But I'll say it--YAAAAYYYY!!

One war criminal down!

"No more war pigs have the power,
Hand of God has struck the hour!

And torture lover. And killer of drugged animals.

Softly put CNN

stating an absolute LIE, just like Cheney/Rumsfeld's lie to take us into a disastrous war which only benefited the monstrous Industrial Military Complex, and Cheney's last employer: Halliburton Oil.....

Rumsfeld's famous quote: "The war will be over in three days, costing us only three Billion dollars, and that the Iraq people will gladly reimburse us from THEIR oil reserve's revenue......The Iraq people will line the streets, throwing flowers at our soldiers as they parade by"

Obviously the war wasn't over in three days,....... the last estimates of the actual, factual cost of the war is so far Two Trillion dollars,...... Cheney and other Major Oil companies divided up the oil in Iraq for themselves,...... and all the streets in Iraq cities were bombed into oblivion so the people couldn't line the streets throwing flowers at our conquering soldiers.......

He did vote for Harris.

That really puts things into perspective, doesn't it?

These demons can die???

n/t

then wake up to Big Dick’s passing. What does this all mean?

I couldn’t have been more incorrect.

Little did I know they were rank amateurs in the evil game.

It's just that the majority of their evildoing was in other countries, whereas Trump's is in the US.

Although Bush/Cheney did do a lot of crap on the home front as well.

they loved America but they were convinced there would be another Hitler and prepared for it...my father had a clothing store and every spare dollar went into buying gold coins and diamonds...before we moved into our new house , my father paid the guy who poured the slab to drill small craters into the cement in what would be our bedrooms..after we moved in and the carpet was laid, my father cut out the pieces of carpet that covered the holes and filled them with coins, jewels, and money...he then covered the holes and dragged our beds over the carpet...I asked him why he did that and he explained that when, not if, someone like Hitler took control of America, the stash would be used to bribe the soldiers, allowing us to make our escape...

to us Dick Cheney was the epitome of evil but that was then and this is now..he's been Trumped...

Older Jewish immigrants to the US hoarding coins, furs, jewelry.
To prepare for when a Hitler figure took over the US.
We thought they were just showing their PTSD.

Now we know they were 100% right.

If a dem president had said that it would have been the only story for at least a 48 hour period, but even I was surprised that they let the quote below slide without comment:

“Too many OB/GYN’s aren’t able to practice their love with women all across the country.” ― George W Bush

I never saw a video clip of him looking sober.

He was a long time boozer and coke addict.

n/t

Intense anger and disgust at Cheney during GW Bush* "war on terror," but in comparison to the Fascists in the WH and Congress (and against late-stage Cheney warned and railed against), my views have (slightly) moderated--at least for end-stage Cheney.

I'll never lose my view of him as a very negative version of "Darth Vader," in office and I had a burning hatred toward him then, but he (with Liz) presented a very different persona in late life. Perhaps it was the soul of the heart he acquired.

You put into graceful words the conflict I feel about Cheney.

It's was surprising to say the least that one of the meanest V.P.s, Cheney, and one of the dumbest V.P.s, Quayle, actually finally both did the right thing for their country on January 6. They used their remaining connections in Washington to play at least some part in thwarting tsf's attempted coup.

Sadly their former Republican supporters didn't follow their lead, and put tsf back in office in 2024. I didn't forget the bad stuff Cheney did in office, but it has always been said you should at least find one good thing to say about those people you don't like. So this is that one good thing for Darth Cheney.

I am likely never going to be able to find anything good to say about tsf or anyone else in his regime though.

I also read he called contacts in Washington, and told them they needed to do something to stop it. I also read Dan Quayle is the one who advised Pence he had no legal authority to stop the certification like tsf asked him to do.

Cheney because he was evil, and Quayle because he was an idiot.

when the ReThugs' low bar keeps moving lower and lower.

It was a lot easier to hate Cheney, back in the good old days when we couldn't imagine things getting as bad as they are, now.

And the world was still asking questions about Pat Tillman's death.

Demonstrating just how thoroughly fucked things are now is more of a public service than I ever would have expected from him.

He was 72. Surely there was a younger candidate on the list of matching recipients.

And, I don't doubt he would have met the criteria based on the severity of then current symptoms. But, yeah, I get it. I always wondered about the family of that person and how they felt about it--especially early on after the transplant.

…but it’ll do.

Goodnight Dick. in

... that Cheney and Rumsfeld were avid proponents of "The Unitary Executive," which was a cynical euphemism for dictatorship. Project 2025 was the logical extension of that diseased concept.
I almost did a spit-take with my coffee when I read, "...he was a great and good man". No, he was not. Letting tunnel vision focused on familial relations to the exclusion of the monstrous harm he did is not an accurate measure of his character. The fullness of the evil he perpetrated completely overshadows any momentary lapses wherein he was nice to his own family. Millions of families here and around the world will remember him quite differently.

The rest of the globe loathed him

I would have thought it involved a holly stake and a crossroads

an "undisclosed location".

Hot, really, really hot

Now here it is, 20 years too late. Great. Oh, well. Maybe good things come in twos.

Private contractors.

Stolen election. Sept the 11 he helped make that happen.

Carpet of gold carpet of bombs.

Somebody shorted the airline stocks.

Stockwalk group. MJK Clearing.

It was a lot. DoD. Not a decent person.I kinda think he was a sociopath, if you will.

Byeeee

Policy Analysis Market. John Poindexter.
WTF were the “art students” up to in the summer of 2001?

