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JHB

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3. Stop me if you've heard this one...

Reply to MichaelSoE (Original post)

Wed May 6, 2020, 07:59 AM

May 2020

A guy swaggers into office on a thin electoral win/popular loss and treats it as if he had an overwhelming mandate to push extremely partisan policies?

A guy and his team who came in with unbridled contempt for their predecessor, thought they new everything, were warned about specific threats, derisively ignored those warnings, cut resources and personnel to those areas, and then got caught flatfooted by the very thing they were warned about?

Always point that out when they try to pass it all off as "Trumpism".

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F*CK HIM ... Too [View all] MichaelSoE May 2020 OP

FOCUS. Trump and Republicans are the problem. He's inconsequential to the death & destruction NOW hlthe2b May 2020 #1

I agree wholeheartedly Brainstormy May 2020 #2

Stop me if you've heard this one... JHB May 2020 #3

Blather, rinse, and repeat. n/t Harker May 2020 #7

Excellent comparison. geardaddy May 2020 #12

W getting away with corruption without consequences duforsure May 2020 #4

K&R demmiblue May 2020 #5

K&R, uponit7771 May 2020 #6

He tortured people wryter2000 May 2020 #8

Without Nixon & Raygun we wouldn't have had W. Just a down hill progression leading to genocide. rickyhall May 2020 #9

We don't have to kiss his ass. docgee May 2020 #10

No rehabilitation for Dubya Saviolo May 2020 #11

Oh, I get the inference. Very sharp. jaxexpat May 2020 #16

He's Baron Harkonnen. neeksgeek May 2020 #17

Is that what they mean when they suggest that we..... jaxexpat May 2020 #28

When they all look at the blood on their hands..all they see is OIL and profit. Tikki May 2020 #13

That's a pretty cool metaphor, considering repukes only see things in black and white. docgee May 2020 #18

Welcome ananda May 2020 #14

Right on. Aided by Powell, Rice, Rummy, "aluminum tubes and mushroom clouds." All lies Evolve Dammit May 2020 #15

I see a lot of blame for setting up these two criminal presidents, but nobody has mentioned FOX yet. CaptYossarian May 2020 #19

They are but the Ministry of Information MichaelSoE May 2020 #25

K&R for Cheap Labor Conservative PoliWrangler May 2020 #20

Why is it articles like this leave out the one, most important word...? Grins May 2020 #21

And W (& other Repubs at the time) embraced the PNAC. CaptainTruth May 2020 #22

Remember that time he and all his administration were found guilty of war crimes? TXPaganBanker May 2020 #23

I blame Ronald for Murdoch and the gaslighting nightmare it spawned n/t Pluvious May 2020 #24

"never forget why we are here" - Agreed. K&R for the post and the discussion. crickets May 2020 #26

Hell yes! Bush led me here too. Fuck him in the ear.nt live love laugh May 2020 #27

and we got both those assholes via Electoral College Skittles May 2020 #29

"...tangerine tinged taint tumor." Different Drummer May 2020 #30

Our country and the world never really recovered from the damage ChimpCo did. coti May 2020 #31

Yep. warmfeet May 2020 #32

W is, first and foremost, a WAR CRIMINAL Martin Eden May 2020 #33