Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

This fight is for everything.

The Supreme Court is corrupt. Democrats must win in November and force court reform.

The frogs are rarely mistaken.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

Every day Vance writes another chapter in the book called “Worst VP Pick Ever”.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Donald Trump, welcome to your everything, everywhere, all at once.

No one could have predicted…

Republicans don’t trust women.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

“Joe Biden deserved better than he got from some folks in his own party.”

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

So many bastards, so little time.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

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If we’re going to have a story about every occasion that Dick Cheney urged George Bush to bomb some country or other, the Times might as well start paying Charlie Savage overtime, because he’ll be filing every day and twice on Sundays. If we know anything about Bush’s malevolent, misbegotten, rancid bastard of a VP, it’s that calling for freedom bombs was like an uncontrollable tic for that guy.

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  2. 2.

    MattF

    Well, yes, but it’s worth being reminded what “drag you down through the gates of Hell and into Satan’s anus” evil looks like.

  4. 4.

    JPL

    Cheney must have been pissed that Israel was allowed to bomb Syria and we weren’t. Powell should have quit rather than give the UN Speech but like the good soldier, he didn’t.

  5. 5.

    JPL

    In discussing the much-disputed “16 words” about Iraq’s supposed hunt for uranium in Niger that were included in President Bush’s 2003 State of the Union address to help justify the eventual invasion, Mr. Cheney said that unlike other aides, he saw no need to apologize for making that claim. He writes that Ms. Rice eventually came around to his view…………………………………………….
    “She came into my office, sat down in the chair next to my desk and tearfully admitted I had been right,” he wrote

    How touching. Condi shed tears because she understood why we lied.

  9. 9.

    jrg

    So, Vader couldn’t convince that gibbering, drooling shithead Dubya to bomb Syria in ’07 after the country found out they lied us into Iraq in ’03? There’s a shocker.

    Consequences… How the fuck do they work? Next thing you know, the fundies are going to catch on to the fact that their incessant panty-sniffing makes them unpopular with the rest of the public.

  13. 13.

    Earl Butz

    How appropriate that his heart has been replaced with a machine that’s a hypoallergenic version of a fish pump.

    I’ll bet he’s imposed conditions on his doctors that require that he can only be transplanted with a donor heart from a child.

  14. 14.

    Alex S.

    I still don’t know Cheney’s ultimate motivation. He was a big-government conservative, he was pro-bailout and pro-endless war. He didn’t care for fiscal matters and was very concerned about winning elections. But to what end? He was no real social conservative, and is not one of the Israel-first crowd. I don’t know…either 9/11 drove him insane and made him hate Arabs so much he wanted to kill each and every one of them, or he was just a military/oil lobbyist who happened to be the de facto-President for a while, so he continued his work by other means.

  15. 15.

    Alex S.

    Also, I think he’ll die shortly after the release of his book and the inevitable interviews. It’s all he still lives for.

  16. 16.

    bkny

    msnbc heavily promoting their interview with him (by a flirtatious the reporter) by noting how it will cause liberal heads to explode….

  19. 19.

    NonyNony

    @Alex S.:

    Yeah, I guess money is the answer of Occam’s razor, but it’s too simple for me.

    Money and power at all costs. It may sound too simplistic, but when you’re dealing with oligarchs like Cheney and his crew, the simple answer is usually the right one.

    I don’t think that Cheney has any political ideology other than aristocracy and capitalism. It may sound simple, but you look at his actions and there are few other theories that fit the evidence.

  21. 21.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    @JPL: Sorry, I wasn’t clear. . .again. I’ve got more of a problem with Powell than Cheney. I KNEW there was no way a guy who had seen that shit close up would lead us down that path without good reason.

  22. 22.

    MikeJ

    I admit I am looking forward in some grotesque way to his book. Thank god we have the internet and I’ll easily be able to obtain a copy with no money going to him.

  27. 27.

    Constance

    @MikeJ:
    I’m going to go to the library and skim Cheney’s book standing up at the new book shelf. That way there will be no record I read it. On second thought, why would I do that? I don’t give a shit about anything he has to say or write about. Whew. At my age I don’t have time to read anything I’m not looking forward to. Just finished “The Woodcutter,” by Reginald Hill. It was so good I wish I hadn’t read it yet.

  34. 34.

    cmorenc

    @JPL:

    Powell should have quit rather than give the UN Speech but like the good soldier, he didn’t.

