So can we please stop framing him as some sweet little harmless old dude now?
George W. Bush helped shape the conservative “anti-abortion” movement as a political movement with teeth. He denied funding to health organizations that performed abortions or even that handed out condoms or other forms of birth control. I am not surprised in the least that he is throwing his weight behind anti-abortion Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh would have been exactly the Supreme Court nominee he would have chosen to help smooth the path after losing the popular vote to Al Gore but getting the electoral college and to help support him in starting an illegal war.
A lot of millennials were just children when George Bush was president. Many of us began truly paying attention to politics during the Obama Administration.
In turn, many of us don’t remember that George W. Bush was literally so evil and was the literal figure head and one of the fathers who pushed America’s current state of social ignorance. Islamophobia, Homophobia, Welfare discrimination, anti choice rhetoric, and imprisonment rates of Black Americans and Latinos. He was a vehement liar and a vomit inducing scoundrel. He catapulted this country into a useless war over oil and resources. Which has lead to the death and displacement of millions of innocent Middle Easterners/South Asians and built a strong base for Islamophobia. Literally, his administration set the base for the hundreds of thousands of current refugees.
Read up and get educated on why he isn’t just some “old man who likes to paint in his free time now that he’s not president”.
George W. was when “libtard” started becoming a thing. I know that because I was in middle school and it was used a lot. It was because being a “liberal” was being a traitor.
George W. was when wanting to do something about climate change was made political and anti-American.
George W. was when disagreeing with the GOP was declared anti-American and a terrorist sympathizer.
George W. was in charge of deregulation that led to the huge financial crisis.
George W. presided over a completely illegitimate invasion of Iraq because his advisors wanted to take out Saddam because people had mocked them for not doing it in the Gulf War.
George W. then utterly destabilized Iraq when he didn’t have to by forcing anyone who’d been in power during the Ba’ath party dominance to pretty much just go home. So all the trained officials and solider and guards were told to beat it. This is what eventually led to the rise of ISIS
George W. tried to get a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.
George W. embarrassed us on the world stage, to the point where Obama had to go around re-establishing relations (which the GOP mocked as an “apology tour”)
George W. utterly fucked up the Katrina response, leading to huge tragedy that still has effects today.
George W. was a terrible president who people forgot because the GOP made him stay out of the spotlight for years after his presidency because he was such an embarrassment to them. They’re only trotting him out now because people HAVE forgotten.
George W. Bush is reportedly calling undecided senators to sway them to vote for Kavanaugh
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