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[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 36 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Can we not "lesser evil" the guy whose policies made someone like trump inevitable?

[–] tiny_hedgehog@piefed.social 9 points 4 days ago

Sure. This is a very fair point. I just love the song Mosh Pit by Eminem, in which he says how bad Bush is. And I say to him, “Marshall, just wait. It gets worse.”

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Bush 2 is a direct line to trump. From courting the evangelicals and bringing their supply side Jesus to the front to legitimizing stubbornness and agressive ignorance as quality in a presidency. He ran on not skill, competence, and education, but “who do you want your drinking buddy to be?” Literally. If you were around when he ran the unofficial question was “who would you rather have a beer with?” Hence the news paying attention to Obama’s occasional beer, and Obama having a drink with whomever.

Bush mashed the accelerator pedal on all the things needed to make it easier for the far right to swoop in and take over.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

And for those who believe the Democrats are going to swoop in and save us, I point to Obama who did nothing of the sort and spent 8 years just kind of being an additional 2 bush terms.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Exactly. I remember Bush. The guy was a reviled idiot.

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

We thought we had found the bottom of the political barrel back in those days.

We were wrong.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

And a major, vital step towards the abuses of power we're seeing today

Yeah, your right. I will not do it again

[–] LostCarcosan@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sure. Bush was a horrible piece of shit... But compared to Trump, he at least pretended to be decent, which isn't saying a lot, and saying he wasn't as bad as the current President isn't really defending him, either

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Stage 1 cancer isn't as bad as stage 4 cancer. But without stage 1, there wouldn't be a stage 4, so it's weird to defend stage 1 and reminisce about how much better it was.

[–] LostCarcosan@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago

Except nobody is defending anything. It's perfectly valid to say "wow, remember how much stage 1 cancer sucked? Stage 4 sucks even worse than that."

It's kind of weird that you think any comments that aren't just constant, overt condemnation are 'defending' or reminiscing about the good ol' days