RIP Barbara Bush

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

a Washington united by ignoring AIDS and bombing Baghdad

First comment hall of fame after one of my friends posted on FB.

https://i.imgur.com/a9lwicH.jpg

Professor who called Barbara Bush an "amazing racist" on Twitter shortly after the former first lady's death now faces university investigation. https://t.co/r4fMvx6CVQ

— AP Central U.S. (@APCentralRegion) April 18, 2018

Many Fox stations appear set to preempt the Man United-Spurs FA Cup semifinal to cover Barbara Bush’s funeral https://t.co/bF6t5zs2kX pic.twitter.com/J1op7MDok6

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) April 20, 2018

well i never

couldn't they just have a a minute's applause before the game?

I noticed today that USA flags were flying at half-staff. I assume this was for Barbara Bush, the spouse of a past president, who died at age 92, wealthy and well-cared for. This is not some national tragedy. This was normal and expected.

I greatly doubt Eleanor Roosevelt's death was similarly marked, despite her being a far more significant national figure. I've watched for over half a century as this tradition for representing days of nationwide mourning has been further and further cheapened to the point that almost anything that combines death with continuous cable news coverage now merits flags put at half-staff. It sucks.

I assumed it was for '60s kiddie show host Chuck McCann

"Government buildings and installations throughout the world flew the flag at half-staff by order of President Kennedy. Similar action was taken by Gov. Rockefeller and Mayor Wagner in state and city."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/world-leaders-responded-news-eleanor-roosevelt-death-article-1.2003123

I imagine she was generally loved by those whom she loved, but I don't trust her public image one bit.

― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, April 17, 2018 10:13 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/18/603475998/former-first-lady-barbara-bush-dies-at-92

KING: Cokie, you knew Barbara Bush. You spent some time interviewing her over the years. What was she like?

ROBERTS: Well, she was exactly as she comes across to the public.

Thank you. Now we should go back and investigate whether Florence Harding, Grace Coolidge, Lou Hoover, or Bess Truman were equally honored by flags at half-staff at their deaths.

Right...

Cokie's mind is certainly that of a Beltway tool

I love cokes

KING: Cokie, you knew Barbara Bush. You spent some time interviewing her over the years. What was she like?

COKIE: Well, perhaps this may sound a bit misplaced, saying it to an audience of several million people about a recently deceased public figure who's being buried today with much pomp,ceremony and inflated eulogies, a moment when I am expected by convention to say something admiring or reverent, or at the very least non-committal, but really, the woman was something of a bitch. No, really, it's true, so why hide it? {her mic goes dead}

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.