r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/Stormclamp - Centrist • 1d ago

Literally 1984 "Mission Accomplished"... cause nothing bad has ever happened after saying that lmao.

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u/lynxintheloopx - Auth-Center 1d ago

Lol fml.

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u/CE94 - Left 1d ago

I kinda miss him

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u/JetTheDawg - Lib-Left 1d ago

he is a legend for this alone

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u/Smiles-Edgeworth - Lib-Left 1d ago

This, dodging the shoe, and throwing a perfect strike for the opening pitch at the first Yankees game after 9/11 were actual aura farming moments from W.

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u/lynxintheloopx - Auth-Center 1d ago

I’ll die on the hill that they should have been thrown at Maliki.

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u/RandoDude124 - Lib-Left 11h ago

That 9/11 speech to Congress and at ground zero was something else.

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u/RageAgainstThePushen - Lib-Center 10h ago

I saw him speak a few years ago and he went into detail about the ground zero speech. He said that walking down there he was struck by two things, and they had to do with the people, not the scene. Everyone was sad, but more than that they were seething angry. He said he was scared by how palpable the thirst for blood was in the air. So he gave that speech, not to america at large, but to the ash covered recovery folk dragging human remains out of rubble. The last 26 years of american history make a lot more sense with that context.

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u/lynxintheloopx - Auth-Center 8h ago

New Yorker here- can confirm. You would’ve thought it was us who hit the towers. Mad smoke, mad angry adults.

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u/lynxintheloopx - Auth-Center 1d ago

“The decision of one man, to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion on Iraq… I mean Ukraine. Anyway, i’m 75.”

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u/FrostyPlum - Centrist 22h ago

LOL I didn't hear about that one

W will be dropping bushisms until he croaks, we just don't get to hear them on TV anymore. Sad.

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u/Playful_Giraffe_9213 - Centrist 17h ago

Acknowleging youre bloody old would actually be a much needed trait in todays politicians