• Godric@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Man I miss the Jeb! vibes of the 2016 election, funnier memes from a happier time.

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      Did he say he was a goth girl or something?

      Was this the same primary where DeSantis was eating his boogers?

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      11 hours ago

      I can’t believe I’d rather have this chode than what’s happening now

      1980-1988 : Ronald Reagan
      1988-1992 : George Bush Sr (Bush Family 1)
      1992-2000 : Bill Clinton
      2000-2008 : George Bush Jr (Bush Family 2)
      2008-2016 : Barrack Obama
      2016-20?? : George Jeb Bush (Bush Family 3)
      20??-20XX : Some other person
      20XX-20yy : Barbara Bush JR (Bush Family 4)

      This looks like a healthy way to run the country… but then again, I chose to move to Uruguay, where they’ve had at least 4 Batlles and 3 Herrerras.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_Uruguay
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Batlle
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Alberto_Lacalle / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Lacalle_Pou

      The eldest son of the 30th president Luis Batlle Berres and a member of the Batlle family, he was the fourth member of the family to serve as president of the country.

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        Honestly how ineffective his campaign was and his ultimate failure kinda disproves the point you were trying to make about some political dynasty.

        Still would have been better than Trump. Roe would still have been destroyed, but you know ICE wouldn’t be being used as an army to terrorize the country

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        10 hours ago

        The person literally just said they’d rather have Jeb than Trump, and you went into some bizarre alternate timeline… Like what the fuck are you even talking about

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          1980-1988 : Ronald Reagan
          1988-1992 : George Bush Sr (Bush Family 1)
          1992-2000 : Bill Clinton
          2000-2008 : George Bush Jr (Bush Family 2)
          2008-2016 : Barrack Obama
          2016-20?? : George Jeb Bush (Bush Family 3)

          Does this help you understand my point? Alternating presidents between a certain family and 2 others through that much time is ridiculous

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        In fairness, the population of Uruguay is about 1/100 as big as the USA, all else being equal there should be 1/100 as many families as well.

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        11 hours ago

        Don’t get me wrong, those old guard fucks were corrupt as hell, but what we have now is orders of magnitude worse. Just blatant pillaging and terror in broad daylight.

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          This, this right here. They are stealing American workers and foreign money blatantly in the fucking open and depending on what happens will take decades to claw back if at all. ‘No taxation without representation’ my ass. US Americans have been and still are being taken for chumps.

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          Naw this is fediverse. Only reality allowed is where the majority moving to South America to escape the US makes sense.

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          Just blatant pillaging and terror in broad daylight.

          It’s imperialism gone inward. People in Iraq and Afghanistan still had it worse, in broad daylight. US citizens just feel bad about two white people dying.

          The Heritage foundation hasn’t developed project 2025 for Trump specifically. Whoever else had been chosen to win would have done the same.

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            It may have more to do with “bullets for thee and not for me” than it has to do with skin color. Go off, though.

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        Jeb wouldn’t have been any different

        Fuck off. Are the people who say shit like this literally 12 years old? Do they really not know just how much different and worse this is than it’s ever been?

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          just how much different and worse this is than it’s ever been?

          So was waterboarding and Guantanamo.

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        You’d have to be absolutely delusional to really believe that Jeb and Trump would even be remotely the same. Just look at their stances towards NATO, the EU, Greenland or Ukraine and Russia. America would still be a functioning country with Jeb in the White House instead of a circus with the Prime Diddler at the helm.

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    11 hours ago

    That was the first US election i payed attention to and i had no idea this happened or that he was running in it. Everytime i saw “Jeb!” memes I thought it was a reference to an election from the 90s or something. I hope that brings solace to Mr Bush - people aren’t thinking about it as much as he (probably) thinks they are.

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    12 hours ago

    Oh Jeb. If you have to tell people you’re cool, you aren’t and if you have to ask people to clap, you don’t deserve applause.

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      11 hours ago

      The problem was that people kept clapping and interrupting his speech, so he said he’d give them cues when to clap.

      So when he said please clap he was giving permission rather than begging for applause.

      However, the edited video made it look like he was begging. It’s a bit like the Dean Scream.

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        They really did me and Howard dirty, but not as dirty as I did Gore in 2000

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        Yeah if you watch the whole thing it’s also really obvious he was making a joke about it and the audience liked it. People make it out like he was begging, but that’s really not the case.

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      Nowadays the Republicans are like trained seals clapping on demand. He was in the wrong era. 😉

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        Nowadays the Republicans are like trained seals clapping on demand. He was in the wrong era. 😉

        It was the same election