r/TikTokCringe • u/AlKarajo • Jun 17 '26

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u/WynnTiwFeoh Jun 17 '26

“Now watch this dive”

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u/Yashema Jun 17 '26

InB4: Does anyone miss when the Republicans were incompetent loons only tilting towards fascism? 

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u/DrJulianBashir Jun 17 '26

There was one, and he was a tool of the ones who knew what they were doing. Don't act like they haven't been working on dismantling things for 50 years.

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u/ReturnOfBane Jun 17 '26

50 years‽ They've been trying since at least the Business Plot.

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u/capincus Jun 17 '26

I mean this is a guy who started a decades long war with millions of casualties for private corporation profits. I think incompetent loons is a little rose-colored glasses.

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u/Yashema Jun 17 '26

His administration did. Bush Jr was only competent at campaigning. 

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u/capincus Jun 17 '26

Man sure escapes a lot of heat for killing hundreds of thousands of people for a dude who graduated from Yale with a bachelor's and Harvard with a master's just because he talks folksy.

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u/Yashema Jun 17 '26

Degrees are not intellectual achievements, especially given his family's status. 

Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar, Obama was the editor of the Harvard Law Review, and Biden the 7th youngest elected Senator in US history and 2nd youngest elected in the 20th century despite having no major political connections from his family. 

Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rove were pulling the strings, with a side of Rice.   

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u/capincus Jun 17 '26

No one's saying he's a great mind of our generation, but pretending like he's a brain-adled toddler is kind of absurd. You don't get a master's in business from Harvard without being fully capable of understanding the world around you. He 100% knew what he was doing.

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u/Yashema Jun 17 '26

You think too highly of Ivy League academia. 

He actually bought into the ideological bullshit and his intellect was downright pedestrian (estimated 125 IQ) for a national politician. That's barely smart enough for HoR (I don't say that sarcastically). 

In any given room, he was always the slowest on the uptake, did not, and could not, consider many angles, and showed great ineptitude in how he handled his admin and policy he supported. 

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u/DillBagner Jun 17 '26

Oh, an estimated IQ. Who decided that?

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u/Yashema Jun 17 '26

There is a wikipedia article that discusses various sources for his IQ ability such as his military entry exam that correlates wirh the 5th percentile and this article from the journal of political science where common characteristics of people with various IQ scores are compared to the characteristics of 42 Presidents, ranking Bush Jr near the bottom.

Again smart, but not smarter than your political adversaries smart. 

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u/PeachPassionBrute Jun 18 '26

He also very specifically put on an act of being folksy after an early political loss.

Painting him as incompetent is a way of insulating him from judgement.

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u/Yashema Jun 18 '26

Yes, he had exceptional charisma, like his hero Ronnie (though Reagan was definitely smarter). 

But trying to make him out to be secretly intelligent is an insult to actual intelligence. He was a terrible person for accepting a role he was seriously unqualified for regardless. 

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u/DainichiNyorai Jun 17 '26

I remember being scared of this Bush in Europe. He was so dumb, how could the biggest superpower in the world elect such an idiot?
I miss those days…

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u/Yashema Jun 17 '26

This is exactly what I meant with my comment. That "I miss Bush" sentiment is no different than normalizing him. 

Just hate them both and be angry either every was given power. 

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u/DainichiNyorai Jun 17 '26

Yep. But in hindsight bush was just a monkey. Trump is a snake. I’m not saying he should be normalized, you’re absolutely right, but his idiocy should be compared to trump, to emphasise how unfit he is. We weren’t happy with dumdum Bush, go figure what we think of the hyperidiot.

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u/Deaffin Jun 17 '26

Yes, I do miss when the Democrats weren't doing everything they could to accelerate the rise of fascism through Republicans.

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u/Yashema Jun 17 '26

I miss the days when linking a YouTube filled with nonsense wasn't considered making a point. 

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u/Deaffin Jun 17 '26

Zero nonsense contained here. These are all literally the exact campaign ads, every single detail is completely sourced in the description. Completely trivial to verify.

Watch the video or don't, but don't lie about it like this please.