• GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    69·
    2 months ago

    I’m just glad Kissinger is dead so we don’t have to read this exact headline about that motherfucker.

    Which monster will they parade out next? Dracula? The Wolfman? Hitler’s teeth from the Soviet archives? The contents of Fort Detrick? The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs? Literally Death itself?

  • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    69·
    2 months ago

    HE LITERALLY STOLE AN ELECTION

    I mean this in all seriousness: if you were to show this to any and I mean ANY democratic voter in 2007 they would immediately become a communist

    he’s THE DEVIL

  • krolden@lemmy.mlEnglish
    53·
    2 months ago

    Mr Cheney, seen as an influential figure during the presidency of George W Bush

    …

  • Justice@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    53·
    2 months ago

    Maybe this needs to be stated for zoomers/young people:

    Dick Cheney used to be known, correctly, for being the biggest asshole, evil, greedy, “rip from the copper wire from the walls, melt the children in the mines, do anything it takes to make me more money!” person to ever sit in a seat of power so high. A driving force in the Bush admin, almost appearing to eclipse the president at multiple points, for the two major wars in Afghanistan and Iraq leading to millions of deaths and destabilization still ongoing. Mostly for his personal enrichment, btw. That part is always key to mention. It was never for any “git the terrists!” Bushism bullshit, it was purely to dump government funds into private contractors to kill, torture, assassinate people (never given due process in an international court), destroy buildings and everything else and then rebuild it with private contractors…

    If this man can be welcomed back into society, we might as well just let in Hitler. Oops, Elon already beat me to that one! Always ahead of the game!

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      48·
      2 months ago

      And that’s just from his tenure as VP. He was also the republican whip while he was in congress, white house chief of staff, and secretary of defense. His entire career is the most heinous shit for the worst of republicans. He’s one of the guys who benefitted from Iran-Contra, shock therapy in former soviet countries, and so on.

      The worst part is, this is only the stuff we know of. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if he knew about 9/11 before it happened but decided it would be good for business to have a pretense for plundering Afghanistan.

      • Justice@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        28·
        2 months ago

        For sure. We know the CIA/FBI both had multiple warnings of terrorist attacks inside the US. We can be absolutely sure Cheney was aware. Bush probably too. Definitely Bush’s father would be reading and getting reports from his CIA pals. The question is basically how much sitting on their hands hoping it would be a “bad one” worthy of exploitation to do endless wars vs incompetence on US’ part vs competence on the part of bin Laden, et al.

        I’m 100% not joking or memeing when I say I would not be surprised in the least if we found out one day that Bush Sr and W worked with Cheney and bin Laden family (old Bush family acquaintances/friends. Not necessarily with Osama, but the family), Saudi Arabia for sure, maybe Israel, this massive collaborative effort to “oops! They blew up some towers! Gotta do war now!”

        The “coincidences” and ties between the bin Ladens/Bushes is too deep and too on the nose to ignore. The second richest family in Saudi Arabia, dealing directly with a former CIA director, 2x VP, 1x POTUS and his son a governor and then fresh president at the time. And their son just happens to be the one who orchestrated a large attack that just happened to go basically fully through as planned, recorded, used as perfect propaganda to do everything Cheney and co had been dreaming of since like the 1970s post-Nixon.

        Come on, man!

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      32·
      2 months ago

      Since liberals have the memory of a goldfish, there was a movie made about Cheney, Vice, not too long ago that very clearly details the evil shit he’s done. So yeah it’s not much of a stretch to tout Hitler voting for Harris i-am-adolf-hitler

  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    461·
    2 months ago

    Every money beg from the dems I tell them they’ve become the party of Bush and Cheney. Really rub their noses in this shit. They are more than happy to give consesions to neocons but when it comes to progressives it’s FALL IN LINE YOU LITTLE SPOILED SHITS OR YOU SUPPORT DRUMPF!

  • the_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    39·
    2 months ago

    Wasn’t this exact liberal fever dream lampooned by a post in hexbear this week? Or were they dreaming of W? Now it’s real. I just can’t deal with this onion-ass shit being real.

    AND like, don’t get me started on libs not seeing their universally-reviled Cheney’s approval as a bad sign for dem voters. How. How?

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      32·
      2 months ago

      don’t get me started on libs not seeing their universally-reviled Cheney’s approval as a bad sign for dem voters. How. How?

      You mean the same people who are actually trying to whitewash Bush’s image just because they really hate Trump? At this point if Satan came up out of the ground and said he’d vote for Kamala they’d take it as a sign that he was now one of the good guys.

      Libs basically have the intelligence of AI; they start from the basis that Kamala MUST be good, so anyone who sides with her must also be good. If Adolf Hitler came back and said he’s voting for Kamala they’d say it clearly shows Trump must be worse (although now that I think about it, if Stalin came back and said he’s voting for Kamala then they’d rethink their position).

  • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    36·
    2 months ago

    Literally heartless ghoul… oh wait, he did get to cut in line to get some kid’s donor heart, and offered, direct quote, “generic thanks” when prompted by the media. kombucha-disgust

  • GoodGuyWithACat [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    24·
    2 months ago

    “I’m honored to have their endorsement,” said Harris at Penzeys Spices in the Strip District, on a break from debate preparation where she greeted patrons and bought spices. She said both Cheneys were making a courageous statement that “it’s okay, if not important, to put the country above party.”

