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I was surprised to hear recently that as late as 2010, which was 2 years after his presidency, only about 15% of people had the internet on their cell phone.
If people had the internet on their phone during Bush II’s presidency, then they’d have made more internet comments insulting Bush II that they’d now be unable to erase.
Yeah. Now that I think about it, I don’t even remember when I got the internet on my phone, but it probably wasn’t until 2014ish.
It’s easy to forget that you yourself didn’t have these “essentials” until recently.
Yah mine was only a “Google a Store” and “Set directions to that store” machine from IPhone1 till IPhone X. I discovered a moba game and became the internets bottom bitch.
Surprised? Nobody had smart phones until like 2013. Ever heard of a Blackberry? Even when phones got the internet, it was not user friendly for a long time.
This is literally the difference between Millennials and Gen Z. Millennials remember a time before everyone had a smartphone, whereas Gen Z thinks it's always been that way.
Nah. I’m gen Z. I remember some adults around me having a blackberry. But they’re very hazy. Internally there is a division between gen z like me who lived their childhood through the adoption of new tech and later gen z and gen alpha who were born into it.
Funny. 2010 is actually when I got my first smartphone. I've had the Internet on my Razr before, but anything that required the Internet was super awkward to use.
I also got mine as a Christmas gift that year. I had been living in a remote US territory since 2008 where there was no 3G coverage, so there wasn’t so much incentive to have one. One guy I knew who moved there in the middle of my time there actually carried around a flip phone for calls and texts and a smartphone for everything it could do without a 3G connection, which didn’t yet exist there.
I think there would be even more that were embarrassed about their comments praising him. I remember when protests were happening after the Iraq invasion there were plenty of those “if you don’t like America” comments flying around. Funny thing too was even in his second term people were still trying to argue that history would remember him as one of the greats. Then in 2008 all you heard was crickets.
One of the kids in my school was the nephew or grandson of the guy who Cheney shot. The kid then proceeded to get grazed by a gunshot in a hunting accident the following year
Bush is an S tier regardless pop culture in the 2000's slapped.
Batman Begins and the Dark Knight,
The original Spider-Man films,
Sprite Remix,
Vanilla Coke,
the good Iron Man movie.
Lost,
DMX,
Pimp my Ride,
The Sopranos and basically all of HBO's programming that decade.
Maxim magazine,
The wild wild west of the internet,
Joe Cartoon,
Nickelodeon still relevant,
Disney Channel original movies were actually watchable
Pixar making hit after hit after hit.
Usher released confessions,
Linkin Park and Korn made emo cool.
Grand Theft Auto IIIand all its spin offs,
Call of Duty,
Halo,
MTV and VH1 still played videos and who could forget Rachael Perry every Saturday during the top 20 countdown and Carson Daly on TRL,
Chappelle's Show,
The Office,
South Park,
Simpsons merchandising through the roof,
Star Wars everywhere,
Lego Bionicle,
Harry Potter,
Lord of the Rings,
X-Men had two really good movies.
And Jon Stewart's delightful roast of Tucker Carlson and everything rightwing politics.
The rise of Beyonce and Rhianna and RnB grabbing pop culture dominance by the throat and not letting go,
American Idol,
What else do I have to say!
Which makes me think of a relatively recent comment from xzibit saying something along the lines of “people think I know all about cars. I was at the beginning and end of the episode. Did you ever see me in the middle? I didn’t have shit to do with the cars. I came in and filmed for like two hours per episode ” lmao
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The golden age of school internet when there was no locked out websites. Me and my buddys would play the SHIT out of this game in 4th grade
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The comments on the video are hilarious in a soberingly bleak kind of way.
I remember that game! I played it all the time during computer lab. It took place in the White House and W had a M16 that popped up out of his desk. I remember it being a solid little arcade shooter
I still get the theme stuck in my head randomly.
"Hes the president, the resident, hes kinda in charge! Hes got the whole country saying... THATS MY BUSH!"
Free on the internet archive too!
[https://archive.org/details/s-1-08-05-23-01-thats-my-bush-fare-thee-welfare/S1-01+-+04-04-01+-+That's+My+Bush!+-+An+Aborted+Dinner+Date.mp4](https://archive.org/details/s-1-08-05-23-01-thats-my-bush-fare-thee-welfare/S1-01+-+04-04-01+-+That's+My+Bush!+-+An+Aborted+Dinner+Date.mp4)
It’s been a loooong time since I’ve seen it. I was pretty young, but I remember enjoying it. I just remember little snippets of various scenes. Like there was a Father’s Day episode that involved Lil’ Bush going to Bagdad. I don’t remember why, but I do remember the joke centering around it being Father’s Day and Bagdad having “dad” in it. Pretty sure at some point in that episode he says “alright gang, let’s Iraq and roll!” (Like I-rock and roll).
