• mayo_cider [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    The fact that Trump was the funniest president doesn't mean he was a good president

    • blindbunny@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      Bush jr. had it for a while. I lost my shit when he admitted he pirated the beetles songs on the news when he talked about his iPod.

      • joseph [he/him, they/them]
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        9 months ago

        please tell me a recording of this is somewhere. I found this but no mention of piracy so must be another clip out there

        • blindbunny@lemmy.ml
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          9 months ago

          Oh dude your gonna make me find this. It was towards the end of his presidency. Pirates were the only ones that recognized it because it was unreleased Beatles songs.

          Edit: it was infact a longer version of this where Bush Jr. calls one of the secret service agents "dude". E.g. "can you get me my iPod dude."

          Edit 2: here's a more reliable source then "trust me bro" https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2006/05/beatles-gw-bush-and-apple-computer

          • joseph [he/him, they/them]
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            9 months ago

            OH i totally forgot that Beatles songs weren't licensed for itunes and stuff at the time. Hilarious.

            • blindbunny@lemmy.ml
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              9 months ago

              Yeah I forgot too. I think I kind of oversold it but it was still funny with online communities. I remembered people saying if, "Bush can pirate music I can too."

    • Sephitard9001 [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      No you see, because we say the Democrats suck shit because they're also right wing, that means we're MAGA Republicans receiving trolling instructions from the GOP because we didn't name Trump specifically.

      Why we would support the GOP after making it clear that right wing is an insult is not clear to me. That's for the liberals to know and for you to find out I guess because you know they're never going to effectively articulate how shrug-outta-hecks

    • rjs001@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      In terms of politicians in general, no one will ever beat Quayle in terms of funniness

        • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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          9 months ago

          I do but only because I'm a huge fan of Civ 4 and wondered who tf that guy who was at the bottom of the scoreboard was

          • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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            9 months ago

            Fun fact: Dan Quayle was at the bottom even in the original Civilization 1, most likely because he was the current VP back then when the game came out and he was hot topic of jokes.

            I remember playing it around 1993, way before internet in Poland and i assumed he was some british comedian, because his name sounds like british comedian.

      • M68040 [they/them]
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        9 months ago

        The moment I learned who he is and realized you could climb the ladder that far without knowing how to spell “potato” was a key part of my jokerfication

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