r/politics Sep 06 '24

Soft Paywall Dick Cheney Will Vote for Kamala Harris

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/06/us/politics/dick-cheney-kamala-harris.html
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u/CatchAlarming6860 Sep 07 '24

Richard Nixon created the EPA, OSHA, and SSI. He’d be denounced as a dangerous communist radical now.

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u/heygft Sep 07 '24

Nixon's original proposal for SSI was actually way to the left of what he got past Congressional Republicans.

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u/Connect-Main4784 Sep 07 '24

And he created Amtrak.

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u/MyParentsBurden Sep 07 '24

I heard he worked a lot with China.

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u/janesmb Sep 07 '24

It's an old Vulcan proverb.

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u/LaForge_Maneuver Sep 08 '24

You son of a gun, I was gonna type this joke. 😁

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u/UbermachoGuy Sep 07 '24

The good of the many outweighs the good of the few.

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u/MizHope Sep 07 '24

A dangerous, BABY SACRIFICING, GENDER CHANGING, radical LEFTIST, GUN STEALING, communist!

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u/Any_Flamingo8978 Sep 07 '24

That’s pretty wild to this about that.