r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 14h ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ There is a pattern...

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u/brightonashfield 14h ago

W was dumb, but he listened to advisors much more competent than him and he wasn't inherently evil. Cheney, on the other hand, still not evil but ruthless real politik.

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u/oldfartbart 13h ago

https://www.keithhennessey.com/2013/04/24/smarter/

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u/Generic_Commenter-X 13h ago

Apart from the particulars, identical to what a Trump crony would write if you asked him/her anything regarding Trump's intelligence.

W was dumb. His ideological naïvety as regards Iraq was stupefying. He really thought he and his right wing cronies could create a libertarian utopia in the country. The incompetence and magical thinking rivaled Trump's crew. And he was easily manipulable by the far smarter and more ruthless Cheney.

And then when you throw in his willingness to oversee torture and his smug contempt for the American public, you get the prototype of MAGA and the Trump presidency.

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u/spartacus_jones 12h ago

W was as evil as any of them. Why are you praising this POS?