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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: PucksFool ✧✺  😊 😞
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Subject: Selected quotes from Cheney obit ...
Date: 11/04/25 11:17 AM
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... in the Wonkette. Buckle up.

- 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.

- And sure, yes, Cheney hates Trump and has actively opposed him in the Republican Party, but do not let that distract you from the rest of Cheney’s evil life. From that point forward, through his time in Congress and his role as Vice President, Cheney consistently argued that Congress should cede power to the presidency, especially on the issue of national security. This has caused tremendous damage to the nation and contributed significantly to the deaths of millions of people.

- Cheney also supported Apartheid. Calling the African National Congress “a terrorist organization,” Cheney voted against a congressional resolution calling for the freeing of Nelson Mandela.

- In 2000, George W. Bush, the dimmest bulb in the room, asked Dick Cheney to head his vice-presidential selection team. Who better to represent the administration of a wannabe Texan than the CEO of Halliburton? Cheney only had one logical name for the job: himself. He really had to sacrifice too. Since he could not technically be a CEO and a VP (what innocent times those were!), Halliburton sent him off with a mere $20 million severance package.

- Then 9/11 happened. Mr. Imperial Presidency was ready for action! Cheney knew before the Iraq War began that Saddam Hussein likely did not have weapons of mass destruction. As early as September 21, 2001, Bush received CIA briefings arguing there was no connection between Iraq and the attacks. Do you think that mattered? Ha ha ha. Those reports continued. And yet Cheney lied consistently, over and over again making the case that Saddam Hussein was the greatest threat to the United States.

- Cheney received a little bit of credit from liberals for supporting at least the broad idea of gay marriage, but this is not earned. It is typical Republican “I oppose everything that would bring greater equality unless it personally affects me” because his daughter is a lesbian.

- Cheney barely lived for years. He has a heart transplant but was utterly indifferent to the story of the individual who died to give him that heart. This is hardly atypical of a man who condemned thousands of American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis to death, who played a critical role in creating ISIS, and who was a cancer on the American body politic for decades.

- Finally, Cheney’s late life hatred of Trump does not make up for the rest of his life. That’s fine, good, you had some standard that couldn’t be crossed. That is noted. It does not make up for Iraq or for laying the groundwork for the Imperial Presidency that Trump drives his gold-plated tank down today.

Read more here: wonkette.com - Dick cheney no longer still undead
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