RIP Dick Cheney, 84
Nov. 4th, 2025 08:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneOr should that be good riddance to bad rubbish? Depends on your voting preferences perhaps. Well, mine are fairly well known.
He died from "...complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease." He had already had one heart transplant in 2012 after a long history of cardiovascular disease.
Aside from masterminding the 2003 war in Iraq with no solid basis in facts, Cheney served as an aide to Richard Nixon, stayed as deputy White House chief of staff under Gerald Ford, then Secretary of Defense under George H.W. Bush with a unanimous Senate vote of 92-0. He also served six terms as a House member rising to become minority party whip.
I will say some good things about him, surprisingly:
-He softened his views on LGBTQ issues when one of his daughters came out
-He voted for Harris in the 2024 election
-He absolutely loathed our current president, stating “In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” Cheney said.
“He is a coward. A real man wouldn’t lie to his supporters. He lost his election, and he lost big. I know it. He knows it, and deep down, I think most Republicans know.”
Amusingly, starting yesterday the Doonesbury reruns on the Washington Post web site began the series of a Walden reunion where the returning grads are dividing themselves in the tent between pro- and anti- Bush supporters. Rather ironic timing.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/04/politics/dick-cheney-death-obit
He died from "...complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease." He had already had one heart transplant in 2012 after a long history of cardiovascular disease.
Aside from masterminding the 2003 war in Iraq with no solid basis in facts, Cheney served as an aide to Richard Nixon, stayed as deputy White House chief of staff under Gerald Ford, then Secretary of Defense under George H.W. Bush with a unanimous Senate vote of 92-0. He also served six terms as a House member rising to become minority party whip.
I will say some good things about him, surprisingly:
-He softened his views on LGBTQ issues when one of his daughters came out
-He voted for Harris in the 2024 election
-He absolutely loathed our current president, stating “In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” Cheney said.
“He is a coward. A real man wouldn’t lie to his supporters. He lost his election, and he lost big. I know it. He knows it, and deep down, I think most Republicans know.”
Amusingly, starting yesterday the Doonesbury reruns on the Washington Post web site began the series of a Walden reunion where the returning grads are dividing themselves in the tent between pro- and anti- Bush supporters. Rather ironic timing.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/04/politics/dick-cheney-death-obit
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Date: 2025-11-05 01:27 am (UTC)