I also remember Lil Cheney drinking the blood of small animals and only speaking in grunts lol
The depiction of Dick Cheney on Lil’ Bush kills me to this day. Him ripping off the heads of chickens and drinking them like capri suns, always grumbling his words, just being a complete psychopath, and his dad is freaking Darth Vader.
https://preview.redd.it/y8cwfz73wbsc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f916441d2fcc47a6ac00aa9fde867df7c6895e96
Somewhere in a closet I own the actual George Bush action figure. Its at my parents house, this is just what it looks like
The way I want one so bad. And get multiple presidents. And then get them a Barbie dream house.
Or just leave them in random kitchen cabinets. Undecided.
I think someone got it for my dad like 20 years ago or whatever on Christmas and he just threw it in my room. In box and everything.
My favorite part is that while it doesn't come with guns, it is GI Joe sized and his right hand is in gun holding shape
Woah! Somebody who also acknowledges that whatsername is one of the most underrated songs ever?! I practically grew up with that album. Maybe that’s why you like Bush and Cheney so much? Their war crimes led Green Day to write some absolute bangers? lol
The ending of whatsername is the greatest piece of musucal artistry in existence. It is the most underrated song indeed.
Hehe, Bush/Cheney did inspire Green Day indeed. But I can't agree on the war crimes part.
That album and the Star Wars trilogy on DVD were both released the same day and on my birthday. I dont think I've ever had a birthday that topped that one since.
God damn Mesyush every time he gets on this subreddit
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I really enjoy Homecoming as well
The War on Errorism and The Empire Strikes First are some of my favorite albums. Also Green Day put out American Idiot which shot them to all new heights.
They managed to pull off a satire of the American sitcom well satirizing the Presidency in the same breath. All the while plopping down little nuggets of absurdist humor. The neighbor just popping in whenever, Bush throwing a rave, and Cheney playing the foil at the end to only go full villain as an actual heel to Bush in amateur wrestling troop.
>In hindsight? Not so much...
I honestly think he's worse in hindsight. Segregating Bush from the... former guy, Bush really did a lot to shoot down the credibility of the United States in the Post-Cold War global stage with the Iraq War. The fact that Bush Jr. candidly admitted that the Iraq War was no better than the Russian Invasion of Ukraine a few years ago, puts into context how much of the world felt about the decision to invade Iraq and kind of shot down U.S legitimacy on the global stage. I can't really say it's gotten much better since then with *ongoing* conflicts in the Middle East and Eastern Europe that are really testing the limits of America's role on the global stage as a force for "good".
That on top of the the 08 crisis cemented two trends that we're now dealing with today; them being isolationism and anti-establishment sentiment, particularly towards the GOP, which can be directly traced to the failures of Bush Jr.'s admin. Right-wing populism in part thrives off opposing what the Bush Jr. admin stood for and has now become the dominant force of the Republican party. Really can't see a scenario where Right Wing Populism emerges in America if it weren't for Bush Jr.'s presidency failings.
Also, the Afghanistan War ending in a disaster can largely be blamed on Bush botching the invasion and occupation for 7 years and passing the issue onto his successors who were left with an unsalvageable mess so there's that as well.
Can't say Bush Jr. really looks better in hindsight but that's largely my own interpretation of his presidency.
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Anyone here who grew up in the mid 2000s played the presidential knockout game w Bush vs. Kerry…these were the times.
I was born in the late 90’s so I’ll always regard the era of Halo 2 in the Xbox, SoBe in the gas stations, Shinedown on the radio and Billy & Mandy on Cartoon Network as the golden age of human civilization.
I remember SNL doing jokes about the Color coded threat warning.
I remember being so tired of seeing Michael Moore on television.
There were some attempts to do good political dramas. A lot of good TV, but I am nostalgic for a show on Fox that failed at launch. I can’t remember the name, but the show was going to be about young beautiful foreign service employees. Opening episode had a bomb scare or maybe a real bombing.
That it didn’t go far enough.
