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Could be. Politicians seemed to do the bidding of the corporate donors for relatively very little. Like $10k seems to be the minimum to buy a politician.

Just tried to unmute that screenshot, lol

Da fuq

Good to know. I won’t vote for him either.

To be honest, at least you could talk to Bush Jr and he wasn't actively trying to drag the country down to Russia's level. Less "he was good" and more "still somehow better than what we have now"

Obi-Wan: That's not the decency you're looking for

I guess I did.

[gravely shaking my head] these new guys are an embarrassment to the dignity and gravitas of Albert Fish

No no, hear him out. A bumbling fool who gets his words wrong is more dignified than whatever the hell they have now. In the same way a shi tzu is bigger than a chihuahua, but you wouldn't call either a big dog.

He's a far-right fascist, just like any Republican, that's what's the matter. And if we don't stop kidding ourselves that that's what the Democratic party is, we're dooming what hope there might be for real Liberty, Justice and Equality.

Lukewarm take here, but: if you're praising W for being a good president (even in nonpolicy ways, like "dignified" or "eloquent"), you either a) aren't actually progressive or leftwing, or b) weren't around for 9/11.

Ok, first, you’re right. W was a major step towards Trumpisim, but two, we’re going to have to make it a soft landing for some jumping off the Trump train. It sucks, but it might be part of the fastest way out of this shit show. PS arrest the whole Trump cabinet when you get a chance.

Is it because he shared a candy with Michelle Obama that one time? Because that undoes plenty of war crimes. /s

Ah, yes. The dignity and grace of (checks notes) George W. Bush. The man who was the poster child for "Dangerous Idiot President" until 2016.

It goes back to Nixon but failing to hold presidents accountable paved the way for trump.

Maybe it’s a cry for help??

He's going full Republican again 🤷‍♂️

#failDem

Just because someone can act like they have humanity and avoids daily meltdowns doesn't mean we should pine for the days where they were in charge, where it was only marginally better. Hell, he paved the way for our current troubles, so in many ways, he's just as bad as our current idiot in chief.

What the actual fuck?

Bush created a massive militarized police/surveillance apparatus free of oversight to "protect our freedoms." you'll never guess what happened next!!!

Reminder that some of the worst people and Donald Trump‘s administration are from George Bush’s former team!

Man, someone said he praised HW and I was like “while thats bad - meh.” I didn’t know he praised GW! WTF?

George W. Bush tortured people because his fear and hate was stronger than his decency. And the fact that he and his cadre faced no legal consequences for that is a significant link in the chain that got us where we are today. And Cory Booker either forgot or doesn't care.

@booker.senate.gov fuck George Bush. You're a fool for slobbering over him in such a manner. He's a stepping stone to the fascism we're seeing now. Do better.

Face it. A lot of politicians can’t read a room.

Cory Booker sucks…. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

I sure won't be voting for him!!!

IDIOT

The Democrats can’t help themselves. It’s like they’re genetically predisposed to ass kiss the Neo-Con ass clowns that got us here. It would be incredible if it wasn’t so damned depressing.

I remember that when I was having daily panic attacks that my husband would be blown up by an IED in Balad leaving me alone with our two kids GWB told a reporter that he slept like a baby knowing he was following god’s plan in Iraq

He probably figured no one would remember Eisenhower

"my blood sacrificing demon is the good guy" "no, my blood sacrificing demon is the good guy"

Dems learned NOTHING from Kamala Harris campaigning with Liz Cheney. Cool, cool, cool

He was Abraham Lincoln compared to Trump.

Peak performance, as always.

these guys wish they were Republicans cause the money flows a bit easier. they are lazy, empty suits almost to a man/woman.

christ its like a virus with these guys

Hey now, don't be so down. I'm sure GWB was a sex criminal too. Zero chance the skull and bones Yale cocaine cowboys were only getting up to clean wholesome fun.

I am glad he is getting a primary challenger. So sick of his shticks.

“Yer doin a heckuva job there Cory!”

Yes exactly!

Booker is like "but wait, i saw him watching sports with Ellen and it looked like they were getting along so that means W must've really been a good guy!" Also F Ellen I'm so glad she got disappeared from culture

I remember comparing W to Hitler back in the aughts. It was a fucked up time. He did kill a million Iraqis.

You know how dogs mostly hear the tone of your voice and not the actual words you're saying? He's like that.

Dignity and grace😆

Hey now, just cause he killed hundreds of thousands of people doesn't mean he's a war criminal. Be more civil. Sheesh /s

Booker is a fool trying to fool you.

