RIP Barbara Bush

The MSNBC pundits using her death to pine nostalgically for the Republican party of her husband's era earlier this evening is straight up nauseating

get ready -- it's only a taste

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lol

Was the astrodome thing legitimately racist or just a faux pas though

I listened to NPR’s obituary for her and she seemed like a nice enough woman

This bit, which I also remember at the time, is mitigated somewhat by context:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/barbara-bush-beautiful-mind/

shakey!!!!!

Shakey: some action.

what a delightful first post

“If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities” - Barbara Bush

in seventeen years on this msg board i have never seen anyone type anything so eloquent or edifying

enjoy piling on the dead lady u monsters

I'm grateful the GOP embraced Barbara Bush's humanist spirit in the last thirty years.

I never knew about Robin Bush until this evening. :(

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So you’re blaming the GOP on Mrs Bush

No, I'm blaming the death of irony on you.

Happily married to evil and raised evil, can't say that a good quote means much.

“evil”

you people ever get tired of name calling and moralizing on the internet? go out and do some community service or something?

You got me with those scare quotes, damn.

yeah well i bet you’ve done some wicked awesome good deeds and i bet you would’ve done a totally better job as head of the cia

whatever makes you feel better about talking shit about the dead lady

whatever makes you feel better about talking shit about the dead lady

I would have definitely done a better job as the head of the CIA. "Feel better" implies that I find any reason to feel bad about shit-talking Babs. Fuck her. Fuck Nancy, fuck Laura, fuck Melania, fuck all the Republican enablers.

phew wow well that was helpful

I know what’ll make the world a better place! the bile of a thousand shit talking ilxors!!

As opposed to whining about that bile.

hm makes u think

There's probably like 28 ilxors in total anymore.

yet everyone founded an I-hate-Babs punk band.

I wish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W07LABM57Fs

milo how dare u besmirch HW's 357-day stewardship of the CIA and the sterling reputation it had accumulated by 1976.

hmmm that’s not really what it’s about but ok

Calling first ladies enablers is a bit much.

dudes

save it for the RIP George H.W. Bush thread.

Bile is a renewable resource.

Her work for literacy seems to have been helpful.

I have to say I don't have particularly bad feelings about her. She at least acknowledged the devastation of AIDS, which the Reagans were unwilling to do

Houstonians with good memories might remember chortling a little at Bar when, a few weeks after the Astrodome quote, she was complaining at the inconvenience she endured when Poppy called short a Kennebunkport getaway to watch the Astros in the World Series from behind home plate.

Calling first ladies enablers is a bit much.

i usu go for p*mps

No, I'm blaming the death of irony on you.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, April 17, 2018 7:08 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh i understood your irony

you think too highly of yourself if you think your basic comments can go over people's heads

my comment on the other hand you misinterpreted for whatever reason

Who is Barbara Bush

your mom

Between George HW, Jeb and George W, the Bush family has been responsible for a vast number of actions that have killed or harmed untold numbers of people, so if the wife of one and mother of the other two is seen as somewhat complicit in those actions, it is not strange.

She was a tireless defender of all three of them. That fact will be the larger part of her legacy to the world than making an inspiring statement that may have been ghostwritten for her by staff, or her work for literacy, which was chosen mainly to be non-controversial and to reflect well on her husband's career. Most of what we know about Mrs. Bush was filtered through a carefully constructed media image. I imagine she was generally loved by those whom she loved, but I don't trust her public image one bit.

otm

Reminder that saying nothing is often the best option. https://t.co/c5obBy1xio

— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) April 18, 2018

"The MSNBC pundits using her death to pine nostalgically for the Republican party of her husband's era earlier this evening is straight up nauseating"

maybe but I'd probably give the fucking republican party of that era a bouquet of roses if they came to prominence again over whatever the republican party is now.

see? they won!

oh ffs

this thread is shakey's sistine chapel

Missed you in the Star Wars 8 thread, Οὖτις.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdBaAGyeKvE

The Republican Party of Jesse Helms doesn't seem meaningfully different to the Republican Party of Steve King to me.

"The MSNBC pundits using her death to pine nostalgically for the Republican party of her husband's era earlier this evening is straight up nauseating"

maybe but I'd probably give the fucking republican party of that era a bouquet of roses if they came to prominence again over whatever the republican party is now.

― akm, Wednesday, April 18, 2018 9:12 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Saw a tweet that said 'Barbara Bush was the last first lady presiding over a truly bipartisan Washington' and I wanted to kill myself

that's the worst cokie impression i've ever read

you're right. she did a pitch perfect impression of herself being a media commentator in your link.

https://i.imgur.com/VcG1tZ2.png

when Michael Jackson released the "Black and White" video, my friends and I imagined Barbara Bush as part of the closing morphing montage, going IT'S BLACK IT'S WHITE YEAH YEAH YEAH

Invited to Barbara Bush’s funeral was the owner of her favorite pizza restaurant...he and his wife sat next to me.She wanted to include people who were a part of her life and she loved their restaurant. It was not all big names but all very important people to her.

— Greta Van Susteren (@greta) April 21, 2018

Aw that's nice I'm sure the Comet Pizza owners were touched

Wishing bad thoughts to a dead person is the epitome of bad shit. Do you want to add to the shiftiness of the world ? Keep being negative then.

Shitiness **

Barbara Bush was a person. Now she is dead. But while alive she was very close to the pinnacle of public power, where decisions made by her husband and her children affected many millions, if not billions of people. If it was OK to point out her shortcomings during her life, her dying does not excuse or dismiss those shortcomings. I don't think her flaws or wrongs were so massive as to justify glee upon her death, but painting her in false colors does no one any good.

Joking aside, that pizza story remind me of something I did like about Bar & HW, which is that were always pretty supportive of local Houston businesses (albeit ones of a certain stripe, natch--no taco stands for them) and many arts organizations (albeit ones of...).

powerful: they have chosen to be buried alive with the coffin and guard her unto eternity https://t.co/2H12rjhvYG

— BAKOON (@BAKKOOONN) April 21, 2018

you’re just jealous

A storied tradition which humankind has allowed to lapse for too many thousands of years.