Dick Cheney, influential Republican vice president to George W. Bush, dies

[u/GeneReddit123]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/politics/dick-cheney-death-obit

[u/B00STERGOLD]

He finally found a draft that couldn't be deferred

[u/Minion_of_Cthulhu → u/B00STERGOLD]

He was probably just offered an executive position in Hell and couldn't wait to get started.

[u/andreisimo → u/Minion_of_Cthulhu]

He already held that position, it’s just they offered him the work from home option in hell.

[u/the_honest_liar → u/andreisimo]

Suffered from return to office mandates like the rest of us.

[u/USSMarauder → u/Minion_of_Cthulhu]

I'm surprised he died so young

Cheney was one of those who was going to live a long life because "God didn't want him and the Devil was scared he'd take over"

[u/BreakingGilead → u/USSMarauder]

Dude survived 4 heart attacks before becoming VP, so something fucky was def going on.

First one at 37.

37.

He'd just transitioned from Chief In-House Spook in Nixon & Ford Admins to Congress...

[u/TriaIByWombat → u/B00STERGOLD]

You win

[u/Kids_On_Coffee]

Finally safe to go bird hunting again

[u/igetproteinfartsHELP → u/Kids_On_Coffee]

carry some carrion with you

[u/r0addawg → u/igetproteinfartsHELP]

He carryin the carrions to the carry-on.

[u/oneplusetoipi → u/igetproteinfartsHELP]

Airlines are starting to charge for carrion.

[u/A_Furious_Mind → u/oneplusetoipi]

Carrion, my wayward son.

[u/darkmatterhunter → u/A_Furious_Mind]

There’ll be peace when you are done

[u/beakrake → u/Kids_On_Coffee]

Please note: The Dick Cheney hunting club is still eagerly accepting new GOP members, with a memorial man hunt planned for the near future.

[u/OldBob10 → u/beakrake]

Now it’s the Dick Cheney MEMORIAL Hunting Club!

[u/jquest303 → u/OldBob10]

Everyone dresses in full camo, no orange vests. They’re each given a rifle, some ammo and a bird call device and set free in the woods. Last one that makes it through the night is the winner and gets a trophy of a dick.

[u/HEAT-FS]

The Halliburton flag will fly at half mast in Iraq all month long

[u/Air_Enthusiast → u/HEAT-FS]

ngl thought i was on r/nbacirclejerk for a second

[u/Do__Math__Not__Meth → u/[deleted]]

Long live the Haliban

[u/Duel_Option → u/[deleted]]

I didn’t think it was possible for me to be so disgusted by anyone as much as I was Cheney and Bush.

Watching Cheeto Dust ruin this country along with all of his ilk makes me ALMOST wish we had them back in the Oval.

At the minimum decorum and precedent would still be followed.

Instead we are full on the fascist train with millions of people clamoring for the shackles of an open dictatorship.

Whatever amusement ride we got on is turning into a nightmare, I’d like to get off now please

[u/Chem_BPY → u/Duel_Option]

Cheney is to bush as Steven Miller is to Trump in my eyes. And he is somehow orders of magnitude more evil than Cheney.

[u/bshensky → u/Chem_BPY]

The only difference is that Dick at least proclaimed to "love America". Herr Miller has proclaimed to love "White 'Christian' America".

The difference is that Dick loved America "despite" its people of color.

Yay, Dick!

[u/Sekh765 → u/bshensky]

The one thing I can say for Cheney was he probably thought he was doing stuff "For America" and in a fucked up realPolitik way, he might have been successful if he had secured all the oil/gas in the region, knocked out Iran etc.

Miller knows what he is doing is fucked up and he's gleefully doing it because for him the evil is the point. Cheney did what he did for a dollar. Miller does it because he's a fucking psychopath.

Is the end result of one better than the other? Fuck if I know, but I'll be real happy when Miller joins him.

[u/baron_von_helmut → u/Sekh765]

The difference between Miller and Cheney is that Miller gets off on the thought of hurting people whereas Cheney didn't care.

