Don't Be a Dick (Cheney)
Reflections on the former VEEP Creep and resident Sith Lord of the Bush Administration, administered w/ liberal poetic license; subsequent conversation on GAW.win to spiritual nature of this battle
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I'm going to repost this comment from another thread because I see his ghoulish face and I just need to say my peace again. This man took many loved ones from people in many countries and permanently damaged even more. If you are of a certain age group and went over there yourself or knew someone who did you know the emotions I feel surrounding this vile man and the events of the Bush the Lesser years.
It was a bad time. A very bad time. We came closer to the nadir of hope and truth than ever before in our history... in fact I think we bottomed out there, in some ways, and as tough as times are today, they are still better than those years. At least we aren't blind anymore, back then we were suffering so much. We bore many losses in the conflict AND we had no foothold to start the long climb out of the horrifying vision of reality they imprisoned us in. We at least are organized, awake and aware now. We have a north star to follow and we've risen to our feet and begun the long walk together, and I believe that it's getting brighter every step of the way. We're not pretending we can tolerate monsters like this man in our world anymore and that MUST be a good thing.
Sorry to be such a windbag, but this man made my life a very unbearable place once before and I want to KNOW WITHOUT DOUBT he can never do that to me or anyone else again. If you went, you know. If you know someone, you know. That's why the words we speak and moves we make today MUST BE SUCCESSFUL ... because some of us can't bear the weight of living on, if it was all for nothing....
I digress though...Liz better hope this only airs in local pockets or at inconsequential times because it'll likely kill whatever votes and enthusiasm she has remaining (which is almost certainly near 100% Democrats).
The idea that this archvillain vampire would come out and speak gravelly Darth Vader intonations in a fucking cowboy hat and HELP her cause.... well. It really tells you about the UTTER LUNACY AND DESPERATION of these sadistic freaks.
... the arrogance of these people... the idea that Dick fuckin' Cheney would call someone a coward, would discuss the use of - get this - VIOLENCE to shape a political narrative... welp partner ::spits:: that's the most resounding endorsement anyone could ever possibly hear for Donald Trump. It strengthens my belief in him TenFold.
After a once in a lifetime turn by Christian Bale that rivaled a Daniel Day Lewis performance in the movie Vice, I am really surprised they DON'T know we've thoroughly wiped the floor with this man and his reputation. A paranoid, fearful creature shuffling around a bunker, thumbing with grubby digits through to-be classified paperwork, clicking buttons on phones and speaking mealy mouthed little words into them, recordings that are likely forever redacted and out of sight from honest Americans and the light of the truth.
YOU are the coward, Dick. A sad Quasimodo form: your misshapen body that became as twisted as your heart and your insides.
You're the fearmongering, violence loving, orb weaver that put Donald Trump into OUR orbit. You're the sad, lonely little marionette maker who ate through the money and power until nothing was enough to satisfy your tastebuds and all that remained was rotten. You're the black heart, the criminal of war, the saboteur to young life and good nature that stood in the shadows and dreamt of nightmares made flesh. You're the betrayer, the abuser of those moments where fate called for greatness and courage in action, and you fell short and slithered away leaving a trail of human life lost, crumpled up in your hand like a paper ball.
Your daughter's legacy will be one where she failed to WHITEWASH your crimes. In her feeble attempts to garble and transpose you with a real hero who undoes the violence you caused, the blood you shed, the evil you wrought on the world in the name of God and country, selfish legacy and familial glory. We'll undo what you did and yourgreat shame will be living to see it and being powerless to stop it. You're the bastard, you're the lunatic, you've been that all along. How could you see yourself any other way: you took the easy way out, and you'll live long enough to see yourself become a villain at center stage once more.
The name of Cheney will be likened to Hitler one day: worse in fact, and deservingly so. I pray all of you live to see it happen.
Godspeed
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Wow... thank you friend. Honored to be able to share words with you that may help to heal. So much of the talking and rhetoric we hear in the world today does just the opposite I feel. They aren't content to merely give us the scars that so many of us carry - once they've inflicted pain and smell blood, they become frenzied, and return to push dirt and salt into the wounds they caused. That is part of what this clip was intended to do when Cheney made it - or so it feels that way to me. As its been said, there will come a day when they cannot walk down the street. If you've seen the many viral clips of HRC, Pelosi and others when they briefly appear in public places in the past few years - often just to cross the street from their car into a building where they can be hidden away once more in darkness - you probably believe like me that such a day is FAST approaching for them. Their biggest tool and weapon is darkness and anonymity and that has been taken from their hands. People everywhere have awakened to them and seen them in the light. Their secrecy was the biggest source of their power. That is one way I comfort myself to know that they truly are desperate and struggling. We are winning the fight. Those clips of them being shouted down in public are very inspiring to me; I hope that they reach you in the same way!
They are animals, beasts, really and truly. I see unearthly anger and bloodlust in this old, decrepit ghoul wearing the flesh of someone named Dick Cheney and I try to remember that I am not like them.
We are men, made by God, and would never succumb to the curses and temptations they've indulged in, turning themselves into night creatures to gain worldly spoils that their demonic gods promised them in return.
I hope I could offer anyone some solace thru my words and that peace can grow and live in our hearts again one day. I hope for you and for all of us that we will remember that no matter what you've suffered or what happened, we were never alone, God was with us and bound us together in those moments of pain, just as I believe in my heart he will give us redemption and victory that we will share in just the same, as his servants and children.
I've had my troubles with religion and the Creator in my past, sure as many of us have, but in times like this I think a lot of people like me are realizing His influence and works in the world are happening actively and He is calling to us to return to him. When you see real evil it changes you. This is a spiritual battle first and foremost, of that I'm certain.
It's not always easy to hang on and I've been saddened so much to see friends and loved ones let go of the rope, under all the pressures these foul creatures have set on us. I know that a better day is coming though. Music can help so I'll share this song that has some depth & meaning to me with you and all - kudos if you know the story.
I admire all of those who carry on the fight in so many different ways, using our many different talents, given freely and with love. All that we've contributed to this shared dream of ours is working, we just need to open our eyes and see it, most of all in dark moments like these. Dawn is coming and they will not survive the light of day.
Thanks again for your praise I was really touched to hear it. Godspeed friend!
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Cheney came into the VP job right after stepping down as CEO of Halliburton if I I remember accurately. He left office with a 13% approval rating. If history has been kind to him since somehow I don't know about it. I can't remember any NYT opinion pieces opining for the good old Bush administration now that Trump had come to the party.
I have a certain mental image of him on television being interviewed, responding to jokes made by some comedian or pundit aimed at his other daughter: the lesbian one. Speaking in a grave tone at the thougght of coming after someone's family, as though it were below the belt. How fake and trashy, it reeked of hypocrisy. I remember a black backdrop, maybe he was on Charlie Rose.
Anyhow thanks for your story! I agree they were/are a whole different level of cruel and evil. As bad as the NeoLibs wielding power are today, it really doesn't hold a candle to the death and destruction the right-wing was able to generate during their last at bat. I count Obama as a war criminal and a disguised neocon himself too, however. I am beyond certain that if HRC had won, the doomsday clock would've struck midnight already. Obama was the break in the action designed to run up to it; the lower body count was merely a coincidental feature of timing.
As you said, MUCH WORSE than simple traitors. There's a darkness around all of them that's fearsome and palpable once you've awakened and can see.
Godspeed friend.