Thinking abstaining from golf is empathetic is a bigger insult than the other commenters think.
Ah, Back when war criminals cared about optics…
Trump cares about optics, that’s why all our news channels are owned by his friends.
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.
No one should ever glorify Dubya.
I agree, this is just a comparison
It’s more like, “even this despicable war criminal had the shame to not golf while people’s kids were dying in his war.”
fuck outta here
Binary thinking is bad for the world. Even people who do horrible things can do good as well. Those can be talked about, especially when his successor is so unbelievably awful; the comparison lands.
He killed hundreds of thousands of people btw
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.
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.
Yeah, well said. George W. Bush is still a bad guy
Stop trying to rehab that shitstain.
It’s more about showing how much even more of a shitstain we have now. Even Bush was better, and he was a shitstain.
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.
You can’t just pick any vowel.
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.
Yeah, I’d rather have the guy who has childish names for Putin, instead of the guy who talks about how good Putin’s cum tastes.
Which president goes with which clause?
Okay but let’s not rewrite George Double-Ya’s legacy. I’d rather have a war monger who cares about the public opinion of themselves than a war monger who doesn’t. They’re both horrible people who have the blood of hundreds of thousands of people on their hands but Trump is objectively worse.
Never thought I’d see the day when President Bush was fondly remembered.
I’m no trump fan, but I’m not gonna start glazing the American Idiot.
Fuck Trump and Fuck Bush, but controversial statement. I understand that it is a bad look to be golfing (or whatever) when people are dying at your behest, but I wouldn’t begrudge a good president a way to disconnect from reality for a bit. That job is stressful as hell and everyone needs breaks. That said, neither of these idiots deserve any compassion.
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.
I mean are they “portraying” them that way or did they quote his words.
Id say that was Bush trying to portray himself in an empathetic way.
Making Bush son a good president by comparison… A new low.
Still waiting on those wmd’s out of Iraq…
I actually have one right here
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Man it’s wild that even W Bush had more decency than Trump, and he was terrible
Remember “Now watch this drive”? He gets no points for this. He had to be shamed into it.
It’s crazy that people are pushing memes like he’s the good guy.
This is juxtaposition, not apologia. There is a scale of awful, and Dubya is objectively on the lesser side relative to the Paedophile President, seditious traitor and inarticulate pissboy that he is. There is no section of the constitution that I know of which he hasn’t violated. Dubya was many of the things which the traitor-in-chief is, and that makes the juxtaposition all the more apt. If they were supposed to be comparing a good president, they’d have picked FDR. Instead, they picked one who was generally considered one of the worst until that point to show that, even when you think you’ve scraped the bottom, someone can still manage to break the bottom of the barrel and scrape the mouldering, fetid carcass of a plague rat off the floor below.
Dubya was bad, but Trump literally normalized treason.
As you said, he’s essentially betrayed the Constitution in every aspect and yet…
Hurts to say out loud, but treason has been normalized in the United States. And it was conservatives (regressives) and their love for bigotry that did it.
How are they going to go lower than Trump, though? They would have to find someone who physically tortures and kills people in public. Some kind of Mad Max-like supervillain. It’s gonna be so retro!
ICE already kills people in public.
He wants to televise an execution.
Trumps successor starts nuking countries around the world. That’s probably lower.
He’s certainly not the good guy, but it was definitely a wild time when you thought he was the dumbest president we’ve ever had, with Cheney giving himself no-bid contracts to enrich himself during that war was peak corruption.
He’s not. But in comparison he is.
This is what fascists do. They lower the bar so far that you have to change your whole perspective to suit them.
The really amazing thing about Trump is that I literally can’t find one good thing to say about him. Hitler showed personal bravery in WW1. Stalin was a bank robber. Mao led his troops into battle. No one is saying those guys were anything but monsters, but they had qualities you could respect.
Even comic book villains display some admirable qualities, even if it’s only style.
Trump embodies all Seven Deadly Sins, and has invented a few new ones.
Bush’s expansion of executive power made someone like trump a “when” not an “if”.
What I come back to when compairing Trump and GWB is that GWB at least seemed to respect the office, Trump shows utter contempt towards it.
I remember thinking that 'Murica could not sink any lower
Oh, how I laugh now…
