they were trying to make you mad
it worked

>>128938665
Were there though? Only a few stand out to me. Like Green Day and NIN Year Zero. Most people just did their own thing. Like the whole hipster NYC stuff. Many were oblivious to the real ruin coming their way (2008 crisis).
Except this little ditty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp4GdI_bTD4

>>128938665
he was pretty unpopular, similar to Trump actually

>>128938736
Not really. He won two elections, pretty easily. You have to get out of bubbles. Even if you want to beat them, you have to understand what you're up against. I think Sun Tzu said that...probably.

>>128938752
Trump won easily too, Bush had a 34% approval rating at the end, same as Trump at the end of his first term

The Iraq war was a huge thing, American Christians murdered 100,000+ muslim civilians including women and children. That didn't sit well with a lot of people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE2r7r7VVic

>>128938752
>Bush won easily in 2000
retard

>>128938757
Covid pissed a lot of people off about Trump, but he won again.
Either way, one side is not overwhelmingly pwning the other. Everyone gets in these spaces where they believe they're kicking the shit out of the other side, but it's not how it works. Most people are really middle of the road and can swing slightly either way. And mostly, they just want to be left the fuck alone and take care of their own lives and families. While it's a bunch of retards fully immersed in each side signaling that they're conquering the world.
Bush really screwed up though by pivoting to Iraq, for sure. He probably would've been seen in a much better light if they just took care of the Taliban in Afghanistan. There was a lot of good will towards him even from Democrats after 9/11, but he took advantage of it to invade Iraq on bunk shit.

>>128938770
Yeah, I knew you'd get in your panties in a twist about that. Bad wording on my part, I guess. What I mean more is this ->>>128938781
That he wasn't getting his shit kicked in an exaggerated bombastic way, like some of you love talking like. The world isn't completely sucking your dick 24/7 or thinking exactly like whatever celebrity band you listen to. You're not owning everyone, so stop talking like it.

>>128938665
they didnt think it would become so much worse

>>128939079
Yeah, Bush only sent American kids to die in the Middle East desert LOL.
But Trump, you know, he said so many mean things that I'm still shaking! It certainly became so much worse.

>>128938665
gee man I don't know what happened in American specifically between the years of 2002 and 2008 that would have pissed people off. I'll give you a hint; even Republicans now pretend like they were always against it...

>>128939095
In addition to Clinton getting rid of Glass-Steagall (which was a Depression era law that regulated banks and prevented shit like 2008). Then Bush taking over after him and going full retard with these deregulated conditions in the real estate market. It ruined the entire world economy, which still has ripple effects and is fucking over basic living conditions even for zoomers 10 years later. But being the mean orange guy on Twitter is so much worse.

>>128939095
>>128939266
Zion Don kept all of Bush's wars ongoing, is threatening to re-invade Afghanistan and removed the post-Great Recession regulations Obama put in place to prevent another crash. You don't have to pretend he's good just because Bush also stinks.

>>128939266
>In addition to Clinton getting rid of Glass-Steagall (which was a Depression era law that regulated banks and prevented shit like 2008)
Unconstitutional FDR era power grab, and no other First World country had a comparable law.

>>128939378
>automated bot reposting NPR editorials

>>128939219
>I'll give you a hint; even Republicans now pretend like they were always against it

you do realize that it's not even really the same voter base as 2004, after all 20 years was a long time ago

>>128939554
It's simply the truth. Trump is controlled by the same corporate and Jewish neoconservative interests as Bush. Why you like one but not the other is bemusing.

Best times of my life were when this based retard was in office. He'll always be over with me.

never forget the Bushes were never small government conservatives no matter how much Dubya pretended to be a Texan good ol' boy; they were always New England nanny state liberals

>>128939665
>nanny state liberals
Bush's biggest "achievement" in the first term pre-911 was cutting taxes for the wealthy and his largest second term goal was to privatize Social Security. H.W. was definitely more in the New Deal tradition of Eisenhower, Nixon and Ford though.

>>128938665
It was TDS 1.0. I remember marvelling at how almost every celebrity/artist lost their shit over Bush at that time, like some performative ritual. It wasn't even 15 years until orangemanbad, and by then it all made sense: '04 was a primitive form of TDS. I dread what they'll be like 15 years form now. At their current rate, they'll probably detonate a nuke.

>>128939665
^This. Nobody who signs the Patriot Act is a small government conservative, who are you fooling?

>>128938752
>claims bush won both elections pretty easily
>doesnt know what a hanging chad is
Nice larp zoomer

>>128939778
probably worse really because that was when being edgy and shocking was still a thing and openly encouraged

having a fake right wing is always worse than having no right wing. Reagan and Trump fucked over the right more than any shitlib could dream of. Trump just discredited all right wing ideas and nationalism and set back the right a decade. now the left is gaining momentum and will win 2028.

the right hasn't been in power since 1945 but hopefully will once all the fake right zionist garbage is over.