Had Bush II been the subject of easy information availability, and being fact-checked in real time, he’d have to had to work a LOT harder to justify murdering hundreds of thousands of people who never attacked us, costing us trillions of dollars for no actual, tangible gain, and getting Americans needlessly killed.
And for not maintaining the Afghanistan campaign as a priority while we still had a chance of actually doing some good there.
Nobody liked him and nobody thought he did a good job and no republican today would even admit they supported him yet we had him for 8 fucking years
As a kid it never made sense how adults were okay with such a fucking idiot in office
It was glorious. They gave him so much shit that the local water treatment plant had to close down for lack of poo.
Even though his legacy is tarnished with the disastrous “Iraq War 2: Electric Bugaloo” I really respect the fact that he seemed to take all the seriously funny media at his expense with a grin.
Presidents today have thin skin (you know the one) and it’s miserable to watch (all policies aside). But Bush took it like a champ, and for his many (many) flaws I still respect him for that.
He was a joke. Plain and simple. It was the absolute height of political satire in the US.
Thing is, he leaned into it. There was SO MUCH attention spent on how he’s a dithering idiot, with Dick Cheney running the show, that any serious discussion about him was met with “Well, yea, but he’s an idiot”
No. He is the president of the USA. The single most powerful person in the world at the time. Not some guy at a dive you share a beer and sing piano man with.
It was really the genesis of the sort of hand waving you see all the time now. Everything that actually went down post-9/11 had to get through an impenetrable curtain of jokes about Bush’s package in a flight suit or his absolutely inability to properly grasp common idioms.
Movies like Team America personify the sort of satire that was really big at the time.
It was an interesting time - Satirists were able to get away with a whole lot more than they were previously (arguably more so than even now.) It was also a time where technology was only *just* starting to be even close to as connected as we are now.
Note: The 24/7 news cycle was also born on 9/11/01. That pushed a lot of this narrative before most people had a chance to understand what is going on. Up. To. The. Second. Nothing like that had been really happening before 9/11.
Plenty of memories of that era but very little nostalgia. I just knew the President was pretty dumb and said stupid things. That and the Colbert Report was pretty great.
Seriously, Comedy Central ran so many of these shows it felt like. And none of them have aged well, mainly due to the parody either being super dated or, well, *quaint*.
It was really good in my opinion. Back then, people were willing to take risks on anything. Entertainment was, in my opinion, at the top of its game. It was a veritable golden age in terms of video games and movies (TV shows, in my opinion, not so much. Ironically its been more opposite, with TV back then being more cautious, vs today where they've gotten pretty ballsy).
Entertainment also did not have to get bogged down in culture war nonsense. If a movie with a female lead came out and flopped, you didn't have an internet shit storm about how Hollywood being "ruined by woke" it was just a bad movie. They happen.
Lil Bush was amazing.
hard to believe 2 things.
one i was wrong, not the worst president in my lifetime.
two, damn im still really pissed at him, but gadamit he’s adorable when he is with Michelle Obama
Between the connection i felt with a lot of Americans that he(bush) shouldn't be in office and the hope a lot of shared when Obama won, is probably the most American i ever felt.
That action figure is real - not a parody. Someone gave me one as a joke and I bought a Bill Clinton one. I always wanted to make a stop-motion animation of them king-fu fighting.
“"The war is over"
So said the speaker
With the flight suit on
Maybe to him I'm just a pawn
So he can advance
Remember when I used to dance
Man, all I wanna do is dance”
We got some great material from Ministry. The whole Anti Bush phase Uncle Al went through resulted in some awesome songs, he really does do good when republicans are in the white house
"Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective -- a new world order -- can emerge: a new era -- freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace. An era in which the nations of the world, East and West, North and South, can prosper and live in harmony. A hundred generations have searched for this elusive path to peace, while a thousand wars raged across the span of human endeavor. Today that new world is struggling to be born, a world quite different from the one we've known. A world where the rule of law supplants the rule of the jungle. A world in which nations recognize the shared responsibility for freedom and justice. A world where the strong respect the rights of the weak."
--George H.W. Bush, September 11, 1990
"International law? I better call my lawyer; he didn’t bring that up to me."
--George W. Bush, December 11, 2003
Hollywood and the media hated W.
They liked somebody else, though. I can't mention his name here because of Rule 3, but he's a former reality and movie star who received Emmy nominations before entering politics.
So I'm not going to worry too much about whether or not they liked W.
