Wilstein writes: "'I know what you're thinking,' Ferrell's Bush said. 'What the heck is this handsome devil doing back in the Oval Office? Well, the truth is, this is just a set. I had it built in my basement in Texas so I can pretend to still be president sometimes.'"
Will Ferrell as George W. Bush on SNL. (photo: NBC News)
Will Ferrell's George W. Bush Reminds America How 'Bad' He Was
28 January 18
With Donald Trump in office, George W. Bush is �suddenly popular AF.�
his week�s Saturday Night Live opened with an Oval Office message from the president of the United States: George W. Bush.
When Will Ferrell�s Bush crashed Samantha Bee�s �Not the White House Correspondents� Dinner� last year, he asked, triumphantly, �How do you like me now?�
This time, the SNL alum and host was here to remind us how �bad� he really was.
�I know what you're thinking,� Ferrell�s Bush said. �What the heck is this handsome devil doing back in the Oval Office? Well, the truth is, this is just a set. I had it built in my basement in Texas so I can pretend to still be president sometimes.�
�I don�t know if you�ve seen the news, but according to a new poll, my approval rating is at an all-time high,� he added. �That�s right. Donny Q. Trump came in and suddenly I�m looking pretty sweet by comparison. At this rate, I might end up on Mt. Rushmore next to Washington, Lincoln, and I want to say Kensington?�
�The point is that I�m suddenly popular AF,� Bush said. �And a lot of people are saying man, �I wish George W. Bush was still our president right about now.� So I just wanted to address my fellow Americans tonight and remind you guys that I was really bad. Like, historically not good. So I get why you don�t like this current guy. Heck, I voted for Jill Stein all the way. But please do not look back at my presidency and think �this is how we do it.� Don�t forget we�re still in two different wars that I started.�
Comparing his vice president to Trump�s, Bush said, �If you knew half the stuff old Cheney was up to, you�d take no cakes for gays in a heartbeat,� adding, �Some say Mike Pence is heartless, but remember Dick Cheney was literally heartless.�
�And Donald Trump thinks the media hates him?� Bush asked �One time an Iraqi reporter threw an actual shoe at me. He took it off of his foot, lobbed it straight at my noggin. Then he gathered himself, took off the other one and tried it again. But you know what they say, �Shoe me once, shoe�s on you. Shoe me twice, I�m keeping those shoes.��
Later, Bush laid out how much he has �in common� with Trump. �We are both the exact same age, even though I was president like 40 years ago,� he said. �We both won the election despite losing the popular vote, though back in my day, we didn�t let Russians rig our election. We used the Supreme Court like Americans.�
The sketch ended with Bush and his former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, played by Leslie Jones, dueting on the theme song from All in the Family: �Boy the way the game was played, everybody knew their place, Cheney shot a guy in the face, those were the days.�
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The 1%ers must deny anything that hinders their extracting resources from the earth. Fracking, oil exploration in the Arctic, coal mining, or even the vast use of pesticides used by agribusiness to produce huge crops. Whatever! That is where they make their money, and from that wealth, they gain and hold power. Secrecy and denial is their stock in trade.
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Why would they be concerned about killing a resident of America under the next republican president?
I don't understand as easily why he defers to the Israeli/Saudi alliance.
After all, the current president* doesn't appear to have any ideological positions on much of anything, and he certainly doesn't have any loyalty to anyone or anything.
So, what exactly is the hold that the House of Saud has on him?
Of course, maybe he will turn on a dime and welcome his new BFFs, the Ayatollahs in Iran if they build some monuments in his honor, buy up all the remaindered copies of "The Art of the Deal" or put his puffy mug on a series of brightly colored Iranian postage stamps. His fecklessness is boundless ... especially if there's money in it for him.
The Cheney/Bush administration doubled down on cooperation with these, their business partners, and focused on Afghanistan as the object of vengeance, instead.
History repeats itself as farce. There you have the whole meaning of the Trump regime.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/23/two-numbers-that-explain-why-trump-wont-sanction-saudi-arabia/
It's also 100% clear that trump thinks he's the "ruler" - the "king" and can do whatever he wants.
Look who his friends are, who he hangs with: his new love - Kim Jong-Un, Putin, Duarte, Xi, the guys from Poland,Hungary and any other 2 bit autocrat. His new love is as corrupt and brutal as they come and trump is sucking on his - thumb. The Saudi guy is just the latest trump love.
Trump thinks he's a mob boss, a bully who can push everyone around. In reality he is a small time wanna-be who is just a punk with a lot of $ (given to him by his daddy), and who is the antithesis of a a true leader.
He loves the autocrats while he calls anyone who does not suck up to him 6th grade names - Adam Schiff, Maxine Water, Hillary, Jim Comey, and so many others; he call our Allies silly names and tries to belittle them.
The world is on to him and friends and foe know who this guy is - and they are all laughing at him and us for putting up this imbecile.
So trump hugs the criminals and belittles our friends and leaders.
And the Congressional Repubs are enabling and rewarding this behavior. This will not stand.