Since his betrayal of conservatives on the 20th anniversary of 9-11, George Bush has been reaping strange new respect from Leftists, you know the people who, while he was President call him Chimpy McHitler and worse. However his odious comparison of the Capitol Hill rioters with the murderers of 9-11 did not go far enough for some of his new Bestest Buds:
September 11, 2001 was perhaps the darkest day in U.S. history, when 3,000 innocent American citizens were killed in a brutal terrorist attack that toppled buildings, shook the country to its core and reshaped world history in the span of a few hours.
January 6, 2021 was not a great day for America. But it also wasn’t… you know… anywhere near the level of Sept. 11.
Right? Do we have to say this
Apparently we have to say this:
Uh huh. Yes, I’m sure it is indeed “weird and painful” to actually utter those words. Your conscience is trying to tell you something, lady!
In the New York Times, meanwhile:
Ever since insurrectionists invaded the Capitol, we’ve heard that Jan. 6 closed a chapter in American history. No longer should America’s most threatening enemies be understood as foreign — a euphemism for Muslim — but instead as domestic, a euphemism for primarily white Americans on the far right.
Uh huh. Well, let’s think about this for a moment: In addition to killing 3,000 other Americans, the 9/11 terrorists had originally planned to literally destroy the U.S. Capitol. The Jan. 6 rioters, meanwhile—dumb as they were—kinda meandered around for a bit and caused a little mayhem and then booked it. Which is worse? It’s really kind of an open question, isn’t it?
In the Poughkeepsie Journal:
On the street outside Grand Central Terminal [on Sept. 11], I gazed downtown at the heavy black billows in the clear blue sky. A radio in a cab stopped at the light blared the news that a plane had also crashed into the Pentagon and another had been hijacked. It felt like an episode of The Twilight Zone. I didn’t feel that way again until Jan. 6, 2021, when I watched the siege of the Capitol unfold on TV.
Go here to read the rest. There are plenty of people on the Left who wish to have conservatives chased from the public square, to have their views outlawed, conservatives deprived of jobs and medical treatment, their children indoctrinated and to have them treated as foreign enemies. Bush, seeing all this, decided to give the Left a big helping hand in this project on the day, 9-11, which should bring Americans together. This was completely calculated by Bush, to betray his erst while supporters. Dante in his Inferno has three great betrayers: Judas, Brutus and Cassius, being eternally chewed by three mouths of Lucifer. I guess Lucifer now will need a fourth mouth.
No surprise from me. Never liked him or his father. They were always the lesser of two bad choices. I have always said that if he had a “D” after his name the media would have loved him for his actions, but they reflexively hate anyone with an “R” in any office. The media liked McCain because he often attacked conservatives and Republicans and only turned on him when he ran for a higher office against a bigger “D”.
Tick tock. Sixty hours later and no qualifications forthcoming from the Bush Center.
Christian Adams reports what he’s been told about Bush’s confidential speeches to trade associations:
https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2021/09/13/president-george-w-bush-blew-it-in-shanksville-n1478380
Never liked him or his father.
The father was a combat veteran who built his own business and fathered six children. By all appearances, though, he went into politics because he liked a challenge and he liked competing with people. He doesn’t appear to have had a well-considered set of views on public policy at all. Nixon and Ford made use of him as a utility man.
Bush is such a sad excuse of a man let alone a former president. Can only pray for the man.
You’re giving the Bushes way too much credit. They are pure cynics and opportunists. They can’t betray anything because they lack the decency to hold to anything to begin with. Old Man Bush ,of multicolored sock fame , was a placeholder who would serve any master that would propel him forward. If the dominant power was fighting WW2 then he’s onboard. If his family would be better served by financing Hitler, as they were in the 30s,then that would do. Pee wee Bush didn’t even rise to the level of master cynic. He is a pure cipher.
If his family would be better served by financing Hitler, as they were in the 30s,
Again, this is an inane calumny. Brown Brothers Harriman provided some services-for-fees (clearinghouse services, I believe) to industrial concerns in Germany whose owners and managers had donated to the Nazi Party.
Bush and his [not so] new friends co-opted the 20th anniversary remembrances to one, attack 75 million of their fellow Americans; and two, to take one massive dump on the 3,000 9/11 dead, the first-responders, the families survivors, the rescue workers, the dead and maimed GIs from two wars, . . .
Herewith, a pull quote from a post here at TAC back in January, 2020:
“After the Spanish Civil War, Franco’s brother in law, who had relatives murdered by Republican forces, Ramón Serrano Suñer, was asked why the Spanish Civil War occurred. He thought about the question a bit and finally said, ‘We simply couldn’t stand each other any more.’ ”
We’re getting there fast. God help us.
Will George Bush enjoy his 30 pieces of silver where he is going?
Tick tock. Now 72 hours and scads of tweets from the Bush Center’s social media staff. No qualifications, clarifications.
