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Ding-dong, the witch is dead!

Dick Cheney

Begin your day with a glad heart, everyone! The monster has dropped dead, those lips will no longer lie, those hands will no longer pull a trigger, that heart (which wasn’t the one he was born with) will no longer pump poison. Now he gets to rot, just like the hundreds of thousands, at least, he was responsible for murdering.

We get to suffer for a little while with the long-winded excuses and praises the media will deliver in the next few days. Just look forward to the time when he will be forgotten. It won’t be long.

Fuck that guy.

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  1. mordred says

    The old Dick wasn’t cool enough to be a witch!

    In a just world he would have died in prison. He had the blood of thousands on his hands and he helped pave the way for the fascist takeover of the US government.

    He’s dead. Good.

  2. birgerjohansson says

    If the Japanese Youkai stuff was real, he might stalk dark corners attempting to cause more death and destruction after his death.

    We should get a new season of the Ghost Stories anime, this time with The Dick sliming down everything, possessing dead rabbits and dragging careless children into 2000- decade-style computer screens.

  3. Snarki, child of Loki says

    I had the same suggestion when Kissinger died.
    The “appropriate” gesture is to drone-strike the funeral.

  5. rorschach says

    Socmed is always a great place in these situations. My current favourite:

    “Under normal circumstances I want more dick in my life but I’ll make an exception in this case.”

  13. hyper1doom1spiral says

    Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld(dead)
    Hopefully soon to follow. George W Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Richard Clarke, Paul Wolfowitz, George John Tenet, Fox “News”, New York Times, Washington Post. All the democrats that voted for the invasion of Iraq, including Hillary Clinton. With my addled mind I’m sure I’ve forgetting someone. I hope to see each one of these people (“news” outlets already have their foot in the grave) die of natural causes or an accident that doesn’t involve other people. Sad that these people will never face any real consequences.

  14. raven says

    There are a few advantages to living a long time.
    I got to see the Moon Landing on TV as a kid and now I get to see Dick Cheney die.
    I can hope to outlive a few more monsters at least.

    Two of my friends died in Iraq.
    This doesn’t do them any good. They are still dead.

  15. Reginald Selkirk says

    @12 Larry

    Frodo’s quest to destroy the ring has been completed!

    Frodo fumbled. I found The Ring on my front steps a few days after Halloween trick-or-treating.

  16. says

    Feeling the same warmth I did with Kissinger’s death. One less person making the world crappier. I’ll throw a handful of confetti, do a little dance, and move onto fighting the fascists who still live.

  19. stuffin says

    He received a heart transplant he didn’t deserve. His death was 25 years too late. Other than that, it’s a good thing.

  20. robro says

    Yawn.

    On a truly sad note, I just learned that Donna Jean Godchauz died in Nashville on Sunday. If you’re an old Dead Head like me you know her from her stint with the Dead, but you’ve probably heard her a lot but not realized it such as Percy Sledge’s “When A Man Loves a Woman” or Elvis’s “Suspicious Minds.” And many more since moving back to Muscle Shoals. Bill Kreutzman, one of the drummer’s for the Dead, posted a nice remembrance of her. The old gang slowly fades away. Soon the Dead will be truly dead, all gone, barely even a memory left. Roll away the dew.

  23. John Watts says

    Am I allowed to say hearty Good Riddance without fear of the Christo-fascist goon squad coming for my head?

  24. numerobis says

    OK now do Stephen Miller next. He always looks close to having a brain aneurysm, surely at some point it’ll actually happen.

  25. raven says

    OK now do Stephen Miller next. He always looks close to having a brain aneurysm, surely at some point it’ll actually happen.

    He may already be dead.

    AFAICT, he is actually a vampire.
    This would explain a lot.

    If he ever gets convicted, he will have an easy time doing his sentence.
    A bit of graveyard dirt and a coffin and he can sleep away his 10 year sentence.

  27. Larry says

    As I’ve reached my senior years, these past few years has been hard since so many of the people I listened to and watched on the screen as well as those whose life works made a difference in this fucked up world have passed away and continue to do so. Today, I can be happy about the death of someone I totally despised and was personally responsible for some of the misery.

    Good riddance, you PoS!

  29. robro says

    It occurs to me that there is one thing to regret about his death. The bastard has never faced so much as a hearing about his culpability in committing crimes against humanity. It might almost be worth keeping him alive If there were a ghost of chance that he might be prosecuted. He should have died in jail.

  34. silvrhalide says

    YES!!!
    WashPo made clear his drinking & dropout status from Yale.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/11/04/dick-cheney-us-vice-president-dead/

    Mr. Cheney and his senior lieutenants, Chief of Staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby and legal counsel David Addington, worked in strict secrecy to circumvent or reinterpret legal prohibitions against torture, domestic espionage and clandestine imprisonment without charge. Mr. Cheney said in 2008 that “it would have been unethical or immoral for us not to do everything we could in order to protect the nation.” A 9/11-style attack, he said, “wasn’t going to happen again on our watch.”