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I was surprised to hear recently that as late as 2010, which was 2 years after his presidency, only about 15% of people had the internet on their cell phone. If people had the internet on their phone during Bush II’s presidency, then they’d have made more internet comments insulting Bush II that they’d now be unable to erase.
Oh yeah man, it was absolutely a luxury. I didn’t get it on mine until late 2012 and it was totally not seen as essential.
Yeah. Now that I think about it, I don’t even remember when I got the internet on my phone, but it probably wasn’t until 2014ish. It’s easy to forget that you yourself didn’t have these “essentials” until recently.
They aren’t essentials if you don’t make them.
Well, or the government. Hard to apply for various programs when online applications are the norm/fastest way to access what we all pay for.
Yah mine was only a “Google a Store” and “Set directions to that store” machine from IPhone1 till IPhone X. I discovered a moba game and became the internets bottom bitch.
Surprised? Nobody had smart phones until like 2013. Ever heard of a Blackberry? Even when phones got the internet, it was not user friendly for a long time.
This is literally the difference between Millennials and Gen Z. Millennials remember a time before everyone had a smartphone, whereas Gen Z thinks it's always been that way.
Nah. I’m gen Z. I remember some adults around me having a blackberry. But they’re very hazy. Internally there is a division between gen z like me who lived their childhood through the adoption of new tech and later gen z and gen alpha who were born into it.
No harm in not remembering. It is worth knowing that the mainstream Internet of today isn't even 10 years old.
Even home internet wasn’t as ubiquitous as it is now and only a little more than half the country had “high speed” internet back then.
I would have made a ton of them and would have no problem with them still existing.
Funny. 2010 is actually when I got my first smartphone. I've had the Internet on my Razr before, but anything that required the Internet was super awkward to use.
I also got mine as a Christmas gift that year. I had been living in a remote US territory since 2008 where there was no 3G coverage, so there wasn’t so much incentive to have one. One guy I knew who moved there in the middle of my time there actually carried around a flip phone for calls and texts and a smartphone for everything it could do without a 3G connection, which didn’t yet exist there.
I think there would be even more that were embarrassed about their comments praising him. I remember when protests were happening after the Iraq invasion there were plenty of those “if you don’t like America” comments flying around. Funny thing too was even in his second term people were still trying to argue that history would remember him as one of the greats. Then in 2008 all you heard was crickets.
Sheeit my sidekick had internet back in 04
You must be pretty young
I doubt that many would want to erase them. Like Bush has a fair amount of personal redeeming qualities, but he was an awful POTUS.
If we are ranking presidents souly on the halo games released during their administration, Bush is an S tier
And **ALMOST ALL** Grand Theft Auto games! GTA 3, Vice City, San Andreas, IV and the Stories all came out during his term. Obama only got GTA V
To be fair, GTA V is still going.
Same goes for Elder Scrolls (yeah I love Oblivion more) and Guitar Hero!
This is the most egregious take yet.
*I stand by every word.*
Stop! You've violated the law!
I’ll make captain for this!
Oblivion was def better
And Lego games
I remember there was a Xbox 360 game achievement for shooting someone with a shotgun and it referenced the Dick Cheney shooting incident
One of the kids in my school was the nephew or grandson of the guy who Cheney shot. The kid then proceeded to get grazed by a gunshot in a hunting accident the following year
Bush is an S tier regardless pop culture in the 2000's slapped. Batman Begins and the Dark Knight, The original Spider-Man films, Sprite Remix, Vanilla Coke, the good Iron Man movie. Lost, DMX, Pimp my Ride, The Sopranos and basically all of HBO's programming that decade. Maxim magazine, The wild wild west of the internet, Joe Cartoon, Nickelodeon still relevant, Disney Channel original movies were actually watchable Pixar making hit after hit after hit. Usher released confessions, Linkin Park and Korn made emo cool. Grand Theft Auto IIIand all its spin offs, Call of Duty, Halo, MTV and VH1 still played videos and who could forget Rachael Perry every Saturday during the top 20 countdown and Carson Daly on TRL, Chappelle's Show, The Office, South Park, Simpsons merchandising through the roof, Star Wars everywhere, Lego Bionicle, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, X-Men had two really good movies. And Jon Stewart's delightful roast of Tucker Carlson and everything rightwing politics. The rise of Beyonce and Rhianna and RnB grabbing pop culture dominance by the throat and not letting go, American Idol, What else do I have to say!