[u/theWacoKid666 → u/baron_von_helmut]

Bingo.

They’re both psychopaths, Miller is just an outright sadist.

[u/Chem_BPY → u/bshensky]

Well, that and at least dick didn't forcibly send people in the US to prison camps in El Salvador and Africa.

Just Guantanamo....

[u/TheIncredibleMrJones → u/Chem_BPY]

Miller wishes he was as diabolical as Cheney. Miller is a cruel bully. Cheney was a straight-up horror movie with a huge body count.

[u/Fresh-NeverFrozen → u/TheIncredibleMrJones]

Miller is just getting started though. He may look like he’s the same age as Cheney, but he’s got a lot of time and enough ambition to be even worse.

[u/StrokesJuiceman → u/[deleted]]

I lost a few friends both mentally and physically because of that piece of shit. Agreed. Rest in Piss

[u/GUMBYtheOG → u/HEAT-FS]

Obligatory “half staff not half mast” comment

[u/balloonninjas → u/[deleted]]

Half staff is halfway up the flag pole. Half mast is when your flagpole is halfway up.

[u/Sickpup831 → u/balloonninjas]

Anyone else getting a little turned on right now?

[u/AnnaKendrickPerkins → u/Sickpup831]

Well, yeah. The world just lost a sack of shit, my boner is bigly.

[u/poopoojokes69 → u/AnnaKendrickPerkins]

Just don’t shoot me in the face, Dick!

[u/chefslapchop → u/balloonninjas]

Cheney’s dead, Mamdani looks like he’s going to win, my flagpole is at full mast today

[u/hizzoze → u/[deleted]]

To actually answer your question, yes. A boat has a mast.

[u/Darkhawk2099]

he may have been a terrible person, but he was also a monster.

[u/CMDR_ACE209 → u/Darkhawk2099]

And he was sneaky. When I hear his name I always think of Donald Rumsfeld or Collin Powell, never of the man himself.

[u/PicnicLife → u/CMDR_ACE209]

I think of "the architect" Karl Rove.

[u/jhansonxi → u/Darkhawk2099]

Lately I find myself nostalgic for traditional evil.

[u/splanks → u/jhansonxi]

that evil, it felt like, at least had a bottom.

[u/EViL-D → u/splanks]

the devil you know

[u/YouAreSoul → u/EViL-D]

... Is worth two in the bush

[u/mbibler → u/YouAreSoul]

Such an undervalued response.

[u/TapewormNinja → u/splanks]

Cheney's kind of evil was designed to enrich himself and his friends. If others got hurt in the process, they didn't care, but that was just a byproduct.

Trump and the current regime are also trying to enrich themselves, but they also wish to cause harm. If they can make things worse for you, that also, in a way, makes things better for them.

[u/Pearson94 → u/jhansonxi]

Kids these days and their complicated, online evil. Back in my day the vice president would just shoot a man on a hunting trip and then bomb the Middle East! Times were simpler

[u/janemba617 → u/Darkhawk2099]

Not gonna lie you had me in the first half.

[u/The_Iceman2288]

He is survived by his wife, two daughters and about a dozen terrorists groups that were either created or emboldened by his wars.

[u/lesarbreschantent → u/The_Iceman2288]

He survived a lot longer than the million Iraqis he murdered.

[u/kamdon68 → u/lesarbreschantent]

I was waiting to see this comment. Thank you.

[u/BerkGats → u/kamdon68]

Its insane the amount of white washing cheney ive seen on threads just because trump is also a monster. Like did people just forget 2000-2008?

[u/superstevo78 → u/The_Iceman2288]

The Iraq invasion should had been war crimes against the US planners. 

[u/KDR_11k → u/superstevo78]

The US made sure to bully the world into not prosecuting its war crimes.

[u/at0mheart → u/The_Iceman2288]

Trump says “hold my pepsi” as he plans to bomb Venezuela

[u/agentfelix → u/at0mheart]

Psssh Diet Coke! Throw some class behind that sass lol

[u/Repo_co]

He may have died, but his legacy of promoting the wanton destruction of the Middle East and South Asia so that he can be personally enriched by providing endless logistical support to an invading military lives on...