    It wouldn’t have happened AT ALL if any of those fuckwits knew how to read a daily memo.
    Or if they hadn’t sleazed their way out of accountability by treating said daily memo as “historical” rather than “actionable”. (Looking at you, Condi.)

    Time and again, events would prove Mr. Cheney wrong. Iraq had no active programs producing weapons of mass destruction, and postwar analysis found no operational links to al-Qaeda. Saddam Hussein was captured, tried and executed, but the Iraq War continued until 2011, and U.S. troops remained in the country for another decade, seeking to stabilize the country and push back against Islamic State extremists. Nearly 5,000 Americans were killed in the war.

    About what you’d expect from two draft dodgers.

    poor grades cost him his full scholarship to Yale. Mr. Cheney was suspended for a semester and flunked out in his sophomore year.
    He drifted back west, finding work as a lineman for a power company. He drank too much and was arrested twice — in 1962, when he was jailed briefly for “operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, and drunkenness,” according to the arrest report, and in 1963 for drunken driving.

    So Dick & Dubya had a lot in common. Except that Dubya didn’t flunk out because he was a legacy kid.

    Meanwhile, Mr. Cheney obtained five student and parental draft deferments during the Vietnam War. “I had other priorities in the … ’60s than military service,” he told reporters as he arrived at the Pentagon as defense secretary in 1989.

    Yeah, good thing none of the kids drafted into an unwinnable Vietnam war or equally unwinnable Iraq and Afghanistan wars had any other life plans.

    @7 Nice!

    @3 I believe the traditional method is staking the (nonexistent) heart, decapitation and burial at a crossroads.
    Pissing on his grave is optional.

    Now that Darth Cheney is gone, do Tangerine Palpatine next.

  36. John Morales says

    Why, flange? He was indeed controversial. That much is indisputable.

    (Words mean things!)

  37. Hemidactylus says

    There was a time when I held strongly that I would drink Dom Pérignon to toast Darth Cheney’s death. Now it happened I can’t justify the expense, but have a sixer of toasted lager to be followed by a large bottle of Guinness. There was a short lived Comedy Central cartoon called (I think?) Lil Bush where the major players in the Dubya cabinet are in elementary school. In one episode Dubya needs to cheat on a test and enlists Cheney to feed him answers. Cheney gets stuck in a vending machine, has a heart attack and codes out. He of course winds up in hell. He gleefully jumps into the lake of fire in his boxers. He later schools Satan in the finer points of torturing souls with a pitchfork he steals from Satan. “It’s all in the wrist!”. Satan is annoyed and sends him back to life. Cheney will return.

    https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2jybg

    https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2jynk

    He was a rat bastard who famously defined himself out of the executive branch. On the upside he had less horrible views on gay marriage than other Repugs and was appalled enough by Trump to endorse Kamala Harris, which did shit all to prevent a catastrophe he play no small role in as an earlier stepping stone. His anti-Trump turn doesn’t make up for the other stuff. His daughter fucked her political career trying to do the right thing against Trump.

    Bill Kristol, who is doing politics much better than Charlie Kirk ever did, disappoints not unexpectedly (under Dick Cheney, 1941–2025):
    https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-right-the-filibuster-should-die

    Facepalm!

    I don’t think I’m celebrating Darth’s life or death with my beer. Dom Pérignon is not worth it younger me!

  40. John Morales says

    Hemidactylus, I dunno.

    The ultimate pic for me would literally be of his death rictus.

  41. says

    @23:

    No, sir, you may not. You shall be pilloried. You shall be waterboarded. You shall be stipped to a loincloth and paraded down a hallway, pelted all the time with out-of-context pages torn from That Book. (You know, the one that grew out of the Torah.)

    None of which is nearly as bad as what he’d do to those outside the inner circle who, using their professional judgment and as close to actual facts as exist, asked questions and/or gave answers at briefings that were Doctrinally Inappropriate — over a decade before almost anyone had heard of yellowcake. (Which is not something to be found at the corner bakery, one hopes.)

  42. Hemidactylus says

    @23 and @41
    Trump himself may be saying good riddance so…

    “Trump silent on former Vice President Dick Cheney’s death” – https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-silent-former-vice-president-dick-cheneys-death-2025-11-04/

    We are not exactly talking about John McCain here but:

    The divide deepened after Cheney and his daughter, former U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, became fierce critics of Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

    Liz Cheney, who served as vice chair of the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, said Trump had “summoned a violent mob” and “caused a constitutional crisis.”

    Her father publicly supported her stance, saying in a 2022 campaign ad that “there has never been an individual who was a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.”

    Trump frequently attacked both Cheneys during his 2024 presidential campaign. He accused the former vice president of leading the U.S. into “endless wars” and mocked his daughter’s defeat in Wyoming’s Republican primary.

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