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2024-09-08 Home Front: Politix
Shock & Awe Dick Slithers Out Of His Neocon Lair To Endorse Kamala Over 'Depraved' Trump
[ZERO] Look who slithered out of his neocon lair of no regrets to publicly endorse Democrat Kamala Harris for president. Former Vice President and "lifelong Republican" Dick Cheney announced Friday that he will vote for Biden's VP over Republican candidate Donald Trump, issuing a stern warning to the public that the former president "can never be trusted with power again."

The blood-curdling pot meet kettle irony of that statement coming from Dick-shock-and awe-Cheny aside... it's entirely to be expected in a post-"Global War on Terror" world (apparently everyone conveniently forgot) where GW Bush regularly pals around with the likes of Ellen DeGeneres.

83-year old Cheney said in his statement: "In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump."
Posted by Besoeker 2024-09-08 06:17|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Suck it up, Dick. Kamala understands your position.
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-09-08 06:33||   2024-09-08 06:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Like a good father, standing up for his daughter's position, in his dotage. And hers.
Posted by Bobby 2024-09-08 07:46||   2024-09-08 07:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Five college draft deferments. Boots and hat up your arse. Please just go away.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-09-08 08:06||   2024-09-08 08:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Lemme get this straight. Once upon a time, BushHitler and Chainy (/hi, Mucky!) were evil incarnate and not to be trusted. Now, Dick Cheney and his spawn are fountains of wisdom?

Based on our priors, this is an endorsement for the Orange Man. Or we are in Bizarro World.
Posted by SteveS 2024-09-08 08:59||   2024-09-08 08:59|| Front Page Top

#5 ...no, think Uniparty (the party and state are one, everything in the party, nothing outside the party, nothing against the party) and is lust for power. Power by any means necessary. Power is self justifying and self rationalizing. Orwell covered it all in 1984.
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-09-08 09:13||   2024-09-08 09:13|| Front Page Top

#6 #5 well said. Thank you.
Posted by Dale 2024-09-08 10:34||   2024-09-08 10:34|| Front Page Top

#7 There was a post this am which has since disappeared: Team Trump in a trade with Team QueMala: Trump gets RFK, Jr & Gabbard. Team QM gets Dirty D|ck and Dirty D|ckless
Posted by Mercutio 2024-09-08 11:28||   2024-09-08 11:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Dick Cheney is abandoning his principles to vote for Kamala Harris

Bold of you to assume he has principles.
Posted by DarthVader 2024-09-08 11:35||   2024-09-08 11:35|| Front Page Top

#9 then there's this one
Posted by Mercutio 2024-09-08 11:35||   2024-09-08 11:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Here's the post I was talking about
Posted by Mercutio 2024-09-08 11:38||   2024-09-08 11:38|| Front Page Top

#11 With Bush and Cheney it's more about payback than pro-Harris. Trump was tough on them both and they are still salty about it.
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2024-09-08 11:49||   2024-09-08 11:49|| Front Page Top

#12 That, and they probably figure it won't make any difference, anyway.
Posted by Bobby 2024-09-08 11:51||   2024-09-08 11:51|| Front Page Top

#13 ^ True, other than the left nobody pays them attention.
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2024-09-08 11:59||   2024-09-08 11:59|| Front Page Top

#14 Ref #10
Many thanks Mecutio, Cynical Publius is a pleasure to read!
For example:" Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius

I get tired of Democrats claiming to be on the “right side of history” when both their past and their present are so utterly sordid and destructive. So, if you are a Democrat, let me tell you about MY side of history and YOUR side of history.

My side of history is Cato the Elder, John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Irving Babbitt and William F. Buckley. Your side of history is Thomas Hobbes, Karl Marx, Josef Stalin, Mao’s Little Red Book and Noam Chomsky.

My side of history is George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. Your side of history is Tories who fled to Canada, Jefferson Davis, Woodrow Wilson, Bull Connor, George Wallace and Nancy Pelosi.

My side of history is freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and spirited debate. Your side of history is ThoughtCrime, Speech Codes, religious persecution and Cancel Culture.

My side of history is Brown v. Board of Ed., Loving v. VA, Gitlow v. NY, and Heller v. DC. Your side of history is Dred Scott, Korematsu and Roe v. Wade.

