YEAH, Dick

Yeah, everyone’s excited by the news from the other day that DICK CHENEY of all people has said he’s voting for Kamala Harris in November. Everyone except me, apparently. I mean, sure, it’s interesting that someone as fundamentally awful as Cheney considers Trump to be too bad even for him; if you need an indicator of just how unspeakable Dampnut is, this certainly is one. But some of us remember that 2016 was a thing, and if you do a quick Google search for “Dick Cheney Trump 2016” like I did, you may find this:

Former Vice President Dick Cheney blasted Donald Trump as sounding like a “liberal Democrat” on Monday evening, as the Republican presidential candidate continued to defend and expand upon his attacks of George W. Bush’s administration and its failure to prevent the 9/11 attacks.
Appearing on Fox News’ “Special Report with Bret Baier,” Cheney listened to the anchor read a list of the candidate’s recent comments about Bush and 9/11 earlier in the day and during Saturday night’s debate, including Trump’s assertion that Bush and Cheney “lied” about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq as an impetus to invade the country in 2003.
“He sounds like a liberal Democrat to me, Bret. He’s wrong, and he’s I think, deliberately promoting those views in order to advance his political interests,” Cheney responded. “The question of WMD charge that the administration lied, that was thoroughly investigated by the Robb-Silberman Commission. They found absolutely no evidence whatsoever to support that.” (That commission, however, was not charged with investigating “the use of intelligence by policymakers,” according to co-chair Laurence Silberman.) […]
Cheney called Trump’s statement and conduct “a disappointment,” adding that while he has not endorsed anyone, “it’s misleading for him to campaign on that basis.”
“I’ve said I’ll support the nominee of my party,” Cheney said. “If he operates the way he’s operating, sounding like a liberal Democrat, I don’t think he’ll get the nomination.”

History tells us Cheney was horribly, horribly wrong on that point, but he was as good as his word about supporting his party’s nominee, even when it turned out to be Dampnut. (This was, incidentally, more than even Dubya was willing to do.) It may have been grudging support, it may have been half-arsed and unenthusiastic, but it was support nonetheless, and it was support given at a time when it was KNOWN that Trump was as unfit to be president as Cheney was. And Cheney must have known this himself. And he still supported him. So fuck him and forgive if I find this backflip less than convincing.