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I have been a lurker here since 2002 and continue to do so. I discovered the DU via a link from bushwatch.net which is now gone (don't try to find it now, it no longer exists. But you can go to https://web.archive.org to see what it was like.)
Anyhow, I digress.
I have seen some posts in the last few years concerning the W. What a bad painter he is, hanging out with Ellen, being somber at McCain's funeral. etc. The latest post are saying how great it is he is speaking out about the tangerine tinged taint tumor.
Well, the Guardian had an op-ed about him today.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/06/george-w-bush-paved-the-way-for-trump-to-rehabilitate-him-is-appalling
I do not like tribalism but let's never forget why we are here. the Dub is just a polite version of the Don, sorta.
W was, is and will be just another Cheap Labor Conservative. Just like his daddy. The smell of death and crude oil should remain forever.
Oh and while I'm at it. F*ck Turd Blossom, Dickless Cheney, Mitt, Mitch, Ronny, Dick Nixon before he Dick's you, the list goes on and on and on and on. Feel free to add to it.
hlthe2b
(102,493 posts)I will not waste five minutes on a former President that has no power to affect what is happening NOW.
Brainstormy
(2,381 posts)Nothing can rehabilitate George Bush. The worst president in history doesn't make the second worst president in history one whit better.
JHB
(37,163 posts)A guy swaggers into office on a thin electoral win/popular loss and treats it as if he had an overwhelming mandate to push extremely partisan policies?
A guy and his team who came in with unbridled contempt for their predecessor, thought they new everything, were warned about specific threats, derisively ignored those warnings, cut resources and personnel to those areas, and then got caught flatfooted by the very thing they were warned about?
Always point that out when they try to pass it all off as "Trumpism".
Harker
(14,069 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)Has helped put us in this position we're now in. As long as this continues, and Republicans keep getting more corrupted, without significant consequences, it will only get worse , like now we may have the Russian mafia and Putin who has their person , their puppet corrupting our government for them.
demmiblue
(36,911 posts)However, the bigger motivation behind the apparent desire to rehabilitate Bush is probably a desperation among liberals to see Trump as an anomaly who doesnt reflect the real US. But Trump is not an aberration. He didnt emerge from a vacuum. The lies, jingoism and anti-intellectualism of the Bush era helped pave the way for him and the steady rehabilitation of Bush is paving the way for Trump to evade accountability in the future.
You dont move forward by forgetting and forgiving the past; you move forward by learning from it. It seems we havent learned anything. Nevertheless, my greatest respect goes out to Bushs PR people for their incredible work transforming him into a national treasure. Mission accomplished.
uponit7771
(90,370 posts)wryter2000
(46,125 posts)He started a war for no reason. He let people suffer after Katrina. Hes a monster. And he knows all he has to do is act cute and make a nice speech and well forget all that.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)docgee
(870 posts)But if dubya wants to come out and tell moderate republicans not to vote for the shit stain, I won't get in his way.
Saviolo
(3,284 posts)Dubya isn't a good dude suddenly because the GOP managed to find someone somehow exponentially shittier. Trump is like the Kwisatz Haderach of the GOP, but Dubya was the herald.
jaxexpat
(6,866 posts)But it hurts this old Dune fan. So please pardon me.
The term/concept "Kwisatz Haderach" was personified in Paul Atreides, thence interpretted as "one who can be many places at once". It is true that the rough beast now slouched into the American Bethlehem is the product of a terrible GOP plan in similar fashion to the Bene Gesserit's perverse breeding program, but really, how can he be many places at once when in truth he is nowhere?
neeksgeek
(1,214 posts) how can he be many places at once when in truth he is nowhere?
Suspensors.
jaxexpat
(6,866 posts)Should pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps?
Tikki
(14,560 posts)Thank you for the OP.
Tikki
docgee
(870 posts)ananda
(28,891 posts)I like your comments.
Evolve Dammit
(16,803 posts)W is just a little less outrageous, but largely the same type of sociopath.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Btw, since FOX's inception, no Repub president won their first term by capturing the popular vote.
MichaelSoE
(1,576 posts)They are a level near the top of the pyramid. A pyramid built upon a huge base of what they view as expendable, cheap, labor.
Ru-pervert Murdoch has had his day in the sun. Too bad he didn't burst into an agonizing inferno like blood sucking vampires are supposed to do.
PoliWrangler
(139 posts)Grins
(7,257 posts)CaptainTruth
(6,615 posts)Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bolton etc all PNAC members with their vision of an "Imperial Presidency" where the Executive Branch can ignore Congress & the courts.
It's not hard to draw a straight line from that to every Congressional subpoena Trump has ignored, & the GOP still embrace it.
TXPaganBanker
(210 posts)He and a number of his staff weren't able to travel internationally for fear of being arrested and brought before the world court, then the international court unanimously found them guilty?
Ya... Good times.
Pluvious
(4,332 posts)crickets
(25,989 posts)live love laugh
(13,189 posts)Skittles
(153,261 posts)Different Drummer
(7,669 posts)I like that.
coti
(4,612 posts)Most importantly, damage to the Middle East, our reputation, and expectations of our own behavior and values. None of it ever really healed back to their better previous condition.
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)If I did not know better, I would say dubya hired the orange asshole to make him look slightly better in the eyes of history.
The question is, can we shake off this infestation called republicans? If not, it is surely the end for all of us - that is, the U.S.
Martin Eden
(12,881 posts)What I would say to his face, if I could:
I'd tell you to go fuck yourself
But that is much too kind
If you could perform that feat
You'd take pleasure in your behind
I'd like to say eat shit and die
But you deserve much more
You should suffer all the grief and pain
Of your misbegotten war
Though I can never make you think
Or feel, or understand
I'll take solace when you hear your name
Cursed throughout the land
From inside a lonely prison cell
Dark and bare and cold
Where every day you pay for your crimes
Until you're sick, heartbroken, and old
When you finally leave this earth
You fucked over oh so well
If there is a God and afterlife
You're going straight to hell.