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Please, please, this is supposed to be a happy presidency!

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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

When GHWBush got busted for boinking a Japanese hoochie he said "let's not play the gotcha game". It worked then too.

I think it was the boinking of a Japanese hoochie. It may have been negotiating the detention of American hostages until after the 1980 election. Or maybe it was the Iran-Contra thing. I forget. And it was long enough ago that our newly-enshittified search engines have no idea what I'm talking about either.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Wait untill you learn about how HW was in Dallas the day JFK was assasinated, placed a misleading/red herring 'tip' call to the FBI, and in every subsequent interview in all of his life, couldn't remember exactly where he was or what he did that day... a day that, like 9/11, basically everyone who was older than maybe 10ish remembers in decent detail where they were and what they were doing when they first heard the news.

Oh did I mention that prior to that, his import/export/offshore drilling company in the Gulf of Mexico was used to funnel arms to the group that would do the Bay of Pigs Invasion?

https://headlineusa.com/records-implicate-george-h-w-bush-in-the-assassination-of-jfk/

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bush_Sr,_JFK_-_J_Edgar_Hoover_memo_2.jpg

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/11/us/63-fbi-memo-ties-bush-to-intelligence-agency.html

Entirely seriously: George HW Bush was substantially involved in the assasination of JFK.

Also worth mentioning:

HW's dad, Prescott Bush... yeah, he ran a bank that got shut down during WW2 for laundering money to the actual Nazis.

Prescott Bush literally financed the Nazi party's rise to power.

https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/how-bushs-grandfather-helped-hitlers-rise-to-power

Original outlet that broke the story in modern times:

https://www.nhgazette.com/the-bushnazi-stories/bushnazi-link-confirmed/

Somewhat hilariously, even Fox News reported on this.

https://www.foxnews.com/story/documents-bushs-grandfather-directed-bank-tied-to-man-who-funded-hitler

As did Haaretz:

https://www.haaretz.com/2003-10-19/ty-article/bush-grandfather-linked-to-bank-with-ties-to-nazi-funding/0000017f-e0f2-d9aa-afff-f9fa1a660000

Prescott was also involved in the plotted Nazi coup (of the US the "businessman's coup") iirc, oh and didn't he found the CIA ?

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

I had heard about the first part there... not the second part.

But uh yeah that sounds about right.

So basically, Smedley Butler's 'War is a Racket' was functionally written about Prescott Bush and people like him?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket

Sounds like it.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Heh heh heh. True.

He also told Jimmy Carter if he couldn’t be CIA director for life, he wasn’t going to tell him about the UFOs.

Source: Jimmy Carter

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It’s “who child-raped whom.”🙄

[-] MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

I know but the original quote is who killed who, so figured accuracy beats grammar.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Probably deliberate as he has a Yorkshire accent, associated with working-class people.

[-] MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

Absolutely deliberate. Monty Python was mostly Oxford and Cambridge grads who darn well knew how to use whom.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

"Whom" is on its way out because there is no loss of understanding whatsoever if you just say "who" instead.

[-] MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago
[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 weeks ago

I don't think dropping a single letter from a word qualifies for this meme.

[-] MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago

It's the same idea, we understand exactly what he's saying, 0 impairment of understanding etc.

There's no reason for a lot of stuff; why do verbs like have and be require different conjugations when the subject is in the sentence? Why bother pluralizing words when we can usually figure it out from context etc.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yup, you're right. This particular word is especially egregious, though. It's a holdover from Old English, and the fact that it conveys absolutely no extra information when used instead of who shows that.

[-] griff@lemmings.world 2 points 3 weeks ago
[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

It's still used in formal speech and writing, but everyday use has been steadily declining. Even as something of a stickler for grammar, I find it rather pointless.

[-] Kurious84@eviltoast.org 0 points 3 weeks ago

Third term for the rapist. Yay

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