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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This is like Kisseneger voting for you. Only Kisseneger never personally shot anyone

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's one party bro.

I forget the speaker but there was a DNC so each painting this ghoul in a good light

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Only a person who thinks on a single axis could possibly believe the two parties are the same in any meaningful way. Reality is more complex than that.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Yeah, not sure that's an endorsement you want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I heard a great multi-part series on NPR focusing on interviews right before his death. If I wasn't lazy or thought you'd actually be interested, I'd find em and link em. Here we are though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Behind the Bastards has a 6-part show all about Kissinger. Dave and Gareth from The Dollop are guests, it was pretty enlightening to someone who grew up never really learning anything about Kissinger except that he was a behind the scene policy guy for decades.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Okay, well if he keeps that I promise I'll make sure the last few drops of piss avoid his grave after he dies. But only the last few drops.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There’s a really good Dick pun to be made as a follow-up joke here, I just can’t think of it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

He's Dick and he's a joke. Does that count?

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

What if he used his shotgun for good instead of evil

😌

👉👈

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Gary Whittington, the man he shot, was a Republican and major financial backer of both of George W. Bush's election campaigns.

So

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago

In true republican fashion, he didn't care until his own family was hurt by the MAGA cult. Typical.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is like Satan offering you a glass of water in hell and everyone patting him on the back for doing something good.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Well, I'll take the water, mind you. But he's still a shithead and a war criminal.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

... something something even war criminals right twice a day

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

That dude he shot was a friend of his so probably had it coming for one reason or another.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He shot a Republican donor lawyer.

It was the second time a sitting Vice President shot an attorney.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

I think this is more about MAGA canceling Liz Cheney than anything more principled.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If it peels off never-Trump Haley voting Republicans from not voting to voting Harris when they see all these old-guard Republicans endorsing Harris... Then I guess the enemy of my enemy is my friend after all.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Yeah but he is a RINO according to the maga standards.

I just hope the democrats keep these ghouls out of their party.. or they run the risk of them doing tot he democrat party what Trump did to theirs.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

"Anything to stop Batman!!! She's running against Batman, right? trump? Well fuck him too."

But seriously, war criminal.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly worst endorsement for Harris.

I'm gonna put this in the dead clock right twice per day camp rather than hold it against her.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

This isn't an endorsement of Harris. It's an anti-endorsement of Trump.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Not helping.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I'm sure he's got houses all over the country. Is he voting from Pennsylvania or Wyoming?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Maybe I'm just that nagging pessimist everyone hates, but the more these complete-fucking-sociopaths publicly endorse Harris, the more I worry that the democratic platform will hold on to those voters and cling to the chauvinist policies they come with.

Sure, it's fun to watch Trump get ejected from his party like a parasite from a rectum, but this feels like one of those 'live long enough to see yourself become the villan' moments that I hope I'm wrong about.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I wonder who Dan Quayle is voting for

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I will never understand parents looking into a face of a newborn baby thinking:

That's a Dick!