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It's sort of astounding that people can be hounded out of their jobs for dumb tweets or playing dress-up the wrong way years ago (unless you are the PM of Canad

It's sort of astounding that people can be hounded out of their jobs for dumb tweets or playing dress-up the wrong way years ago (unless you are the PM of Canada I guess), but if you're responsible for the deaths of thousands of people and billions of dollars stolen and funneled into war and energy industries, that's cool you might be a little on the nose for a few years then you'll be welcomed back into the fold. Not that I'm saying bigoted tweets or blackface okay, let me stress. I noticed George W Bush started being celebrated again in the past few years. And Obama has never stopped being a darling! Just astounding. Guess the whole Libya, Syria, Yemen, etc stuff were just little whoopsies. We really dance to their tune, don't we?

DoItToMe81 5y ago
The media has, for almost a decade, tried to play George Bush and his cabinet out to be "principled, simple conservatives", and it seems to be working. I can't believe that some of the people most critical of Bush, Cheney and the wars they profited from, were swayed by him painting dogs of all things.
- DonHopkins 5y ago
  Meanwhile in Georgia, Jimmy Carter's still too busy building homes and eradicating guinea worms to paint dogs. https://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/case-totals.html https://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/case-totals.... Ask President Carter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-68iTvhWNB0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-68iTvhWNB0
  - fortran77 5y ago
    And here, I think (seriously) that Jimmy Carter is pure evil! You really can't have "absolute judgements" on any person that are universally recognized.
finiteseries 5y ago
Bigoted tweets or blackface matter more to US society than Libya, Syria, and Yemen combined. Foreign policy/tragedy simply just does not matter to US citizens, US culture, or US media for various reasons independent of any moral failings, or gullibility (though that certainly does help things along).

DoItToMe81 5y ago

The media has, for almost a decade, tried to play George Bush and his cabinet out to be "principled, simple conservatives", and it seems to be working. I can't believe that some of the people most critical of Bush, Cheney and the wars they profited from, were swayed by him painting dogs of all things.

DonHopkins 5y ago
Meanwhile in Georgia, Jimmy Carter's still too busy building homes and eradicating guinea worms to paint dogs. https://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/case-totals.html https://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/case-totals.... Ask President Carter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-68iTvhWNB0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-68iTvhWNB0
- fortran77 5y ago
  And here, I think (seriously) that Jimmy Carter is pure evil! You really can't have "absolute judgements" on any person that are universally recognized.

finiteseries 5y ago

Bigoted tweets or blackface matter more to US society than Libya, Syria, and Yemen combined. Foreign policy/tragedy simply just does not matter to US citizens, US culture, or US media for various reasons independent of any moral failings, or gullibility (though that certainly does help things along).