Donald Trump attacks George W. Bush on 9/11, Iraq

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Cites rayiner · 2025-02 · on “Palantir Drops 10% on Report of Pentagon Slashing Budget”

Yes, and then Trump destroyed the Bush dynasty in one debate and took over the party: [this video] . To the point where Jeb’s son couldn’t even win the nomination for Texas AG, and Cheney’s daughter was thrown out of Congress.

Cites rayiner · 2025-03 · on “U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine”

There’s no “propaganda network.” America has a president that overthrew the GOP leadership by destroying Jeb Bush over the Iraq War: [this video] . After the mistakes of the last two decades, there is little appetite in America to do anything in foreign countries americans can’t find on a map beyond empty virtue signaling.

Cites rayiner · 2025-03 · on “U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine”

You think random factoids are driving Trump’s viewpoint? Trump overthrew the Bush dynasty by eviscerating Jeb over the Iraq War: [this video] . Now, neocons want to chalk that up as bad execution of an otherwise sound ideology. But you don’t think that Trump’s supporters could genuinely disagree with that assessment—think that the underlying problem is that america is too willing to intervene militarily in places that don’t directly affect the U.S.? You think that view is driven by Russian propaganda? The way I see it, Ukraine is the test case for the foreign policy populist Democrats have long supported. The Cold War is over. The likelihood that Putin will invade Germany or France next is low. R

Cites rayiner · 2025-03 · on “U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine”

By the time I was growing up in the 1990s, Korea and Vietnam were widely regarded as mistakes. And then I saw the US make a $6 trillion mistake with the Iraq War. So when Trump called out America’s latest “big fat mistake,” that’s basically what he was running on: [this video]

Cites rayiner · 2025-03 · on “U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine”

I don’t know if you’ve been following American politics. But the guy who is currently President captured the GOP by basically beheading the next-in-line of the Bush dynasty that was responsible for those “past 20 years.” [this video] The criticism of decades of American foreign policy was finally vindicated. So there is very little appetite to give up that achievement by getting embroiled in yet another war that’s billed as “easy” and “just” this time (they all were—remember, “we will be greeted as liberators?”)

Cites rayiner · 2025-05 · on “Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left”

> The USA’s global influence and entanglements goes all the way back to the Monroe Doctrine and grew substantially after WWII The U.S. had virtually no engagement with the world outside the western hemisphere between the GOP’s formation in 1854 and World War I. Between Lincoln’s election in 1861 to World War I tariff rates exceeded 40%: [LINK] > It still doesn’t explain how he won the GOP primary the first time and continues to maintain a cult-like following. He won the primary because he curb-stomped Jeb Bush on live TV and called for immigration bans when Rubio was proposing amnesty. [this video] . He maintains a cult-like following because he’s the first republican in recent memory to actually

Cites WillPostForFood · 2025-08 · on “What does Palantir actually do?”

Trump launched MAGA by attacking the Iraq war, and the Bush family. This is 2008: “When she first got in and was named speaker, I met her. And I’m very impressed by her. I think she’s a very impressive person. I like her a lot. But I was surprised that she didn’t do more in terms of Bush and going after Bush. It was almost – it just seemed like she was going to really look to impeach Bush and get him out of office, which personally I think would’ve been a wonderful thing,” Trump told Blitzer in the interview. “Impeaching him?” Blitzer asked. “Absolutely. For the war. For the war,” said Trump, referring to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. “Well, he lied. He got us into the war with lies, and I mean

Cites 0xDEAFBEAD · 2026-01 · on “Loud noises heard in Venezuela capital, southern area without electricity”

People forget that Iraq was a key wedge issue which allowed Trump to gain mindshare within the GOP: [this video] A fairly optimistic way to spin this situation is as follows. Either it somehow works out for Venezuela, in which case we effectively helped millions of people Homer Simpson style. Or, more likely, failure disgraces Trump the same way it disgraced GWB. Then (fingers crossed) we elect a humbler, more realistic leader who works to rebuild the country we wrecked, and we can move on from the Trump era.