Tags: george, dubya, bush, w, shame, saying, texas, tennessee

Context for those unaware of the classic Bushism.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    26 days ago

    It's wild how the US went from calling him a war criminal to being like "Oh I miss him, at least he wasn't Trump"

    Bro he literally sent you into a 20 year war on bullshit premises to fight an enemy that the US created. If you're a millennial he's half the reason you can't afford a house, he's the reason you have no privacy anymore and he's the reason racism against Arabs is normalised. (although to be fair he was only accelerating the conditions that already were inevitable under capitalism.)

      • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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        26 days ago

        A fitting end.

        "Someone left the gate open and dubya drowned in the pool 😢" is how I imagine he'll go.

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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      26 days ago

      I'm old enough to remember when liberals were like "I miss H.W. because at least he respected American democracy, unlike his neoconservative son!" And that's how I know that they'll be saying the same things about Trump in one or two decades. The latest Republican is always an unprecedented, existential threat, because that makes the upcoming election the most important one ever.

    • Dessa [she/her]
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      26 days ago

      He's the reason you can't escape your student loans