Posted on 11/04/2025 1:56:28 PM PST by DallasBiff
I know I can look up the word "perfunctory", but is the word sarcastic?
My advice to the President: Remember the Thumper Rule... Charlie would approve...
If you can’t say something nice …
Kinda sad that Cheney died liked by nearly nobody, on the left or right.
If Trump said anything beyond, "He was alive, but now he's dead." then he's being too generous.
Manners rarely exist simultaneously with sarcasm. I’m a fan of both. Just not in the same space and time.
No one has the right to force anyone to say something nice about someone they have good reason to dislike.
Obviously he was hen pecked
Cheney was once legend on FR.
Yep, similar thing with Bolton
Hopefully President Trump will hold the line on this one. Cheney made a slanderous campaign commercial for the ‘24 election to promote Kamala and his daughter Lizzie. If you don’t have anything nice to say then just avoid the topic all together. When the press brings it up just say, ‘No comment. Next topic please.’
After the entire Cheney family went after Trump what really do they expect him to say??
Everybody dies. The living are fair game for being railed against. When Cheney was alive he railed against Trump. It is to his credit that Trump says nothing at all about Dick Cheney. Let his legacy be to be forgotten.
Cheney lived up to his first name, “DICK”,
and I would add a few choice prefixes and / or suffixes to the name.
Voting for Harris proves that he was never a republican, and certainly never a conservative.
The damage to America by the Bush / Cheney team will last for generations.
Shareholders in certain military supply companies liked Cheney, he wasn’t without friends entirely.
I am not a Cheney apologist but there are many who could share blame as to how the Iraq occupation was handled, leading to so much human suffering among the service members involved. And it was yet another case of modern “western/NATO” failure to understand the real nature of societies that are not western in their cultural foundations.
So many times, perhaps based on the success in the Japanese postwar conversion to western-style society, it has been assumed that this model can work anywhere, that all non-western people need is a chance to experience western civ, and within years they will be just like us.
If only that were so, and in fact, if only 90% of our own population had any actual contact with western civ, we are slowly but surely reverting to the culture of non-enlightenment and you sometimes wonder, who is colonizing whom, remind me.
Yes, but long before you tenure. What is your point?
So was Bush, till they turned on us.
You Magnificent Bastard
As I recall
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