The barrel has been dug through. It is now a tube, and conservatives are currently digging an empire-sized grave beneath it.

The future is truly terrifying.

I agree. I was there... But I feel like these posts aren't trying to make bush seem "good" or "normal". More they're showing just how much of a piece of shit Trump is. Not that that should be necessary.

Like if Bush seems like a good dude next to you, you're seriously fucked

it's like a turd flushing, just shit stains all the way down

A war that he was responsible for and could have ended at any time if he gave two fucks about the lives of anyone involved, which he didn't.

Fuck that war criminal. The only acceptable reason he should have had for not golfing would be that he was in the Hague.

Yeah, nobody is saying that. It's just a juxtaposition of how much Trump sucks when the previous winner of worst president ever looks good in comparison.

I'm not sure I'm ready for what's coming the next time around. Probably some manosphere influencer way into eugenics. Yay.

This is juxtaposition, not apologia. There is a scale of awful, and Dubya is objectively on the lesser side relative to the Paedophile President, seditious traitor and inarticulate pissboy that he is. There is no section of the constitution that I know of which he hasn't violated. Dubya was many of the things which the traitor-in-chief is, and that makes the juxtaposition all the more apt. If they were supposed to be comparing a good president, they'd have picked FDR. Instead, they picked one who was generally considered one of the worst until that point to show that, even when you think you've scraped the bottom, someone can still manage to break the bottom of the barrel and scrape the mouldering, fetid carcass of a plague rat off the floor below.

He's certainly not the good guy, but it was definitely a wild time when you thought he was the dumbest president we've ever had, with Cheney giving himself no-bid contracts to enrich himself during that war was peak corruption.

Bush's expansion of executive power made someone like trump a "when" not an "if".

He's not. But in comparison he is.

This is what fascists do. They lower the bar so far that you have to change your whole perspective to suit them.

You can't just pick any vowel.

Exactly. I remember Bush. The guy was a reviled idiot.

Bush 2 is a direct line to trump. From courting the evangelicals and bringing their supply side Jesus to the front to legitimizing stubbornness and agressive ignorance as quality in a presidency. He ran on not skill, competence, and education, but “who do you want your drinking buddy to be?” Literally. If you were around when he ran the unofficial question was “who would you rather have a beer with?” Hence the news paying attention to Obama’s occasional beer, and Obama having a drink with whomever.

Bush mashed the accelerator pedal on all the things needed to make it easier for the far right to swoop in and take over.

Yeah, your right. I will not do it again

Sure. Bush was a horrible piece of shit... But compared to Trump, he at least pretended to be decent, which isn't saying a lot, and saying he wasn't as bad as the current President isn't really defending him, either

I remember bush the elder... He had no problem golfing during the first Gulf war.

I’m going to lite beer all over my Superman pajamas.

Hold out lite beers that aren't woke

No. Hiding casualties is routine, doing it so brazenly and with such implausible numbers is the novelty in this administration.

and it goes just about as well lol

fuck outta here stop retconning history

https://youtu.be/TCm9788Tb5g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HZ3Tjohwqo