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Annon relfects on W doing it for the love of the game (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

> 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)
> Somehow didn't catch Osama
> 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.

edit - Damn there's a big list, dive in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:George_W._Bush_administration_controversies

[–] Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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.

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 days ago

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

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The guy that brought us legal torture!?

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

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

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 185 points 1 week ago (7 children)

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.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

So many people around now who weren't even born yet when dubya was fucking the country up and have only experienced the sanitized version of his legacy where he's portrayed as nothing but a dumb fall guy.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 54 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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

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[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] tyler@programming.dev 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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 taxation 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 that reached around 30 million americans during his prime (funnily enough tying back into the radio grade quartz that is a valid resource for the Oil depletion allowance).

Edit: I haven't even looked into your 2nd link yet.

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[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 119 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 105 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

When your hurricane disaster response is so blatantly racist that Kanye West has to point it out.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

His wife killed someone while drunk driving too

Almost feels wholesome now a days.

[–] Norin@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, for those halcyon days of normal scandals like vehicular manslaughter and suit colors.

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He was just a puppet for that part. If 9/11 never happened he would have been a mediocre 1 term president.

It's pretty wild that he was actually pushing for a fast track to citizenship before that.

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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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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[–] MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 62 points 1 week ago (5 children)

No handlers? We all already forgot about Dick?

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week 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.

[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This greentext is delusional

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 days ago

Reads like someone who wasn't even around for Bush Jr regime.

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[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week 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.

[–] DERRALEXANO@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 week ago

[–] uienia@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cheney was definitely his handler

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dick.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He is one, or he wanted one?

[–] derry@midwest.social 14 points 1 week ago

Cheney

[–] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hes got strong reverse hitler energy.

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

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[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 19 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Do you think this post is lauding W?

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's definitely abusing the present to create a myth of relative harm that serves to sanitize the past. Ratchet effect.

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[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

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

[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 12 points 1 week ago

OP is making some wildly incorrect assumptions about Dubya

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

~~Hatred of brown people~~ Love of the game, baby.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 week ago

Because of Daddy.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

[–] F_State@midwest.social 9 points 1 week 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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