GodlessCommieThe oligarchy will whitewash him for public consumption
NoiseColor Yes, but the guy used bush as an example, because the guy was dumb. He isn’t trying to say bush was smart.
I don’t know if I trust that. I don’t know if I trust the intentions of another neoliberal like Gavin Newsom. Never forget that neoliberals were on both sides of the aisle.
In addition, he’s the only Republican President of the new millennium, beside Trump.
This is not “whitewashing”, especially if you were politically conscious during the W years. It is damning with very faint praise.
There’s absolutely a strain of liberal discourse that has decided actually Bush wasn’t that bad, and chose to ignore that much of what Bush did was lay the legal groundwork for what Trump is now running rampant with.
That is true, but that’s not happening in this specific comment.
And the DNC will turn it into a race of 1
MousePotatoDoesStuffHow? Are they going to Tuvix Bush and Trump together?
fallaciousBasisThen we need to elect Janeway. She’ll know what to do.
RIP Tuvix.
Boomer Humor DoomergodI feel like I’m taking crazy pills
Because his only competition for intelligent Republican president this millennium is… The idiot who thinks Hannibal lecter is real
If you want to have any conversations with actual Americans you really need to understand you’re using liberal wrong.
I say that knowing full well what you think it means and what interest you have in communicating with actual Americans.
s/you/one but you get the gist.
They’re using it very accurately here.
What Newsom’s office posted is called a “backhanded compliment” aka an insult disguised as praise.
In this case, Dubya (George HW Bush) was generally perceived to be a dumb guy: Freezing in front of kindergartners when receiving news of 9/11, using malapropisms such as the double negative “misunderestimated”, the whole “Mission Accomplished” staged scene on a carrier that turned out to be very premature announcement, in 2003, of the end of the Iraq War, which actually ended with US troop withdrawal in 2011.
Newsom’s Office is saying that Trump is dumber than Dubya, which is quite an accomplishment. (see what I did there?)
The tweeter 679 Enthusiast/@marionumber4 may not be literate or English proficient to understand this, and may be a bot, non English-proficient troll, or just posting whatever for a couple of clicks of validation.
It’s not a backhanded compliment. That’s like saying that the Harris campaign welcoming the Cheneys into the fold during her campaign was a backhanded compliment
Something about birds of a feather
Yes. It is.
There have been only 2 republican presidents in the millenium. It’s a backhand comment calling Trump dumb.
Captain AggravatedSmartest in a field of two is just second dumbest.
Maybe seven words isn’t enough to interpret these things out of? More information needed.
Rehabilitation?
Bush is a fucking moron.
That’s called a compliment-insult.
This poster is dumber than drumpf.
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