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Annon relfects on W doing it for the love of the game

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨greentext@sh.itjust.works⁩

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Zero Personal Scandals

    :-|

    Literally a book about them.

    Zero Blackmail Material

    :-/

    Now that they’ve cleaned that shit up.

    Zero Handlers

    :-|

    8-|

    Zero Financial Incentive

    The guy with $50M in his personal fortune and a family net worth of over $400M?

    Shut the fuck up.

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    • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thank you. I could feel the aneurism developing further with every subsequent line.

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      • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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    • Wilco@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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    • arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Both the personal scandals and blackmail material links are about George H. W. Bush, not George W. Bush.

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      • tyler@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And the wiki for the book literally says it’s all unproven conspiracy theories. Like uh…

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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Family of Secrets has plenty of dirt on Bush Jr.

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    • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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).

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      • chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m going to throw an unrelated wiki link from my clipboard.

        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers

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    • three@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      > He took the bait

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    • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Vinny_93@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Zero personal scandals? Are we sure about that? Wasn’t he an alcoholic with a coke habit?

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    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      His wife killed someone while drunk driving too. Also, spreads arms over giant Middle East map, all that war based on lies.

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      • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        His wife killed someone while drunk driving too

        Almost feels wholesome now a days.

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      • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Katrina

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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      • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • MsPenguinette@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No handlers? We all already forgot about Dick?

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    • GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Vice” is such a great movie.

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      • jeff@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I agree, but man, the Adam McKay movies make me depressed for like a week after I watch them.

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    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He was more of a rider for this cowboy.

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  • ruuster13@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • uienia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because he was controlled by people who were all of these things. He was an easily controlled moron.

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  • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cheney was definitely his handler

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    • loomi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Came here to say this

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  • DERRALEXANO@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • offspec@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do you think this post is lauding W?

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      • qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s definitely leveraging the present moment to create a myth of relative harm that serves to sanitize the past.

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  • Nomorereddit@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hes got strong reverse hitler energy.

    Started his presidency w war crimes, then got into painting.

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    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Too bad there are some corners being cut here.

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    • festnt@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      wait until we find out he birthed himself

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  • Lucky_777@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • Stern@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Dubya was doing it for the legacy. Daddy issues are a helluva drug.

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No one could have predicted GW would be the intellectual one a few decades later.

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  • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 FISA

    These are just the big ones off the top of my head, I could go on.

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    • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yet all this sounds like heaven in comparison to the cunts in charge now.

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      • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So, anon is too young or too stupid to remember anything about Bush. Copy.

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  • ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hatred of brown people Love of the game, baby.

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  • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Say what you will about dubbya, but he seemed to at least have respect for the office he served.

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    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      W was a POS.

      Im just posting some greentexts

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    • Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      TIL, George w bush nickname was “dubbya”

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    • Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The bar is in hell with the rest of us

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  • wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because of Daddy.

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  • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No no no, totally different oligarchic blackmail conspiracy ring. Skull and Bones, not Little St James. Easy to confuse the two!

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  • SooperGoose@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Here’s a very informative video about why Bush JR was very bad.

    youtu.be/Diih3J4-DzA

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  • F_State@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The guy that brought us legal torture!?

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    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And tucker still hasn’t done it on TV like he said

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  • bizarroland@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • YoiksAndAway@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A combination of daddy issues and being a stooge for the necons. This fucker needs to rot in Hell right next to Trump.

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Monica Lewinsky…?

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    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That was Bill, not W

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  • SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And yet if you mentioned the Skull and Bones Society in his presence he might just get up and leave the room.

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  • sirico@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Skull& bones baby also Michael Moore can’t comment on this thread

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