I knew he was able.

Seriously.

Democracy isn’t automatic.

He might be concerned that the outcome was not a patrician as unitary executive, but the dream of a plutocratic strongman is his dream and the product of his policies and court.

He's a former president, he can hold a news conference, speak (for him) directly and clearly, and people will listen.

George W. Asshole and the asshole republicans allowed Sept 11 to happen. Then, with the populace traumatized, they restructured government and put much of it under department of homeland security.

Cities under Noem's ICE siege are now, present day, paying a high price--monetarily and physically and mentally.

W.'s DHS needs to be broken apart, some parts eliminated. Defunded.

I still hate him and all republicans.

From inside a prison cell where he belongs for war crimes.

I joined DU 24 years ago at the age of 44, and went to protests before the war was launched in March 2023.

I watched Colbert's roast when it happened.

I was crushed when GW got a 2nd term, and lost faith in American voters. Obama was such a relief, I thought no president would ever again be as bad as Bush.

You had a chance to do the right thing, and you blew it. History will not be kind to you.

I doubt Reagan could have won a third term.

In times of war or good prosperity and policy, third terms are earned.

He finally found his mouth?

I sure won’t br visiting the US until he’s out of office.
I have generations of family and most of my siblings and their peeps in the US. I also have many close friends but it’s not worth the stress.
I always loved US libraries, museums, bookstores and a few great stores.

My eyes were always wide open and while some strides have been made, the scabs have been torn off the racist and sexist wounds by this cabal.
It is ironic that much of what we’re seeing from Donvict’s domestic policy was inflicted by the US and others on more than a few countries in our hemisphere and across the planet.
And yet there are still millions of Americans who believe in the dream.

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Like you I am a democratic socialist😀

it takes one to know one huh?

Dubya caused a ton of the problems we have now. Without Dubya, there would have been no Trump.

I am never going to love either of them but I am going to emulate virulently anti-communist Winston Churchill, also a highly flawed man, who said, when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, "If Hitler invaded Hell, I would feel it necessary to say something nice about the devil in the House of Commons."

It's a paraphrase but close I think.

1). Full-throated enthusiastic support for Trump

2). Condemnation of Trump

3). Silence

Bush has largely been living in category 3. His comments are a couple of baby steps from that to category 2. Not exactly a Stephen Colbert of Jimmy Kimmell opening monologue, but yeah. It's better than him staying out of the conversation altogether.