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auntblabby
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05 Dec 2018, 1:05 am

he was a prisoner of his upper-crust upbringing. he literally didn't see people who were not at least middle-class, they were beneath his consciousness. that is what I remember from his presidency.



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05 Dec 2018, 3:16 am

GB called out "Reaganomic trickle down theory" as "voodoo economics".

Strange for a Republican. 8O

"Bush was referring to supply-side policies that claimed tax cuts for the rich would unleash so much growth that they’d generate enough revenue to fund themselves".
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... aedde696b9

Then he DENIES ever saying it, and CHALLENGES anyone to find it. 8O

Later, he says, "Just Kidding, I said it". :P


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05 Dec 2018, 5:39 am

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No matter how bad your opinion may be of George Herbert Walker Bush, this is not the time to trash him. Leave him alone. Trashing him right now just shows how little class you have and how little respect you have for others.


Why should we be civil and respectful when a political figure dies?



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05 Dec 2018, 2:57 pm

Piobaire wrote:
kokopelli wrote:
No matter how bad your opinion may be of George Herbert Walker Bush, this is not the time to trash him. Leave him alone. Trashing him right now just shows how little class you have and how little respect you have for others.


Why should we be civil and respectful when a political figure dies?


Because it is the decent thing to do.

We should all try to become the best person that we can be, not selfish, spoiled rotten brats who have no respect for anyone or anything.



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05 Dec 2018, 5:09 pm

Glad to see him gone. He's the one who had the new world order speech. :evil:



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05 Dec 2018, 5:40 pm

kokopelli wrote:
We should all try to become the best person that we can be, not selfish, spoiled rotten brats who have no respect for anyone or anything.


Which is one of the reasons I don’t trust anyone born after roughly 1980. Strict and cruel discipline, like my parents meted out, is why rhis country is in the sewer. There’s a reason I never married, or wanted children. My version of discipline would go further than child abuse or child endangerment. I’d be on death row for my version of discipline.



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05 Dec 2018, 6:30 pm

...BTW, the comment about the " Cop-A-Feel! " incident (the patting) leads me to something that really needs its own thread, and could REALLY be controversial to say ~ But he told a dirty joke? Lock him up! Death penalty! :evil:
SOME of the #MeToo movement seems to draw upon this neo-Victorian " wimmin are all blushing flowers " idea ~ At least in the Muslim word, they wear hijabs, not show a lot and THEN say, essentially, " Don't look at me, Buster, or it's sexual harassment! ". This is not Harvey's likely rapes, or a professor/boss saying " Give up the booty if you want a good grade/a promotion "! 8O Okay, everybody call me Joe Chauvinist Pig now :( :P ...


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05 Dec 2018, 11:14 pm

I noticed something: I never once saw Trump tweet anything disrespectful about 41, considering Bush voted for Hillary Clinton.


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05 Dec 2018, 11:18 pm

he was expressly forbidden to comment in any way, in exchange for being allowed to attend the observance.



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06 Dec 2018, 1:57 am

Powerful image of current and former presidents

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06 Dec 2018, 2:37 am

Biscuitman wrote:
Powerful image of current and former presidents

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Thing that I noticed most of all in that pic is how everyone but Trump has their hands over their hearts. But how many Trumpanzees are actually going to b*tch and moan about this seeming lack of patriotism?


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06 Dec 2018, 2:38 am

it seems he doesn't have a heart to put his hand over in the first place.



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06 Dec 2018, 2:53 am

auntblabby wrote:
it seems he doesn't have a heart to put his hand over in the first place.


Very likely so.


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06 Dec 2018, 3:33 am

Why does he have 2 middle names?


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06 Dec 2018, 3:53 am

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Why does he have 2 middle names?


Because old money elites gave their kids too many names.


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06 Dec 2018, 3:57 am

Kraichgauer wrote:
LoveNotHate wrote:
Why does he have 2 middle names?


Because old money elites gave their kids too many names.


I tell people they should give their kids 5 or 6 names to screw up all the computers.