Former president makes thinly veiled swipe at US president’s cuts to HIV and aids initiative
George W Bush has issued a rare critique of Donald Trump over his shuttering of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The former president joined Barack Obama and U2 singer Bono in an emotional video call farewell with staff at the agency on Monday when it officially ceased operations.
After six decades, the humanitarian organisation created by former president John F Kennedy to promote US national security by boosting prosperity and goodwill abroad, is being absorbed into the State Department under the supervision of Marco Rubio.
W, the previous “stupidest president ever” is throwing stones at President Felon? Glass houses, you paint sniffing freak.
Is there a downside to people who did evil things give lip service to good things?
Agree, i never mind when any person who did evil things stands up when another person does something else evil. The more people calling the evil deed out the better.
you know he’s gotta be thankful trump came along and DECISIVELY made W look almost kinda vaguely… presidential. not competent per se but compared to trump, holy hell…
I was 17 years old when 9/11 happened. 2 weeks away from turning 18.
As everybody watched on that day, in horror, I watched from a slightly different perspective. I thought the draft was coming back. I can distinctively remember as it happened thinking I was watching the defining moment of my generation in real time as it happened. Like if pearl harbor had been televised live. And I was right about it being the defining moment, right about knowing war was coming, wrong about the draft.
Instead the war went on for decades with no draft needed. And I watched Bush bumble his way though the presidency. It still baffles me that Bush won in 2004. People saw 9/11, saw 3 years of Bush’s response, and then said “Yes please, more of that!”.
I genuinely thought we had witnessed the dumbest, and most evil president in history.
…and then recently I was wrong again.
unfortunately I can offer insight into this aspect. I lived in south texas around that time.
the GOP is really good at sussing out divisive politics. in 2004, they knew they were in deep deep shit. so… and I really don’t understand the how of this succeeded - but some how they convinced religious white latino and african americans that gay rights - people being able to marry the person they loved - was going to directly disenfranchise them or destroy the concept of marriage. a ton of people who normally would never vote R, and often never vote at all, were whipped into frothing mobs by their clergy to come out and make sure that didn’t happen by putting georgie back in office. and that’s not an exaggeration, they were told by their preachers to come defend jesus by making sure the gays couldn’t marry.
it’s 32 flavors of fucked up racism and hate. then in 2005 katrina hit and any illusion people had that the GOP / Bush admin cared one fucking wit for anyone besides rich white people evaporated. too late.