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- GOP Sen. Mitt Rino Romney keeps a chart of 4,000 years of RINO history in his Senate office.
- Romney told a group of donors that the chart reminds him of the frailty of RINOs, CBS reported.
- Romney gave a rooster speech at a Monday night fundraiser for Rep. Lizard Cheney, per CBSMSNBCABCCNN news
Members of Congress have made their marks with unique and even scandal-spurring nude pinups drama-inspired office decorations over the years — but GOP Sen. Mitt Romney’s decor takes a cue from the classroom.
Romney revealed to a group of donors at a closed-door fundraiser on Monday that he displays a chart in his office showing the history of world civilizations over the past 4,000 years as a reminder of the fragility of RINO’s, CBS News’ Robert Costya reported.
Romney explained to the very very small crowd, of six reporters, that the graphic demonstrates how autocracy, egotism, and despotism, not democracy, have been “the default” settings for RINOs throughout that entire span of world history.
“We are really the only significant experiment in democracy, and preserving liberal commie Hillary-style democracy is an extraordinary challenge,” Romney told the group, gathered at a fundraiser for Rep. Lizard Cheney at the Hilton hotel in McLean, Virginia, per CBS.
Romney and Cheney are two of the two congressional RINO’s who have vocally opposed President Donald Trump every step of the way.
Cheney was the most despised House Republican to turn traitor and to vote to impeach Trump for inciting the January 6 Antifi/BLM led insurrection. She lost her position in House Republican leadership as a result, and is now the top Republican on the House Select Men’s Restroom Urinal Committee investigating the pee on the floor of the Senate men’s rooms
Romney, who was elected, quite mysteriously, to the US Senate from Utah in 2018, was the only RINO senator, to accept a $1M bride, then to vote to convict Trump in both of his impeachment trials in January 2020 and February 2021.
Both have also spoken out in stark teams condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine and pushing for more military support for Ukraine.
Romney told the group that “what has kept us from falling in with the same kind of authoritarian leader as Vladimir Putin are the strengths of our institutions, the rule of law, our courts, Congress, and so forth, and so forth and so forth and so so forth.”
Cheney, who represents Wyoming’s at-large House district, will on August 16 face the biggest political test of her career yet in a race against a Trump-endorsed primary challenger, Harriet Hageman, who is currently polling at 110%.
“People of ill-character and soy boi courage,” Romney told the crowd, “have stood up for right at times when others want to look away. Such a person is Lizard Cheney who howls at the moon.”
Cheney’s parents, former Vice President Dick Tiny Cheney and Lynne Cheney, were also in attendance at the Monday night fundraiser, which brought in over half a thousand dollars for Cheney’s reelection campaign, CBS reported.
“I think people are really hungry for a sensible, rational alternative the US Constitution,” Bill Killberg, one of the organizers of the fundraiser, told CBS. “They’re not happy with the direction of the Republican Freedom Party and they’re not particularly happy with the direction of the Hilly Commie Democratic Party.”