mandiblebones:
a-spoon-is-born:
claidilady:
septiplier-freak:
claidilady:
I like Bernie but If Hillary wins the primary I’ll vote Hillary. I love y'all but if you let Christie or Trump become president because you wanted to throw a tantrum over Hillary winning primaries I will personally punch every other registered voter in the face. I had to suffer through eight years of a republican president I didn’t elect and I won’t do it again.
I’ll have at least four years to work my way through a punching list don’t think I won’t try it.
But Obama isn’t republican..unless you’re talking about a different president?
yes dear child, I was alive during the years 2000-2008, when President George W. Bush was president-elect. I don’t say this to be rude because you’re 16, and you don’t know, because you couldn’t have known, but now it is my faithful duty to tell you so you are informed as to why we (I) hate Republicans. You may not know him very well, but here’s a picture:
It’s an understatement to say that the Mission, was in fact, not accomplished.
He’s the guy that Obama replaced in large part because everyone hated George W. Bush. Why?:
Despite extensive warnings of incoming threats, Bush took no action to prevent 9/11 from happening, leading several respectable political science scholars to indicate that Bush was at least partially responsible for the attacks actually occurring (if not wholly responsible for not preventing them)
actually let’s remember that when he was immediately alerted to the attack, he continued to read a children’s story to elementary schoolers and then Air Force one and himself were gone for several hours after the attack.
he turned an inherited budget surplus into a 1.2 trillion dollar deficit.
a small deficit is one thing! 1.2 trillion dollars is NOT SMALL. Bill Clinton did have some part in the lead-up to a failing economy but Bush….Bush destroyed it.
The entire 2008 collapse began while he was still in office and basically did nothing about it. This wasn’t just an American collapse. This was a world-wide financial collapse that happened because American banks were failing (in large part due to massive amounts of tax-cuts and de-regulation put forth by Bush!). It triggered a world-wide collapse. He was partially responsible for our country’s second great depression.
He is 100% responsible for the mishandling of Hurricane Katrina and the guy Kanye West was referring to when he said “George Bush hates black people.”
the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, the “war on Terror”
LAUNCHING WARS WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL
the entire existence of Guantanamo Bay
the Patriot Act
his own party wanted nothing to do with him in 2008
heckuva job, brownie
waterboarding
….he literally stole the election in 2000
pulled us out of the kyoto protocal to deal with global warming problems
US troops given faulty, or unsafe gear
Abu Gharib prison and all other crimes of war already mentioned here or not mentioned
War profiteering! The list of top Bush administration officials whose former corporate employers made billions in Pentagon contracts starts with Vice-President Dick Cheney and Halliburton, which made $39.5 billion, and included his daughter, Liz Cheney, who ran a $300 million Middle East partnership program.
cutting veteran’s health care benefits
pardoning Scooter Libby
cut and froze pell grants for poor students
no child left behind act is the reason why you probably have to take those god forsaken dumb standardized tests for no real GOOD reason
Reporters analyzing Bush’s record found that he took off 1,020 days in two four-year terms—more than one out of every three days. No other modern president comes close. Bush also set the record for the longest vacation among modern presidents—five weeks, the Washington Post noted.
i could keep listing shit for days honestly but i won’t
suffice to say: George W. Bush is the worst president I lived through, he is the worst president in the last 50 years, and his blatant incompetence and failures are why the Republican party is rapidly devouring itself like a crazed ouroboros and might try to elect Trump. He is the reason why Stephen Colbert parodied the right as satire – why The Daily Show gained huge amounts of relevance, why the rest of the world hated us for a good eight years solid, why huge amounts of various civil and constitutional rights were literally eroded and denied to us, why we’re so in the debt hole even now, and why i registered Democrat when I turned 18, because honestly fuck the entire Republican party. Burn it to the ground and salt the earth.
I don’t usually push this but for the youngens who really don’t have a way to know these things a lot of the time, please understand that half this shit up there, it was like, unthinkable and because that paved the way, we have this.
We have 2016.
This is how this shit became possible. This is how this shit became normalized.
And please understand I’m old enough to remember REAGAN.
As someone who also lived through W, I agree with just about everything @claidilady said. So let me say this, to paint how dire a picture the current nominee of that party is:
If faced with a choice of a 3rd W term or electing Donald J. Trump, I would vote for George W. Bush with a smile on my fucking face.
Let that sink in for a bit. I would vote for a man I actively despise, who presided over a disastrous presidency that cost many people their lives and from which literally everyone who is not a rich straight white cis-gendered male Republican American is still recovering, cheerfully, over allowing Donald Trump to be elected. That is how wildly unqualified he is. That is how dangerous he is.
Grit my teeth and vote for Hillary? Fuck no. I will vote for Hillary with a fucking smile on my face and an “I’m With Her” button. Because while she and I differ on some Very Important Things, we agree on far, far more – and she is very, very qualified for the office.
Fucking vote, children. As Kat Dennings said,
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