r/politics • u/Smithy2232 • 9h ago
No Paywall Bush’s brother crosses party lines to vote for James Talarico for Senate
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/21/neil-bush-votes-james-talarico180
u/ShakaCobra 8h ago
Holy shit guys imagine if Talarico wins and we finally get Jeb’s mom’s guacamole recipe after all this time
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u/The_Grand_Briddock 7h ago
Jeb is one of her four favourite sons
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u/SandersSol 6h ago
Please clap
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u/ShakaCobra 6h ago
Not even ten years later and I’d give my right arm for the GOP to put Jeb on the ballot instead of the freak shows they parade around now
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u/SandersSol 5h ago
Its ok, its just that the GOP is the party of pedophile child molesters and ghouls like Mrs. Dell and the My Pillow guy
Im sure you understand.
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u/TrumperineumBait 8h ago
This won't surprise anyone. George H. W. Bush voted for Clinton in 2016 and Liz Cheney voted for Kamela in 2024
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u/No-Wafer3889 4h ago
yeah it just goes to show that even people from the same political circles can recognize when their party has gone too far
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u/Illustrious-Fax-4589 9h ago
Bruh on first glance, I thought it was Jeb! Bush
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u/Gogs85 8h ago
Ken Paxton is an especially big piece of shit, even by Republicans standards. The fact that they couldn’t find someone better for the primary is incredibly embarassing.
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u/Wurm42 District Of Columbia 7h ago
The Republicans didn't need to find anyone; Ken Paxton chose to mount a primary challenge to sitting Republican Senator John Cornyn, along with Representative Wesley Hunt and five other candidates:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_Senate_election_in_Texas#Republican_primary
I agree that Republicans have a candidate quality problem this cycle, but that wasn't the issue here. This was all about the fight between the MAGA and establishment wings of the Texas GOP.
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u/InCarbsWeTrust 7h ago
They DID have better - the incumbent senator Cornyn! Who to be clear is also a POS, but I think he’d still be at worst 50/50 to win right now. This was such an unforced error by GOP Texas voters, and says a lot about them.
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u/Unfair_Web_8275 7h ago
Has any modern president dipped out of the spotlight more than George W Bush?
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u/MrPookPook 5h ago
He’s living the good life making shit art, why would he want to remind everybody that he still exists and is still a total piece of shit?
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u/Automatic_Taste_7242 3h ago
Seriously, his presidency will likely be looked as the last point we had to control our debt, now spiraling it off control, and decided to ruin our economy with forever wars that made the entire world less safe
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u/Worldly-Basil-8933 2h ago
Rumsfeld and Cheney are more the architects of his presidency than himself.
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u/letsburn00 2h ago
He still knew.
He had the power to get rid of them and put competent people in charge. He didn't.
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u/InnerSilent 2h ago
I mean could you blame him? Bro lead us to the longest lasting modern "war" in history and we ultimately ended up with nothing. I'd hide myself after that complete fuck up too.
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u/MattinglyBaseball 8h ago
Always good when people are willing to self-reflect and change their sides to vote for decency. Too bad George is still a PoS unwilling to come out in opposition to the shitty party he contributed to.
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u/SillyGoatGruff 9h ago
I wonder if jeb or george will follow suit
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u/Illustrious-Fax-4589 8h ago
If Jeb actually endorses Talarico, I will clap wholeheartedly without any prompting.
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u/Bad-Machine 8h ago
W hasn't been fundraising or donating to Paxton from the reports but has for plenty of other GOP members and races. Maybe there's enough spite against Paxton to not vote for him but I doubt W would admit to it.
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u/Old-Way-5529 7h ago
I’m surprised they don’t- Paxton beat Jebs son to be AG, and is probably why the family’s political aspirations are pretty much done in 2026
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u/VengefulWalnut 7h ago
Everyone in the Bush family has bigger cojones than W at this point. I am so disappointed in his silence. Granted, I never liked the guy's politics in the first place. But there should be a united front on the part of the Ex-Presidents, and he's the only one who hasn't said a word.
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u/tadayou 4h ago
W was basically the blue print for Trump, especially internationally. I bet in the US much of his presidency was overshadowed by overcoming the shock of 9/11, but W introduced shit like election fraud, freedom fries, and war crimes to the public palette of the presidency.
It's one of the reasons why Obama won that Nobel Peace Prize: Because the world was so glad that the dark years of W's ignorance were bygone. But, alas, it got worse.
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u/Dry-Dragonfly5286 4h ago
War crimes are as American as apple pie. Bush didn't introduce that. He did excel at it though
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u/VengefulWalnut 4h ago
Very, very true. And even outside the context of war, this nation has done some truly heinous stuff in the name of "freedom."
The election wasn't so much his fault as it was a strategic win in the courts that should've never happened. Freedom fries were a product of the day's jingoistic fervor. But Bush/Cheney absolutely normalized war crimes in the modern era of never-ending news streams.
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u/Dry-Dragonfly5286 2h ago
I watched the first gulf war on TV. Bush sr. Has that homor
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u/VengefulWalnut 2h ago
Which honor? If we're talking war crimes, we can go further than that. Reagan did his fair share, except his were just standard violations of the UN charter and crimes against humanity (we used to be so innocent, eyes full of wonder, hearts full of fear). Teddy Roosevelt could be accused as well if Geneva had been written back then.
I was there as well, it was wild watching live TV reports from Iraq when the bombing started. Do you remember the embedded reporters showing the landing in Kuwait? Insanity. Now I'd be watching it live on Instagram.
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u/No-Aide-8726 45m ago
Bush and all the "never trumpers" opened the door to Trump and SPECIALLY the ones that supported McCain when he chose female Trump as his running mate.
The only never trumpers ill ever trust are the ones that denounced their participation in the first place, very few do.
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u/Random-Generation86 2h ago
I'll be quite honest, I'm fine if W never makes another impact on history. He's done plenty. Should have just owned a baseball team and left politics to his loser brother.
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u/External-Example-292 4h ago
Glad there are still some good Republicans out there.
But I also Hope some magas wake up as well.
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u/InclementImmigrant 8h ago
Now the question is do you trust the word of a Republican since we can't verify that claim, nor should anybody be able to.
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