Zero personal scandals? Are we sure about that? Wasn’t he an alcoholic with a coke habit?
Annon relfects on W doing it for the love of the game
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Vinny_93@lemmy.world 1 month ago
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
His wife killed someone while drunk driving too. Also, spreads arms over giant Middle East map, all that war based on lies.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 1 month ago
His wife killed someone while drunk driving too
Almost feels wholesome now a days.
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Katrina
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
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.
MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No handlers? We all already forgot about Dick?
GraniteM@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
cRazi_man@europe.pub 1 month ago
“Vice” is such a great movie.
jeff@programming.dev 1 month ago
I agree, but man, the Adam McKay movies make me depressed for like a week after I watch them.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He was more of a rider for this cowboy.
ruuster13@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
He’s as dumb as Donald but was raised with maybe 1-2 ounces of love whereas Donald was physically beaten with gold bars.
uienia@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Because he was controlled by people who were all of these things. He was an easily controlled moron.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
Formfiller@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Cheney was definitely his handler
loomi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Came here to say this
DERRALEXANO@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Fuck this post Trump level bullshit. W was a fucking Nazi too. He just didn’t sieg heil or fuck little kids like one.
offspec@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Do you think this post is lauding W?
qarbone@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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 votes them up.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
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.
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
It’s definitely leveraging the present moment to create a myth of relative harm that serves to sanitize the past.
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Hes got strong reverse hitler energy.
Started his presidency w war crimes, then got into painting.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Too bad there are some corners being cut here.
festnt@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
wait until we find out he birthed himself
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Stern@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Dubya was doing it for the legacy. Daddy issues are a helluva drug.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
No one could have predicted GW would be the intellectual one a few decades later.
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
> 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)
> 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.
Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
Yet all this sounds like heaven in comparison to the cunts in charge now.
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Yet 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.
ceenote@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Hatred of brown peopleLove of the game, baby.GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
So, anon is too young or too stupid to remember anything about Bush. Copy.
stoy@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Say what you will about dubbya, but he seemed to at least have respect for the office he served.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 1 month ago
W was a POS.
Im just posting some greentexts
Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
TIL, George w bush nickname was “dubbya”
Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The bar is in hell with the rest of us
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Because of Daddy.
SooperGoose@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
Here’s a very informative video about why Bush JR was very bad.
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
No no no, totally different oligarchic blackmail conspiracy ring. Skull and Bones, not Little St James. Easy to confuse the two!
F_State@midwest.social 1 month ago
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.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The guy that brought us legal torture!?
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And tucker still hasn’t done it on TV like he said
bizarroland@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I mean, his VP was definitely involved in all of that stuff. He only got the job because of his dad, and even if he himself wasn’t a terrible person, like the reason he was where he was as president was because of all of the people around him, who were absolutely terrible people.
YoiksAndAway@piefed.zip 1 month ago
A combination of daddy issues and being a stooge for the necons. This fucker needs to rot in Hell right next to Trump.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Monica Lewinsky…?
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
That was Bill, not W
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And yet if you mentioned the Skull and Bones Society in his presence he might just get up and leave the room.
sirico@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Skull& bones baby also Michael Moore can’t comment on this thread
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 month ago
:-|
Literally a book about them.
:-/
Now that they’ve cleaned that shit up.
:-|
8-|
The guy with $50M in his personal fortune and a family net worth of over $400M?
Shut the fuck up.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Thank you. I could feel the aneurism developing further with every subsequent line.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Especially the financial incentives. Cheney was the former owner of one of the biggest contractors for the war, and they were all tied to the oil industry.
Anyone remember what the wars did to oil prices?
Wilco@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
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.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 month 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?
arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Both the personal scandals and blackmail material links are about George H. W. Bush, not George W. Bush.
tyler@programming.dev 1 month ago
And the wiki for the book literally says it’s all unproven conspiracy theories. Like uh…
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Family of Secrets has plenty of dirt on Bush Jr.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 1 month 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 1 month ago
I’m going to throw an unrelated wiki link from my clipboard.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers
three@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
> He took the bait
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
So many people around now who weren’t even born yet when dubya was fucking shit up and have only experienced the sanitized version of his legacy where he’s at best a dumb fall guy.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 1 month 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.