jwb

That's true enough but I don't think he faked being dumb/clumsy with words. I think his stupidity was over exaggerated but I don't think the "fool me once can't be fooled again" type gaffes were staged.

And I think he honestly expected Iraq to be much more successful than it was.

Anteater

Bush really was that stupid. Cheney was the scary one.

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jwb

Cultivated it how?

SGR

Here's a speech he gave in 2001 in which he spends the majority of said speech in reading from a "Bushisms" book.



Struggling to figure out how to put on a rain poncho during Trump's inauguration.



And of course, his vocal love for one of his favorite hobbies, painting cute pictures.



Of course, my opinion on him cultivating this image is somewhat of a hot take. There's no way (at least now) to know for certain, but I do think he was smarter than people give him credit for and I do think he cultivated the image of him being an idiot to disarm people and make them more forgiving of his legacy. Me, personally? I think he's a war criminal that should be in jail. And even if Jeb was running against Trump, I'd still vote for Trump because **** the Bush dynasty. America has had enough Bushes. It's easy for most Americans to forget about Abu Ghraib - in fact, I'd imagine less than 10% of Americans would know what it is if you took a massive poll - but the Bush government oversaw some absolutely horrendous abuses of human rights. If one were to tell me that Bush didn't know about these black site torture camps, I'd be as convinced and persuaded if one were to tell me that Stalin didn't know about the gulags or that Hitler didn't know about Auschwitz and Dachau. If it were up to me, Bush Jr. would be painting his puppies from a prison cell.





Reminds me of something Nietzsche once said:

"Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

SGR

Case in point. Young people generally don't have a need to. Young people can certainly figure out how if they have to, but I think many won't bother.

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SGR

You gotta up your simile game.

The Batlord

I might have mailed like two things.

(And we don't flip burgers at BK. There's a conveyor belt.)

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