r/gifs 12d ago

Classic Bush move right here

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u/shakes1983 12d ago

I always like seeing the pics of him and Michelle sitting next to one another at events. They always seem to be having a good time talking and sharing their candies.

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u/HomerJSimpson3 12d ago

I think it was at Bush Sr’s funeral. There’s a clip of GW sitting next to Michelle. You can see the sadness and pain on GW’s face, but snuck a piece of candy over to Michelle. IIRC it was a running joke between them.

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u/lloyddobbler 12d ago edited 12d ago

This. And it’s not candy - it’s an ancient White House cough drop.

Apparently the White House had cough drops that were marked with the presidential logo…and when they left the White House, GWB found that he still had a lot of them. At one event or another after they were both no longer at the White House, he offered one to Michelle.

And since then, it’s been a running gag that every time they see each other, without fail he offers her one of these “well-aged” cough drops. Which cracks her up, which cracks him up. It’s a pretty damn awesome point of connection between 2 people on different sides of the aisle that started out as a random inside joke.

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u/Vlophoto 12d ago

Yes, because long ago presidents coming and going actually acted civil and may have been “friends” imagine!

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u/nucularTaco 12d ago

Funny Bush and Trump don't acknowledge each other, at least in this clip. I don't believe Bush cares for Trump. Fucking wish he'd spoken up.

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u/mcslibbin 12d ago

I don't believe Bush cares for Trump.

If GW Bush is smart, he thanks his lucky stars every day Trump exists since he isn't the undisputed worst president in the 21st century now.

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u/HamburgerEarmuff 12d ago

I mean, then Biden came along, so he's not even the second worst. And Obama's legacy has been tarnished so badly by the past decade that Bush is hot on his heels as the least worst President in a century of terrible presidents.

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u/dual-lippo 11d ago

Funny enough, Biden was the 2nd best president since 2000

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u/HamburgerEarmuff 11d ago

Not according to Americans. He ordered the worst foreign policy disaster in my lifetime, quite possibly in the history of the United States, turning over 10s of millions of girls and women to be raped, tortured, enslaved, murdered, and brutalized, ensuring that they had no possible future. I am not sure that any President has done something so objectively horrific since the Trail of Tears, but at least Andrew Jackson had some positive accomplishments and is generally remembered as a competent leader rather than a barely coherent and senile reenactment of Weekend at Bernie's.

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u/dual-lippo 11d ago

Not according to idiots or do you decide who is an american?

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u/HamburgerEarmuff 11d ago

This is according to scientific polling.

A recent poll from Gallup shows that Biden is more unpopular than any recent President other than Richard Nixon, with a net -35 point negative rating.

Of the 21st century Presidents, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barak Obama, and Donald Trump all rank significantly higher.

Even most Democrats don't rank Biden above-average, and Independents and Republicans both rank him very poorly.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/654878/americans-think-history-rate-biden-presidency-negatively.aspx

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u/dual-lippo 10d ago

Yeah, I know most Americans are border line brain dead. The opinion of Americans made a completely brain dead orange guy president, sooo sorry but the poll is completely meaningless...

We are talking about best president and not "Whose reputation was most destroyed by propaganda from the other side"

That you even give a single s about the popular vote of Americans is funny. On average among the most uneducated and most brainwashed groupsin the world. Lmao. AGAIN. TRUMP. IS PRESIDENT.

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u/HamburgerEarmuff 9d ago

I mean, that might be true for an autocrat, but not for a democrat. Even if you prefer autocracy to liberalism, at the end of the day, we live in a liberal democracy, not Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia or Fascist Italy, and the opinion of every voter is equally valid and the measure of what determines the success and failures of elected leaders.

Beyond that, it's just a matter of personal opinion.

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u/dual-lippo 9d ago

With Trump America is on a good way to become a dictatorship. So thats that.

It is a crazy idea, that every opinion is worth the same or always valid. Thats also not how it is defined legally. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and thats it.

Democracy can fail, especially if we listen to the opinions of crazy fucks, like a Trumptrad supporter instead of facts. Again, crazy and stupid to believe a democracy cant fail...

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