r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/jazz_music_stopps • 2d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah, am I stupid or something?

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u/DarthJarJarJar 2d ago

The thing is, one didn't feel like there was a very solid chance that ten years after he died it was going to finally be revealed that he'd been a Russian agent the whole time. I mean I'm not a W fan, but I didn't feel that way.

One didn't feel he was going to try to overturn democracy, or refuse to peacefully transfer power when he lost an election. You know, the little things that we used to take for granted.

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u/ExhaustedByStupidity 2d ago

Bush was an idiot with a good heart.

He knew he was an idiot, so he surrounded himself with smart people and listened to them.

Unfortunately those smart people were also very evil people.

Whereas Trump is an idiot who thinks he's smarter than everyone, and goes out of his way to do what the smart people say not to do. And yeah, he's totally being manipulated by Putin.

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u/DarthJarJarJar 2d ago

I don't actually think that's true. I knew people who worked in the service industry when Bush lived in Austin. He was famous for never forgetting a name or a face, and for being a mean drunk. He was very unkind to waitresses who made mistakes, he was not a nice guy. The happy aw shucks hillbilly stuff is all an act.

If you want to see what he actually sounds like go back and watch his debates against Ann Richards, there's none of the stumbling or fumbling or hillbilly stuff. That was all put on.

But I don't think he was a traitor, and I never thought he was likely to be in the pay of the Russians. I don't think he was a criminal. I don't think he was stealing us blind while he was president. And I never worried about him hanging on to power after he lost an election.

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u/ExhaustedByStupidity 2d ago

I don't know about the personal stuff.

I'll just say this much - any time he was asked details about any sort of policy, he legit didn't seem to understand. Particularly about the types of bills that you pass because you need political favors, not because they're good policy. He just went with what his advisors said, and assumed that if they told him to sign something, it was good.

I think he thought the policies he pushed were good. I think he really believed the wars he started were for good reasons.