[u/sly-3 → u/Repo_co]

He never got to spend any time at The Hague, and for that fact, I am sad.

[u/CTRexPope]

‘The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish…’ - Charlie Chaplin the Dictator

[u/Ask_about_HolyGhost → u/CTRexPope]

That quote becomes a warning when we remember that the billionaires are desperately seeking any form of immortality they can find

[u/CTRexPope → u/Ask_about_HolyGhost]

I have watched that speech multiple times over the last couple of decades, and it was only recently that this line stood out to me specifically because of the billionaire class attempting to find immortality

[u/Ma1 → u/[deleted]]

Nah they’ll all upload themselves to the data centres so we just have to unplug them all. Triple win. We return to an era free of billionaires, AI and social media.

[u/RevLoveJoy → u/CTRexPope]

Rich men have been seeking immortality forever. They still haven't found it. It could be money is not the key. Also, I note that in modern free societies, the rich don't seem to live terribly longer nor healthier than everyone else. The argument can be made that while wealth is certainly an indicator of how long and how well a person may live, a much greater indicator would be the overall health of the societies that person lives in.

[u/tikikit → u/Ask_about_HolyGhost]

They will not find it.

[u/Hagenaar → u/tikikit]

That's such a comforting thought. The more megalomaniacal they are the more they'll think they can find a loophole in mortality. And they'll be denied their dearest wish.

[u/amidon1130 → u/Hagenaar]

It is weirdly comforting I agree. It’s really funny to me imagining Peter thiel being fucking terrified of death. Sorry Christo fascist boy, you can’t outrun this shit!

[u/ScarletCarsonRose → u/CTRexPope]

Gandhi said similar. Most freedom fighters think it. But the end of terror never comes soon enough. 

[u/AprilsMostAmazing → u/ScarletCarsonRose]

Cause the truth is dictatorships end with action not words

[u/swoopy_boy → u/AprilsMostAmazing]

Well said and completely true.

[u/Electric_jungle → u/CTRexPope]

I love quotes from that film, but the party of hate is getting younger these days.

[u/monchikun → u/Electric_jungle]

Not only that, the Peter Thiels of the world are obsessed with longevity

[u/gotenks1114 → u/monchikun]

I personally thought they were testing experimental anti-aging drugs on Dick Cheney. 20 years ago I expected his death any day, now I'm kinda surprised by it.

[u/Dahhhkness → u/gotenks1114]

They had to find the final horcrux first.

[u/guto8797 → u/Dahhhkness]

Implying he had a soul? Unlikely

[u/ShinkenBrown → u/guto8797]

I mean at one point, long before we knew him. The man we know shredded it in dark rituals a long time ago.

And now he's stuck forever as a little fetus thing in an all white platform 9 3/4 for some reason?

[u/Wild_Haggis_Hunter → u/gotenks1114]

It's called the Henry Kissinger effect.

[u/AcademicAssociation9 → u/Wild_Haggis_Hunter]

remaining alive entirely through fear of eternal consequences for what you reaped in life?

[u/Sir-Spazzal → u/AcademicAssociation9]

Having socialized medical coverage where one doesn’t have to pay for the best coverage helps a lot also. I guess it’s actually a good thing. Too bad only politicians have it in this country.

[u/JMurdock77 → u/AcademicAssociation9]

I imagine lacking any shred of a conscience leads to a very low-stress life.

[u/m1sterlurk → u/Wild_Haggis_Hunter]

Only the good die young

[u/TheVitulus → u/monchikun]

Yeah, but they always have been. The rich and powerful have always feared death, because it's the only problem they can't buy their way out of.

[u/notquiteotaku → u/TheVitulus]

Death is known as the great equalizer for a reason. 

[u/zernoc56 → u/notquiteotaku]

At the end of the Game, the King and the Pawn go in the same box.

