agirlwithachakram:

bemusedlybespectacled:

halfhardtorock:

merinnan:

eronthebender:

sw-or-gtfo:

pervocracy:

He wasn’t as flagrantly bad as Trump, but let’s not completely rehabilitate George W. Bush into a nice old man who likes to paint and can’t handle his raincoat, okay?

-signed, someone over thirty

dubya looks cutesy-pie now, but plz know he was the trump prequel, an utter buffoon and public embarrassment who lost the popular vote and stoked the ugliest brand of patriotism to bring us to a war with no purpose but personal and crony profit. he was a trump test run and worked magnificently

plz also know he is test running how we are expected to treat trump in retirement, as a delightful buffoon who wasn’t responsible

he is absolutely a buffoon

but he also created a war of no purpose (thus opening the way for future presidents to declare war personally, needing no congressional approval or oversight)

make fun of him because he is evil and deserves mockery, not because he’s just an adorbs old man who seems cutely befuddled

And don’t forget how he let a shit ton of Black people die or lose everything when Hurricane Katrina happened

That global gag rule that Trump just signed in? Yeah, W reinstated it after Clinton scrapped it, and killed thousands of women worldwide because of ir.

Im deeply concerned with the popular idea that Trump is a singular, isolated problem and not the plausible outcome of where the modern GOP was always headed. Like he’s the natural possible outcome of the rise of the tea party, their racism, their slow inexorable capitulation into anti-intellectualism, xenophobia, nationalism. Bush was part of that development. We’re not going to be miraculously all better if we impeach Trump.

don’t forget that the bush administration supported a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman, and continued to support it until well into his second term

I’m convinced the only reason it never actually materialized is because cheney’s daughter is a lesbian and cheney was the actual power behind the throne there

and if we do impeach Trump, and I’m pretty sure the GOP will when it’s strategically useful, remember who that leaves us with.