Dick Cheney dies, age 84

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Dick Cheney, influential Republican vice president to George W. Bush, dies

Dick Cheney, America’s most powerful modern vice president and chief architect of the “war on terror,” who helped lead the country into the ill-fated Iraq war on faulty assumptions, has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 84.

The 46th vice president, who served alongside Republican President George W. Bush for two terms between 2001 and 2009, was for decades a towering and polarizing Washington power player. In his final years, however, Cheney, still a hardline conservative, nevertheless became largely ostracized from his party over his intense criticism of President Donald Trump whom he branded a “coward” and the greatest-ever threat to the republic.

In an ironic coda to a storied political career, he cast his final vote in a presidential election in 2024 for a liberal Democrat, and fellow member of the vice president’s club, Kamala Harris, in a reflection of how the populist GOP had turned against his traditional conservatism.

Cheney was plagued by cardiovascular disease for most of his adult life, surviving a series of heart attacks, to lead a full, vigorous life and lived many years in retirement after a heart transplant in 2012 that he hailed in a 2014 interview as “the gift of life itself.”

Cheney, a sardonic former Wyoming representative, White House chief of staff and defense secretary, was enjoying a lucrative career in the corporate world when he was charged by George W. Bush with vetting potential vice-presidential nominees. The quest ended with Cheney himself taking the oath of office as a worldly number two to a callow new president who arrived in the Oval Office after a disputed election.

While caricatures of Cheney as the real president do not accurately capture the true dynamics of Bush’s inner circle, he relished the enormous influence that he wielded from behind the scenes.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/politics/...death-obit

Remembered as the true power behind the GWB presidency.

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https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/politics/...death-obit

Remembered as the true power behind the GWB presidency.

R.I.P.

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Death is always sad but at 84 he has had a good innings.

[andy06shake]

Death is always sad but at 84 he has had a good innings.

Especially so if he was plagued by cardiovascular disease for most of his life

[xpert11]

My condolences go out to Cheney's family and friends. The Cheney-Rumsfeld axis ran the Bush 43 White House and left a disastrous legacy. The Iraq War, torture scandals and the long-term impacts of executive branch power consolidation are evident today. Interestingly, Trump's ability to conduct his trade/tariff policies is a shining example of that anti-democratic trend/Congress abdicated its constitutional responsibility. 

Cheney was a card-carrying "establishment member" until the end. How Harris aligned herself with Cheney in her doomed 2024 presidential bid was bizarre, and how those club members act. When I first found out about the Harris-Cheney act on X (formerly Twitter), I thought it was fake news, but it turned out to be shockingly factual.

[KKLoco]

Wow. A lot of kind words for an ever living piece of shit. The Middle East wars did numbers for his pocket book. Dick and Halliburton can go right the fuck off. 

Dick was the epitome of what is wrong with the world. I hope he rots in hell with his buddy that he worships.

[SurferSoul]

Wow. A lot of kind words for an ever living piece of shit. The Middle East wars did numbers for his pocket book. Dick and Halliburton can go right the fuck off. 

Dick was the epitome of what is wrong with the world. I hope he rots in hell with his buddy that he worships.

True enough death comes to us all and it is nothing to be feared, it’s how you live your life that matters. When are the scum bags going to figure that out? It’s not hard, do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

[BeTheGoddess]

84???

So 20 years ago when he was VP he was 64?

Had a heart transplant... or was it two.

I dont buy he was 84.

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[Kaiju666]

May he be judged accordingly. Prayers for the family, as death is never easy for those close to good or evil.