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[–] updn@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I used to listen to Alex Jones in the Bush Jr days. As a free-thinking liberal, I got sucked into his world because he seemed like a freedom fighter. Man, how things have changed. I can’t help but like Bush now. He seems like a good dude that got sucked into a world of terrible people.

Will Trump seem the same in 20 years? Just a bumbling idiot caught up with bad people? Nah, he’s been a con man forever.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

Being worse than Bush Jr is the bottom of the barrel. But to say his image has been rehabilitated...

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Bush was evil wearing the skinsuit of a likeable oaf.

Trump is way worse, but Bush was really, really bad.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 17 hours ago

Bush's family manipulation of the USA goes back decades before they were elected.

As a free thinking liberal

[–] updn@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Maybe.. but now he’s just an old guy that paints and is a friend of Michelle Obama’s.

Banality of evil, man. :(

[–] chunes@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I honestly don't think Trump is worse. He's going to have to work hard to top Bush's innocent bodycount.

Between just COVID and DOGE, Trump's body count of innocent people is already in the millions, and climbing. I think he may have already passed Bush.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

covid killed 1.3 million Americans.

defunding US aid has effectively killed billions.

If Bush was the devil, Trump is evil incarnate.

currently Trump sits next to historical world leaders like Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, and Joseph Stalin.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world -1 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

covid killed 1.3 million Americans.

Almost as many would have died under another president.

defunding US aid has effectively killed billions.

Not really sure what 'effectively' is supposed to mean but I'm pretty sure people would have noticed if 1/4 of the global population died.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Almost as many would have died under another president.

incorrect. Trump dismissed parts of a worldwide research network that monitored infectious diseases. the team in China was dismissed months before covid began to spread in China in 2019.

Trump was notified of the situation happening in China weeks before the first cases hit the US.

so let's just cover what he did.

  1. stripped all protection against early warning systems
  2. ignored intel about a spreading infection in China
  3. refused to close the borders before it was too late

his further actions only worsened the situation.

  1. advocated for masklessness
  2. denied vaccine support
  3. actively sabotaged vaccine access for citizens
  4. denied vaccine access from other countries
  5. advocated for injecting bleach
  6. advocated for ivermectin
  7. denied the economic impact of covid
  8. denied the population loss of covid
  9. denied the efficacy of testing for covid
  10. actively sabotaged covid testing resources

so, anyone with brain damage can see that he actively made it worse.

edit: love the part where you just downvote and say nothing because you know I'm right. thanks for proving my initial assessment of you correct.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Millions have already died from USAID cuts. If that isn't overturned things will get much, much worse.