Current Events > RIP George H.W. Bush dies at 94

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RaptorLC posted...

Flag code says 30 days for the death of a current or former president.

The guy was a WW2 vet. Seems a decent excuse to fly a 48-star, at half staff.

Damn what is it with November? Jesus back to back deaths feels like.

Best wishes to his family.
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RIP
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Terra-enforcer posted...

Damn what is it with November?

The weather turns to shit, and old tattered bodies that are barely holding on just plain give out.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Terra-enforcer posted...

Damn what is it with November?

The weather turns to shit, and old tattered bodies that are barely holding on just plain give out.

growing up, it seems like most or all my pets tended to die in the winter

Anything popcorn worthy in post 31 and 33? Modded or self deleted?
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RIP
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DragonGirlYuki posted...

Anything popcorn worthy in post 31 and 33? Modded or self deleted?

Ambiguous assholery, at worst.

My eyes are misty.

He will be missed. R.I.P.
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R.I.P. the first president I remember as well.
To go back to being naive and 8 when you didn't know or care what the differences between the politcal sides were,

But then again Democrats seemed alot more chill back then.
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TheOrgyPorgy posted...

He will be missed. R.I.P.

It sucks, but the guy was 94 and in pretty terrible shape for the past several years. Also his wife just died.
He had a good run.

Damn RIP
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Rest in power. Possibly the best POTUS of my lifetime.
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RIP president bush.

Questionmarktarius posted...

RaptorLC posted...

Flag code says 30 days for the death of a current or former president.

The guy was a WW2 vet. Seems a decent excuse to fly a 48-star, at half staff.

I drank myself past sunrise, and actually did put out a 48-star flag at half staff.

Conflict posted...

Gafemage posted...

What were posts 31 & 33

The world may never know

i always pick a scapegoat to blame for deleted posts. which happens to be alex.
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did trump weigh in yet

love a good shitpost

President Trump plans to attend the Washington funeral of former president George H.W. Bush and is designating next Wednesday a national day of mourning, the Washington Post reports.

He is planning to speak by phone on Saturday morning with the late presidents son, former president George W. Bush, to offer his condolences on behalf of himself, first lady Melania Trump and the nation.

https://wapo.st/2reX6ve

Staple the official statement to his face because without it he's going to go off and make the thing about himself.

Still, I'm a bit appalled that the Bushes would let someone who has been completely disrespectful to their family speak at their funeral.
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Not at all surprising considering the circumstances, but still wasn't news I expected to hear late last night.
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tremain07 posted...

Still, I'm a bit appalled that the Bushes would let someone who has been completely disrespectful to their family speak at their funeral.

Because sometimes you have to be the better person.

A situation like this calls for civility.
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RIP

Even though I was too young to remember his Presidency.

DoubleDare posted...

But then again Democrats seemed alot more chill back then.

Republicans, too.

Somewhere around Obama's election is when everything went to hell.
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Solar_Crimson posted...

Somewhere around Obama's election is when everything went to hell.

I would say it started more around the time Bill Clinton tried to his health reform (which republicans mockingly called "Hillarycare"). Things really went to hell back then. Newt Gingrich really set the tone for hyperpartisanship after the 1994 mid terms
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I think this is a really appropriate video to post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQw0vZwn9C4" data-time="

Look at Reagan and the Speaker of the House, Tip O'Neill, and their wives sitting next to each other and laughing together. HW is in here as well.

I think it started to get bad in the Newt Gingrich era and got worse, to the level it is today in the Obama era. But people will just blame the Republicans because this partisanship was mainly started by a few Republican Congressmen. They don't realize that Democrats in Congress are actively taking part in it on the Congressional level, and don't stop to think that they themselves are taking part in it.
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Damn_Underscore posted...

tremain07 posted...

Still, I'm a bit appalled that the Bushes would let someone who has been completely disrespectful to their family speak at their funeral.

Because sometimes you have to be the better person.

A situation like this calls for civility.

something trump is too myopic to understand
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Damn_Underscore posted...

I think it started to get bad in the Newt Gingrich era and got worse, to the level it is today in the Obama era. But people will just blame the Republicans because this partisanship was mainly started by a few Republican Congressmen. They don't realize that Democrats in Congress are actively taking part in it on the Congressional level, and don't stop to think that they themselves are taking part in it.

If someone repeatedly punches you in the face after you spend 2 decades of telling them to stop, eventually you'd get fed up and start swinging back too. Fuck it.
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frozenshock posted...

Solar_Crimson posted...

Somewhere around Obama's election is when everything went to hell.