The jackasses were practicing taking off, but not practicing landing. Shrug.

He didn't like the competition.......

I'm sure there is evidence to prove it.

He caved to Darth when Darth declared himself VP.

I'm sure Shrub will show up for that.

... because he hates anyone with the name Cheney.

But maybe there's a precedent for every gov't official getting a state funeral regardless of Party affiliation? I remember that Ruth Bader Ginsberg got a state funeral during Chump's first term, and he hated her too.

right during the pandemic. In that case, they delayed any services due to the pandemic and eventually had a memorial service in MN.

Of the previous VPs in the last century or so who have passed, one - Humbert Humphrey - did lie in state in the Capitol. Earlier ones like the first 2 under FDR, had memorial services and/or regular funerals in their home states.

Other former (modern) VPs were all eventually elected or had ascended to the Presidency at some point and had a state funeral as a former President (i.e., Truman, Nixon, Johnson, Ford, Poppy Bush). There are still a bunch of VPs (including a former one who became President) still around - Quayle, Gore, Biden, Harris.

President Biden will probably not outlast a trump presidency. trump will not allow a state funeral, and will still be trying to charge him with fictitious crimes when Biden is in his casket.

Harris will outlive the orange monster for sure.

which he has no control over. So I don't think that is really his call. There is a whole protocol associated with it that is handled by a special D.C. Military command.

"They will greet us as liberators."

Cheney was a war criminal who was never held accountable for his crimes, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths.

Good riddance.

I don't believe in Hell, but I wish there was one just for him.

They would have called Cheney “the most powerful president never to have been inaugurated.”

The only reason Cheney didn’t lead Bush II around by the nose in public is because W took one look at the nose ring, and decided he didn’t like piercings. As for who called the shots in that administration, if it was someone other than Cheney, it has to be Washington’s best-kept secret since “who is Alexander Throttlebottom?”

The founder of free republic and a long time enemy to anything good also died about a week ago. That website has been a sewer for decades.

. . . famous people die in threes.

Cheney, Diane Ladd . . . I hope Dolly Parton is safe goddam if I know what I'd do if we lose her.

I have nothing whatsoever that is good to say

and made it into every community.

Good fuckin' riddance!

I have had a bottle of good champagne on my shelf since 2008 waiting to open it and celebrate when Cheney died.
He was a heartless and cruel man who should be having lunch with satan himself today.

Since 2008 the repubs have gotten so much worse that, now, that champagne is on hold for when the orange anus croaks, flees the country or gets thrown in jail.

Hopefully I get to pop it very soon.

We've had a bottle waiting for this day.

...designed to facilitate their desire to "transform the Middle East" by force.

GW Bush & Colin Powel were both used by the PNAC, not part of the organization but trusting enough to believe what they were told.

Other than that, I'll keep shut my mouth.

I thought he was older than 84, but no matter.

Will there be anybody who can say anything nice about the guy? I was hoping that that on his deathbed, he would admit to pre-rigging the world trade centers.

While we can condemn Cheney's horrible behavior in government he was probably an inspiration to many people with heart disease. Most likely his disease affected his judgment in political matters and it's tempting to give him some slack after he's gone, but nevertheless his lack of compassion for those on the receiving end of his actions resulted in untold suffering.

He did a lot of damage.

Not only is he a war criminal, he is responsible for the current shitshow of T-rump. He was the first person I ever heard use the term unitary executive. Apparently it was a term kicking around in right wing circles but had not been uttered before to support a presidential action. Fuck him.

...he had far more fidelity and family values than Gingrich. Not a terribly high bar, but it's something.

Halliburton needed to fleece us.

but I approve of it.

(hat tip to Mark Twain)

...making a note to add this song to the play list for when Schlump croaks. Because it is perfect!

However, Trump makes Cheney look like an Eagle Scout. They just keep getting worse.

I imagine one of his main regrets, other than not being able to take all that money and power with him, is that he didn't get to see Iran turned into a glass parking lot. I'm delighted for all of this.

"We love him here. He's great for business" said regional strongman Lou Cifer.

I don't recall the exact exchange, but Cheney was questioned about all the money he made with Haliburton and others, and with his usual smirk said, "And government had nothing to do with it". And of course it got applause and pathetic Lieberman had no come back at all to this blatant lie.

to what will hopefully be a perfect (election) day.


Rocknation

Dick Cheney is dead. Good.

that war mongering lying piece shit did huge harm to the world

Maybe your daughter can rehab the name. But AFAIC, she's on her own. 'Cause we won't

neither repented nor redeemed himself to any measurable degree prior to his passing. I'll pass on "newfound respect for the dead simply because they are dead" schtick, and leave his fans in the media and on their couches to grumble about poorly Old White Men are treated and never given the respect they've (never) earned.

THERE, I FIXED IT

to remember and re-mourn the millions dead due to his actions.

perhaps he'll reach up and grab trump and yank him down. soon.

due to his abject hatred of Liz! Maybe WY (his adopted state) and NE (his home state) might consider it.

My first thought was for his daughters and I was a little sad.

TELL me that when we all started hanging out here in 2000 that any of us could have anticipated that. (Yeah, primarily a lurker, hi!)

When the world sucks so badly that I have a little twinge of sympathy for Dick Fucking Cheney dying, you know that it is seriously a messed up place.

because I was hoping that Trump would be first.

But he was still a greedy mass murderer.

I don’t care if he didn’t like Trump. That pig paved the way for P*$$Y-Grabber. He lied and got us into a war… That is inexcusable.