• nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    If you had told me during the Bush years that there would be a Republican so evil even Dick Cheney wouldn’t vote for them I may have jumped off a bridge.

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      Maybe Cheney got an ethics transplant along with the heart transplant

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        Nah, the GOP are trying to future proof themselves from criticism. They’re banking on rose colored glasses being on for pre-Trump republicans.

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          Yup

          Everyone sees how romney and liz cheney (and mccain before them) was praised as “the one sane republican” and want to set themselves up to be that when trump finally croaks and they can run “moderate republicans” again.

          All these fucks vote more or less in lockstep with trump and the magats outside of MAYBE one or two issues. But they just don’t like that they have no power in the party anymore and that trump has repeatedly demonstrated he can’t get any down ballot candidates elected.

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        X Doubt.

        I’d guess something like he hates that Trump and MAGA in general keep getting cozy with Russia. And they’ve displaced inner circle NeoCon pals along the way.

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          His kid is gay and he’s read project 2025.

          Note the only time they care is when it affects one of their own or themselves.

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          There’s a saying, around here people know it…some people over there may know it too… the enemy of my friend is my enemy, the enemy of my enemy is my contractually non-binding Diplomacy partner.

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          They’re one of the people drifting around Lemmy who’ve been shilling the Green Party lately, never mind that their candidate is a Russian plant whose goal is to siphon away just enough votes to get Trump elected.

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        And I suppose you hate dogs, merely because Hitler loved them?

        Or maybe you can acknowledge that the morality of an action is independent of the morality of the person making the action? Dick Cheney is making the morally correct decision by endorsing Harris, but that doesn’t make him a good guy any more than liking dogs made Hitler one.

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    Too little too late Dick. This is the culture war road you set us upon. There are thousands upon thousands dead for your outright lies. Voting against Trump doesn’t wash the blood from your hands.

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      Just one of the many wealthy torture enthusiasts disgusted by the state of the modern republican party that they were 100% responsible for creating.

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    This guy wouldn’t even vote for his own daughter’s best interests. That says alot. Both about his fucked up priorities and the state of the republican party.

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      I dunno, in almost all circumstances I agree that he should just keep his mouth shut and thankful no one is pursuing him for warcrimes … But in this instance, he’s not going to sway anyone to vote Trump by endorsing Kamala and he might influence some Republicans to cross lines or abstain. Really hard to see this specific act as anything other than a potential good (not altruistic, but still, in balance for the world, neutral to good).

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        I can’t see this as anything other than bad.

        Now the Trump camp can say “See? We are the peace candidate. The architect of the Iraq war supports the other guys”

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      Blows my mind that there is someone capable of making the heartless evil shit stain that is Darth-Cheney, actually vote off party line.

      Is this horseshoe theory? Where hippies and the heartless engineer of the Iraq invasion unite to stop the vagina necked swamp terror of monolago?

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    This really is the weirdest timeline.

    First the bell riots don’t happen and now dick Cheney supports a progressive

    What the ever loving fuck

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    I doubt they’ll be public about it, but I doubt Bush is voting for Trump. I can’t for the life of me remember how many other living republican ex presidents there are, but if any are still kicking, I doubt any of them (being old school conservatives) would vote trump.

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      W didn’t vote for Trump in 2020 and said his dad voted against Trump before he died as well so you’re definitely correct. W is now the only living GOP president other than Trump.

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    If the idea is to help Harris win maybe they should keep this endorsement on the DL.