George H.W. Bush - Classic or Dud

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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

That grocery scanner: read somewhere earlier this year that that was misleading, that he was being shown some new model that was different than whatever had been previously used. No idea if that's true.

And also the correct answer to "How has the National Debt affected you personally?" was "It messes with my approval ratings. How has it affected yours?"

Dole made it! always there for WW2's worst veterans.

WATCH: Former Sen. Bob Dole is helped out of his wheelchair to salute the casket of George H.W. Bush in the U.S. Capitol. pic.twitter.com/BeIz3USrHr

— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 4, 2018

stop lying about my record

lol

you can't hear Dole saying "WE BELONG DEAD"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ypzRDq3PGI

Charlie Pierce and Jennifer Rubin go at it.

While crediting him for raising taxes despite a campaign pledge, Pierce went on to slam Bush for changing his positions on abortion and “voodoo economics,” and said that “The primary legacy of George H.W. Bush, as president, is that battlefield courage does not necessarily translate into political courage.”

Rubin, who has become one of the most prominent anti-Trump conservatives, leapt to defend Bush.

“Oh my, I couldn’t disagree more,” Rubin said, adding that “you can pick small things, small mistakes in anyone’s career,” but praised Bush for his handling of the end of the Cold War, his decision not to occupy Iraq after the first Gulf War, the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act, and his signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

“He bent the knee of fealty to the elements that created the modern Republican party,” Pierce said.

“No, I don’t think so. The far-right was there when Ronald Reagan was there, he just came along after him,” Rubin replied, then took aim at Trump by contrasting Bush’s foreign policy chops with Trump, whom she said is “so disruptive and so at odds with our allies.”

“Donald Trump has never been part of a conspiracy to sell missiles to the Ayatollah,” Pierce blurted out, a reference to the Iran-Contra scandal.

what they actually want is for us to hush so they don’t have to think about what it means that they *still* adore someone who voted against the civil rights act, pushed the drug war and resorted to “hey, black crime” in an effort to retain political power.

— Joel D. Anderson (@byjoelanderson) December 4, 2018

“Donald Trump has never been part of a conspiracy to sell missiles to the Ayatollah,” Pierce blurted out, a reference to the Iran-Contra scandal.

it's true, Trump's conspiracies are generally worse

meanwhile, over in the nyt, ross douthat longs to feel once more the reassuring pressure of the white anglo-saxon protestant jackboot upon his eager, panting throat

Put simply, Americans miss Bush because we miss the WASPs — because we feel, at some level, that their more meritocratic and diverse and secular successors rule us neither as wisely nor as well.

not sure I have the intestinal fortitude for this take this morning

Uh, I highly douthat, Ross.

i'm savouring the extremely spicy thought that people who got to their station in life on merit are nonetheless unquestionably inferior to someone else of a white anglo-saxon protestant persuasion who could be - should be! - holding that station instead

the new york times, folks - it's good

sweet! I can't wait!

It kinda all depends on your perspective. If you're an accelerationist who believes we should purge human life from the planet ASAP, Anglo-Saxon leadership kinda seems like the way to go.