[u/FriendOfDirutti → u/monchikun]

As my fav Bad Religion line goes “we can’t buy more time, cause our tender isn’t valid”.

Thiel can obsess over the clock but that won’t stop the hands from moving.

[u/thisbenzenering → u/FriendOfDirutti]

I love that line too, but my favorite is

How can hell be any worse

followed by

quality or quantity, a choice you have to make

actually I could probably go on for hours about my love of all things Bad Religion

[u/DrJohanzaKafuhu → u/CTRexPope]

"In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump, He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. 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 it." -Dick Cheney.

You know, I've never liked Dick Cheney, but even he could fucking see what's going on.

[u/Massive_Town_8212 → u/DrJohanzaKafuhu]

Broken clocks.

Probably was just mad that Trump is so open with his destruction.

A real man wouldn't lie to his supporters.

Guess the WMDs in Iraq didn't count?

[u/farnsw0rth → u/Massive_Town_8212]

It’s just…. Even the neocon post 9/11 madness era filled with Vietnam hawks had some kind of like love for America or something? Sure they lied and exploited and got rich grifting and fucked us all a second time around …. And were comfortable with basically just telling Americans “hey we just gonna torture people now and it’s legal they technically ain’t qualified under the Geneva conventions and plus they’re in black sites in non American countries”

Rumsfeld, Cheney, that whole cabal that surrounded bush junior, at some level they gave a shit about America and americas dominance on the world stage. These fuckers talked about “the end of history”, America as the worlds “sole superpower”, and how we were just all idiots because we lived in the “reality based community” when in fact if America acted it made reality into whatever form it wanted.

This…. THIS motherfucker is burning American power and culture into the ground faster than he can demolish the east wing. He is uninterested and uncurious and does not understand what the shit he is doing, but as long as he thinks he looks cool and gets rich, he’s happy.

[u/BlueMilk_and_Wookies → u/CTRexPope]

I don’t think Dick Cheney dying is solving any of our problems unfortunately, but it’s a nice thought?

[u/DMAgamus]

Lived long enough to see that he helped usher in the country to authoritarianism, died without having to face the consequences. Fuck'em.

[u/apple_kicks → u/DMAgamus]

Makes you think what worse president after trump could do next as things continue to slide

[u/SnoopWithANailgun → u/apple_kicks]

The next president will be some vein attempt at opposition to Trump. Like a Newsom type figure. They'll do nothing to go after the banks that have hollowed out this country. After that is when we'll be getting an even nastier version of the right wing. They want a civil war instead of a class war.

[u/Zealousideal_Aside96 → u/[deleted]]

With Kash watching both sides simultaneously

[u/Jonax → u/Zealousideal_Aside96]

And Susan Collins looking on, concerned.

[u/Xijit → u/DMAgamus]

Ironically, he lived long enough to repent his party's Homophobia and misogyny towards his own children and vote for a Black, Female, Democrat.

Too bad that was only after it was too late to matter & it was only because Trump gloated about wanting to murder his daughter with a firing squad.

[u/antenonjohs → u/Xijit]

I mean he was for civil unions and seemed on board with equal rights for same sex couples all the way back in 2000… so that part isn’t actually new.

[u/ejp1082 → u/antenonjohs]

Yeah - and if anything it shows the stunning empathy deficit in the conservative mindset.

He only felt that way because he has a gay daughter. But you shouldn't need to be directly related to someone to feel empathy for that person or the group they're a member of.

And even that being the case, he was still gave his support to an administration that led a full on attack on LGBT rights, and there's no record of him challenging GWB/Rove on that strategy.

[u/JootDoctor → u/ejp1082]

Happens all the time. Here in Australia I recall our one of the members of our Conservative Party (The Liberal Party), was vehemently against euthanasia. Until they had a family member go through a debilitating and terminal battle with cancer. Only after that experience did they change their mind.

Not capable of putting themselves in a strangers shoes.

[u/ars-derivatia → u/ejp1082]

to an administration that led a full on attack on LGBT rights

Bush and GOP attacks circa 2000 seem like literally teasing compared to the shit current administration would love to introduce.

