• LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    I think you’re misunderstanding the Cheney’s support.

    Dick and Liz (and Bush and others) aren’t supporting Harris because she aligns with them or they like her. They’re doing it because trump is so heinous, literally anything is better than a second trump term.

    They don’t want Harris; they’ve just reached the conclusion trump will destroy the GOP. And they’re right.

    As Lindsay Graham said in 2016:

    If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…and we will deserve it.

    This is self-preservation.

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      9 months ago

      I don’t give af what their reasons are Dick Cheney is one of the worst people on the planet. It is easy not to stand by him. But I’m fine with voting third party this point. I don’t want to be allies with liberals who will throw anyone under the bus to retain comfort.

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        9 months ago

        “I don’t like that one of the worst people in the world is advocating for a candidate, and I’m not going tk vote for that candidate because of this- even though *the other candidates is objectively far worse than the guy I hate”

        Is how I interpret that.

        Throw your vote away if you want. Just don’t whine here when trump wins because of you.

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          9 months ago

          Trump’s rise is literally because of Dems lack of action results for poor and working class people. Harris is closer to him on Policy than anyone else. Even Trump said so at the debate, and she is still building the wall. You guys don’t have Trump as much as you claim.

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        9 months ago

        Nobody is ‘standing by him’. Hitler liked dogs. Am I supposed to hate dogs because Hitler ‘stood by’ them?

        I couldn’t give less of a fuck who the Cheneys support. Their opinions don’t factor into my choices at all.

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          9 months ago

          This whole topic is the same people who make excuses for why the Cheney endorsements are good (or at a minimum irrelevant) saying how David Duke’s endorsement should make people supporting Jill Stein think twice.

          Jill Stein is a grifter and a spoiler working to advance conservative causes, but the hypocrisy here is breathtaking.