George Bush Jr. has the most impressive ability to sound like the dumbest motherfucker in the room always. He should also be tried as a war criminal.
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He sure can dodge a shoe though
He did look pretty cool landing a fighter jet on that carrier before those embarrassing photos where he briefly thought the Iraq war ended with Saddam being deposed, too.
He did complete his mission though, getting Saddam for daddy. The rest of the wars were just to allow his industry friends to siphon money from the tax payers, which they intended to go on as long as possible.
Dick Cheney: Ok, I'll clean up the mess.
Narrator: He said "up" but meant "out".
yes clean out the mass, clean up the mess, potato, potato
Bush is doing exactly what he should be doing, hiding like the war criminal he is. The only thing is he has a ranch in Texas instead of a hole in the ground like Saddam.
Man who subverted democracy with the help of his brother and the supreme court....is okay with another man subverting democracy. Startling. ¬_¬
Honestly, it's much more troubling the amount of people who seem to have come round to 'George is just a bumbling buffoon but a great guy really'.
Is it just time? Wishful thinking? Or Trump making his presidency seem less destructive - even though Bush was waaaay worse for the planet as a whole? (Obviously that latter part would no doubt be ~trumped~ if he actually gets a second term)
I think a lot of people have decided Dick Cheney was the main person responsible for the W administration's crimes.
Yeah, there's a lot of contradiction and apologetics when it comes to Bush. He can't be an evil, cunning, crafty, bumbling ignoramus, all at once. He's definitely an idiot who knowingly employed some evil people. In my mind, that makes him pretty awful, but some people feel differently for some reason.
People seemed to forget what a ghoul Mitt Romney is too, the instant he denounced Trump that one time. It's weird, right? And, just because it's always relevant: Dick Cheney can fuck all the way off.
Do you think it could be because there was some semblance of following the rules when those fuckers were being awful (even if those were rules they changed so recently the ink was still wet, ahem definitionoftorture ahemhem), compared to the outright lawlessness of this lot?
Getting Cheney's endorsement isn't the flex folks seem to be acting like it is. "Huzzah, a lesser devil supports us instead of a literal fascist"
Honestly, it's much more troubling the amount of people who seem to have come round to 'George is just a bumbling buffoon but a great guy really'.
Didn't you see when he gave Michelle Obama a candy from his pocket? He's just America's sweet ol' grandpa.
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I really liked how Jon Stewart addressed Cheney's endorsement.
He stared directly at the camera and said "Fuck off Cheney."
Same goes for Bush. FUCK OFF BUSH. It would be an insult to have Bush or Cheney on "our" side. Goddamn war criminal, money grubbing, pieces of shit. Rest in piss when the time comes Bush.
Condemning Trump doesn't make anyone on anyone's side. It means they're NOT on Trump's side.
It's a statement about how much Trump dominates political and social discourse that people think the Democratic party is the "anti-Trump" party.
Obviously people like Cheney are against Trump, but that doesn't mean that everyone that is against Trump is a Democrat. It usually just means they're relatively rational.
Dude keeps an office staff to respond to this formally but claims to have retired from politics? Bullshit. If I have a political staff, I have not retired from politics. I want him to denounce, and I would still tell him to fuck off, so that everyone's on the same page.
“But it doesn’t work that way. When your country calls, you can’t just roll it over to voicemail because you don’t want to deal with it, especially when you are an elder statesman like an ex-president. Patriotism is for life”
It's almost like he didn't want to be and shouldn't have been president or something.
Wonder if it would even change any remaining independents or right wing people still on trump.
GW was a useful idiot puppet like Reagan and they tried to make trump.
Dick Cheney already endorsed Kamala, he doesn't need to stick his hand back up GWs ass and make him say something again.
Even if he did, it doesn't mean hes against what trump wants just mad his dad's buddy Dick Cheney isn't in power.
Like, the only positive of trump was getting rid of Cheney. Of course Cheney doesn't like trump
I think that dubya would make a difference with older voters. Also, Fuck off Dick Cheney.
Make a decision deciderman.
if only we all could retire from politics.
So fucking ridiculous Dems are going after Republican endorsements like this while still ignoring the left wing of their own fucking party.
We don't need republican votes if we give Dem voters what they want to vote for.
It's just the donors want the same things as republicans, so moderates will always go right for donors
We need to start treating votes as the important part
We don't need republican votes if we give Dem voters what they want to vote for.
The elector college is based on States, not population.
Right...
And if you want to see someone flip red states more than Obama, you have to go back to FDR...
Progressive campaigns flip red states
We have literally over a century of election data. We know what works.
It's just not what the wealthy do saying to both parties want.
Are you still confused about anything
People actually on the left only have one choice, people in-between have two, no matter how progressive you go young people (who tend to be on the left) don't vote (we also have data from other countries to prove that they don't vote even when there's parties that actually want to work for them).
So, where do you think there's more votes to be gained?
What are they expecting out of not voting? Do they not care if Trump or Harris win? I just really don't get why you wouldn't vote here.
There also were enough people who didn't vote for or against the NSDAP because they also disagreed with the other parties... It's not about voting for a party you agree with, it's about voting for the party with which you agree more / disagree less than with the other parties.
People actually on the left only have one choice,
If they vote....
You know the most common reason?
Both parties are too similar.
If the party moves left, that disappears and Dems donate, up and down the ballots.
But we don't do that, when it happens the party fights it as much as possible
So, where do you think there’s more votes to be gained?
The incredibly large segment of possible voters who think both parties are shit and don't fight thru red state voter suppression regularly...
But will turn out for a charismatic dem who runs a progressive campaign...
Neoliberal moderates tho. Can barely beat trump...
You legitimately don't understand the difference between a campaign like Obama's to Biden and Hillary's?
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I'm sure there's some principles we can jettison or some vulnerable minority we can throw under the bus that can get him to come around.
The Cheney controlling him already put in his bid, so he just has to power on his brain long enough to do the same. Only a matter of time. Just give it a minute.
But he can. He has enough privilege that it doesn’t matter to him who gets elected. He's not a good person.
I did, but that's because it came from an unknown number and I thought it was about my car's extended warranty.
IMO he's going to do it, just a matter of when.
I think being openly endorsed by the collective that laid the groundwork for Project 2025 undermines how serious you are about it. But that is just me. Harris is fine with Dick Cheney and the GOP. The shift right continues. Bush is a piece of trash.
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