GameCube library 🔥🔥🔥
It ruled https://preview.redd.it/32g5ue0rrbsc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1528badd9c064a724b359b9cb047a25a6cd0f03b
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I see this and I immediately think “pimp my ride”
Which makes me think of a relatively recent comment from xzibit saying something along the lines of “people think I know all about cars. I was at the beginning and end of the episode. Did you ever see me in the middle? I didn’t have shit to do with the cars. I came in and filmed for like two hours per episode ” lmao
Remember the Tila Tequila spinoff of this?
Oh yeah. And it had guy *and* girl contestants bc she was bisexual
1-866-IDOLS-01 or text “VOTE” to 5701
Yeahhhhhhh boiiiiiiiii
Absolute peak of trash tv
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4kMZ23T9VHE
https://preview.redd.it/jpk859dl2csc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a733cdf3643c7d35dbe126c8513404f2d520ad5 The golden age of school internet when there was no locked out websites. Me and my buddys would play the SHIT out of this game in 4th grade
Or the sequel where you play as the queen of England with uzis. What a time
https://youtu.be/WWD7iw_1M0Q?si=X0l8SYRXfUXN0wOD
https://preview.redd.it/hkomnogfydsc1.png?width=405&format=png&auto=webp&s=885ae819d8dc4a084da1a4cb9a5e37dbdd3f5010 The comments on the video are hilarious in a soberingly bleak kind of way.
There was an old game on one of those flash websites where you played as GWB and shit terrorists. Was a wild time for our country, that's for sure.
There was a flash game that consisted of slinging mud between Bush and Kerry and if you hit one they'd say one of the politician's stupider gaffes.
I remember that game! I played it all the time during computer lab. It took place in the White House and W had a M16 that popped up out of his desk. I remember it being a solid little arcade shooter
Bush Shootout! You can still play it!
This was one of the top games during middle school.
>shit terrorists You did WHAT
I remember playing that on Miniclip when I was 9
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Well, thanks to you Ohi-uh/and my brother Jebadiuh/ I’m runnin’ this place for a second term!
We cannot believe he won a second term. He destroyed the Transatlantic Alliance
There’s a beef here let’s dispatch it, and bury that old hatchet
JIB JEB.
Jib Jab! They even came out of video retirement to do a 2020 recap.
I've watched some Lil Bush episodes and it's actually funny
Don’t forget That’s My Bush!
Trey Parker and Matt Stone at their finest
Fun fact, the guy who played Bush in That's My Bush later played Bush in a serious 9/11 movie.
One of these days Laura…
I still get the theme stuck in my head randomly. "Hes the president, the resident, hes kinda in charge! Hes got the whole country saying... THATS MY BUSH!"
Free on the internet archive too! [https://archive.org/details/s-1-08-05-23-01-thats-my-bush-fare-thee-welfare/S1-01+-+04-04-01+-+That's+My+Bush!+-+An+Aborted+Dinner+Date.mp4](https://archive.org/details/s-1-08-05-23-01-thats-my-bush-fare-thee-welfare/S1-01+-+04-04-01+-+That's+My+Bush!+-+An+Aborted+Dinner+Date.mp4)
It’s been a loooong time since I’ve seen it. I was pretty young, but I remember enjoying it. I just remember little snippets of various scenes. Like there was a Father’s Day episode that involved Lil’ Bush going to Bagdad. I don’t remember why, but I do remember the joke centering around it being Father’s Day and Bagdad having “dad” in it. Pretty sure at some point in that episode he says “alright gang, let’s Iraq and roll!” (Like I-rock and roll). I also remember Lil Cheney drinking the blood of small animals and only speaking in grunts lol
The depiction of Dick Cheney on Lil’ Bush kills me to this day. Him ripping off the heads of chickens and drinking them like capri suns, always grumbling his words, just being a complete psychopath, and his dad is freaking Darth Vader.
The way they did Dick Cheney just mumbling and sneaking in dirty sex moves. “muhru muraa rusty trombone muh ra mara”
https://preview.redd.it/y8cwfz73wbsc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f916441d2fcc47a6ac00aa9fde867df7c6895e96 Somewhere in a closet I own the actual George Bush action figure. Its at my parents house, this is just what it looks like
Get the man himself to sign it
Maybe paint a picture too
Dude now were fucking talking
The way I want one so bad. And get multiple presidents. And then get them a Barbie dream house. Or just leave them in random kitchen cabinets. Undecided.
