Joshua Scheer
November 20, 2025
November 20, 2025
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Can you think of no greater honor than to be snubbed by this family and this man?
For me, the moment Kamala Harris embraced Dick Cheney was the breaking point of her nascent campaign for the presidency and the Democratic party’s convenient forgetfulness of the worst of the Bush years. It even made me wonder — briefly — whether Trump could actually be the lesser evil. He isn’t, of course. But they all are part of the corrupt two party system, all part of the same machine.
Cheney’s crimes against humanity are almost too long to list: the devastation across the Middle East, the rise of ISIS, the deaths of countless U.S. citizens, Iraqis, Palestinians, and so many more. The neocons should have faded into history, yet we keep resurrecting them. We’re far past any legitimate need for global war, except for the endless demands of capitalist interests that profit from perpetual conflict.
We have the resources to build a world centered on human well-being, and yet Dick Cheney remains a symbol of the worst of the neocon era, and of how easily we forgive and forget simply because we, myself included, despise Trump.
Here are the people who decided to come to Cheney’s funeral; may we never forget this. From the Guardian: “In the front pews was a bipartisan group: former president Joe Biden, former vice-presidents Kamala Harris, Mike Pence, Al Gore and Dan Quayle, former House speaker Nancy Pelosi and the U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, John Roberts …In a further twist that perhaps illustrated the degree to which Trump has reshaped the nation’s political landscape and forged unlikely alliances, the liberal MS NOW host Rachel Maddow made an appearance at the service.”
Sadly, though Dick is dead his neocon and hateful ways are not, and this demonstrates that in clear focus.
Here is a good read from our friends at FAIR about Dick.
Remembering Dick Cheney, ‘Polarizing’ War Criminal
“The corporate media in the United States have rarely met a servant of empire who isn’t eligible for hagiography in death, whether or not they presided over mass murder worldwide. In the case of Dick Cheney, who died on November 4, media outlets have summoned everything in their power to sugarcoat the blood-drenched career of the most powerful US vice president in history, a position he notoriously occupied for the duration of the two-term administration of George W. Bush from 2001–09.”
For me, the moment Kamala Harris embraced Dick Cheney was the breaking point of her nascent campaign for the presidency and the Democratic party’s convenient forgetfulness of the worst of the Bush years. It even made me wonder — briefly — whether Trump could actually be the lesser evil. He isn’t, of course. But they all are part of the corrupt two party system, all part of the same machine.
Cheney’s crimes against humanity are almost too long to list: the devastation across the Middle East, the rise of ISIS, the deaths of countless U.S. citizens, Iraqis, Palestinians, and so many more. The neocons should have faded into history, yet we keep resurrecting them. We’re far past any legitimate need for global war, except for the endless demands of capitalist interests that profit from perpetual conflict.
We have the resources to build a world centered on human well-being, and yet Dick Cheney remains a symbol of the worst of the neocon era, and of how easily we forgive and forget simply because we, myself included, despise Trump.
Here are the people who decided to come to Cheney’s funeral; may we never forget this. From the Guardian: “In the front pews was a bipartisan group: former president Joe Biden, former vice-presidents Kamala Harris, Mike Pence, Al Gore and Dan Quayle, former House speaker Nancy Pelosi and the U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, John Roberts …In a further twist that perhaps illustrated the degree to which Trump has reshaped the nation’s political landscape and forged unlikely alliances, the liberal MS NOW host Rachel Maddow made an appearance at the service.”
Sadly, though Dick is dead his neocon and hateful ways are not, and this demonstrates that in clear focus.
Here is a good read from our friends at FAIR about Dick.
Remembering Dick Cheney, ‘Polarizing’ War Criminal
“The corporate media in the United States have rarely met a servant of empire who isn’t eligible for hagiography in death, whether or not they presided over mass murder worldwide. In the case of Dick Cheney, who died on November 4, media outlets have summoned everything in their power to sugarcoat the blood-drenched career of the most powerful US vice president in history, a position he notoriously occupied for the duration of the two-term administration of George W. Bush from 2001–09.”