Dick Cheney used to be known, correctly, for being the biggest asshole, evil, greedy, "rip from the copper wire from the walls, melt the children in the mines, do anything it takes to make me more money!" person to ever sit in a seat of power so high. A driving force in the Bush admin, almost appearing to eclipse the president at multiple points, for the two major wars in Afghanistan and Iraq leading to millions of deaths and destabilization still ongoing. Mostly for his personal enrichment, btw. That part is always key to mention. It was never for any "git the terrists!" Bushism bullshit, it was purely to dump government funds into private contractors to kill, torture, assassinate people (never given due process in an international court), destroy buildings and everything else and then rebuild it with private contractors...

If this man can be welcomed back into society, we might as well just let in Hitler. Oops, Elon already beat me to that one! Always ahead of the game!

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 48 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

And that's just from his tenure as VP. He was also the republican whip while he was in congress, white house chief of staff, and secretary of defense. His entire career is the most heinous shit for the worst of republicans. He's one of the guys who benefitted from Iran-Contra, shock therapy in former soviet countries, and so on.

The worst part is, this is only the stuff we know of. It wouldn't surprise me at all if he knew about 9/11 before it happened but decided it would be good for business to have a pretense for plundering Afghanistan.

[–] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

For sure. We know the CIA/FBI both had multiple warnings of terrorist attacks inside the US. We can be absolutely sure Cheney was aware. Bush probably too. Definitely Bush's father would be reading and getting reports from his CIA pals. The question is basically how much sitting on their hands hoping it would be a "bad one" worthy of exploitation to do endless wars vs incompetence on US' part vs competence on the part of bin Laden, et al.

I'm 100% not joking or memeing when I say I would not be surprised in the least if we found out one day that Bush Sr and W worked with Cheney and bin Laden family (old Bush family acquaintances/friends. Not necessarily with Osama, but the family), Saudi Arabia for sure, maybe Israel, this massive collaborative effort to "oops! They blew up some towers! Gotta do war now!"

The "coincidences" and ties between the bin Ladens/Bushes is too deep and too on the nose to ignore. The second richest family in Saudi Arabia, dealing directly with a former CIA director, 2x VP, 1x POTUS and his son a governor and then fresh president at the time. And their son just happens to be the one who orchestrated a large attack that just happened to go basically fully through as planned, recorded, used as perfect propaganda to do everything Cheney and co had been dreaming of since like the 1970s post-Nixon.

Come on, man!

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dick Cheney is so evil I want to make a post that would get me banned and removed as a mod from hexbear.

Just imagine it was really really funny.

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

Trying to imagine a ppbcheney post so vile even hexbear denounces you is actually funny, thanks for the prompt

[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

galaxy-brain Bush did 9/11

brainworms Bush did 9/11

squidward-scream-point Bush did 9/11

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago

Since liberals have the memory of a goldfish, there was a movie made about Cheney, Vice, not too long ago that very clearly details the evil shit he's done. So yeah it's not much of a stretch to tout Hitler voting for Harris i-am-adolf-hitler