angrysoba
Philosophile
Do you remember how we all thought about George W Bush? Dig out some of the things you wrote at the time. It may have been similar to this from Jeremy Osbourne (NSFW):
As bad as people think Donald J Trump is, almost everyone now saying we are in "unprecedented times" forget that they were saying the same goddamn thing about George W Bush.
Remember how he stole the elections, about how he was going to war all over the world (he actually DID begin wars in Iraq and Afghanistan! Remember that, guys?!) and it was argued that he would not step down at the end of his second term and would become a dictator?
In fact, people thought it was even worse than that! Whereas Trump is transparently incompetent and cannot keep anyone on his staff for long, Bush actually did have a competent group of people - Dick Cheney was the brains, the neo-conservatives such as Wolfowitz etc... were the ideological underpinning. He set up the Guantanamo Bay prison camps!
Remember when Kanye West, instead of sucking up to the president in the White House was saying that the president didn't care about black people? Remember Hurricane Katrina and the Astrodome? What about how Neil Young today is complaining that Trump used his music at a rally, when in Bush's term he wrote a whole album denouncing Bush! Radiohead wrote an album called Hail to the Thief about Bush! There were books flying off the shelves about the dark days of the Bush regime and how there was a shift towards fascism. Naomi Wolfe wrote a particularly paranoid pamphlet etc...
I think Trump will lose. He will whine and complain and then he will leave. Or he might not lose (he has a 25% chance of winning according to 538) in which case, there will be some riots, and we will continue to have this tragicomedy for another 4 years.
But anyway, I want to know who you think is worse? Please answer the poll and leave vehement comments on this topic.
As bad as people think Donald J Trump is, almost everyone now saying we are in "unprecedented times" forget that they were saying the same goddamn thing about George W Bush.
Remember how he stole the elections, about how he was going to war all over the world (he actually DID begin wars in Iraq and Afghanistan! Remember that, guys?!) and it was argued that he would not step down at the end of his second term and would become a dictator?
In fact, people thought it was even worse than that! Whereas Trump is transparently incompetent and cannot keep anyone on his staff for long, Bush actually did have a competent group of people - Dick Cheney was the brains, the neo-conservatives such as Wolfowitz etc... were the ideological underpinning. He set up the Guantanamo Bay prison camps!
Remember when Kanye West, instead of sucking up to the president in the White House was saying that the president didn't care about black people? Remember Hurricane Katrina and the Astrodome? What about how Neil Young today is complaining that Trump used his music at a rally, when in Bush's term he wrote a whole album denouncing Bush! Radiohead wrote an album called Hail to the Thief about Bush! There were books flying off the shelves about the dark days of the Bush regime and how there was a shift towards fascism. Naomi Wolfe wrote a particularly paranoid pamphlet etc...
I think Trump will lose. He will whine and complain and then he will leave. Or he might not lose (he has a 25% chance of winning according to 538) in which case, there will be some riots, and we will continue to have this tragicomedy for another 4 years.
But anyway, I want to know who you think is worse? Please answer the poll and leave vehement comments on this topic.
