RIP Barbara Bush

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.

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.