I would say it started more around the time Bill Clinton tried to his health reform (which republicans mockingly called "Hillarycare"). Things really went to hell back then. Newt Gingrich really set the tone for hyperpartisanship after the 1994 mid terms

It was entirely a strategy to win back the House after spending 30 years of basically being a "permanent minority" in the country. Newt, and others but he was the main player, realized that in order to ever find a footing for power for the Republican party beyond POTUS, he had to divide the country into pure partisanship based around every issue out there. White/Nonwhite, Urban/Rural, Coast/Heartland, Gay/Straight, etc. Pick the issue and the Republican party went all in on crafting division. Newt also realized the power of cable news and talk radio, which is why he used his position and also promoted by Murdoch's network and Ailes strategy, to promote this strategy to divide the country along pure partisan lines on every fucking issue, and craft their opponents as literally the worst thing imaginable. And it worked to such a massive success that the party jumped all in with those tactics for the next 25+ years.

And the shit we see today is just the end result of that. And it likely would have headed that way sooner had 9/11 not happened which basically put a thin paint of "muh patriotism!" over the boiling issues, something that after about a year quickly faded away and the Republicans were calling anyone who didn't support their agenda in every area, and specifically the efforts in the Middle East, as "unamerican terrorist supporters!". And now, since the Republican and their voters have shown that time and time again they simply don't give a shit about civility or cohesiveness, the Democrats have finally said "Fuck it and fuck you right back!". But history will remember this as something caused by and embraced by the GOP.
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yeah, Newt is a piece of shit.

he mobilized the religious right and they've had a stranglehold on conservative politics ever since.
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On July 3, 1988, the US government shot down an Iranian civilian airliner, killing all 290 people on board, including 66 children.

Not only did the US government refuse to apologize; George H. W. Bush, who was then Ronald Reagan's vice president and was in the middle of his campaign for president, responded a month later with the following words:

'I will never apologize for the United States of America. I don't care what the facts are.'

Remember that when you see pundits trying to whitewash him today. Show Bush the same compassion he had for the working class and the poor abroad and at home, which was none.
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Do you think there is no context to that situation? Do you think that a WWII veteran and a person who spent his entire life in the US Government might think a certain way about the United States of America symbolically?

Do you think he's never apologized on his own behalf?
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Toadsworth posted...

On July 3, 1988, the US government shot down an Iranian civilian airliner, killing all 290 people on board, including 66 children.

Not only did the US government refuse to apologize; George H. W. Bush, who was then Ronald Reagan's vice president and was in the middle of his campaign for president, responded a month later with the following words:

'I will never apologize for the United States of America. I don't care what the facts are.'

Remember that when you see pundits trying to whitewash him today. Show Bush the same compassion he had for the working class and the poor abroad and at home, which was none.

Edge level 100 from this soy boy.
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Forlorn_Ass posted...

Toadsworth posted...

On July 3, 1988, the US government shot down an Iranian civilian airliner, killing all 290 people on board, including 66 children.

Not only did the US government refuse to apologize; George H. W. Bush, who was then Ronald Reagan's vice president and was in the middle of his campaign for president, responded a month later with the following words:

'I will never apologize for the United States of America. I don't care what the facts are.'

Remember that when you see pundits trying to whitewash him today. Show Bush the same compassion he had for the working class and the poor abroad and at home, which was none.

Edge level 100 from this soy boy.

Go learn what edge means
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Forlorn_Ass posted...

Toadsworth posted...

On July 3, 1988, the US government shot down an Iranian civilian airliner, killing all 290 people on board, including 66 children.

Not only did the US government refuse to apologize; George H. W. Bush, who was then Ronald Reagan's vice president and was in the middle of his campaign for president, responded a month later with the following words:

'I will never apologize for the United States of America. I don't care what the facts are.'

Remember that when you see pundits trying to whitewash him today. Show Bush the same compassion he had for the working class and the poor abroad and at home, which was none.

Edge level 100 from this soy boy.

Nothing more soy than the amount of bootlicking you do.

Damn_Underscore posted...

Do you think he's never apologized on his own behalf?

Of course not.
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WhinyZach posted...

DrizztLink posted...

Goats posted...

Apparently saying RIP is offensive? No idea about that moderation

Maybe don't throw your stupid gimmick into a memorial topic?

Just a thought.

lmfao

it's even better cuz he got so mad about being moderated that he didn't use the gimmick in his next post.

lolololol
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Toadsworth posted...

Damn_Underscore posted...

Do you think he's never apologized on his own behalf?

Of course not.

He said he would never apologize on behalf of the United States of America. Obviously what they did was wrong, but it's clear that he refused to apologize for a symbolic reason.
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