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Skittles

(153,150 posts)
9. oh, SNAP
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 12:26 AM
Jun 2022

I remember a comic saying that when that incident happened, they loaded Cheney onto a gurney out of habit

inwiththenew

(972 posts)
5. 2016 was the nail in the coffin of the Bush legacy or reign
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 12:17 AM
Jun 2022

Or whatever you want to call it. Almost no one in the modern Republican party gives a shit what he thinks.

Polybius

(15,390 posts)
12. Can't stand Trump, but loved how he attacked Jeb
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 12:30 AM
Jun 2022

Jeb: My brother kept us safe!

Trump: The Twin Tower's came down under your brother's watch.

That was spot on.

inwiththenew

(972 posts)
13. Trump savaged Jeb and Dubya
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 12:41 AM
Jun 2022

I remember at the early debates the audience booing him for attacking W Bush. I was a little surprised, at the time, with how direct the attack was. As he started to climb in the polls and win primaries I realized that the Bush's control to the party was gone, likely forever.

DFW

(54,362 posts)
8. W is probably feeling like the Alec Guinness character at the end of the film
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 12:22 AM
Jun 2022

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Saying, „What have I done?“

pecosbob

(7,537 posts)
11. I grew up in Texas...the Bush's were just more carpetbaggin' Yankees
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 12:30 AM
Jun 2022

IMO Texas' main problem in the last fifty years has always been the huge influx of mostly poor white immigrants from the midwest and northeast moving south to avoid urban decay and look for work in a long death spiral to the bottom.

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