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0rganism

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4. I remember, thinking back on it, believing that W was just impossibly awful at the time; I had no idea
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 02:11 PM
17 hrs ago

That W could be exceeded in awfulness, I could understand, if it was some kind of minor incremental change. No, this trump guy is orders of magnitude more awful than W. In every way. I mean, it's kind of impressive and overwhelming what F47 has done to this once-great nation, like a kaiju monster tearing up a city Pacific Rim style. Once this regime ends, we may well need a complete overhaul of the founding documents to ensure this idiocy doesn't happen again. At minimum, we need a constitutional amendment making explicitly clear which specific circumstances permit a president to ignore certain laws in very specific ways without consequence. ("Enjoy your legal consequences" should be the default.)

Americans (hell, humanity generally) really need to come together to decide what kind of world we want our grandchildren to live in and find a way to get started on it, preferably before it's all too late -- which might already be the case.

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W. was a gentleman and a scholar compared to the evil monster dalton99a 17 hrs ago #1
Yeah.. and though I would not go so far as to say Cheney was not evil (or at least evil-adjacent) hlthe2b 17 hrs ago #3
And George loved his dogs and children PatSeg 17 hrs ago #5
Cheney autographed Sasha Baron Cohen's water board kit! Lucky Luciano 10 hrs ago #31
Making fun of a woman on death row? vanlassie 7 hrs ago #36
I have no idea what you are talking about nor who (Cheney or Bush*) hlthe2b 2 hrs ago #37
Texas is shrinking before our eyes. Baitball Blogger 17 hrs ago #2
Texas grandpamike1 10 hrs ago #33
I remember, thinking back on it, believing that W was just impossibly awful at the time; I had no idea 0rganism 17 hrs ago #4
I thought Reagan was the worst we'd ever have to deal with DavidDvorkin 16 hrs ago #6
I feel the same. evolves 15 hrs ago #11
Worst President in the history of the US - gone Nasruddin 16 hrs ago #7
Poor guy. KnR. NNadir 16 hrs ago #8
Vietnam was our worst war. 58,000 Americans died. Martin Eden 16 hrs ago #9
For a long, long time Pesky1 16 hrs ago #10
The Electoral College put him in the first time. maddiemom 15 hrs ago #14
There's A Solution Working Its Way Around... GB_RN 14 hrs ago #23
Likeley unconstitutional under the Compact Clause, Article 1, Section 10 WarGamer 14 hrs ago #25
That's One Argument. GB_RN 11 hrs ago #30
Yes, none of the other wars dismantled the post-WW2 rules based order Martin Eden 15 hrs ago #16
It's going to take at least 50 years HighFired49 12 hrs ago #28
Bush was an absolutely horrible President edhopper 15 hrs ago #12
That fker and his handler, Cheney The Dick (R-Hell) should have been tried in The Hague for war crimes, OMGWTF 15 hrs ago #18
Don't disagree edhopper 14 hrs ago #21
He tanked the economy in 2008 too, and Chump is really REALLY trying to beat that FakeNoose 15 hrs ago #13
The Bush family were very gracious to Obama and especially their children. 33taw 15 hrs ago #15
GeeDumbya should send T💩p a fruit basket, but he would never touch it. OMGWTF 15 hrs ago #17
He paved the way for the orange menace and his p25 criminal cabal Clouds Passing 14 hrs ago #19
Remember he said DownriverDem 14 hrs ago #20
He was an incompetent buffoon that should never have been President JI7 14 hrs ago #22
I always got the impression he didn't really want the job. llmart 13 hrs ago #27
Don't whitewash Shrub WarGamer 14 hrs ago #24
Speaking of whitewash... dpibel 10 hrs ago #32
One of my favorites...from 10 years ago Roy Rolling 13 hrs ago #26
I was positive he'd be the worst in history. Sparkly 12 hrs ago #29
I got involved in paying attention to politics under Bush 2 kimbutgar 10 hrs ago #34
W was illegitimate too! czarjak 8 hrs ago #35
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