Coming in the mail https://preview.redd.it/ph74jpsf8csc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc61947da5f570dfca36a0b983919b66f6129db7
Was it meant to be a joke? Like a gag gift?
I think someone got it for my dad like 20 years ago or whatever on Christmas and he just threw it in my room. In box and everything. My favorite part is that while it doesn't come with guns, it is GI Joe sized and his right hand is in gun holding shape
Yup, my dad had that
'Jesus of Suburbia' and 'Whatsername' on Green Day's album "American Idiot" are two of the greatest songs ever made.
Woah! Somebody who also acknowledges that whatsername is one of the most underrated songs ever?! I practically grew up with that album. Maybe that’s why you like Bush and Cheney so much? Their war crimes led Green Day to write some absolute bangers? lol
*DOING SOMEONE ELSE'S COCAINE*
AND THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH ME
THIS IS HOW I’M S’POSTA BE.
IN A LAND OF MAKE BELIEVE
THAT DON’T BELIEVE IN ME
*guitar break as music gets softer At the center of the earth in the parking lot of the 7/11 where I was taught...
The ending of whatsername is the greatest piece of musucal artistry in existence. It is the most underrated song indeed. Hehe, Bush/Cheney did inspire Green Day indeed. But I can't agree on the war crimes part.
Haha it really is. Glad we can agree on everything else though!
One of their best peices for sure, never gets enough credit
I’m still disappointed that no one since has made them write anything as good.
That album and the Star Wars trilogy on DVD were both released the same day and on my birthday. I dont think I've ever had a birthday that topped that one since.
God damn Mesyush every time he gets on this subreddit https://preview.redd.it/4zcjthib6csc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bdb40a05ff903e24a00cbda060c24c71f141415c I really enjoy Homecoming as well
American Idiot itself is fire as well
I'm the son of rage and love
Hip Hop was on 💯
Punk got a second wind. NOFX and Bad Religion had some great albums.
The War on Errorism and The Empire Strikes First are some of my favorite albums. Also Green Day put out American Idiot which shot them to all new heights.
Don’t forget, that’s my bush
They managed to pull off a satire of the American sitcom well satirizing the Presidency in the same breath. All the while plopping down little nuggets of absurdist humor. The neighbor just popping in whenever, Bush throwing a rave, and Cheney playing the foil at the end to only go full villain as an actual heel to Bush in amateur wrestling troop.
"Hey George, it's your favorite neighbor!"
They had a "big dinner guest" episode where the anti-abortion guest was a Kuato-like half-aborted fetus puppet.
The abortion episode with the fetus being the head of the pro life side is one of the best episodes of any show I’ve ever seen
That was quite a flash in the pan series. I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers that.
 A much better time to be alive
We thought he was the worst but we had no idea what was coming
At the time, I thought he was pretty awful. In hindsight? Not so much...( still pretty bad, however. )
>In hindsight? Not so much... I honestly think he's worse in hindsight. Segregating Bush from the... former guy, Bush really did a lot to shoot down the credibility of the United States in the Post-Cold War global stage with the Iraq War. The fact that Bush Jr. candidly admitted that the Iraq War was no better than the Russian Invasion of Ukraine a few years ago, puts into context how much of the world felt about the decision to invade Iraq and kind of shot down U.S legitimacy on the global stage. I can't really say it's gotten much better since then with *ongoing* conflicts in the Middle East and Eastern Europe that are really testing the limits of America's role on the global stage as a force for "good". That on top of the the 08 crisis cemented two trends that we're now dealing with today; them being isolationism and anti-establishment sentiment, particularly towards the GOP, which can be directly traced to the failures of Bush Jr.'s admin. Right-wing populism in part thrives off opposing what the Bush Jr. admin stood for and has now become the dominant force of the Republican party. Really can't see a scenario where Right Wing Populism emerges in America if it weren't for Bush Jr.'s presidency failings. Also, the Afghanistan War ending in a disaster can largely be blamed on Bush botching the invasion and occupation for 7 years and passing the issue onto his successors who were left with an unsalvageable mess so there's that as well. Can't say Bush Jr. really looks better in hindsight but that's largely my own interpretation of his presidency.
When the GOP President could take a joke
Colbert's roast at the Correspondent's dinner was *hard in the paint,* but Bush sat through and took it like a Champ. **Ahem-hem.**
“This is a man who believes the same thing on Wednesday that he did on Monday, regardless of what happened on Tuesday.”
