post titled “Barack Obama Says George W. Bush ‘Just Barely’ Behaved During Donald Trump’s Inauguration”

yeah real #####resistance leader george “a million dead iraqis” bush

i fucking hate liberals

do these people not realize that anything trump is doing right now, the bedrock to do so was laid by people like bush and obama?

  • GoodGuyWithACat [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Something to throw your liberal friends into confusion: tell them that Bush was worse for the world than Trump’s first admin.

    Iraq and Afghanistan. Patriot Act. Financial Crisis. Created DHS and militarized border. Actually succeeded in stealing the presidency.

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    I met GWB at a diner near Austin when I was a child—back when he was the governor. I went over to say hi and his security stopped me. They told me to let me through, that I was just a kid. We spoke for a few minutes, he was really polite, and left a pretty positive impression on me.

    None of that matters, though. He’s a war criminal who lowered the bar to apparently unrecoverable levels. Fuck this dude. That childhood memory will forever be tainted by his actions in life.

    My experience was actually that I spent a few minutes with a monster who later got an unfathomable number of soldiers and civilians killed, all in the name of profit and accelerationism. Don’t fantasize getting a beer with that guy.

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    If I had a penny for every time I read this exact line that “I’d grab a beer with Dubya”, the amount of pennies I’d have would of course not be even in the same order of magnitude as the amount of people he and his buddies killed in Iraq, because this line is unreasonably commonplace, but he’s a mass murderer war criminal

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      it makes my fucking skin crawl that a line like that can be repeated and people just osmotically absorb it and think it’s an original thought that they have no responsibility to critically examine and not something they saw in what was essentially an advertisement for the death machine

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      for real, why are these ppl so obsessed with the idea of humanizing this genocidal war criminal?

      im a fuckin piece of shit and i wouldn’t have a beer with bush if he paid me. fuck him. the world will be better when he dies. bush dying of old age will be a great injustice. i hope that dude from austin powers that throws a shoe gets his ass

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        I mean… Just a beer? How much is he paying? Can I go around afterwards saying he’s such a loser he has to pay people to drink with him? Because if he paid enough that would be worth it ngl

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      even without the legacy of mass murder, the guy is a silver spooned nepobaby who graduated from Yale and Harvard. I do not think we would have very much in common regardless of his war crimes.

  • TheSpectreOfGay [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    do these people not realize that anything trump is doing right now, the bedrock to do so was laid by people like bush and obama?

    correct. remember that americans have the memory of goldfish. everything a president does exists in a vacuum, and once they’re out of office they’ll forget what they even did

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    Damn maybe if Obama had held Bush and his cabinet of war criminals accountable they would have set precedent for prosecuting Trump after he tried to overthrow the fucking government.

    Instead they tried to let bygones be bygones and look what it got them.

    But tee hee he personally dislikes drumpf for being a showboating dumbass, so I guess we can overlook the way the Bush and Obama administrations expanded the executive powers that now will be in the hands of a dang cheeto.

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        Obama doesn’t get enough hate for coming into power with unprecedented political capital and then spiking it straight into the dirt. Like I know he was just following the neoliberal playbook and change was a false promise from the start but his legacy should really be looked at as abject failure by the rest of us. Among the immediate ones were: failing to hold the Bush administration and the banks accountable for war and financial crimes, not curtailing the surveillance state, not disbanding DHS, and giving Hilldawg a job.

        That’s like the first month. I can keep going.

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    New idea. Bush can paint and we can stare at his mid drawings while he spends life in prison for his crimes. Liberals should be happy. It’s a compromise. They love that shit.

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    Meanwhile I’m just wondering what they thought about ‘very arguable’ war criminal Dick Cheney endorsing their girlboss

    Also very funny how they actually are unironically using what was part of the tagline for first Bush campaign (pollsters found people would rather have a drink with GW and his campaign used that a bit)

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    At this point only dumb libs like Bush. It’s bizarre, since to Dems during his presidency he was almost as big of a villain as Trump.

    Today, even from a cynical right wing nationalist perspective, he’s the worst living president, which is why MAGA hates him too.

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    What boggles my noggin is the way they seem to celebrate watching the bar getting lower. “Hey, country is inching ever closer to a political event horizon but doesn’t that make those days from slightly higher up the gravity well seem swell in retrospect?”