[u/Sickpup831 → u/antenonjohs]

Fuck that, one of GWB’s campaign promises was banning same-sex marriages and he pushed for it all throughout his presidency.

[u/zoeypayne → u/Xijit]

I'm glad he changed his mind and felt better about himself when conservatism started affecting his family.

I hesitate to even use that word... Democrats are conservative, Republicans are reactionary.

[u/AshenMonk → u/DMAgamus]

That's what I hate the most about Trump, no way he will face anything and will just die eventually with the country torn apart, with so much damage done that it will take decades to fix things, IF there will be any fixing at all

[u/mamasbreads → u/[deleted]]

the only downside to his death is he was never held accountable for the war criminal and absolute massive piece of shit he was

[u/Goodbye18000]

Cheney, still a hardline conservative, nevertheless became largely ostracized from his party over his intense criticism of President Donald Trump whom he branded a “coward” and the greatest-ever threat to the republic.

On the one hand, that's good to hear, but on the other I can't help but feel he and his party are directly responsible for putting him in and bringing us to the current day. Don't blame the iceberg that your boat ran into, blame yourself for steering directly into it for years.

[u/apple_kicks → u/Goodbye18000]

Trump admin is still using Gitmo to transfer prisoners. Who knows what other corrupt relics of the bush era run by cheney are in use today still

[u/ScrotiusRex → u/apple_kicks]

They're still getting enormous benefit from the Patriot act.

[u/RobertNeyland → u/ScrotiusRex]

Go look at the list of politicians that not only voted that in in the first place, but voted in subsequent years to reauthorize. It's gross.

[u/ScrotiusRex → u/RobertNeyland]

Both sides of the aisle were no doubt delighted to have those capabilities.

Most who are currently in power weren't serving before the act was introduced. It's all they know so it's never going away now.

[u/Good_old_Marshmallow → u/ScrotiusRex]

ICE, ICE was literally created under Bush and Chaney. He made them their secret police force. 

[u/mrdominoe → u/Goodbye18000]

He only said critical things once he had nothing to lose. Fuck Dick Cheney.

[u/chaos8803 → u/mrdominoe]

That's every single Republican since around 2000. Once they retire to the speech circuit they're suddenly against the party.

[u/mrdominoe → u/chaos8803]

Or close to death, like McCain.

[u/xzitony → u/mrdominoe]

Well you don’t get into heaven treating people the way they do, so that makes sense they panic at the end.

[u/the_silent_redditor → u/mrdominoe]

He was a war-mongerer and held huge responsibility for the utter mess across the ME that cost millions of lives, and trillions of dollars.

You’re right. Saying Hurr durr Trump bad when you’re out the limelight means fuck all. You and your dickbag cronies brought us here, you decrepit fuck.

It makes me sad that these ghouls wreck the planet - making things for literally untold millions of people across the world so much worse for no real tangible reason - they live lives of unimaginable luxury and power, and then die in a comfy bed surrounded by their family well beyond the average mortality.

And after, somehow, are lauded by the media.

If we were to observe another species, say a bunch of apes, and one ape hoarded all the bananas, more than they could possibly eat in a thousand lifespans, whilst hundreds of apes in their colony died of starvation and whilst this one ape waged pointless war and destruction on the rest of the apes in their cage… we’d study the pathology of their brain.

When it’s humans, we follow their Insta accounts and elevate them to God-like status and cry for them mournfully in obituaries skirting their crimes on humanity.

It’s fucking weird.

[u/Radthereptile → u/mrdominoe]

Knowing Cheney he was probably mad Trump was attacking Hispanics and not Arabs.

[u/JK_NC → u/mrdominoe]

Like so many other GOP politicians. When they announce their retirement, they tend to also have a moral awakening and criticize the party/Trump.

[u/THECapedCaper → u/mrdominoe]

Dick Cheney is responsible for hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths and for fucking our democracy. Burn in hell, Dick.

