George H.W. Bush - Classic or Dud

Best cinematic version of Poppy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZvrIiqLv7M

I dunno. He doesn't get hit in the balls in that one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS5pTyUgfxo

The Washington Post reports:

The family of former president George H.W. Bush has planned a state funeral that will steer clear of the kind of anti-Trump sentiment evident at the recent funeral of Sen. John McCain, according to people familiar with the funeral planning.

The Bush family contacted the White House this past summer to say that President Trump would be welcome at the funeral, scheduled Wednesday at Washington National Cathedral, and to assure him that the focus would be on Bush’s life rather than their disagreements, according to one former administration official.

The truce with Trump allows the Bush family, and the nation, to honor the legacy of a president who guided the United States through the 1991 Gulf War and the breakup of the Soviet Union without becoming mired in today’s toxic politics.

bury the whole family, plus Grifter

without becoming mired in today’s toxic politics.

citation needed

The truce with Trump allows the Bush family, and the nation, to honor the legacy of a president who guided the United States through the 1991 Gulf War and the breakup of the Soviet Union celebrate their power without becoming mired in today’s toxic politics having to feign morals or ethics.

looking fwd to Jeb-DJT handshake

"Please mourn."

at least people kinda remember jeb., i'd completely forgotten neil bush existed until this week and even now i'm not sure i could pick him out of a lineup

"lineup" an apt metaphor

i'd completely forgotten neil bush existed until this week

The family's plan succeeded.

I was kind of shocked by a) how much taller Jeb is than GWB (6'3" vs 6'0") and b) how much GWB looks like his father now.

would you want to be remembered for the reasons Jeb is?

i'd rather be remembered as a charmless oaf than a war criminal tbf

i'll make a note.

at this point Jeb. will be remembered for the memes, which is really the kindest possible fate

*Jeb.

huh, ILX is rejecting my exclamation points for some reason

it did the same thing for me too - can't believe the secret chiefs of ilx have made an autoreplace to dampen jebthusiasm

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Aah, I had an exclamation mark gone missing yesterday as well. What’s going on??..??..

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I imagine Bob Dole is not well enough to attend, or he could reprise his sobs from the Nixon funeral.

An aperitif before lunch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUQfKrt8p40

revisionism.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/12/george-h-w-bush-grocery-scanner-gaffe-false.html

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

eh I didn't care at the time.

slate is here with the ultimate #slatepitch take

https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/12/sully-hw-bush-service-dog-george-hw-bush-funeral.html

I saw "sully" and thought, "Oh, dear god, Andrew Sullivan is here with the tears and fellatio"

The photograph, in other words, is not proof that Sully is a particularly “good boy” or that “we don’t deserve dogs,” as countless swooning tweets put it on Monday. On its own, it says almost nothing other than the fact that Sully was, at one point in the same room as the casket of his former boss. This is simply a photograph of a dog doing something dogs love to do: Lie down.

Work email just received from our building management:

Dear Tenants,

The ______ Tenant Appreciation Holiday Reception has been rescheduled to honor the National Day of Mourning for former President George H.W. Bush.

Guess I better remember to wear black tomorrow or I am going to be such a pariah.

I honestly do not remember anyone making one quarter of this amount of fuss about Reagan, Nixon, Ford. WTF is going on, seriously.

Actually, what I meant to say is that I'm really really broken up about this and I think I should probably take the day off to collect myself.

I remember Reagan's memorial period being very prolonged and even more obsequious than this

Expect Slate to issue a correction post-haste that Sully is in fact a good boy.

I think for National Mourning Day I'm going to grill some hamburgers, make a peach cobbler, go to the water park, shoot off some fireworks...what else?

well Reagan was "transformational" as even Prof Obama pointed out

i'm going to shove some broccoli up the chute

I honestly do not remember anyone making one quarter of this amount of fuss about Reagan, Nixon, Ford. WTF is going on, seriously

The snowballing beauty of the Electronic Age

Gonna do some aggressive bush trimming.

that dog is fake

When Reagan die the orgy of mourning went on for a week. The lucky bastard proved lucky one last time, for it was 2004, an election year and the war was going badly for Shrub.

*died

the mourning for reagan felt like it went on for literal years tbh

mourning in America.

that #slatepitch is one of the only mostly-correct ones

yeah the reagan shit was such a big deal even in the uk. it really bummed me out

Ahh, see, I had no cable in '04, and internet news wasn't quite as In Your Face at that time iirc, so it was easier to take brief note of a president's death and move the fuck on.

I hope I don't tear up when George Jr. salutes the riderless horse.

Of course, he does that every time he sees a horse, but still.

Usually with just the one finger, but I think he'll be able to rein it in this time.

There's tons of pernicious political correctness in the US. 94% of it is stuff like this, which is never called political correctness because powerful people like it. https://t.co/zSPFfRhxj9

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) December 3, 2018