Zero Handlers? Seriously? I’m sure he had a team of them and that’s not counting Dick Cheney who was more the President than he was.
Zero personal scandals? Are we sure about that? Wasn’t he an alcoholic with a coke habit?
Wasn’t he an alcoholic with a coke habit?
wasn’t that before he was president?
There’s financial incentive anyway, hooking up his boy Dick “Haliburton” Chaney
I’ve heard it was before he was president too, supposedly before he was governor too if I remember right.
Not sure he’s ever directly given any details about the cocaine deal, but I remember him being pretty public about being intentionally sober because he knew he couldn’t handle it. Although, I don’t think he considers himself an actual alcoholic.
I remember him being pretty public about being intentionally sober because he knew he couldn’t handle it. Although, I don’t think he considers himself an actual alcoholic.
by all means, fuck dubya, but as a “person” he seems reasonable. This is a mature , smart, and humble way of looking at it and managing yourself.
Beyond some of his actions as president, he does pretty consistently come off as a pretty alright dude. I really enjoyed the series of paintings he did on the value of immigrants a few years back.
America can be a lawful society and a welcoming society at the same time.
Can you imagine anyone on the Republican side saying that now?
He’s a guy you’d enjoy having a beer with, which was important criteria back then.
And his immigration policy aspirations before 9/11 were better than anything the DNC has put forth since.
His wife killed someone while drunk driving too. Also, spreads arms over giant Middle East map, all that war based on lies.
His wife killed someone while drunk driving too
Almost feels wholesome now a days.
Oh, for those halcyon days of normal scandals like vehicular manslaughter and suit colors.
Beige suits are an affront to everything this nation holds dear.
Buckle up Buckaroo!
He was just a puppet for that part. If 9/11 never happened he would have been a mediocre 1 term president.
It’s pretty wild that he was actually pushing for a fast track to citizenship before that.
Puppet or not, he went along with it and he was president.
When your hurricane disaster response is so blatantly racist that Kanye West has to point it out.
That happens when your dad is CIA chief then VP then Prez.
Dubz has plenty of blackmail material, he just never had to worry about it.
Fuck this post Trump level bullshit. W was a fucking Nazi too. He just didn’t sieg heil or fuck little kids like one.
Do you think this post is lauding W?
It’s still glossing over the fact he did all that as well. I’ve seen far too much apologia for W as of late.
It’s definitely abusing the present to create a myth of relative harm that serves to sanitize the past. Ratchet effect.
And they obviously read part of it based on their comment. Either they stopped after the arrows or their reading comprehension is USA-tier. Them and everyone who voted them up.
W apologia is still fucking W apologia. Everyone started reminiscing on him for some reason after Trump’s first election and it made me want to puke. It’d be what, nearly a million dead Iraqis because of his bullshit? Nah, I’m going to get angry when people start making light of his war crimes and say untrue things like he had no financial stake in it.
The post is not apologia and not making light of his crimes. The post is saying there was no one who had leverage on him such that they could force him to do all the stupid shit he did. He just invaded a country and kicked off multiple decades of war in the Middle East for no comprehensible reason, like compromat. In the absence of a “mitigating reason” (as much as you can mitigate “war crimes”), it makes his actions look even worse
I had never heard of W gaining direct financial compensation from going to war. Oiling the US war machine doesn’t directly benefit many politicians; it just hoes the farmbed to ensure a healthy crop of corruption keeps growing.
Dick.
He is one, or he wanted one?
Cheney
Because of Daddy.
> Created ICE
> Created TSA (No fly list, porno scanners, etc)
> Created the Patriot Act
> Created No Child Left Behind Act (Left lots of children behind)
> Lied to invade Iraq (Hundreds of thousands dead, inspired ISIS, Abu Ghraib)
> Lied to invade Afghanistan (Hundreds of thousands dead again)
> Somehow didn’t catch Osama
> Botched Hurricane Katrina response, domestic humanitarian disaster
> Emboldened a wave of evangelicism that dulled American culture for years
> Normalized state torture in the west at Guantanamo
> Halliburton
> Vice President shot a guy
> Greatly expanded NSA domestic surveillance and FISAThese are just the big ones off the top of my head, I could go on.
edit - Damn there’s a big list, dive in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:George_W._Bush_administration_controversies
Yet all this sounds like heaven in comparison to the cunts in charge now.
It was on the same descending progression we are on now, relatively speaking it felt the same then as now, and if we continue down this spiral without annihilating ourselves the next one will make trump look just like dubya.
OP is making some wildly incorrect assumptions about Dubya
Say what you will about dubbya, but he seemed to at least have respect for the office he served.
W was a POS.
Im just posting some greentexts
POS? No question. At least he didn’t wipe his ass with the Constitution on a daily basis. Sometimes, yeah, but not constantly. I don’t remember legitimate fears of the US becoming a fascist religious dictatorship, either.
Uh huh, you’re in denial.
9/11 was their plan to shit on a peace of paper, call it “Patriot” and slime it all over the constitution.
If you think I’m crazy, then you apparently didn’t act choo-choo ally Back to the Future.
You may think you did but you missed everything. Right there, hanging upside down, you see the twin towers go down as they’re getting built.
That wasn’t a fiction. They didn’t lie about the cubs. They just fingerstamped the off year you all blew off and forgot to go look to see it verified by The Walk.
I got more but, yeah. Everyone thinks I’m crazy. That time is what they think it is. None of you get it. I’m only sniffing some dope as research and it not even what you think I’m saying anymore. I don’t even need it to see it now.
TIL, George w bush nickname was “dubbya”
No handlers? We all already forgot about Dick?
“Vice” is such a great movie.
This greentext is delusional
Reads like someone who wasn’t even around for Bush Jr regime.
He was more of a rider for this cowboy.
I was gonna say. His entire fucking cabinet was his handlers. Shrub couldn’t have successfully managed a baseball team if he hadn’t been surrounded by more competent people.
A combination of daddy issues and being a stooge for the necons. This fucker needs to rot in Hell right next to Trump.
No no no, totally different criminal oligarchic blackmail conspiracy ring. Skull and Bones, not Little St James. Easy to confuse the two!
Hatred of brown peopleLove of the game, baby.The guy that brought us legal torture!?
And tucker still hasn’t done it on TV like he said