Prescott Bush famously participated in and benefitted from BBH financial dealings with the early Nazi regime . These were well beyond Clearinghouse activities and fee for service arrangements. They helped structure and underwrite loan guarantees for Nazi industrial interests. Your defense of the Bushie ignominious relationship with the Nazi regime is the true calumny against humanity itself.
Prescott Bush famously participated in and benefitted from BBH financial dealings with the early Nazi regime . These were well beyond Clearinghouse activities and fee for service arrangements. They helped structure and underwrite loan guarantees for Nazi industrial interests. Your defense of the Bushie ignominious relationship with the Nazi regime is the true calumny against humanity itself.
You don’t know what you’re talking about and you cannot even distinguish in your own mind state actors and private actors. Stop lying.
“state actors and private actors.”
You’ve gone from a tendentious, full throated apologia for the Bush infestation to a straw man state actors vs private argument. I never said the Bush / BBH involvement in helping underwrite Nazi finances was state action.It was a nefarious, private operation. A little more light and a little less verbal flatulence might better aide in your Bush hagiography.
I never said the Bush / BBH involvement in helping underwrite Nazi finances was state action.
You said,
“Prescott Bush famously participated in and benefitted from BBH financial dealings with the early Nazi regime ”
You cannot in your own addled head distinguishing between dealings with the government and dealings with industrial concerns whose owners and managers have political involvements.
full throated apologia for the Bush infestation
I take the Bushes to task for things they actually do, not for fantasies cribbed from the Wacky World of Websites.
And how the hell do you know what they “actually” do?!
And how the hell do you know what they “actually” do?!
The same way you do. I have better judgment about my source material.
“The same way you do. I have better judgment about my source material.”
Don’t worry Ezabelle. Deco is a legend in his own mind. His cut and paste is his way of proving his intelligence. He’s the same way in other sites. He has forgotten that quantity of words are not a substitute of quality of words. If he’s a practicing Catholic then if he’s ever arrested for being a Catholic then they will have little to charge him with by the way he treats others in comments. His personal attacks just shows he lacks arrows in his quiver when it comes to supporting his position. I’m pretty much gone from here because of him. I find him pretty useless in discussion.
Keep it civil please folks. Debate issues not personalities.
His personal attacks just shows he lacks arrows in his quiver when it comes to supporting his position. I’m pretty much gone from here because of him. I find him pretty useless in discussion.
Bob, do you fancy a 56 year old man with a security detail following him around 24/7 raped a woman in a suburb of Houston in 2002? Can you tell the difference between providing services for a company whose owners and managers have political connections and financing some country’s government? Why do you suppose it’s intensely interesting to the cranks at Global Research that Prescott Bush was a partner in a particular private banking firm but not of interest at all that one of Truman’s cabinet secretaries and another man who was an ambassador in several Democratic Administrations, the Governor of New York, and a Democratic presidential candidate were partners in the same firm?
“distinguishing between dealings with the government and dealing with industrial concerns”
This is perhaps the single most historically ignorant statement I’ve come across-outside of a Jay Leno ,man on the street interview,where the historically clueless confidently tell Jay that we fought England in WWII. In helping ,through private finance,to aid industrial concerns in a fascist, totalatarian Nazi Germany, you are assisting the Nazi regime.Industrial concerns in Nazi Germany cooperated slavishly with state directives . It’s time to crack open a book and learn something about industrial policy and state control of industry in Nazi Germany and lighten up on the ad hominem attacks.
“The same way you do. I have better judgment about my source material.”
Stop belittling others.
Stop belittling others.
You’ve repeatedly promoted outlandish theses. If you feel ‘belittled’, by someone pointing that out, tough.
n helping ,through private finance,to aid industrial concerns in a fascist, totalatarian Nazi Germany, you are assisting the Nazi regime.Industrial concerns in Nazi Germany cooperated slavishly with state directives .
Only in your addle-pated imagination. Strange as it may seem to you, production and consumption continue in countries living in disagreeable circumstances. Your complaint would apply to anyone anywhere who bought from or sold to a commercial or industrial concern in Germany. It would also apply to public officials who did not put Germany under some sort of embargo in 1933.
It’s time to crack open a book and learn something about industrial policy and state control of industry in Nazi Germany and lighten up on the ad hominem attacks.
Thanks for the advice Mme. Dunning-Kruger. While you’re at it, you might look up the proper use of the term ‘ad hominem’.
Well, I see my admonition to debate ideas and not personalities has been completely ignored. I am locking further comments on this thread.
Folks I take time from a fairly hectic schedule each day to work on this blog. I have been doing it for thirteen years. I do not do it for the type of petty personal sniping that I have witnessed in too many comments in this thread and others. Stop it! Act like respectable adults or find somewhere else to wage online fights with electronic phantoms you will likely never meet in real life. I do this blog work purely for my own amusement. Nothing takes the amusement out of it faster for me than this type of personal to and fro.