✨I will remember him (Dick Cheney) for breaking with the regime last year and voting Democrat.

[riversedge]

I was shocked last year when I saw this note from Dick Cheney.
Today, I hope his family finds peace.


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🙏🏻 #RIP Dick Cheney died last night at 84, surrounded by family.

✨I will remember him for breaking with the regime last year and voting Democrat.

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[FarPoint]

1. I will have to say....

He turned the bend for the greater good.....it took a long time for him to learn the lessons for a healthy humanity.

[RandomNumbers]

17. Voting against Trump is a VERY low bar.

Shocking and disturbing that so many Americans didn't have even that glimmer of decency or intelligence that momentarily showed up in, of all people, f*cking DICK CHENEY.

[FarPoint]

18. Redemption growth, the goal for change, this is why we protest ...to evoke change.

Cheney eventually started to understand.... that is how life works.

[lostnfound]

2. ..which meant standing up for his country and his daughters.

Condolences to the family.

[Blues Heron]

3. There's one dead piece of shit for his family, one giant sigh of relief for mankind.

Toss his corpse in the trash and be done with it.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. man people will rehabilitate anything these days

[Iggo]

20. Dick motherfucking Cheney.

I mean…come on.

[PunkinPi]

5. His one and only good deed. nt

[harumph]

6. I'm neither sad nor happy.

It's what it is.

[BannonsLiver]

16. Honestly his death doesn't hit like I imagined it would in the early 2000s.

I’m guessing that’s the case for most here given the way Trump has twisted our culture into the grotesque freak show it is today.

[harumph]

23. It's because we are not up against one person,

but an actual (vast) right wing conspiracy that Hillary spoke of. In a sense, they've done a continuity of command type of thing - inasmuch as there's always another bastard lined up to take a dead bastard's place. And as much as we complain about the dearth of
lefty billionaires putting their money where their mouth is - the way the economy has been parasitically warped, lefty billionaires are feeding at the same trough as right-wing billionaires (who are willing to spend money to promote their candidates). Trump is clearly stupid and barely present - but his backers are neither. Right wing think tanks and PACs have learned from electoral defeat, they understand that the body politic is weak (54% read below a sixth grade level). This is appalling and unheard of in so-called western democracies. It's even hard to get accurate literacy data for the US to compare. (Try searching on that - it's all over the map and IMO intentionally confusing). I suspect very much that is because an honest head-to-head comparison would lead to the conclusion that we are failing our poor and middle class young in all educational metrics. Federalism strikes again. At some point under funding education rises to abuse - yet there is still no constitutional mandate to educate. Then we have the tech companies that are given free reign to encourage phone addiction and nano-attention spans amongst our youth. While the billionaire class either don't realize it or feel they can run away.., they are shitting where they eat - and they will eventually eat shit and die. I'm used to eating shit and my tolerance is much better than a rich person's.

[hatrack]

7. He saw the end of the road he paved, and removed one cobblestone in protest . . .

It's not nothing, but it's sure as shit not much.

[GoCubsGo]

8. My condolences to his family.

He did one good thing in his life. Good for him. But, there are a hell a lot of us who have been forced to live with the consequences of everything else he did. Some of us were lucky enough to just come away with just ruined careers and finances. Others are missing body parts, and have to deal with other consequences of the senseless wars he lied us into for the rest of their lives, including those who lost loved ones because of it None of them got to make it to 84---with someone else's heart. Hard to forget that....

[dalton99a]

9. Kick

[nycbos]

10. I was astounded myself. But then I remember Darth Vader redeemed himself in Return of the Jedi.

[hamsterjill]

11. I know in my own life, as the years have clicked by...

You start to get a real sense of time being less. Perhaps as time clicked for him, he realized he needed to do the right thing last year.

I cannot lie. I did not like his conduct during the Bush years and beyond. In fact, I was very critical openly. But I will give credit where credit is due. First off, he raised a great daughter, and second, it took guts to come out against Trump like he did.

So, safe passage, Dick. Your scorecard is for God to judge; certainly not me.

[haele]

12. I personally interacted him twice.

Of the three times I was in his presence.
The man had no consideration for "peons" or even personal staff other than how useful to him they were at the time.
If they displeased him or couldn't "jump to it" (once when he was SecDef, he was underway with us observing a final Project test - his staffers became seasick), he had them replaced ASAP.
He was a right surly selfish asshole.

But one "okay-ish" thing I could say for him, he ultimately understood a somewhat open market Democracy protected the continuance his hunting lodge, caviar canape, and fine single-malt lifestyle much better than the zero-sum game of full-on autocracy or oligarchy would. So there's that.

[lildDemz]

15. The sneer

was the most real thing about him.

[sarisataka]

21. Only met him once when he was SecDef

But I had the same opinion as you. He saw people as useful or irrelevant, I fell into the latter category

[orangecrush]

13. Kick

[Tbear]

14. Death bed conversion.

Did his daughter preach the sermon to him?
He did bad on a level that makes mass shooters look like mere imps.
Sorry for your loss, but God does decide in the end.

[Iggo]

19. I'll remember him for getting rich off all them dead Iraqis and all them dead service members.

[sarisataka]

22. Hitler liked dogs

But that is not the first item I would put in his obituary.