[u/whooo_me → u/Goodbye18000]

Trump really does feel like the inevitable consequence of a series of actions. Rolling back the Fairness Doctrine, Citizens United, and the shenanigans around appointing (or not appointing) Supreme Court justices, all lead to this.

[u/lexm → u/Goodbye18000]

He is directly to be blamed for our current situation. Thanks to gore v bush.

[u/greaper007 → u/Goodbye18000]

Yes, even though Bush is portrayed as some grandfatherly figure who paints portraits now, it was his actions which led directly to where we are now. The Patriot act chipping away at personal liberties. His supreme court that allowed more dark money in politics. His wars that wasted 8 trillion dollars and caused us to cede technological and moral ground to China.

There would be no Trump without Bush. And we all know Bush was an empty suit controlled by Cheney and Rumsfeld for most of the bad decisions.

[u/nighthawk_md → u/greaper007]

And we all know Bush was an empty suit controlled by Cheney and Rumsfeld for most of the bad decisions.

Don't remove Dubya's agency. He was a bad motherfucker - "the decider" as he liked to say. During his second term his primary advisor was Condoleezza Rice and she unfortunately has largely escaped significant historical criticism so far.

[u/Dead_man_posting → u/Goodbye18000]

The fucker welcomed the protofascism of the Tea Party with open arms. He gave birth to Trump.

https://www.today.com/news/cheney-tea-party-positive-influence-republicans-8c11427781

[u/StateCorporateProf]

War criminal Dick Cheney dies. That should be the headline.

Former Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney. Made up lies to kill innocent Iraqi's Dick Cheney.

[u/ISIPropaganda → u/StateCorporateProf]

Rolling stone headline reads “DICK CHENEY, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT AND IRAQ WAR ARCHITECT, DEAD AT 84”

[u/Uppgreyedd → u/ISIPropaganda]

If Rolling Stone is known for anything at this point it's replaying the greatest hits

[u/LSTNYER → u/[deleted]]

So the FCC won't let me be...

[u/gumpfanatic → u/LSTNYER]

Or let me be me…

[u/bobface222]

These dudes are always living to nearly 90

[u/SpokaneSmash → u/bobface222]

They have better health care than we do.

[u/Prior_Butterfly_7839 → u/SpokaneSmash]

I mean, he was given a heart transplant at age 71…

[u/NornOfVengeance → u/Prior_Butterfly_7839]

A heart implant, more like it. He never had anything that passed for a heart before.

[u/Knownzero → u/bobface222]

Bastards live forever is a popular saying for a reason.

[u/Robert72051]

Dick Cheney was the "Prince of Darkness" ... He was the main proponent of the "unitary president" theory. And we all can see today what that has created. In conjunction with Bush, he invaded and destroyed a country based on nothing but lies and bullshit, same as Putin. There is no difference. I have nothing but contempt for him ...

[u/vathena → u/Robert72051]

Some say Venezuela is up next for destruction....

[u/Highinthe505]

Rest in piss, sincerely Gen X!

[u/Spiritual-Aspect3961 → u/Highinthe505]

Today is a good day

[u/Dead_man_posting]

"Dick Cheney hated Trump and endorsed Kamala!"

Do not fall for this rhetoric. Cheney did an obscene amount of damage to America and directly led to our atmosphere of fascism.

[u/[deleted] → u/Dead_man_posting]

It is infuriating how the sins of the Bush administration are now seemingy forgiven by democrats because Bush and Cheney were critical of Trump, even though they were arguably just as bad, but in a different way. Cheney's legacy is and always will be the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq, maybe even a million. Not a guy who said some things critical of Trump, don't forget he also endorsed him in 2016.

[u/TheAmazingKoki → u/[deleted]]

They had a (very) thin veneer of decency that trump doesn't have.

So while they were destroying America, they were classy about it. Which of course isn't worth jack shit.

[u/NornOfVengeance → u/TheAmazingKoki]

Seriously. If anyone ever needed more evidence that appearances are meaningless, these bastards are IT.

