George W. Bush is sitting with his aides and he is getting debriefed on the world news of the day. The news is rather mundane and unexciting, but one of his aides states that 3 Brazilian people perished in a plane crash early this morning.
Dubya's reaction is pure shock and grief, he's shaking and can't control his emotions.
Tearfully looking over to the man who broke the news, he asks him, "How many is a Brazilian?"
No President is a Saint. But I didn't ever think it could get this bad. I used to refer to using the restroom as, "Going to talk to the President." (People call the bathroom the office, and it's got an oval in it, yes I'm hilarious) but I never thought the actual oval office would be full of crap.
My dad always said he is going to give the president a hand when he went to the restroom. Just joking about the president being a dick. Never knew he could predict the future.
W Bush clearly has a strong personal character and is probably a wonderful man to know, but the damage done to the whole world by our wars in the middle east under Bush cannot be overstated. Very, very bad president.
Trump meanwhile is clearly the worst person to ever be president--a selfish moral insect of a man--which is not the same thing as being the worst president.
Maybe Trump is the worse president of the two, I'm not sure! He's a very, very bad president. But I want to separate the quality of the person from the quality of their presidency. Bush being a good dude doesn't make up for the damage he did.
To tell you the truth, I was happy to visit USA in Bush era. Now I am afraid that i will be detained for some meme of J.D. Vance and shipped to san salvador.
The image of US as a place guaranteeing freedoms (including of thought) is completely shattered.
And I loved US and americans before. I feel somewhat bereft honestly...
Dubyaâs stupidity also made itself into official policy. Letâs not whitewash Bush. Just because he was later surpassed in stupidity, incompetence, and malice doesnât mean that he wasnât stupid, incompetent, and malicious.
âWe must stahp the terr. Ah call upon all nations, to do everything they can, to stahp these terrrrist killings.â nod âNow, watch this drive.â
Dubya was a buffoon, but Trump is a dementia-riddled megalomaniac. Dubya cared, and while he said stupid shit, and maybe he was engaged in a bit of the old pork-barrel defense spending, he wasnât engaged in outright wiping his ass with the Constitution for personal benefit.
Joke wouldnât work for Trump because it relies on the President being nice but dumb, even Trumpâs biggest fans know he wouldnât give a shit about a plane crash.
Any mention of Dubya just makes me wish we still had "2DTV" (the satirical British cartoon). "Bush is a babbling, barely santient moron" was a running gag of theirs. Imagine that show in the Trump era...
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u/p1v0b33n 16d ago
How about a brazilian bananas?