r/politics • u/Newsweek_ShaneC ✔ Verified - Newsweek • 16h ago

No Paywall George W. Bush's brother trashes Paxton, says he voted for Talarico

https://www.newsweek.com/george-w-bush-brother-neil-votes-for-james-talarico-trashes-ken-paxton-12597383
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u/specialkk77 14h ago

Unfortunately the collective human memory is on par with a goldfish. Bush is a war criminal I don’t care if he paints pretty pictures now, if He’ll is real I can only hope that he’ll be burning there. 2000 is the first election I remember. Shit I even caught myself thinking positively on an interview he did as part of a 9/11 documentary from a few years ago. People used to make fun of his speech but damn he can finish a thought and doesn’t go on 37 tangents and didn’t blame trans people. But, still a massive piece of shit. Trump being worse doesn’t change that.

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u/onepareil New York 14h ago

The shoe dodge was funny and pretty impressive for his age (although he more than deserved to take a loafer to the face). Trump definitely could never. That’s about the only positive I’ll give him.

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u/ballinb0ss 12h ago

I think Bush is a worse President who botched every area of policy essentially. He was completely incompetent. The tax cuts blew up the economy, the wars bankrupted us and killed a million people around the world, and he is responsible for the torture program. Trump is a worse person than Bush but it's really hard to argue with a million dead for wars of complete choice and causing a worldwide financial meltdown and spying on American citizens intentionally. It's definitely an apple and a tree situation though with how awful Trump 2 is but if I had to pick the lives lost under Bush alone makes the case. Now though, I dare anyone to try to convince the public that the republican party is not the party of war.

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u/specialkk77 12h ago

Time will tell how many deaths Trump’s disastrous foreign policies cost, but he’s also responsible for over a million dead because of botched Covid response in the first admin. 

I thought Bush would be the worst President of my lifetime. I wish I had been right

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u/FinalHexReturns 11h ago

Think of how much worse the next one will be. I don't know why everything thinks Trump is the bottom.

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u/onepareil New York 5h ago

No, JD Vance the Peter Thiel acolyte is worse. Eventually they won’t have to filter their plans through Trump’s ketchup-and-shit-scented mouth.