Bush was the “cleanest” Republican since Nixon only because he was such a Cheney puppet that Dick Cheney’s wedding ring is still lost up his ass somewhere. Cheney was president during that timeframe.
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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Zero Personal Scandals
Literally a book about them.
Zero Blackmail Material
Now that they’ve cleaned that shit up.
Zero Handlers
Zero Financial Incentive
The guy with $50M in his personal fortune and a family net worth of over $400M?
Shut the fuck up.
Wilco@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I mean, he was double-dealing for the O&G industry right alongside Cheney. He was just the face of the operation while Cheney did all the backroom dealing.
But the idea that the Bush Family wasn’t flagrantly profiteering? Give me a fucking break. Family members and friends got lucrative jobs in senior administrative positions. Lobbyists got promoted to executive board rooms. Portfolios rapidly outpaced the market growth rates.
Just ask how Michael Brown, a guy in the boutique thoroughbred horse business, ended up heading FEMA, ffs. Why do you think The Ashcroft Group landed Oracle and AT&T as clients?
mattyroses@lemmy.today 14 hours ago
Exactly. Look up the Carlyle Group.
Wilco@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
He wasn’t profiteering worse than any other Republucan prez was the point.
arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
Both the personal scandals and blackmail material links are about George H. W. Bush, not George W. Bush.
tyler@programming.dev 17 hours ago
And the wiki for the book literally says it’s all unproven conspiracy theories. Like uh…
arrow74@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Someone has to remind us that wikipedia is an unreliable source, so thanks to the op commentor
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Family of Secrets has plenty of dirt on Bush Jr.
arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
As the other person said, that book is also full of conspiracy theories so…
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 16 hours ago
Family of Secrets -> Oil depletion allowance -> Quartz -> Piezoelectricity -> Ultrasound -> Lazzaro Spallanzani -> List of Catholic clergy scientists -> Lorenzo Albacete -> Catholic University of America -> Charles Coughlin
Thanks for the rabbit hole! I now know more about a whole deal of subjects, starting with a political theme, gliding over taxing of natural resources, physical phenomena, priest scientists, history of how we found out that bats don’t fly by sight, finding out that there were priest scientists in my lifetime, the information that there is an catholic university in the US and landing on the wiki page of a antisemitic radio priest during the time of WW2 (funnily enough tying back into the radio grade quartz that is a valid resource for the Oil depletion allowance).
chaogomu@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I’m going to throw an unrelated wiki link from my clipboard.
three@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
> He took the bait
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 15 hours ago
Family of Secrets is such a goddamned mindfuck. That plus Chaos (about the ties between MKULTRA and Charles Manson) made my summer a few years back real freaky.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Thank you. I could feel the aneurism developing further with every subsequent line.