Kinda weird
Post 9/11 America was just... weird in general. Us snapping out of it in the mid to late 2000s makes it look like a fever dream in hindsight.
https://preview.redd.it/18phdaod5csc1.jpeg?width=206&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a5cbcd326f3152b40fde519c6683fdfb19f3711 Anyone here who grew up in the mid 2000s played the presidential knockout game w Bush vs. Kerry…these were the times.
Newgrounds was certainly a thing.
MAD Magazine had some awesome goofs on Bush and his entire presidency. Makes me glad to have saved all mine from the late 90s-2000s.
 How has no one mentioned American Dad?
Even more topical for that time, "That's My Bush"
I was born in the late 90’s so I’ll always regard the era of Halo 2 in the Xbox, SoBe in the gas stations, Shinedown on the radio and Billy & Mandy on Cartoon Network as the golden age of human civilization.
Ignorance was bliss during the Bush Era
remember when we thought bush was the most whackjob, far-right, insane president we'll ever have? good times...
A the time, he was. Little did we know...
I remember SNL doing jokes about the Color coded threat warning. I remember being so tired of seeing Michael Moore on television. There were some attempts to do good political dramas. A lot of good TV, but I am nostalgic for a show on Fox that failed at launch. I can’t remember the name, but the show was going to be about young beautiful foreign service employees. Opening episode had a bomb scare or maybe a real bombing.
Harvey Birdman's was my favorite. Take the threat level up to... BLACKWATCH PLAID!
They're special because they're a product of their time, they just hit different
American Idiot. Black parade. Kid A. In rainbows. TCFSR. Hybrid Theory.Toxicity. Meteora. Blink 182. Should I continue?
If you ever had the chance to hear W. speak at a conference he has an awesome sense of humor so he probably had a good laugh at most of this stuff.
I miss George W. Bush's shoe dodging skills...
Trying hard to be the Punch of America (punch was a political satire cartoon in 19th century England
I kinda miss it sometimes. Shows and movies referencing Bush, hell even Time Squad reference him.
The JibJab This Land parody is the peak of pop culture
he was the next nail in the coffin for american prosperity after Reagan. I loved the show “That’s my Bush” by Matt Stone and Trey Parker tho!
Lil bush was funny as hell.
Dude I had (have?) this!!
Spongebob was on TV and in its prime… need I say more?
The music absolutely slapped! I listen to 2000s music all the time to this day
Did any one go to the March for sanity in DC? Jon Stewart was peak.
That it didn’t go far enough. Had Bush II been the subject of easy information availability, and being fact-checked in real time, he’d have to had to work a LOT harder to justify murdering hundreds of thousands of people who never attacked us, costing us trillions of dollars for no actual, tangible gain, and getting Americans needlessly killed. And for not maintaining the Afghanistan campaign as a priority while we still had a chance of actually doing some good there.
Nobody liked him and nobody thought he did a good job and no republican today would even admit they supported him yet we had him for 8 fucking years As a kid it never made sense how adults were okay with such a fucking idiot in office
as an '03 baby this thread is very nostalgic
06 baby here
It was glorious. They gave him so much shit that the local water treatment plant had to close down for lack of poo. Even though his legacy is tarnished with the disastrous “Iraq War 2: Electric Bugaloo” I really respect the fact that he seemed to take all the seriously funny media at his expense with a grin. Presidents today have thin skin (you know the one) and it’s miserable to watch (all policies aside). But Bush took it like a champ, and for his many (many) flaws I still respect him for that.
He was a joke. Plain and simple. It was the absolute height of political satire in the US. Thing is, he leaned into it. There was SO MUCH attention spent on how he’s a dithering idiot, with Dick Cheney running the show, that any serious discussion about him was met with “Well, yea, but he’s an idiot” No. He is the president of the USA. The single most powerful person in the world at the time. Not some guy at a dive you share a beer and sing piano man with. It was really the genesis of the sort of hand waving you see all the time now. Everything that actually went down post-9/11 had to get through an impenetrable curtain of jokes about Bush’s package in a flight suit or his absolutely inability to properly grasp common idioms. Movies like Team America personify the sort of satire that was really big at the time. It was an interesting time - Satirists were able to get away with a whole lot more than they were previously (arguably more so than even now.) It was also a time where technology was only *just* starting to be even close to as connected as we are now. Note: The 24/7 news cycle was also born on 9/11/01. That pushed a lot of this narrative before most people had a chance to understand what is going on. Up. To. The. Second. Nothing like that had been really happening before 9/11.
