#fuck george w bush

[victusinveritas]

[a-queer-little-wombat]

Oh yeah. It used to be that air travel (within the USA) didn't suck anywhere near as hard as it does now.

You could just walk right up to the gate. Your family could just walk up to the gate area and wait for you. Have a long layover? Easy peasy to duck out of the airport and back in. Everybody having to take off their shoes (which bullshit, btw, didn't happen immediately after 9/11, but after a later "attempted" hijacking where someone smuggled explosives onto the plane in their shoes) wasn't A Thing. Getting patted down if you didn't want to be scanned wasn't A Thing.

And it's just a small part of how Bush Junior fucked this country up and not the deep rot he facilitated, but it was one of the wedges and a test, of sorts, to see how much fascism the American people would accept. We failed. We gave up liberty for false security.

Some few, at the time, argued against it (and against the war), saying "but Israel and other countries don't have all this nonsense!". And, well, sorta. What they have instead is two-fold: a) conspicuously visible militarized security with machine guns and b) the willingness to openly profile the shit out of people. The American public wasn't (theoretically) willing to openly profile people on pretty much racial AF lines.

That said, in practice, the racist fucks in the TSA seem pretty damn happy to profile the shit out of people, while the structure of our security theater gives them plausible deniability for it.

Once again, the TSA perpetrates deeply ineffective, transphobic AF, racist as hell, classist, security theater for the ostensible goal of protecting freedom and Americans while furthering fascism and making many parts of air travel so much worse.

once i was in the TSA line for a flight and it was SO LONG that TSA decided to just drop all the security protocols. leave everything in the suitcase including electronics. keep your shoes on. don't go through the fancy 360 scanner, just the metal detector. get out of here. and i was like ohhhh so you admit this is all just your stupid community theatre production that you've made me be a part of for all this time and it doesn't actually mean anything real. okayyyyy

[god-breast-america]

I was having a moment

[duranduratulsa]

Phil Collins - I Missed Again (2016 Remaster)

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[thekalpar]

So my spouse and I were watching the Reading Rainbow documentary on Netflix last night and there are many things that stick with me but one thing that really makes me angry: capitalism and George W Bush killed Reading Rainbow.

To be fair, part of it was things had changed dramatically in the twenty years the show was on the air and the show wasn't...quite working anymore. But I still think capitalism and Dubya have a larger share of the blame.

One of the staff members on the show talked about how compared to Sesame Street, Reading Rainbow didn't have a product to sell. Now, this isn't a dig at Sesame Street, they do good work. But Sesame Street has merch. You can sell tickle-me-Elmos and books and toys and CDs and all sorts of tie-in merchandise and that helps fund Sesame Street. Reading Rainbow? Sure sales of children's books went up 800% but the show didn't benefit directly from that.

The second part is the goal of Reading Rainbow: getting kids to love reading. Love of reading is hugely beneficial, but you can't measure it. You can't quantify it and put it into a spreadsheet. Dubya, however, was BIG into testing and measuring which was the core of No Child Left Behind. And in a way, that's very capitalist as well, children aren't people they're products. Reading Rainbow just didn't fit into this numbers-based framework.

So yeah...I hate this future we've built.

[aci25]

George W. Bush - who brought us the war on terror - once condemned Israel killing 14 civilians in Gaza. Now they kill scores more and it barely registers.

Blinken reportedly voiced worry to Israeli officials on Monday over the recent strikes.

[dubyaposting]

original comic by @twistcmyk

[resizura]

i do not like when real world events happen in a fictional universe because then now i have to visualize how this happened in-universe

[acefusti138]

“Sir, a second Zendaya #MetGala dress has hit Hind Hall.”

…

“We’re uh— We’re fucked, Kamala.”

[lobsterenthusiastt]

a guide to understanding every problem in modern society

is it bush's fault?

yes no

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damn you dubya then it's reagan's fault

[molotovcocktailparties]

absolutely obsessed with this moment from the new pinely video

[robin-hood-for-freedom]

It's also hilarious to see people assume I'm a republican. As if I didn't come to my political views precisely BECAUSE I hated republicans

[sebengineer101]

Haka at a cemetery during a funeral, where the late Ex-NZDF Army soldier Kane Te Tai is buried.

[sacerdostenebrae]

⸺ 𝕲𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝖂𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝕭𝐮𝐬𝐡.

[internetbt]

[tuttle-did-it]

No... 3 wasn't that good.

But 4 was unbelievably bad.

Yeah season 3 wasn’t actually that bad compared to season 4