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[–] Nonprophet@lemmy.world 2 points 44 minutes ago

What in the shit??? He totally played golf during the war!

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

Remember when we thought the top one was the worst we’d ever get?

Good times….

[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Good thing Trump doesn't care about US citizens then.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 9 points 6 hours ago

The scary part is that whomever the next Republican President is, he'll make Trump look good in comparison.

It's going to get worse before it gets worse.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Thinking abstaining from golf is empathetic is a bigger insult than the other commenters think.

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 14 points 6 hours ago

It’s not about that. It’s about how one of the most incompetent presidents we’ve ever had had some level of decency and the gravity of the situation for our country. The current loser in chief does not actually care about the troops or the country for that matter.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

he used to golf all the time what the fuck is this shit.

[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 1 points 37 minutes ago

He stopped after October 2003 until the end of his presidency.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, what did he take a week off? The war in Iraq was basically his entire two terms.

[–] ProjectAzar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Kids these days don't know about "Now watch me hit this drive."

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah, Back when war criminals cared about optics...

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump cares about optics, that's why all our news channels are owned by his friends.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 6 points 23 hours ago

He cares about praise, not optics. And won't change his behavior to achieve that, just yell at people until they either do or he tucks tail and picks a new target. But of a difference.

[–] FE80@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

No one should ever glorify Dubya.

[–] GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago

I agree, this is just a comparison

[–] adjectivenoun@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

It's more like, "even this despicable war criminal had the shame to not golf while people's kids were dying in his war."

[–] mHtt@lemmy.ca 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

fuck outta here stop retconning history

https://youtu.be/TCm9788Tb5g

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[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Stop trying to rehab that shitstain.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, it's only a complement to shit stain 1 because it's a comparison to shit stain 2.

"I stopped playing golf because my people said it was bad optics" used to be a stupid thing to admit to.

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[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

It's more about showing how much even more of a shitstain we have now. Even Bush was better, and he was a shitstain.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

George W. Bush still tortured and sent PMCs to massacre entire villages. He is not redeemable.

Frankly we should have been pissed enough to revolt with Reagan. And then we should have been pissed when Ford pardoned Nixon.

Corruption is giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the people. Id est, treason.

[–] GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works 3 points 12 hours ago

Yeah, well said. George W. Bush is still a bad guy

[–] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Geroge is still a piece of shit president. He happens to have been undershined by a even larger turd, that does not make him less of a piece of shit.

[–] mobyduck648@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

undershined

This word will now live rent free in my vocabulary.

[–] gointhefridge@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I’m no trump fan, but I’m not gonna start glazing the American Idiot.

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Dubaya was like the weird uncle at Thanksgiving that laughed at his own farts.

He was a rancid piece of shit but he was our rancid piece of shit.

Trump on the other hand doesn't even get invited to Thanksgiving.

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[–] pharceface@retrolemmy.com 12 points 1 day ago

Never thought I'd see the day when President Bush was fondly remembered.

[–] charokol@lemmy.zip 177 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Stop normalizing Bush. Remember when they gave Obama a Nobel Peace Prize just for not being him?

[–] TeaWithDani@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I dunno, says a lot when Bush has the moral highground lol

Bush is in the bottom 4 with Andrew Johnson and Buchanon, but we all know who is the objective worse.

Granted W. was a lot like Justin Trudeau, he was there, he did silly interviews but ultimately never did shit and let others call all the shots.

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[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 134 points 1 day ago (18 children)

Man it's wild that even W Bush had more decency than Trump, and he was terrible

[–] angryred67@piefed.social 3 points 19 hours ago

Remember "Now watch this drive"? He gets no points for this. He had to be shamed into it.

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[–] ShotDonkey@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh fuck you for portraying that piece of shit as only a remotely empathic or humane being. 150'000 to 1'000'000 deaths in Iraq.

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[–] elbiter@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Making Bush son a good president by comparison... A new low.

[–] tiny_hedgehog@piefed.social 53 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Remember when GWB was considered a poor president? Yeah… guess everything is relative.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

He was worse than people remember. I was old enough to vote against him and expirience how much American society regressed under his militarized evangelical shell game. It took the institutional deterioration of Dubya's terms to make a Trump presidency even possible. A lot of people here aren't even old enough to remember, some weren't even born.

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[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Can we not "lesser evil" the guy whose policies made someone like trump inevitable?

[–] GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago

Yeah, your right. I will not do it again

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