Trump hasn’t come anywhere near W’s body count yet.

If W was really decent, he would not have been MIA the past 10 years.

they're laundering decency through cherry picked lines 😭

Totally. GWB lead us here with a trail of popcorn. Those were not happy times.

I too long for the halcyon days of yore, when the dubya war crimes & torture dept limited their atrocities to overseas destinations, not ze homeland, ya?

Toxic positivity is his brand.

Trump is the only reason Bush isn’t the worst president in my lifetime.

they're gonna be doing this for donald trump in 20 years once the democrats have drifted even further to the right in order to appeal to "stephen miller voters" instead of normal people

Woulda got destroyed over here with that BS wtf

What a wonderful world

"dont look at me the AI decided that"

"I liked it better when Presidents gaslit the general public into being okay with an unwinnable war in the middle east where they killed a bunch of brown people and made everything worse." - fuckin' Cory Booker I guess.

Decency, we're talking about FUCKING GWB... SMDH.

@booker.senate.gov I LOST FRIENDS IN IRAQ, YOU FUCKING LOSER PIECE OF SHIT!! BUSH SHOULD BE IN JAIL!! I'm so SICK of these democrats. Holy shit. HOLY SHIT

*At the post*

Cory, Cory, Cory. Why so oblivious?

oh yeah and he dodged the draft in that war cuz he was a rich kid who didn't want to fight

He has the benefit of the party turning to shit, he might technically be the last Republican president

Dignity and grace? From that drooling dipshit? To be clear, I mean Bush, not Booker, who is also a drooling dipshit

Corporate dems just wearing their centrism on their sleeve now, eh?

DJT is not👏my👏war👏criminal👏

I guess all our politicians commune with Ronald Reagan with smiles on their face.

It’s too bad we don’t have good, decent mass murderers to look up to anymore.

He’s a nice person. That’s the thing. At no point during any president did you feel scared to make fun of them because they would take it personally and murder you except maybe Nixon

When that asshole was in office I thought we’d probably never have a guy who was as dumb and terrible for a president ever again, boy was I fucking wrong.

Another donor-captured democrat trying to prove his loyalty to the donors, over the people he is supposed to be working for.

“BRING BACK THE GOOD OLD DAYS WHEN WAR CRIMINALS PRETENDED TO CARE AND LOOKED SERIOUS AND DIDN’T WEAR FAKE TAN!” Omg someone make it stop

time to vote him out as soon as humanly possible

I have to move to New Jersey for my partners job, pretty bummed, but the one bright side is I get to vote against this douche

Holy crow! N.W.AIPAC has lost it. Dems, pre-Y2K, who stood for something, all committed seppuku in unison.

Bury Dubya under the jail for what he did

I mean, yeah he's more dignified than Trump, but that bar's so low, the devil uses it to play Limbo.

lol I mean cuomo didn’t have the national security apparatus and foreign governments explaining to them in late 2019 how it’s severely deadly and airborne

Well they estimate with USAID closed, up to 500k people will die in Africa.. So there's that.

ah, yes, the dignity of a president that knew 9/11 was going to happen, did nothing about it, then used it to justify securing more oil for american corporations.

Bear in mind, this was a man who talked about being a vegan while he was campaigning in the Iowa Democratic primaries. He makes some odd choices. bsky.app/profile/rvbd...

Jesus, this is so fucking embarrassing.

STOP IT, EVERYONE STOP IT!! If you criticize a Dem leader for praising a Repub then the Repubs will win and that will be terrible for the country because they are so bad, except the old-school war criminal Repubs because they were great, so we'll be collegial bipartisans with …

And how many hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were killed under false pretenses…?

The man did 9/11

This guy forward.com/fast-forward...

This man's desperation for the approval of institutional elites seriously puts us in peril.

Cory Booker does not care about black people.

Remembering the big photoshoot with Netanyahu where Booker was trying to hide in the corner. He's such a cowardly little shit.

Liberals really want us all to die

If this was a real political party, doing something like this would get you kicked out.

On one hand we want all Republicans torn to shreds and we are correct for wanting that, they are monsters. One the other a constitutional responsibility to represent dipshits? Like, your job obligated you to commiserate with their dipshittery? Idk it’s fucked.

The dignity of calling Americans traitors if they were against an offensive war.

20 years ago I WAS a Republican, and I see no flaw in your hypothesis.

My only quibble would be that Dem leadership handed the party to GWB GOPs. It's not like they had to plan a midnight raid, or engage in an extended campaign of devious manipulation.

Maybe the real Lincoln project was all the projecting they did along the way?