Dick Cheney No Longer Still Undead

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https://www.wonkette.com/p/dick-cheney-no-longer-still-undead
Erik Loomis

GTFO

I'm sure there'll be many other fine tributes to this evil person...

Dick Cheney, one of America’s worst war criminals, is dead.

Born in 1941 in Lincoln, Nebraska, which amazingly makes University of Nebraska football only the second most grotesque American cultural phenomenon out of that city, Dick Cheney moved with his family to Wyoming when he was a child, if such a figure ever had the innocence of youth. He went to Yale and flunked out, making George W. Bush the most successful Yalie in the upper heights of his administration, before graduating from the University of Wyoming.

For a man who would show tremendous joy at killing brown people around the world from an office in DC, Dick Cheney cowered away from doing so personally. He applied and received a mere five deferments so he could avoid fighting in the Vietnam War. In 1989, a Washington Post reporter asked him about this. He replied, “I had other priorities in the ’60s than military service.” So did a whole lot of other people in the 2000s, but of course that never stopped Cheney from dooming them to fight.

Cheney’s political career began in 1969 when he became a staffer for Rep. William Steiger from Wisconsin, a man far greater than his more famous acolyte. He then joined the staff of a rising Republican star named Donald Rumsfeld. He rode the Republican lightning along with Uncle Don, holding a variety of positions in the Nixon and Ford administrations, including White House Staff Assistant in 1971, Assistant Director to the Cost of Living Counsel from 1971 to 1973, and Deputy Assistant to the President from 1974 to 1975. When Gerald Ford named Rumsfeld Secretary of Defense, Cheney was called on to replace Rummy as Chief of Staff. While working for Ford, Cheney decided that the best way his boss could fend off Reagan was to declare war on unions. He convinced Ford to break promises to labor, vetoing legislation to liberalize picketing around construction sites, so outraging Secretary of Labor John Dunlop that the latter resigned in protest.

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[raccoon]

1. So did a lot of other people have other priorities in the '60s than military service.

He replied, “I had other priorities in the ’60s than military service.” So did a whole lot of other people in the 2000s,

Of course, if they weren't rich and/or didn't have good connections, I guess they were just SOL.

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2. I did chuckle at that title

So true . Sadly this makes me nostalgic for the Bush years. I saw a picture of Bush today and almost missed the bad old days when that was the level of crazy. WTH will follow Trump?

Had Kerry won the 2004 election, the world would be different today. He was about as good as an establishment type gets. He always struck me as more left of centre than he let on.

But he was rather buttoned down and the very qualities that appeal more to me viscerally in a leader (provided they are coupled with progressive policies) ended up dooming him along with the Swiftboat drivel.

[doc03]

3. Will he be barried in Transylvania?

[edbermac]

4. "He's not only merely dead..."

“He's really most sincerely dead.”

[thought crime]

5. Can we ever really be sure?

I'd feel better if he was buried very deep in some place where they store radioactive waste and watch it for signs of trouble. And the casket should be made of several layers of thick steel taken from a retired battleship, and lined with lead.