A Tale of Two Authoritarians

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[–]package 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

weird I thought cheney died like a decade ago

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Right. I was thinking 3 yrs or so.

That photo of him looks younger than when he was in office. Probably a stunt double. Biden and Clinton use em.

Tricky dick.

[–]BravoVictor[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In media terms, he did. He was no longer in power, therefore the media largely forgot he existed and stopped pretending to hate him.

Now the media has found him to be useful again as a propaganda prop for their Jan 6th fantasy.

[–]StillLessons 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

When Dick Cheney becomes the hero of our propaganda organs, we have arrived. There will be no clearer declaration of who rules over us than this.

[–]BravoVictor[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Agreed. When people referred to the uni-party, I used to roll my eyes.

Now I see the Democrats, who used to cry about the Iraq War and demand Bush be tried for war crimes and cheer when Obama brought our troops home, now write Bush love letters and give an applause for Cheney and condemn Trump for bringing our troops home.

That's why the media panicked about Trump. He was the first President in a while who wasn't a complete puppet of the uniparty.