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> A conspiracy theory of that time was that Bush was behind 9/11 because he wanted a causus belli to shore up his tanking popularity in the leadup to his re-ele
by daveguy 3y ago
> A conspiracy theory of that time was that Bush was behind 9/11 because he wanted a causus belli to shore up his tanking popularity in the leadup to his re-election.
It's not just unsubstantiated, it's flatly wrong on its face. Bush had been in office less than 9 months. He wasn't anywhere close to re-election. This is when the next race typically didn't ramp up until the year of the election.
- klyrs 3y agoFault me for not paying terribly close attention to the conspiracy theorists, but it's true his approval ratings were dismal and dropping (and right after, he was around the most popular president in history). The bit about the leadup to the election is probably my mid-remembered addition.
- daveguy 3y agoYes, I do fault you for not paying terribly close attention to the conspiracy theories... yet accepting what they say as true. His approval was relatively stable and above 50%. You can see what it looked like if you scroll down from this link: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/ https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/ I don't care if you pay attention to the conspiracy theorists or not. But please stop propagating conspiracy BS as if it were true. To be fair, his approval was continually dropping when he decided to invade Iraq on claims of WMD, but that was well after 9/11 and going into Afghanistan.
- klyrs 3y agoWhat did I accept as truth? I said it was unsubstantiated. As in, no evidence for it. The context of the thread is that some people are saying that the broken clock was right a couple of times, and I was pointing to times when it was wrong. And yeah, Biden is pretty unpopular too -- he's doing worse than Bush II.