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[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 38 points 3 days ago

Because he doesn't give a fuck about anyone but himself.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

the epstein files proves that they never have to care; there's people around them that will do anything for them.

[-] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

it's actually his job

[-] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 20 points 3 days ago

Because he is always playing golf. He would be doing that if he wasn't wrecking the economy as well.

[-] disregardable@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 days ago

At this point we are literally better off if he's playing golf rather than making any decisions. The real question is why are republican voters not recalling their senators for not impeaching him.

[-] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Because most republikkkans don't know that they can recall senators

[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 days ago

Same reason a pigeon stomps all over the board and knocks over pieces when you challenge it to a game of chess. It doesn't care about the pieces. Trump doesn't care about the pieces on the board. He's just looking to cause the most damage and make the most money he can. He wants to go down in history and doesn't care if he's hated.

[-] Stormy@thelemmy.club 6 points 3 days ago

Because he is trying to destroy the US. He's doing great at it, and is rewarding himself.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

wreaking

Did you want 'wrecking'?

[-] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

You can’t fix stupid.

[-] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Optics aren't great and it's not like he has qualified people helping but honestly, I still think I want Donald as far away from a problem as possible just so he can't make it even worse.

[-] PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com -4 points 3 days ago

This situation pisses me even more than when I saw George W. Bush sitting in that Florida classroom on September 11, 2001. After being told that a second plane had hit the World Trade Center, he just continued listening the kids read 'Kite must hit steel.' He sat there, seemingly unfazed, as if it were normal for a U.S. president to hear about such a catastrophic attack and not react immediately. And now, here we are again, what the hell is Trump doing playing golf while the global economy collapses?

[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 days ago

Okay, so Bush was there because of 9/11. It's not that the government knew about 9/11 in advance and got POTUS out of the area. It's that the government gets hundreds/thousands of threats a day, and that one was credible enough they got Bush out of town just to be safe. Then, when it happened, Bush didn't react because he was in a classroom full of kids and he did not want to upset them.

I'm not saying Bush was a saint, he wasn't, but a couple things he did weren't as bad as people think. That's what that was. As for the "you don't get fooled again" quote, he knew if he said "shame on me," the Democrats would use the sound byte, and he was correct. So he course corrected. Made himself look like an idiot to prevent his opposition from making him look worse.

Still a bad guy, but let's be fair, especially with information we've learned since.

[-] elvith@feddit.org 11 points 3 days ago

Blame him all you want for things he did, but trying to keep calm in that situation?

If he had jumped up and left the room asap or maybe said a few words to end that event quickly and GTFO, he'd probably been criticized, too. Probably something about not being professional or whatever.

[-] PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com -2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Why are you bringing all that up? I'm going to be annoyed at the situation whether or not the US government knew or was responsible for 9/11. Jumping to his defense seems the kind of thing a glowie would do.

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago

You're the one that brought up Bush and his reaction. If you can't understand why someone would act like nothing was wrong in a room full of young schoolchildren, then you're sure as hell not mentally prepared to make serious claims that someone's a government plant.

[-] PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com -3 points 3 days ago

I brought up Bush’s reaction as an example of leadership failure, to highlight how tone-deaf it is for leaders to act indifferent in a crisis, regardless of the reason. And it’s ironic you’re resorting to ad hominem attacks about my intelligence when that’s the weakest form of argument.

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

So, you still don't understand why it wouldn't be appropriate to react strongly in a room full of kids is what you're saying.

It's not an ad hominem when calling out your inability to comprehend the reason for that is the entire point to my comment. It highlights a severe deficiency in your social awareness at the bare minimum, which doesn't reflect well on your ability to discern the motives of other people online. Does that spell it out directly enough?

Fine, let's put that aside. In your eyes, what would have been an appropriate response for Bush to take in that situation? This ought to be entertaining.

[-] Jaegeras@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

They brought it up because you stormed in here thinking you know your shit.

And since you got corrected, you're throwing a tantrum about it. Look at you, little achiever.

[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Because I think context matters. And I think I'm too Boomer to know what a glowie is. I can guess. Like I said, I don't like the guy, but for context, I don't like any presidents (or politicians). None of them give a shit about things you or I care about — they just say they do to get votes. What they all care about is getting set for life.

[-] Stormy@thelemmy.club 2 points 3 days ago
[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

In less terminally online terms: "I think they're a member of a US intelligence agency doing some vaguely psyop thing, not a normal poster"

[-] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

analyzing GWB's misconduct in isolation is a mistake. prescott bush was a director at brown brothers harriman, which through union banking corporation financed nazi germany's industrial buildup. u.s. authorities seized those assets in 1942 under the trading with the enemy act because the bank was tied to fritz thyssen, hitler's primary corporate backer.

in the late 1970s george w. bush's arbusto energy got a $50,000 investment from james bath, the north american representative for salem bin laden (osama's older brother) + khalid bin mahfouz, a major player in the bank of credit & commerce international (bcci).

the carlyle group became the central intersection: george h.w. bush was a senior advisor + investor, while the bin laden family maintained a stake in the defense firm. that stake was reportedly sold days after 9/11.

LEAKED FBI DOCUMENTS REVEALED intelligence agencies were told to “back off” investigating bin laden family members in the u.s. after bush took office. the former head of the american visa bureau in jeddah said he was repeatedly ordered to approve visas for unqualified applicants, noting “what i was doing was giving visas to terrorists, recruited by the cia + osama bin laden,” during the afghan war in the 1980s.

while all commercial flights were grounded after 9/11, private planes evacuated roughly 142 saudis, including 24 bin laden relatives before the airspace fully reopened. fbi agents who had been tracking relatives in falls church, virginia (blocks from where four hijackers listed their address) were pulled off the case.

bush + bin laden family members sat together on the carlyle group board while the attacks were being planned. it even came up in fahrenheit 9/11 (not fond of moore but I guess compared to hitlers he is alright)

to look at how the global war on terror was constructed from these foundations, see this mronline piece.

[-] PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com 2 points 3 days ago

All those links give 404 errors, are you trolling?

[-] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

No, not all of them. CNN, BBC, Haaretz, & WAPO, all operated by the State Dept that carried these attacks out. Old bookmarks, archive.today still won't let me connect ┻━┻︵ (°□°)/ ︵ ┻━┻

are you really surprised US media deeltes 9/11 articles to troll ME. plus I pulled many of the bookmarks from blogs in the first place lel, gimme a second

went back and added articles I got the msm references from, it's not crank shit this is all public read visas for al-qaeda (anna's archive link), this is an embassy official dryly recounting how much was overlooked w the hijackers

OMG DEMOCRACY NOW IS REMOVING THEM TOO THOSE SNAKES I FUCKING HATE AMY GOODMAN

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