Peeing on your happy day

[sabotabby]

Is anyone else kind of sad that Cheney left the White House in a wheelchair and not, say topping a pike carried by angry peasants?

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[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

I read this out loud to T (hope you don't mind) and he TOTALLY CRACKED UP.

[seaya.livejournal.com]

When I heard that John Williams had a composition in the ceremony, I was wondering if it was Cheney's themesong, aka the Imperial March ;). But alas it was some reworking of "'Tis a Gift to Be Simple" (albeit with Yo Yo Ma involved).

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

http://twitter.com/darthvader/status/1133426350

[violachic.livejournal.com]

As a classical musician, and as someone who had an old friend who played in that ensemble, I thought THAT PIECE SUCKED!

[secretsoflife.livejournal.com]

yeah, it was crappy :(

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

I suppose so - why was he in a wheelchair?
(Sorry, but I completely missed out on the inaugural stuff (I so did want to see them feed the chickens).

[erotetica.livejournal.com]

He was carrying boxes as he was moving out of the White House, but did so with too much enthusiasm

[ironed_orchid]

Now that you mention it... yup.

He's looking wizened because his daily quota of virgins' blood has been cut off.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

they have virgins in Washington?

[ironed_orchid]

They ship the blood in from third world countries.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

At least there's a good chance Cheney would get AIDS that way

[ironed_orchid]

I'm sure they screened it.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

dsmn

[stoneself.livejournal.com]

Morden ask Vir, "What do you want?"

Vir replies, "I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this. Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?"

* * *

there are days the parallels between b5 and the bush administration scare me.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

beat me to it!

[funnel101.livejournal.com]

*points to icon*

[seanmonster.livejournal.com]

That was a great line from a moon-faced assassin of joy.

[symbioid.livejournal.com]

ME ME ME!!!! :(

[frippy.livejournal.com]

I, too, have to admit I'm saddened by the lack of tar and feathers involved in the transition.

[rojonoir.livejournal.com]

My image is he steps through the doorway only to find himself emerging in Sadr City. He stops, rubs his eyes a bit, looks around confused trying to figure out what's going on. Then he turns around to go back inside only to find that the door looks unfamiliar and is very locked.

It's only when the crowd starts forming that he realizes he has no pants on.

[sadie-sabot.livejournal.com]

LOL

[jk-fabiani.livejournal.com]

How true, how true...

[turkishb.livejournal.com]

Watching Obama's speech all I could wonder was, "what is going through Bush's mind right now?"

[ocicat-bengals.livejournal.com]

Damn, I need a drink?

[lzz.livejournal.com]

Mind?

[theoldanarchist.livejournal.com]

I am a pacifist, so on a pike is a bit much for me. But, led off in chains would have been alright.

[fannishnonsense]

Personally, I was hoping someone would push him down some stairs.

[cheshirecat25.livejournal.com]

I totally envisioned that as the wheeled him out the doors. I thought aloud "hey wouldn't it be funny is Cheney's chauffeur lost her grip on him, and the wheelchair went bouncing down the steps, and he flew off the end of the podium and crash landed into the marines below?". But I thought better of it. Poor marines would be crushed by the sheer evil that is Dick.

[skywardprodigal.livejournal.com]

My cynical, raised-in-America self believes that Cheney faked the injury so he didn't have to stand.

[schramm.livejournal.com]

i txted someone that he got what he deserved:
polio!

[jamie-miller.livejournal.com]

We chanted the Imperial March from Star Wars when he showed up on the giant TV screens around the National Mall.

[princessrugger.livejournal.com]

omg me too!

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

I wanted to see him - and still want to see him - behind a layer of bulletproof glass at the Hague.

One B5 quote always comes to mind when I think of Cheney...

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I'd look up at your lifeless eyes and wave like this.

Re: One B5 quote always comes to mind when I think of Cheney...

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Maybe I should read the comments thread next time, before i post one.

[uncledark.livejournal.com]

I try not to let it get in the way of enjoying his departure.

Still, it would have been a fantastic stimulation to the sectors of the economy that produce torches and pitchforks.

[otfrom.livejournal.com]

There was a bit in the jerky streaming I saw today where Obama and Bush were walking down the stairs together and I shouted "Put the cuffs on him! Slap the cuffs on Bush". It would have been so cool if Obama had arrested Bush on the spot.

[on-se-dit-tu.livejournal.com]

ROFL!

[orpheus42.livejournal.com]

Maybe he won't need the wheelchair by the time his war crimes trial commences.

Hey, a boy can dream, right?

[dendritejungle.livejournal.com]

I kind of love you. I'm just sayin'.

[jenlight.livejournal.com]

lil bit

[princessrugger.livejournal.com]

patience, patience.

[dglenn.livejournal.com]

No. I'm not sad that his head didn't go out atop a pike carried by a mob.

I'm a little sad that he didn't leave in handcuffs, escorted by US marshals. But I've got a wee glimmer of hope that that can be handled sometime in the future.

I want to see him punished, but I desperately want it to be by law, after due process and all that. Extra-careful due process, so that it can be made clear to all but the nuttiest of wingnuts that it's punishment for actual wrongs, not mere revenge or pettiness by "the other party". So that his punishment, whether it be death or imprisonment, can be recorded clearly as punishment by law, not muddied by being cast as martyrdom at the hands of a mob or randomness by a crazyperson.

So no, seeing his head on a pike yesterday would have brought me no satisfaction. I want to see him tried and convicted. Death at the hands of a mob may be one of the things he deserves, but it wouldn't serve my ends.

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

i don't think he left at all.
that was a fake cheneybot, and the real evil dick lives in the walls of the white house like 'bad ronald!'