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.

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    3 days ago

    Don’t give GWB that much credit, he was playing up the bumbling idiot schtick as a smokescreen for what was going on behind the scenes

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      3 days ago

      He lost his first campaign because he was “that egghead from Harvard.”

      He certainly recalibrated and leaned into a fake Texan accent after that.

      Whether he is an actual bumblefuck I can’t say. He’s certainly a legacy admission.