Very different from the Cheney endorsement for several reasons.
The easiest to explain: Putin’s endorsement is manifestly insincere.
P.S. In case anyone missed it, Putin endorsed Harris this past Thursday:
I have not because the causes of the U.S. invasion of Iraq are complex, with essential support coming from liberal hawks. It would require a long new thread, and research, since I don’t have a strong sense of how hawkish Harris may really be.
Here is an indisputable Cheney policy Harris properly embraces:
If Dick Cheney thought that Donald Trump would be more favorable to the military industrial complex, then Cheney would be endorsing Trump.
Cheney is a piece of shit.
I think that might be better phrased as:
Harris’s biggest problem is too many voters who have bought into the bullshit propaganda that she is too liberal.
Yes. I get that. But is that really her biggest problem? And are there voters who are not MAGA who think that she’s too liberal?
I think there may be a number of non-MAGA Republicans who are hanging onto this belief as a fig-leaf to stay in the club and vote for Trump, even though they know he’s a horrible wanna-be dictator.
In my experience, yes.
Just encountered this neat summary of my reaction:
Cheney should be in prison for life and would be if there was a real investigation of 9/11. The PNAC papers out lined the vision a few years before he gained power, like Project 2025 is doing now. PNAC said point blank that they could not achieve their goals without a Pearl Harbor type event, AKA 9/11.
9/11 is the key to all of this, as I’ve been saying for years now, it was never about lowering gas prices as I see some here have said. It was about control of resources. That is a fact and is spelled out in the papers.
They couldn’t see that 20+ years later it would lead to the rise of Trump, and maybe the end of the US as we’ve known it.
Cheney endorsing Harris is not a good thing.
Warning and suspension of at least one day for shitbombing this thread with a conspiracy theory post.
Moderating:
The future of democracy is at stake. I’ll take my allies where I can find them.
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John C. Calhoun not only endorsed the other party’s candidate, he did it while still serving as Vice President!
The election of 1824 matched John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, plus some minor candidates. There was no Electoral College majority, so the election was decided by the House. Both candidates endorsed Calhoun for Vice President, so he won by a landslide and served under President Adams. However, relations between Adams and Calhoun quickly deteriorated.
In 1828, therefore, when Adams and Jackson were again nominated, Calhoun ran for re-election as Jackson’s running mate! He thus became the only Vice-President to ever be re-elected in an election which the incumbent President lost! He couldn’t get along with Jackson, either, though, and eventually resigned from office in order to run (successfully) for Senate, where he remained a festering boil on the body politic until his death.
(As an aside, he was a racist bastard, even by comparison to Andrew Jackson, and that’s saying a lot)
Look at it this way
Either Harris is such an excellent presidential choice OR Trump is such a horrible choice that even Dick Cheney is voting Harris.
Either way, that’s a good thing.
I just got a text I never expected to get in life. It began “Friend, this is Liz Cheney…”
It appears she is also fundraising for Colin Allred, since Ted Cruz was a vocal supporter of the coup attempt. Good on her.