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        He cares about praise, not optics. And won’t change his behavior to achieve that, just yell at people until they either do or he tucks tail and picks a new target. But of a difference.

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      I mean, it’s only a complement to shit stain 1 because it’s a comparison to shit stain 2.

      “I stopped playing golf because my people said it was bad optics” used to be a stupid thing to admit to.

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      It’s more about showing how much even more of a shitstain we have now. Even Bush was better, and he was a shitstain.

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        How? The gold thing isn’t even true.

        He didn’t grab pussies?

        Dude literally killed a million more people than Trump… so far. Knock on wood.

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    Thinking abstaining from golf is empathetic is a bigger insult than the other commenters think.

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      It’s not about that. It’s about how one of the most incompetent presidents we’ve ever had had some level of decency and the gravity of the situation for our country. The current loser in chief does not actually care about the troops or the country for that matter.

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        It’s not about that either. It’s about a million people who are no longer alive because of Dubya’s lies.

        As bad as Trump is, and he could get worse, he doesn’t even come close.

        Even Biden’s death toll is still higher.

        They’re all war criminals of the highest degree. They don’t deserve an ounce of pity, nevermind respect.

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          I need you to stop using Google to answer your questions and start with a bit of critical thinking. Trumps death toll is close to 1 million if not more. Covid was 100% his fault. Every single death in Iran and Israel is his fault. I would attribute attribute a portion of deaths in Ukraine and Russia to him has well. His absolutely atrocious foreign policy caused those wars and his dismantling of the CDC and WHO caused the Covid death toll to be so high. He caused god knows how many deaths due to dismantling USAID as well. Add to that the number of Americans killed by DHS. We also need to add all the immigrants he killed in their concentration camps. That also ignores the people that weren’t killed but raped, tortured, and abused or illegally imprisoned. Bush was not a good president but his shortcomings pale in comparison to the shitshow that is going on right now.

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    The scary part is that whomever the next Republican President is, he’ll make Trump look good in comparison.

    It’s going to get worse before it gets worse.

  • George W. Bush still tortured and sent PMCs to massacre entire villages. He is not redeemable.

    Frankly we should have been pissed enough to revolt with Reagan. And then we should have been pissed when Ford pardoned Nixon.

    Corruption is giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the people. Id est, treason.

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      It’s more like, “even this despicable war criminal had the shame to not golf while people’s kids were dying in his war.”

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      Binary thinking is bad for the world. Even people who do horrible things can do good as well. Those can be talked about, especially when his successor is so unbelievably awful; the comparison lands.

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        Exactly what metric are you using? Trump, as bad as he is, still has a smaller body count than Biden, Obama, or Dubya.

        And exactly where is the “good”? Not golfing? That not only isn’t irrelevant, it’s not even true. He golfed plenty.

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          “what metric” and “as bad as” and naming 1 thing are entirely the binaries that they were talking about

          you have successfully completely missed the point

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          Are you kidding me? Trump killed more people with DOGE cuts than all of the above combined. In fact, he likely killed as many Americans with COVID incompetence as the above combined killed brown people in the Middle East over the last 20 years. DJT is a despicable monster, and the damage he has caused will not be truly understood for decades.

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      Over a million, easy. His Dad and Clinton killed 250,000 Iraqi babies through sanctions alone.

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    Oh fuck you for portraying that piece of shit as only a remotely empathic or humane being. 150’000 to 1’000’000 deaths in Iraq.

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      I mean are they “portraying” them that way or did they quote his words.

      Id say that was Bush trying to portray himself in an empathetic way.

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    Geroge is still a piece of shit president. He happens to have been undershined by a even larger turd, that does not make him less of a piece of shit.