absolutely hilarious sentences back to back "Garfield, a former Civil War general and congressman from Ohio, has ineffective foreign policy skills but was typically well-liked as a president. He was assassinated just 200 days into his presidency."
Mistaken? lol. No, mate, they knew they didn't have weapons of mass destruction. Besides the cost in innocent human lives, besides the destabilization of an entire region, the war cost the United States so much money (>>$2 trillion) our nation has managed basically no infrastructure improvements in 20 years. The fact that we have a completely shite transportation network, no healthcare, a broken educational system that hobbles people with poverty for 20 years (if they can even get the loans to pay for college), poor energy infrastructure, and hobbled heavy industry can be directly traced to W's little war. America and the American dream essentially died the second the cruise missiles hit Baghdad. What have we now? Creeping fascism, more guns than people, a climate emergency we're ill prepared to face, war in Europe, a coarse, mean, stupid, populace completely lacking in any empathy, Samuel Alito, and a collective social media addiction. It all fucking sucks and it all started when the Supreme Court handed the presidency to a complete dumbass. 35th. LOL. check back in 20 years if there's anyone left on this doomed planet to crunch the numbers again.
I think you have to give it to Reagan because its basically a pyramid scheme and he has both W and Trump under his branch of shittiness.
High school up the road from me just won the WV Single-A basketball state title. Way to go, James Monroe Mavericks!
ya really dumb post from when i was right out of school and foolishly hanging on to the last vestiges of being raised by nutso conservative parents. cringey and i wanna die lol
It’s like pre paid legal but in place of affordable legal representation you get rampant poverty and racism
nah, this would all still be shitty even if we didn't go to afghanistan or iraq IMO. the federal government's spending ability is unlimited, the only question is where congress wants to place the dollars. maybe we would have been less jingoistic and more willing to spend on making things better at home, but that's only recently starting to happen and required a generational shift.
I find it fascinating (and gross) how trump managed to rehabilitate W's image with many people just by being a shithead. "Oh what I would give to have W as a republican president instead of this nutso". But in reality, both are just different poisons...side effects are different, but you still wind up dead at the end.
Remember when they tried selling the business community on investing on building factories and shit in Iraq because it was going to turn into a Libertarian utopia for businesses? Ya, turns out that doesn't really work in an active warzone where you end up turning the entire populace against you
Yeah, their plans for the invasion were basically: 1. Bomb the shit out of them, terrorize the populace, demobilize their army. 2. Install Paul Bremer (a Kissinger associate and total moron) as Viceroy 3. ????? 4. Profit! (the various corporations who did go over there did make huge profits, of course. There were shoveling gigantic sums of US government money into their pockets while siphoning off Iraqi oil and leaving the Iraqi populace desperately poor) Edit: forgot about this gem... basically legalized death squads. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_Provisional_Authority_Order_17
Remember when we, as a country, intimated that France was gay because they wouldn't join in this absolute disaster
The only people* that made money in Iraq were the companies that were supplying/supporting/carrying out the occupation for the US. *Remember, under Bush the SC rules that corporations are people!
If you want to really have fun look at companies who made large amounts of money off the Iraq war, like Halliburton. Dick Cheney was on the board there just before becoming W's running mate.
Member when his opposition to gay marriage was an important part of his reelection campaign? Butthead members
You're assuming that George W. Bush wouldn't have killed just as many people. Hell, probably more. Have you all forgotten about W appointing this grifter to head FEMA? https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4548480/katrina-10-years-later-brownie-heck-job
i think the impulse that myself and others have to put bush first comes from the way his 8 years helped destabilize and harm essentially the entire world, whereas the horrors of reagan and trump are a bit more localized.
Right. Subject to change if Trump wins a second term. Trump is probably a bigger danger to what's left of the Republic than W ever was... though Bush did great damage to the United States of America and its institutions as I've outlined in several prior rants ITT
Ya and the fact that every person between 30-40 basically had their futures taken from them during his presidency probably skews their views on him a bit also
"He was warned to not follow those guys, so I can't blame that he handed the keys over and then oversaw the killings of hundreds of thousands of civilians" This was on reddit this AM. But hey, that W....painter. Probably has similar red paint on his hands, but unfortunately that blood was just the 5 year old's parents who were murdered in front of him. Don't worry, we gave his family $7,500
Two primary presidents that shaped the views of GenXers. It's not a surprise that they are trending worse than Boomers
We've had some bad presidents in my 40+ years but the current one is the worst by far. Biden has literally done nothing for our country. And no I didn't like Bush or Trump either before you guys criticize me.
knowing what trump got done legislatively (a single tax cut for the rich) vs the insane productivity of congress since Biden was elected this just isn't a serious position before going down the chain
You guys who aren't old af like I am don't understand how miserable it was growing up in the Reagan years and being basically the only kid in a redneck ass suburban Pittsburgh school who fucking hated that motherfucker. Being called a libral pinko f****t for 8 years kinda drags on you after a while.
Most of human history has been ruled by inbreds with likely massive mental deficiencies and handicaps.
Trump passed a tax cut for rich people and did his best to downplay a pandemic that killed a million Americans. Those are his achievements