cage.

His daughter Liz is an equally bloodthirsty warmonger who has spent her career pushing for mass military slaughter at every opportunity. After the Israeli assault on Gaza began last year she went on CNN to declare that all deaths which occur in the onslaught are “the responsibility of Hamas”, that protests against Israel’s actions are “antisemitic” in nature, and that the US should escalate against Iran and the Houthis because of their oppositional posture toward Israel.

The Cheneys join a growing list of formerly Republican warmongers who are migrating to the Democratic Party in droves to support Harris. Last month hundreds of staffers who served under Republicans George W Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney signed a letter endorsing Harris, saying that “re-electing President Trump would be a disaster for our nation.”

“Abroad, democratic movements will be irreparably jeopardized as Trump and his acolyte JD Vance kowtow to dictators like Vladimir Putin while turning their backs on our allies,” the group writes, adding, “We can’t let that happen.”

It is here worth noting that contrary to the narratives circulated in both mainstream Democrat-aligned media and mainstream Republican-aligned media, Donald Trump actually spent his entire term ramping up aggressions against Russia and helped pave the way to the war in Ukraine. He also promoted many longstanding warmongering agendas against official enemies of the US empire like Iran, Syria, and Venezuela. But even Trump’s insane hawkishness is insufficient for these freaks.

In June of 2022, author Sarah Kendzior made the following predictions on the Gaslit Nation podcast:

“I’m gonna wrap this up with a warning, which is that there is a new plan for our already broken two-party system. The plan is to have two parties. One, a batshit crazy MAGA party led by Trump or DeSantis that will bulldoze your rights. And the second one will be a far-right “respectable” party led by Liz Cheney that will also bulldoze your rights. They will call the Cheney party the Democrats and pretend that a creeping capitulation to a right-wing agenda is some kind of act of healing bipartisanship.”

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“When I mentioned this possibility on Twitter, someone wrote to me, ‘Liz Cheney is not becoming a Democrat.’ And I replied, ‘I agree. The Democrats are becoming Cheneys.’

This is more or less what appears to have been happening, and it actually started several years ago. During the 2016 Trump campaign a bunch of neoconservative warmongers switched from defending George W Bush as a saint and decrying Obama as an Ayatollah lover and began pivoting to endorse Hillary Clinton instead. After Trump won, this coalition between Democrats and Bush-era neocons grew even stronger with the creation of new Democratic think tank projects led by Iraq-raping neocons like Bill Kristol.

So now we’re seeing two warmongering oligarchic parties shoving the Overton window of acceptable opinion as far in the direction of imperialism, militarism and tyranny as possible under the leadership of some of the very worst people alive. By doing this they ensure that these matters are never on the ballot, and that elections are always about issues the powerful are completely indifferent toward like abortion and trans rights instead.

Progressives who want healthcare and a ceasefire in Gaza are being dismissed and ignored while alliances are being made with the world’s most blood-soaked imperialists. Things have been shoved so far to the right that this election is now a showdown between the Trump Party against the Cheney Party, and no matter who wins, the empire wins. 

A lot of fuss will probably be made about election-rigging after the results are announced in November, with the loser declaring that the results are the result of Russian interference or Deep State vote tampering depending on who that loser happens to be. But remember this: the worst election rigging is happening right out in the open, to ensure that oligarchs and empire managers are happy with either outcome. [My Emphasis]

I’ve omitted the two twitter comments that accompany the article and bolster her argument. That celebrities like Michael Moore are clamoring for the Cheney Party indicate that they have no idea what they’re endorsing—as usual. Traditional Conservatives like Judge Napolitano and Larry Johnson are beyond dismayed at what’s happening and understand that neither Duopoly candidate stands for them.

One might call this the Nazification of America, although that’s been ongoing since 1945. Perhaps a new term, although I’m fond of my own coinage—The Outlaw US Empire—although that doesn’t reflect the degree of “soft” totalitarianism that’s being built by the Duopoly in the name of the ancien regime. (Yes, I need to write an essay explaining what I mean by the ancien regime as that’s a term usually applied to Europe.) Basically, a thumbnail sketch, our financial rentiers are the equivalent of the Feudal Landowning Class that controlled Europe until it was supposedly deposed by WW1, which it wasn’t. What rules the USA today are the same Imperialists that ruled the European Monarchies prior to WW1—different personages and ethnicities to be sure, but the same fundamental ideology that prevailed then. The Empire’s stated #1 policy to control the planet via Full Spectrum Domination announced during Clinton’s presidency in 1996 & 1999 tells us a great deal as well as the fact that policy has continued for almost 30 years since—more than 30 when we acknowledge the policy began as the Wolfowitz Doctrine in 1992 when Cheney was Secretary of Defense.

IMO, the world isn’t blind to what’s happening and can see that clearly two very different sides have formed that’s not too dissimilar to what was happening in the 1930s. Do please share Caitlin’s essay with your circles.

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