    It’s not even tacit acceptance or ignoring it, she says she’s honored. Democrats have no memory of anything before 2016. Everything they hate Trump for, Cheney and Bush did all of them. They stole an election, they demolished Iraq and Afghanistan, they militarized the border and started ICE, they targeted Muslims, they gave tax cuts to the rich. They just didn’t send mean tweets. Cheney is Satan incarnate and they say this.

    • CommunistCuddlefish [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Reminder that this is what the Liberals who rehabilitate Bush and Cheney’s image think is completely fine (CONTENT WARNING GRAPHIC PHOTOS OF MASSACRED CIVILIANS IN IRAQ):

      “On the morning of November 19, 2005, a squad of Marines was travelling in four Humvees down a road in the town of Haditha, Iraq, when their convoy hit an I.E.D. The blast killed one Marine, Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas, and injured two others. What followed would spark one of the largest war-crime investigations in the history of the United States. During the next several hours, Marines killed twenty-four Iraqi men, women, and children. Near the site of the explosion, they shot five men who had been driving to a college in Baghdad. They entered three nearby homes and killed nearly everyone inside. The youngest victim was a three-year-old girl. The oldest was a seventy-six-year-old man. The Marines would later claim that they were fighting insurgents that day, but the dead were all civilians. After the killing was over, two other Marines set off to document the aftermath. Lance Corporal Ryan Briones brought his Olympus digital camera. Lance Corporal Andrew Wright had a red Sharpie marker. Briones and Wright went from site to site, marking bodies with numbers and then photographing them. Other Marines, including one who worked in intelligence, also photographed the scene. By the time they were done, they had made a collection of photographs that would be the most powerful evidence against their fellow-Marines. This project is supported by the Pulitzer Center. The killings came to be known as the Haditha massacre. Four Marines were charged with murder, but those charges were later dropped. General James Mattis, who went on to become Secretary of Defense, wrote a glowing letter to one of the Marines, dismissing his charges and declaring him innocent. By 2012, when the final case ended in a plea deal with no prison sentence, the Iraq War was over, and stories about the legacy of the U.S. occupation rarely got much attention. The news barely registered. The impact of an alleged war crime is often directly related to the horror of the images that end up in the hands of the public. The abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison became an international scandal when graphic photos were published. The Haditha killings had no similar moment. A few of the images that the Marines had made ended up in the public domain, but most have never been released. In an oral-history interview for the Marine Corps, in 2014, General Michael Hagee, who was the commandant of the Marine Corps at the time of the Haditha killings, bragged about keeping the Haditha photos secret. “The press never got them, unlike Abu Ghraib,” Hagee said. The interviewer, Fred Allison, a Marine Corps historian, interjected, “The pictures. They got the pictures. That was what was so bad about Abu Ghraib.” “Yes,” Hagee replied. “And I learned from that.” He said, “Those pictures today have still not been seen. And so, I’m quite proud of that.” In 2020, our reporting team at the In the Dark podcast filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Navy, seeking records that included the photos. We thought that the photos would help us reconstruct what happened that day—and why the military had dropped murder charges against the Marines involved. The Navy released nothing in response. We then sued the Navy, the Marine Corps, and U.S. Central Command to force them to turn over the photos and other records related to the Haditha killings. We anticipated that the government would claim that the release of the photos would harm the surviving family members of the dead. Military prosecutors had already made this argument after the trial of the final accused Marine. While we were fighting with the military to get the photos, a colleague and I travelled to Iraq to meet with family members of the victims of the killings. They recounted what had happened on November 19, 2005, and their efforts to seek justice, all of which had failed. “I believe this is our duty to tell the truth,” Khalid Salman Raseef, a lawyer who lost fifteen members of his family that day, told me. Another man, Khalid Jamal, was fourteen when his father and his uncles were killed. He told me that he’d spent years wondering what happened in his family members’ final moments. “Did they die like brave men? Were they scared?” he said. “I want to know the details.” We asked the two men if they would help us obtain the photos of their dead family members. They agreed, and we entered into an unusual collaboration—an American journalist and two Iraqi men whose family members had been killed, working together to pry loose the military’s secrets. I worked with the lawyers representing us in our lawsuits against the military to draft a form that the surviving family members could sign, indicating that they wanted us to have the photos. Raseef and Jamal offered to take the form to the other family members. The two men went house to house in Haditha, explaining our reporting and what we were trying to do. At one house, Jamal told the father of one of the men who was killed while trying to get to Baghdad, “Of course, I am one of you.” Jamal asked him to sign the form, saying, “Things that happened in the massacre will be exposed.” The father, Hameed Fleh Hassan, told him, “The drowning man will cling to the straw. . . . We sign. We sign. I will sign it twice, not once.” Raseef and Jamal collected seventeen signatures. Our attorney filed the form in court as part of our lawsuit. In March, more than four years after our initial FOIA request, the military relented, and gave us the photos. The New Yorker has decided to publish a selection of these photos, with the permission of the surviving family members of those depicted, to reveal the horror of a killing that the military chose not to punish.”

      https://archive.is/20240829024208/https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/in-the-dark/the-haditha-massacre-photos-that-the-military-didnt-want-the-world-to-see

      • CommunistCuddlefish [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        At this point any Liberal who supports the Democrats deserves everything they fear Donald Trump would do to them. Hell, I’d vote for Trump just to watch them suffer next to us actually marginalized and vulnerable people, but in reality these comfortable white liberal shits are in next to no real danger.

  • Wertheimer [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    19·
    2 months ago

    For some reason CNN and friends aren’t asking if the Democrats will disavow and denounce this support from the worst criminal of the 21st century.