I actually believe this will actually change some minds.

I now think Shrub will do the same. I am especially hoping Laura Bush endorses Harris as well. I think she would influence some older Republican women.

First Liz
Then Dick
Then Laura
And finally, W?

So this shouldn’t be hard for her at all.

Remind me how he got this nickname.....?

May She Rest in Peace. We could have used her to get us thru Trump tho 😢

… I’d ever care about what Shrubya thinks about anything ever again. What a weird time to be alive!

But then again, W and Michelle Obama are kinda giggling besties

Thank you, President Biden.

Even Dick Cheney, former VP, knows she was a good choice.

the ones who were more like John McCain and the "Grand Old Party" not Q-anon freaks...

really stunning to th8ink even though we consider them pretty awful (vile) ...they are actually really concerned for the Constitution...?

(...or are some of these ppl also on DJT's hit-list, and therefore not ok with him winning and throwing them in the FEMA Camps...?)



Either way, I'll take it....GO Kamala!

hope he doesn’t win?? Ugh.....At lest Cheney has the balls to say it.

I’m so ready for it to settle down and be less interesting.

I so, so, SO want to live in boring times!…

Well. Good.

lines delivered by the Doc Holliday character in the movie "Toombstone."

and his sidekick ,No Nuts.

it’s someone else’s heart …

his attic?

...was, "I hope it wasn't from a Democrat. What a waste of a good heart that would be."

Five heart attacks and a new heart. The devil’s been tryin to get em.

and to throw off the meanness that has infected us.

With only one remaining party, the Democratic Party, it's possible. It's a big tent, but it's one tent -- America.

They promote fealty to the bosses of the party rather than the good of the country.

I don't remember which of the founding fathers thought that they could become a scourge if allowed too much power...

This seems to confirm that.
https://www.history.com/news/founding-fathers-political-parties-opinion

I ask myself: who benefits from pitting one side of the country against the other?

The same day I'm so disappointed in a judge for not treating Dump the same way the rest of us would have been treated I find out that somebody who I no respect for in the past I am finding myself giving kudos too.

However this is good news.

She was on the impeachment trial case wasn’t she?? And him?? He, I’m sure doesn’t have the MAGA repubs anyway.....so.....ok, just hope a few of the old guard repubs will change their mind because of the Cheney’s. *keeping fingers crossed*

but this news is very encouraging. Maybe other repukes will follow.

Plenty of CA Repubs moved to Az.

To them, anyone who isn’t in thrall of the Orange Anus is a RINO.

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who used lies to get us into a war (no, I haven't forgotten), that's pretty big.

I agree with Darth Cheney.

It's to the point where I wonder if I did take the brown acid despite the warnings to avoid it.

Republicans were going to have a brokered convention to choose another candidate but, because Trump was so wildly popular with the 80% of their base who are authoritarians, they realized that they could not win without him. So they put party over country and chose a Strong Leader who was not committed to democracy as their candidate. From the start there were some Republican politicians who didn't support Trump, mostly they were those who could afford to tank their political careers.

Unfortunately, through Trump's buffoonish mismanagement, overt corruption, and bottom-line centered management of the worst pandemic in a century, his approval with Republicans stayed about 80%. After the (bungled) first coup attempt in US history his approval dropped for a while. But when he wasn't personally held to account his approval rate gradually returned to its previous level.

For a democracy to be functional there have to be at least two viable parties committed to democracy. The US is one party shy of a democracy. Unless and until the Republicans can wrench their party out of the control of the 80% of Republicans who are authoritarians, or OK with authoritarianism as long as they are in control, or can develop a viable new party committed to democracy, democracy in the US will be one election away from failure.

but he's at least a temporary ally.

"If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons."

‘’misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows. I will here shroud till the dregs of the storm be past.”

Coming from Darth Cheney himself, this is a real surprise! That said, his endorsement of Kamala does make me feel... very conflicted.