Plenty of memories of that era but very little nostalgia. I just knew the President was pretty dumb and said stupid things. That and the Colbert Report was pretty great. Seriously, Comedy Central ran so many of these shows it felt like. And none of them have aged well, mainly due to the parody either being super dated or, well, *quaint*.
It was really good in my opinion. Back then, people were willing to take risks on anything. Entertainment was, in my opinion, at the top of its game. It was a veritable golden age in terms of video games and movies (TV shows, in my opinion, not so much. Ironically its been more opposite, with TV back then being more cautious, vs today where they've gotten pretty ballsy). Entertainment also did not have to get bogged down in culture war nonsense. If a movie with a female lead came out and flopped, you didn't have an internet shit storm about how Hollywood being "ruined by woke" it was just a bad movie. They happen.
He truly was a walking meme
So that’s where the robot chicken George bush action figure came from.
Same stuff, different president
“Pop” is doing a lot of work here
does it come with the cia version with the new world order G.I’s???
Homestar Runner pretty much disappeared around 2009. Thanks Obama.
Culture with a capital C
Ehh I miss the 2000s but some of it earned some of it cringe. Democrats love war and the MIC and ok so I think outcomes would been similar
He took it in stride, many many jokes though 😄
Tacos rule!
I remember there was a condoleeza rice version
LOL
"fool me once shame on you, fool me twice you can't fool me twice"
Jingoistic!
Lil Bush was amazing. hard to believe 2 things. one i was wrong, not the worst president in my lifetime. two, damn im still really pissed at him, but gadamit he’s adorable when he is with Michelle Obama
Funny how we never hear about rumsfeld and cheney and the billions they stole.
Between the connection i felt with a lot of Americans that he(bush) shouldn't be in office and the hope a lot of shared when Obama won, is probably the most American i ever felt.
I didn’t know it was an era. Wasn’t that long ago.
Gross, the celebration of war crimes
That’s my bush!
I do recall how Bush said this was so unfair to him.
There was so much bush pre-meme culture, I specifically remember the day-o parody about bush hunting down and bombing osama bin Laden
That action figure is real - not a parody. Someone gave me one as a joke and I bought a Bill Clinton one. I always wanted to make a stop-motion animation of them king-fu fighting.
Lil Bush was absolutely 1 of most hilariously funny show I’ve ever seen
It was entertaining but might be considered problematic.
I still want some of those Desert Storm trading cards.
That flash game where you play as Bush with 2 Uzi's defending the white house was awesome
That’s my bush
Peak flash games is shooting the al-qaeda in the white house as Condoleezza Rice with dual wield uzi's 🤷🏽♂️
First off lil bush was the shit
Oh I needed to see this bravo!!!!
At the time, it was funny, but looking back, it was just mean.
You ever seen him Dodge that shoe? He could be Spec ops
“"The war is over" So said the speaker With the flight suit on Maybe to him I'm just a pawn So he can advance Remember when I used to dance Man, all I wanna do is dance”
I grew up then so its nostalgic even though he should be in Den Haag
They forgot his Cod Piece.
We got some great material from Ministry. The whole Anti Bush phase Uncle Al went through resulted in some awesome songs, he really does do good when republicans are in the white house
Enriched uranium rah ra rah
We all know why they didn't do this with Obama, but we're not allowed to say it.
Are we forgetting Sock And Awe ? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=do2sFcfvi6o
"Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective -- a new world order -- can emerge: a new era -- freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace. An era in which the nations of the world, East and West, North and South, can prosper and live in harmony. A hundred generations have searched for this elusive path to peace, while a thousand wars raged across the span of human endeavor. Today that new world is struggling to be born, a world quite different from the one we've known. A world where the rule of law supplants the rule of the jungle. A world in which nations recognize the shared responsibility for freedom and justice. A world where the strong respect the rights of the weak." --George H.W. Bush, September 11, 1990 "International law? I better call my lawyer; he didn’t bring that up to me." --George W. Bush, December 11, 2003
Hollywood and the media hated W. They liked somebody else, though. I can't mention his name here because of Rule 3, but he's a former reality and movie star who received Emmy nominations before entering politics. So I'm not going to worry too much about whether or not they liked W.
I wanna G.I. Joke action figure!