As many Republicans continue to buck their party’s nominee and nominate Vice President Harris for the White House, calls are mounting for former President George W. Bush to denounce former President Trump.
The Harris campaign has touted that more than 200 Republicans have endorsed the vice president, including former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and many former Trump insiders. It also includes former vice president to Bush, Dick Cheney.
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He noted that Bush is “apparently above such petty concerns,” pointing to recent reports that said he is not endorsing anyone in the race for the White House. Multiple outlets reported that Bush’s office released a statement that said: “President Bush retired from presidential politics years ago.”
“But it doesn’t work that way. When your country calls, you can’t just roll it over to voicemail because you don’t want to deal with it, especially when you are an elder statesman like an ex-president. Patriotism is for life,” Truax wrote, noting that former President Jimmy Carter said he hopes he can live to cast his vote for Harris.
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Man who subverted democracy with the help of his brother and the supreme court…is okay with another man subverting democracy. Startling. ¬_¬
Honestly, it’s much more troubling the amount of people who seem to have come round to ‘George is just a bumbling buffoon but a great guy really’.
Is it just time? Wishful thinking? Or Trump making his presidency seem less destructive - even though Bush was waaaay worse for the planet as a whole? (Obviously that latter part would no doubt be trumped if he actually gets a second term)
People seemed to forget what a ghoul Mitt Romney is too, the instant he denounced Trump that one time. It’s weird, right? And, just because it’s always relevant: Dick Cheney can fuck all the way off.
Do you think it could be because there was some semblance of following the rules when those fuckers were being awful (even if those were rules they changed so recently the ink was still wet, ahem definitionoftorture ahemhem), compared to the outright lawlessness of this lot?
Getting Cheney’s endorsement isn’t the flex folks seem to be acting like it is. “Huzzah, a lesser devil supports us instead of a literal fascist”
I think a lot of people have decided Dick Cheney was the main person responsible for the W administration’s crimes.
Yeah, there’s a lot of contradiction and apologetics when it comes to Bush. He can’t be an evil, cunning, crafty, bumbling ignoramus, all at once. He’s definitely an idiot who knowingly employed some evil people. In my mind, that makes him pretty awful, but some people feel differently for some reason.
I really liked how Jon Stewart addressed Cheney’s endorsement.
He stared directly at the camera and said “Fuck off Cheney.”
Same goes for Bush. FUCK OFF BUSH. It would be an insult to have Bush or Cheney on “our” side. Goddamn war criminal, money grubbing, pieces of shit. Rest in piss when the time comes Bush.
Condemning Trump doesn’t make anyone on anyone’s side. It means they’re NOT on Trump’s side.
It’s a statement about how much Trump dominates political and social discourse that people think the Democratic party is the “anti-Trump” party.
Obviously people like Cheney are against Trump, but that doesn’t mean that everyone that is against Trump is a Democrat. It usually just means they’re relatively rational.
Wonder if it would even change any remaining independents or right wing people still on trump.
GW was a useful idiot puppet like Reagan and they tried to make trump.
Dick Cheney already endorsed Kamala, he doesn’t need to stick his hand back up GWs ass and make him say something again.
Even if he did, it doesn’t mean hes against what trump wants just mad his dad’s buddy Dick Cheney isn’t in power.
Like, the only positive of trump was getting rid of Cheney. Of course Cheney doesn’t like trump
I’m a bit more optimistic about Dick nowadays. I imagine father and daughter share similar views, so as Liz Cheney has evolved as a politician, her father probably adopts more of her views as well.
Sadly, the Bush family doesn’t have a similar family figure. But I doubt it would make much difference anyways, considering things like https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/10/17/449415843/pathetic-trump-bush-spar-over-9-11-remarks-maybe-neither-will-be-the-nominee and the fact that Bush didn’t vote for a presidential candidate back in 2016 are already old news.
George Bush Jr. has the most impressive ability to sound like the dumbest motherfucker in the room always. He should also be tried as a war criminal.
He did look pretty cool landing a fighter jet on that carrier before those embarrassing photos where he briefly thought the Iraq war ended with Saddam being deposed, too.
He did complete his mission though, getting Saddam for daddy. The rest of the wars were just to allow his industry friends to siphon money from the tax payers, which they intended to go on as long as possible.
“But it doesn’t work that way. When your country calls, you can’t just roll it over to voicemail because you don’t want to deal with it, especially when you are an elder statesman like an ex-president. Patriotism is for life”
It’s almost like he didn’t want to be and shouldn’t have been president or something.