My side of history is Jackie Robinson. Your side of history is Colin Kaepernick.

My side of history is head held high, standing straight, hand over heart. Your side of history is sullen glances at the ground, kneeling.

My side of history is the family as the foundation of society. Your side of history is mutilating confused children.

My side of history is the rockets’ red glare. Your side of history is imagine no religion.

My side of history is firefighters going up the stairs into the Twin Towers. Your side of history is 28-year-old men playing Call of Duty in their mothers’ basements.

My side of history is smoked brisket. Your side of history is a no-foam, no-sugar, soy latte.

My side of history is Lincoln freeing the slaves and General Patton liberating Buchenwald. Your side of history is Fort Sumter, the Gulag and Pol Pot’s killing fields.

My side of history is Mel Brooks. Your side of history is Amy Schumer.

My side of history is all men and women are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. Your side of history is critical theory and only some lives matter.

My side of history is 20-year-olds storming Omaha Beach. Your side of history is 20-year-olds in their safe spaces with adult coloring books.

My side of history is American men and women disabled by an IED. Your side of history is American men and women disabled by anxiety.

My side of history is the Kentucky Rifle, the Springfield 1861, the M1911, the M1 Garand, the M14 and the AR15. Your side of history is whimpering submission.

My side of history is Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers, Apollo 11 and Jonas Salk. Your side of history is “global warming,” 100+ genders and porous cloth masks stopping viruses.

My side is of history is laughing babies. Your side of history is selling aborted baby parts on the open market.

My side of history is the Sistine Chapel and Monet’s water lilies. Your side of history is an inverted crucifix in a bottle of urine.

My side of history is construction. Your side of history is deconstruction.

My side of history is civilization. Your side of history is nihilism.

And, MOST OF ALL:

My side of history is liberty. Your side of history is tyranny.

*finis*"
Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-09-08 13:26||   2024-09-08 13:26|| Front Page Top

#15 ^Now, speaking as an outsider, that's a righteous rant!
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-09-08 13:31||   2024-09-08 13:31|| Front Page Top

#16 Wow. The only fault I can find is I think he meant Fort Pillow, not Fort Sumter.
Posted by Mercutio 2024-09-08 13:38||   2024-09-08 13:38|| Front Page Top

#17 Trump believes that peace is in our economic best interest. That’s an existential threat to the Cheney portfolio.
Posted by Super Hose 2024-09-08 14:14||   2024-09-08 14:14|| Front Page Top

#18 Nice rant No.
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2024-09-08 14:22||   2024-09-08 14:22|| Front Page Top

#19 Bernie Sanders says Harris dropping far-left policies 'in order to win the election'
Posted by Skidmark 2024-09-08 15:03||   2024-09-08 15:03|| Front Page Top

#20 ^ *wink wink* to the far-left
Posted by Frank G 2024-09-08 16:13||   2024-09-08 16:13|| Front Page Top

#21 From one no mo to another - thanks for posting that bit of truth.
Posted by no mo uro 2024-09-08 16:20||   2024-09-08 16:20|| Front Page Top

#22 When I think of the thousands of words that I and others wrote supporting him 20+ years ago on this very blog...his ingratitude makes me want to puke. We effed up. Not in our intent, but in our trust.
Posted by no mo uro 2024-09-08 16:22||   2024-09-08 16:22|| Front Page Top

#23 Why so many of us have soured on the GOP.
Posted by DooDahMan 2024-09-08 16:23||   2024-09-08 16:23|| Front Page Top

#24  We effed up. Not in our intent, but in our trust.

As a nation we made the best choice from the options available, in both 2000 and 2004. I have no regrets — he started off right, and only later got lost in the weeds. Had we elected the other guy, we would have lost before we started, so I am infinitely glad my guy lost in 2000. John McCain would not have been much better than Barack Obama, unfortunately, and although I can see Mitt Romney rising to the challenge had he got in, he would only have been better than rather than actually good.

But they all disliked those declassé TEA Partiers, and that’s been the Republican Party trend — Donald Trump is just the latest incarnation thereof.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-09-08 16:57||   2024-09-08 16:57|| Front Page Top

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