George H.W. Bush - Classic or Dud

the new york times, folks - it's good

sweet! I can't wait!

It kinda all depends on your perspective. If you're an accelerationist who believes we should purge human life from the planet ASAP, Anglo-Saxon leadership kinda seems like the way to go.

my god, than you! That Douthat column was an even better than my most lurid imaginings.

I can't even type straight!

it's a glittering gem of a piece, i'm glad someone else was as moved by it as i was

I will defend to the death Douthat's right to indulge whatever kink tickles his particular fancy so long as he refrains from getting all prescriptive about it.

douthat - marquis de sade of op-eds

Every VP since 1977 is at President Bush’s funeral, except one. Mondale, Quayle, Gore, Cheney, Biden, and Pence are there. The only one missing is President Reagan’s VP, George HW Bush.

— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) December 5, 2018

He’s there

what a horribly formed "joek"

wow ari fleischer is blowing the lid off this whole fuckin' scam - bush faked his death and has joined jfk jr and trump to expose the international elite's paedophile ring #qanon #WWG1WGA #GreatAwakening

TBF did anyone get close enough to say with 100% certainty that the casket didn't just contain an animation cel from 'Two Bad Neighbors'?

If I could have had a few days of Bush lying in state wearing a shaved-down rainbow afro wig, I could have died happy.

Oh god, and this was our very last opportunity to make that a reality.

At last, I am in mourning.

a good mourning, I trust

“Donald Trump has never been part of a conspiracy to sell missiles to the Ayatollah,” Pierce blurted out, a reference to the Iran-Contra scandal.

it's true, Trump's conspiracies are generally worse

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, December 4, 2018 2:14 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

come on

i see W broke down

boo fuckin hoo

reunited with Saddam

it’s a regular shot shots part deux! up down there

so is he still dead, asking for a friend

tell your friend he is

is your friend Manuel Noriega? Tell him Poppy's on his way.

(my friend is Lee Atwater fwiw)

maybe i jut didn't pay enough attn to Ari back in the day but i gotta say it's a little odd to see him become one of the brain-wormiest of the OG W crew

was Reagan at the funeral or

lololol the body language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-YCbWZlRrw

xpost No he wasn't and I don't know how these republicans can claim to be about values when neither he nor his veep could be bothered to attend.

haha hillary's ice stare is so great

You can see Trump opening his mouth to take a gulp of air as he moves, like a big fish.

This is your "Christian" evangelical president. pic.twitter.com/u0478FoSyR

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) December 5, 2018

^this won't be even discussed in the "liberal" media, i.e. the same folks who would have shat their Depends every bit as full as Fox if this had been Obama

yeah but Obama was ARROGANT whereas Trump carries the world on his shoulders, probably thinkin bout tariffs

So, joeks aside, now that this man is almost in the ground, what's his legacy: approving new taxes, giving Kohl the okay to push for German reunification, giving Gorby support for post-glasnost (and dithering after the '88 election so as not to piss off the hardliners Reagan had already pissed off)? I've written my own denunciations but it's good to clear the air.

Souter

the last "who knows what this guy's even about?" SC pick

lol that grand asshole John Sununu vouched for Souter; bet he's had a few sleepless nights.

Carter is sort of an Old Testament figure. He has a limited feel for practical politics, and the high horse can be tiresome, but his force of will is like the God of the Jews. He remembers slights, and he comes with both the olive branch and the sword. https://t.co/SNMF1S3IIT

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) December 5, 2018

dick nixon is such a dork

jeez if he'd had a sword all along he shoulda whipped it out when he was campaigning for re-election

dick nixon is such a dork

― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown),

as Nixon said about Ike: "...in the best possible sense."

LGM alerted me to this long essay about the history of climate change politics published last August, and the Bush I administration's attempt to quash the science: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/climate-change-losing-earth.html

there was some semi-interesting stuff in that Bag Man podcast about how HW tried to quash the investigation into Spiro Agnew

Don’t go all wobbly on us Claire. https://t.co/rRwmjT9bgc

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) December 6, 2018

it's so lame to feel compassion toward others

I’m with @tenuredradical. I really hate the whole “rest in hell motherfucker!!!!” 🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘🔥🔥 trend but I guess I would be.

Think the cure for this is go talk to a long, long line of people whose close family are dead because of his fucking wars?

yeah if anything the rest in hell motherfucker trend is a sign of increased awareness and worsening allergy to false narratives

Uh...

I do too, then I think: w/ drones strikes, Obama killed vastly more Afghans, Iraquis and Pakistanis - children & parents, leaving 1000s of orphans - than Bush, also deporting an unprecedented number of immigrants, & so presidential virtue is pretty damn complicated, isn't it?

— Claire Potter (@TenuredRadical) December 6, 2018

Anyone who had her for a history professor should get a refund.

there is no way that is remotely accurate