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Ya know…as much as I hated Bush in his day, he was never a nazi. I called him a LOT of things over the years…but I never remember calling him a nazi.

How the fuck are we living in a timeline where a president who used a terrorist attack as justification for invading countries that never had anything to do with it, is now looked at as “he wasn’t so bad…”

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Bush is a war criminal, lied to the American people, and contributed to the pathway that created trumpism.

He’s not a Nazi. But he’s not a good guy either.

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His grandpa was though.

https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/how-bushs-grandfather-helped-hitlers-rise-to-power

https://militaryhistorynow.com/2013/02/25/the-business-plot-did-american-billionaires-plan-a-fascist-coup/

And his dad HW ran the CIA for a while.

Pardoned a good number of Iran Contra CIA people when he was President.

… And seems to have been working for or with the CIA for many years before he became director.

https://www.salon.com/2019/01/25/the-real-reason-the-cia-loved-george-h-w-bush_partner/

Zapata Oil was run by HW Bush… and very much seems to have been a CIA front company, assisting with many ‘kinetic’ operations in Cuba and Latin America.

… And if you really want to go down the rabbit hole, a whole bunch of people connected to Watergate, the Bay of Pigs… and JFK’s assasination… are also linked to Zapata Oil…

… and HW himself was noted by J Edgar Hoover as working for the CIA, in 1963, way before HW ever admitted he worked for/with the CIA, in an official FBI memo investigating the assasination.

https://headlineusa.com/records-implicate-george-h-w-bush-in-the-assassination-of-jfk/

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/11/us/63-fbi-memo-ties-bush-to-intelligence-agency.html

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Yeah, the preceding years laundering his reputation and presidency has been maddening. His war crimes, foreign policy on essentially everything, domestic policy on education, carceral systems, tax reform, and the border should have him in solitary at The Hague for the rest of his life. The man is truly a monster, and walks among the nazis today. He’s still a republican, so whether or not he’s a nazi is perhaps an academic debate only.

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He paved the path for a Nazi

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2 points

And he is an avid painter. Wait…

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He was a fascist. He was always a fascist and his “War on Terror” laid the ground work for our current situation.

His presidency is when I first saw the Signs of Fascism.

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Yup, it’s when patriots and flags on cars took a nasty turn. Let’s not forget about Dock Cheney either. O matter what his daughter has tried to do to change that name, Bush and Dick belong in the Hauge.

Trump belongs in an orange jumpsuit and Musk belongs in South Africa, locked in a compound hiding from the world.

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bruh that shit’s already gone. they’re actually doing the salutes (the point of this thread)

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20 points

Let’s be real, the best part of Bush Junior was Sam Rockwell playing him in Vice.

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13 points

What about Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s classic That’s My Bush?

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6 points

All I remember from that show is the woman in the maid outfit saying she was in a K-hole

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So you just aren’t aware of the “PATRIOT [sic] Act” at all, huh?

Bush signing that into law was the moment I knew Bin Laden had won.

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129 points

The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.

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My dearly departed gramps would agree. Man was on the ground walking across France and Germany on a mission to free concentration camps. He wouldn’t describe it in any further detail than that, ever, but he would shut down any murmur of racism. Silence a room shut down.

We lack that now which is why hx is coming back around again.

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I think it’s interesting* that as soon as everyone with a firsthand account of Nazis dies, Nazism comes roaring back. It’s as though there’s no generational memory in society.

*not to imply it’s good, it’s horrifying.

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It’s so sad that we are going to get this costly lesson again. It would be better if the guillotines came out, rather than panzer tanks.

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110 points

Third

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40 points

Man, that one was so much worse than I remembered. I thought it was just part of a wider gesture, but that heil and the wave that came afterward are clearly two different emotes

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14 points

Does that count as two?

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47 points

Close, but trump does have his hand vertical enough to be a legitimate wave.

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Look at the bottom left.

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True, good point.
I would be honestly surprised if trump ever did it. For how much of a scumbag he is, it doesn’t seem like his style. I’m sure he’s fine with other people doing it though.

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1 point

W.T.F.

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63 points

My heart goes out to the American people

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39 points

Yeah, I’m pretty scared

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21 points

kind of a meme, because that’s what they’re claiming the gesture means.

also kinda not.

stay safe and organise.

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11 points

Please convert that into our preferred crisis currency, Thoughts and Prayers™

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7 points

There’s a 10% currency exchange fee.

Tip

⬜ 20%

⬜ 25%

⬜ 30%

☑️ 40%

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9 points

Feel like we need present day German advice rn.

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46 points

German here.
This is pretty much exactly how Hitler got to power.
You’re welcome

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I wonder how he’s feeling right now, watching what’s happening up on earth. His old enemies, who destroyed him 80 years ago, are now wololoing themselves to his side. Dude must be confused.

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That shit isn’t contained in the US unfortunately. As much as the right say that they are against globalism and globalists like Soros they have been manipulated by the biggest globalist. The entire international swing towards fascism in the West has been orchestrated by Putin. He is the New World Order. We will be seeing more Nazis take power across the world.

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43 points

Bannon is white fucking trash anyway. Not just saying that because he looks like human excrement but because he has the personality of a roasted maggot.

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20 points

His physical appearance suggests alcohol.

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12 points

He looks like he smells like one too.

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