    Powell agreed to give the speech because at that point, he still trusted that Bush, Cheney, etc. would not lie to HIM about the bona fides of the intelligence used to justify going to war, would not abuse Powell’s integrity by setting him up promote false claims to the U.N. in order to secure a war resolution.

    Where Powell was too much the good soldier is after it became apparent to him they’d lied to him and deliberately misused his credibility to deceive the U.N., he was reluctant to publicly, explicitly call them out for it. I would verbally crucify someone who misused me in that fashion.

  35. 35.

    kindness

    Cheney….what a dick. And he’s writing a book proclaiming just how dickish he is? I guess Pammycakes at Ihateeveryone.com Atlasshrugged would want it, Bolton would want it, Kristol would want it. But those assholes will expect a copy gratis, just ’cause. Who else is going to buy this trash? (Can’t wait to see Jesus’ General Amazon review for it)

    In my world it’s bad form (& zen) to wish someone ill and I’ll wrestle with that one till the day Cheney finally dies . After which point I will vacation at his grave with multiple beers so I can give him the just deserts he truly deserves after my system has finished with the beers. How can I get a beer concession at this grave site anyhow?

  37. 37.

    Monkey Business

    At some point, we as a country need to acknowledge the fact that Bush, Cheney, Rice, et all. deliberately mislead the country by using bad, easily disproven intelligence to force the nation into a neverending quagmire in the Middle East.

    Right? Right!?

  40. 40.

    John Puma

    Indeed, Cheney is a rancid rat-bastard of historic proportions.

    But, … err..rr …, ya’ know, the a, errr..rr, current administration has a program to wage secret war in 120 NEW countries. http://tinyurl.com/3pjod2v

    This should bring yet more squeals of delight, and envy, from Cheney of which there have too many already, for example:
    http://tinyurl.com/3mor3uy

  41. 41.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Alex S.:
    See @cleek. Cheney is a Neoconservative. He subscribes, apparently wholeheartedly and with zealot passion, to the idea that America has a rightful hegemony over the world. It’s not simply empire. They believe that America’s way is so good and right that if it’s militarily imposed everyone will thank us for showing them the light, stop standing in the way of our interests, and it will be sunshine and lollipops every day. Overthrowing Saddam Hussein was supposed to lead to every country in the Middle East going ‘Wow, we want some of what Iraq’s having!’ and overthrowing their own dictators and setting up pro-American democracies. Presumably he’s now trying to take credit for Arab Spring.

  42. 42.

    Chris

    Anyone notice The Onion hijacking this article by the end, check out the last paragraph…

    “And in the epilogue, Mr. Cheney writes that after undergoing heart surgery in 2010, he was unconscious for weeks. During that period, he wrote, he had a prolonged, vivid dream that he was living in an Italian villa, pacing the stone paths to get coffee and newspapers.”

    How good are THOSE drugs?

  43. 43.

    Culture of Truth

    After I finished, the president asked, ‘Does anyone here agree with the vice president?’ Not a single hand went up around the room.”

    LOL

  49. 49.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Samara Morgan:
    Well, no. This isn’t interesting at all. We are using drone attacks in all the countries we have military entanglements in. Somalia is not new. As the lowest risk and investment weapon we have, presumably drones would be used in all these places?

    There is an argument to be made comparing it to napalm, in that napalm was a substitute for direct use of soldiers. That’s about the only similarity, since the main problems with napalm in Vietnam were that it was a carpet bombing campaign – unlike any use of drones currently – and that use of fire as a weapon is frowned upon as unnecessarily cruel internationally. Explosive bombs are not.

  51. 51.

    Samara Morgan

    @Frankensteinbeck: well droning is stupid. Every hostile terminated creates AT LEAST two more hostiles, because of influence propagation along both consanguinous and social network connections. it is not cost viable, because it creates more terrorists than it eliminates.
    we aren’t even running in place, we are running backwards.

    and i agree with Dr. King

    I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight,
    Because my conscience leaves me no other choice.
    A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war:
    This way of settling difference is not just.
    This business of burning human beings with napalm,
    Filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows,
    Of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane.
    Of sending men home from the dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged,
    Cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.

  52. 52.

    Steamboat

    Remember that one time he bombed his hunting buddy in the face? I think he was aiming for Ecuador, or Mali, or one of those countries.

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