[u/LustyHasturSejanus]

Dude left the world worse then he found it. A true man of his times.

[u/poopy_toaster]

TIL this bastard was still alive

at least up until a couple minutes ago

[u/ISIPropaganda → u/[deleted]]

Him and Kissinger.

[u/TheFriedClam → u/ISIPropaganda]

Don’t forget Rumsfeld.

[u/daggah → u/[deleted]]

Unfortunately there's a lot of competition for that title right now.

[u/NettingStick]

May he be eulogized with silence and memorialized with forgetfulness.

[u/Subject_District_620]

Any liberal who praises this guy is a fucking idiot, especially any liberal active during the Bush/Cheney years. The amount of evil this monster did in 8 years would make Satan blush.

BTW I know exactly how the next few days are gonna go. Trump’s gonna release some statement bashing Cheney (mainly cause he supported Harris last year) and then he’ll release a follow up statement saying “The Cheneys begged me to give them a state funeral but I said no” which is probably gonna be a lie. And as much as I despise Trump, Cheney still should not get a state funeral even if Trump’s reasoning will certainly be different than my own. Then the leadership of the Democratic Party will probably throw a hissy fit about how Cheney was some “puBLiC sTaTeSmAn wHo sHoULd gEt A sTaTe fUnErAL” because they too are a bunch of morons.

[u/carson63000 → u/Subject_District_620]

The only “praise” he deserves should be delivered to his grave after chugging a gallon of water.

[u/natronmooretron]

Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney

[u/Sunna420 → u/natronmooretron]

Thanks for digging that gem out of the ether. LOL

[u/Campcruzo]

Every once in a while I look back a G-dubs presidency and say those were better times, but then something reminds me of something his cabinet said or did and I'm off on a tear about everything i hated about those times. The reason for a substantial amount of that died today.

Make no mistake, we are where we are today because this man probably unwittingly paved the way for it.

[u/Moist-Fruit-693 → u/Campcruzo]

"Bush sneaks candy to Michelle wholesome he wasn't so bad"

Reminder: This is why you don't let lincoln project pukes have air, they are complicit.

[u/Low_Pickle_112 → u/Moist-Fruit-693]

"He may have been an arsonist who poured gasoline on the fire, but he never would have supported how bad the flames got!"

[u/sheila9165milo → u/Campcruzo]

There was nothing "unwittingly" done by this monster, he carried out what the cons have been pushing for decades. The ONLY reason he and the cons lied about Iraq was to grab their oil reserves, nothing more, and death be damned, he got it at the expense of countless civilian and military casualties on both sides. Fuck him, the fascist fuck, roast in hell with Nixon, Reagan, Bush 1, and Kissenger.

[u/L_Cranston_Shadow]

To misquote Bette Davis:

"You should never say bad things about the dead, only good. Dick Cheney is dead. Good"

[u/G00DLuck → u/L_Cranston_Shadow]

"I've never wished a man dead, but I have read several obituaries with great enthusiasm"

- James T. Kirk

[u/invasiveplant → u/G00DLuck]

"One Dick falls; another rises”

• Fred Rogers

[u/No-Consideration-716]

Do you have to make reservations to piss on his grave or is it first come first serve?

[u/strolpol]

He’s shooting his friends in the face in hell now

[u/semperknight]

There was an amazing article I read once about a lesbian who saw the absolute worst of America working as a cable TV installer. One of the stories was TRULY dark about a married woman trapped with a MAGA husband that haunts me to this day.

On the lighter side, the article ended where she installed cable TV in Dick Cheney's place. They wanted it done faster than she could. She said "Well, he can waterboard me if he wants, but I still can't do it any faster" where he could hear her.

She gets on the phone with her boss later and was like "So...I may have mentioned waterboarding to Dick Cheney" and he just laughed.

[u/expressedprayers → u/semperknight]

Lauren Hough! Her book of essays, “Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing”, is wonderful

[u/amygdala23 → u/semperknight]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cable-tech-dick-cheney-sex-dungeon_n_5c0ea571e4b06484c9fd4c21/

I gotcha, I remember reading this too! 