Even Cheney recognizes the clear and present danger Trump presents to the Republic.

But being on the same side as one of the most evil people in the last 30 years does feel kind of strange.

Compared to Trump, Cheney is a piker in the world of evil.

of a "Unitary Executive" goes a bit farther than he's comfortable with; since Cheney and Shrub were 100% behind the Unitary Executive program. Either that, or it's the wrong Unitary Executive!

Geesh... Hell Freezes Over, indeed! I wondered if Liz would be talking to her Dad about all this, but I never thought Darth Cheney would come out and endorse Kamala, not to mention say he was voting for her! Not on my bingo card at any time...

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Who could possibly have imagined a problem like that--other than anyone with a few functioning brain cells.

Seems like the usual R default mode. In this case, Unitary Executive for me but not for thee. Just like Law and order for thee but not for me and government handouts for me but not for thee.

That old one: I never expected the leopards to eat my face, sobbed the woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party comes to mind. Rs don't like to face the consequences of the policies that are designed to help them and hurt others.

Editing to add that the Unitary Executive theory is awful and hope I didn't sound as if I was supporting it for Darth Cheney.

and I agree, the Unitary Executive theory is truly awful and undemocratic. Cheney, Rumsfeld, Feith, and others have been working to make it happen since I was at least a teenager. He really wanted Bush to be the first in the line for Proof of Idea (that would make him the power behind the throne, IMO). But I will give Cheney points for coming right out and saying T should never be anywhere near an office of power ever again. It's a low bar we're giving them for standing up for democracy, but that's all we can expect from
R's at this point. Too many of them have been brainwashed since childhood... a lot of them, thanks to the likes of Cheney and Rumsfeld.

I assure you.

I truly believe these Republican endorsements are by no means, transactional. These people see that our country, as we know it, may cease to exist if Trump is elected.

so... he can't stand Donnie Rich Kid getting ahead because of it? Fuck him and his bullshit endorsement!

Kamala is the real deal and we sure don't need Dick(head) Cheney to prove it!

But what you did got us to this point

I despise this man. But every little bit helps.

The silence from the Bushes is getting a bit louder now that the evil Cheney has spoken.

And could have a significant impact.

...I always referred to Dick Cheney as "Darth Cheney" or a "Sith Lord" but wow...he was
Honest Abe compared to Don the Con(vict). No comparison. He lost me at birtherism and a million things in between that and January 6th. Jan. 6 was a shocker. If he could do that, there is no bottom.

That is really something right there.

Puts this crazy ass media horse race into perspective.

...you have gone too far!

Hell has frozen over. It is hard for me to believe that Darth Vader is voting for a democrat.
I will suspend disbelief and hope he is actually going to do what he says.

When Dick Cheney turns the corner, you know Trump is toast.

who's next to promote the truth about the felon???? Step up now!!!!!

This is a day I never thought I'd see. I am really, really shocked. I wish Bush would do the same.

but they float above the bilge that are trump cultists.

of the earth, do we still hear crickets from them? Such cowards they are.

that the LITERAL Darth Vader of your party votes for the other candidate. This is stunning.

In my book, Dick Cheney was/is worse that W. Bush and Reagan.

But, I'll say this much about these very old-school Republicans: they still revere the raw basics of our constitutional republic and are able to recognize fascist threats from within.

but not clown car imbecile Trump.

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war criminal piece of shit.

We have a divided oligarchy. The old establishment has made a deal. A cut in the proposed unrealized gains tax on billionaires from 40 to 28, and voila they are on board.

But the new fascist aren’t done yet. October should be interesting.

It should be a nice day to watch the pigs practice their take offs and landings.

For a man who has done much to destabilize the Middle-East he has had quite a Damascene/Pauline conversion.

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of Harris for their support like what's-his-name does.

That makes it look like they actually know and believe the Trump threat. Maybe Cheney still gets Intel briefings and sees directly that trump is a traitor.