Zero personal scandals? Are we sure about that? Wasn't he an alcoholic with a coke habit?
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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.
No handlers? We all already forgot about Dick?
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.
This greentext is delusional
"Vice" is such a great movie.
Because he was controlled by people who were all of these things. He was an easily controlled moron.
Zero Personal Scandals
Literally a book about them.
Zero Blackmail Material
Now that they've cleaned that shit up.
Zero Handlers
Zero Financial Incentive
The guy with $50M in his personal fortune and a family net worth of over $400M?
Shut the fuck up.
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.
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?
Thank you. I could feel an aneurism developing further with every subsequent line.
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?
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.
Both the personal scandals and blackmail material links are about George H. W. Bush, not George W. Bush.
And the wiki for the book literally says it’s all unproven conspiracy theories. Like uh…
Family of Secrets has plenty of dirt on Bush Jr.
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.
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.
Cheney was definitely his handler
Hes got strong reverse hitler energy.
Started his presidency w war crimes, then got into painting.
He's as dumb as Donald but was raised with maybe 1-2 ounces of love whereas Donald was physically beaten with gold bars.
Dubya was doing it for the legacy. Daddy issues are a helluva drug.
> 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
Yet all this sounds like heaven in comparison to the cunts in charge now.
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.
No no no, totally different criminal oligarchic blackmail conspiracy ring. Skull and Bones, not Little St James. Easy to confuse the two!
Fuck this post Trump level bullshit. W was a fucking Nazi too. He just didn't sieg heil or fuck little kids like one.
Do you think this post is lauding W?
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 voted them up.
W apologia is still fucking W apologia. Everyone started reminiscing on him for some reason after Trump's first election and it made me want to puke. It'd be what, nearly a million dead Iraqis because of his bullshit? Nah, I'm going to get angry when people start making light of his war crimes and say untrue things like he had no financial stake in it.
The post is not apologia and not making light of his crimes. The post is saying there was no one who had leverage on him such that they could force him to do all the stupid shit he did. He just invaded a country and kicked off multiple decades of war in the Middle East for no comprehensible reason, like compromat. In the absence of a "mitigating reason" (as much as you can mitigate "war crimes"), it makes his actions look even worse
I had never heard of W gaining direct financial compensation from going to war. Oiling the US war machine doesn't directly benefit many politicians; it just hoes the farmbed to ensure a healthy crop of corruption keeps growing.
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.
It's definitely abusing the present to create a myth of relative harm that serves to sanitize the past. Ratchet effect.
The guy that brought us legal torture!?
So, anon is too young or too stupid to remember anything about Bush. Copy.
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.
A combination of daddy issues and being a stooge for the neocons. This fucker needs to rot in Hell right next to Trump.
Say what you will about dubbya, but he seemed to at least have respect for the office he served.
W was a POS.
Im just posting some greentexts
POS? No question. At least he didn’t wipe his ass with the Constitution on a daily basis. Sometimes, yeah, but not constantly. I don’t remember legitimate fears of the US becoming a fascist religious dictatorship, either.
Uh huh, you're in denial.
9/11 was their plan to shit on a peace of paper, call it "Patriot" and slime it all over the constitution.
If you think I'm crazy, then you apparently didn't act choo-choo ally Back to the Future.
You may think you did but you missed everything. Right there, hanging upside down, you see the twin towers go down as they're getting built.
That wasn't a fiction. They didn't lie about the cubs. They just fingerstamped the off year you all blew off and forgot to go look to see it verified by The Walk.
I got more but, yeah. Everyone thinks I'm crazy. That time is what they think it is. None of you get it. I'm only sniffing some dope as research and it not even what you think I'm saying anymore. I don't even need it to see it now.
And yet if you mentioned the Skull and Bones Society in his presence he might just get up and leave the room.
Monica Lewinsky...?



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