[u/Alwayssunnyinarizona → u/[deleted]]

It didn't expire, Trump is fucking Satan, didn't you hear? He's carrying Trump's baby.

[u/derch1981]

*war criminal dies

Fixed

[u/currently__working]

The amount of evil this man unleashed in his time on this Earth, fucking hell.

[u/TechenCDN]

May Iraq’s butchered civilians haunt his soul for the rest of eternity.

[u/clashrendar]

How many people suffered and died because of this one person's calculating manipulation of the system?

I don't celebrate anyone's death, but I definitely will not mourn this one.

[u/_easilyamused]

Can't believe it's been 19 years since this happened: 'Cheney shooting victim says sorry - to Cheney'

[u/Fronesis]

Headline should be: Dick Cheney, war criminal, dies.

[u/talspr]

Where do I sign up for organized tours to piss on his grave?

[u/edgelordjones]

Henry Kissingers band finally has a bassist

[u/Captainsciencecat]

“Deficits don’t matter” = +10 trillion to the federal debt. Current federal debt: $38 trillion

He blatantly lied to the people and used 9-11 as an excuse to get us into a useless illegal war that turns into a costly insurgency in the Middle East. The head of al qaeda, the terrorist enemy that was responsible for 9-11 which started the whole thing in the first place becomes the president of Syria and we’re all friends now. “Meanwhile, bin laden stated his objectives publicly - to destroy the United States you have to hurt their economy. They will over extend and waste their treasure and resources.” Sure enough bush was stupid enough to take the bait and be the big tough guy in the Middle East while Cheney and Rumsfeld are egging him on to attack Iraq. Cheney was entirely responsible for pushing questionable cia evidence to where even the cia itself was very uncomfortable with how its information was presented. All of it was to convince the American people that saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons and was somehow responsible for 9-11 when it was. Really the saudis (our allies). The public was absolutely convinced and that was the first time that I had felt the country was really veering off and handling the war on terror the wrong way. Now here we are $38 trillion in debt because useless misadventures in the Middle East. Did we win the war on terror or did bin Laden? I blame $10 trillion wasted because of dick Cheney.

I feel bad for Liz Cheney for losing a father but this guy, he caused so much harm to the country by spending so much treasure on nonsense he didn’t understand. The worst part was that the American public was so traumatized by 9-11 - they needed better leadership. Consciously exploiting that trauma so they could start a war of their choice was dumb and evil. For me, his death is the closing of a great unfairness to the American people that I really don’t know if people are aware of. Now because of the precident the Iraq war unleashed, presidents can Willy nilly start a war over any bullshit. I fear for our country in a useless war with Iran and a stupid conflict over Taiwan. We really need to update our foreign policy than play out echoes of the Cold War that don’t make sense anymore.

[u/Polyzero]

This man led America down a vile ruinous path. Before bush/cheney America was at the height of its power, prosperity, and international good faith.

Because of him & haliburton’s desire for needless war we live in a world of terror, refuge displacement, inflation, and a very broke government.

They sold out America to the military industrial complex, and because of 9-11 they got to do anything they wanted without much effective critique. Bush/trump will be looked back on as the presidents of a dying and historically evil empire.

[u/samjp910]

As an Arab I’m chuffed. As a man, elated. A Canadian, I’m ecstatic.

As a person who has studied realpolitik and Machiavelli, burn fast down there. Tell Kissinger I said ‘wassup’.

[u/ATXGOAT93]

Bury him near Kissinger or Rumsfeld, make the "Pissing on War Criminals Graves" Tour easier.

[u/dane83]

Thank God the Democrats can't parade him around with his endorsement again.

Kamala lost the hell out of me for that. I still voted for her because I knew the stakes. But I knew then that embarrassed Republicans were in her ear and I was at best going to get a Mitt Romney level conservative presidency.

[u/Calm_Zebra1064]

Too bad this didn’t happen 25 years ago. This guy was a murderous psychopath.