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For context, Dick Cheney announced that he’ll be voting for Kamala Harris.
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I can't decide if I love Dick's facial expression or Gimli 2's more…
We need this for more republican endorsements please. At least the weirder ones.
And if republican voters make a difference, then a "Gondor calls for aid!" meme.
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So all the 'conservatives' are seeing the writing on the walls and, like sea rats, scurrying to get off the sinking ship that is Donald J. Trump? They've had their fun and made their money but that dog won't hunt no more so they're all deciding to put him down.
If the momentum sticks and Trump is voted to oblivion, they'll all write their books about how terrible he really was. How odious it was to chafe under the strangling yoke of...^checks ^notes their endorsed candidate.
I'll take your vote, Dick, but you can choke on yourself just like all the other Republicans politicians voting for Harris.
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It is more like they see an opportunity to push the democratic party even further to the right. Dick is in your party because he is comfortable there. You have no politics that are fundamentally inconsistent with his.
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What's that proverb, "tell me who your friends are"?
That.
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Trump's friends are Peter Thiel and VV Putin.
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No fucking shit.
Oh yeah, I forgot, some of you can only see the world in
black and whitered or blue.. 🙄News flash: a (very fucking marginally) lesser evil is still fucking evil, and you're never going to be free of either as long as you continue to play by the rules they've set out for you (in fact, you'll only ever achieve the opposite - the continued shift to the right of the Overton window to its inevitable conclusion).
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More like:
"the enemy of my enemy is my friend"
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Lol, that still leads right back to "tell me who your friends are".
You can try to twist this all you like to spare your own discomfort, it won't change who he is, why he's supporting her, and what it means about who you're voting for (a conservative, and against your own best interests, either way. Because endorsements like these tell you whose interests they're are appealing to, and you really only need to be paying the very slightest of attention to realise it ain't yours).
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There's a huge fucking difference between friends and allies.
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He's neither to you, only to himself and his interests.
Again - no matter how you people try to twist it to make yourselves feel better about it - Cheney is endorsing his own interests, and only his, and the interests of a wealthy conservative war monger will never align with yours, no matter how much you try to convince yourself otherwise (accidental alignment doesn't make one an ally, unless you also want to reach for Hitler as your example and justification, but be warned, you too will reek of pathetic desperation lmao).
You see trump as the embodiment of fascism (when in truth he's only a symptom), while Cheney sees him as the loose lipped child giving away the fascist family secrets. He's not endorsing dems because he's no longer conservative, he's endorsing dems because they make him feel safe and looked after, and if that isn't enough to tell you where "blue no matter who" leads, I have bad news for you: you're a fully fledged member of a cult. Just like a maga cap wearer - voting against your own interests because it's "your team" no matter how many red banners they wave in your face and blaring alarms they ring in your ears.
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When it comes to politics, no one is your friend.
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Wow that Donald Trump guy is starting to look attractive for the first time in human history.
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Wow, talk about tone deaf. DT so dirty conservatives go left.
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Those war criminals in DC in later Bush administrations were so appalling and demoralizing that it’s hard to remember they’re able to be right about any single thing.
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dick chainy lol
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Americans finally relating to the Are we the baddies meme
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I think it's indicative of just how far right the "left" have gone. We have no real representation.
Not related to that at all.
Cheney hates Trump because of his ties to Russia. For threatening to have the US leave NATO. January 6th. And above all the cardinal GOP sin of attacking fellow party members. Liz has repeatedly been the focus of Trump's outbursts because she's stood up to him. And to a ghoul like Cheney, attacking the in-group is a big no no. Especially his own daughter.
Plenty more Republicans are supporting Kamala Harris and they have good reasons that don't involve Russia. Furthermore, most true Republicans see the destruction of the conservative party by MAGA and want to defeat it to save the party.
Being protective of your own daughter is hardly due to being a ghoul.
I mean, Dick Cheney is a ghoul, but not for this reason.
What a weird take. This is indicative of how awful Trump is.
I mean, it's both. Republicans are driven away from Trump because he's obviously a grifter to anyone with a room temperature IQ, but also leftists don't have any other option but the center-right Democrats. If we had a healthy spread of parties (enabled by ranked choice voting and the abolition of the electoral college) there is no way you'd see the Cheneys voting in the same bloc with anyone even remotely left.
For sure, but also it might be an indication of how much we're leaving on the table.
Would Cheney endorse a M4A candidate?
Would Cheney endorse an arms embargo on Israel candidate?
What's the line? How much more could we be going for here?
Realistically Cheney is bringing us effectively 0 voters, maybe even negative a few. So if it's these steps to the right Harris keeps making that give us Cheney with no ec votes, show me the value.
AOC could be the democratic nominee and the Cheney family would likely still vote for the democrats. He’s not voting for Harris because he likes her policies. He voting for her because of this reason that he gave…
When the person you despise makes a great point.
It's more of a sign that one guy is such a batshit insane criminal that people would rather vote for pretty much anyone else.
I think it more that the other option is just that insane. It's not as much a left vs right thing. It's a business as usual vs. Chaos election. Cheney being in favor of someone playing by the normal rules isn't that surprising.
Cheney is an absolute ghoul, but I don't doubt that the neocon stupidity he embraced during the Bush administration was at least partly out of a desire for America to remain 'top dog'.
Trump is sitting here ready to quite literally sell our position to Russia and China.
It's a WW2 moment. The Soviets and the Western Allies join hands, because even though each thinks the other is fucking terrible, there's a more vile foe afoot.
Unfortunately, "Business as usual" in our political climate, is a pretty conservative sentiment.
I get that you're saying Cheney is just making a rational decision but it doesn't contradict the Op's point.
It's because if you ever got a real leftist candidate into office you'd immediately turn on them when they refused to fill the reflecting pool with billionaire blood.
Maybe that's what the corporate media says but AoC is popular in her district. What really happens is money from AIPAC comes in and unseats the leftist candidate during the primaries.
Me personally? No. Most of the populace? Hard to say.
If there was a real leftist candidate you'd ally with the GOP to remove them. You might even kill them or throw them in prison.
How dare you?! Your criticism of the conservative lite party and unwillingness to compromise with the full blown fascists makes you the real fascist! (heavy /s)
I don't think it's so lite anymore.
More like the right has gone so far right that dickhead is a left leaning moderate lmao
Both us parties are right wing. So yes, the right (dems and GOP) have gone farther right.
Since when is there a "left" candidate in the US elections?
There's a Green Party candidate every election.