>>128939762
no more so than the liberal god LBJ also cut taxes when he lowered the income tax rate from 90 to 66% i guess

>>128939582
Really, Millenials are the biggest voter bloc now and most were underage and couldn't even vote in 04.

>>128939219
lol the funny thing was John Kerry ultimately lost because leftist voters stayed home and boycotted when they realized that he would have continued 90% of Bush's policies.

>>128939266
The shit that made it so bad was Obama and Dodd-Frank bailing out the banks who knew the entire shit was going to fail
If the banks had been let to fail the economy wouldn't be in a state of endless depression like we have now
the perpetrators would have been led to the guillotines
instead they made trillions by collapsing the global economy

>>128938665
Because many sided with the terrorists after 9/11

>>128939993
The thing you need to understand is that the DC establishment is all the same handful of people who went to the same colleges and have mostly the same ideologies. They pretend to hate each other for theater's sake--I mean, Rachel Maddow attended Dick Cheney's funeral. Trump was a total outsider to that world which is why they shit their pants and went above and beyond to try and stop him.

He sent thousands of Americans to die in Iraq because israel told him to. He also did 9/11

>>128940025
of course it was. just like how FDR caused what would have been a 4 or so year depression to drag out a decade. Europe mostly recovered by 1935 but there wasn't any proper US economic recovery until '41 and wartime jobs erasing unemployment.

>>128939266
this. the "booming" 90s economy is what led to 2008.

>>128940045
Inshallah, brother.

>>128940060
What led to 2008 was the country being bankrupted by the cost of the War on Terror.

>>128940045
Okay Muhammad

>>128940068
>>128940079
Shalom and happy hannukah

>>128940335
Settle down, Muhammad

>>128940355
Keep carrying the jew's bucket, shabbat goy

>>128938665
>war on terror
>patriot act
>financial collapse

>>128938665
never saw a good anti Trump one though you'd think there would be

>>128940687
anti-trumpers are now all on the right. the left is dead after 10/7.

>>128940687
Probably because tards vent their spleen on SM now instead of on an album.

>>128938665
He was one of the five greatest presidents in American history. And popular music is written and performed by children and fools.

>>128938665
Maybe because Bush and Blair were warmongering morons who antagonised thirties to terrorist attack us, rather than just leaving them alone for a bit to kill each other.

>Be white and republican
>Defined by patriot act and war
>"I wonder why the entertainment industry hates this guy..."

>>128938665
because he was a shitty president
same reason why we get anti Trump songs
we should have gotten more anti Raegan songs though

>>128940976
I bet you liked Reagan too

>>128938665
all leftists are mentally ill, no exceptions

>>128938665
It was a safe stance to take.

>>128938697
>NIN Year Zero
i push da buh-ton elect a office uh huh uhuhuhuh

>>128942347
>same reason why we get anti Trump songs
Can't even say I really remember any.

>>128942217
>Defined by patriot act and war

Is it me or did neither of those things stop happening under Obama's watch?

>>128943242
I don't remember the actual songs I just remember them being called "FDT" or some variant thereof

>>128939095
>>128939266
>propagates a conspiracy theory about winning the 2020 election
>signs executive orders that are way beyond president's reach
>doesn't listen to courts
>embarrasses the US in front of the entire world
>is friendly with a dictator instead of aiding a West-friendly country fighting a war
>starts an economic war with allied countries
>threatens to invade sovereign nations
Bush was a saint compared to this

>>128943258
>Bush was a saint compared to this

This is the same exact complaints made about Bush in 2004, you're not fooling anyone, NPR -kun.

Bush was mostly quite bad, the best part is that at least he kept feminists/Afroleninists/LGBT corked up and they had no power when he was president.

>>128943296
I don't remember Bush denying an election loss and threatening to annex Greenland and Canada

>>128943296
>This is the same exact complaints made about Bush in 2004, you're not fooling anyone, NPR -kun.
^this. those of us who are not zoomers remember...

no TDS gets close to the level of foaming at the mouth Bush derangement in 03-04

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People forget that in late 2001-mid 2002, most people supported the Afghanistan War to avenge 9/11. It wasn't until late 2002 that the neocons lost people with their Iraq autism. People act like we immediately went from 9/11 to Iraq, but there was Afg between them.

>>128943689
not that they wanted you to remember prominent Democrats saying since the 90s that Saddam did in fact have WMDs

>>128943711
I agree but the difference is Clinton didn't do a full-scale invasion, he lobbied some cruise missiles at Saddam. If Clinton did a full-scale invasion and botched occupation then voters would've (justifiably) hated him like Bush.

>>128943711
>not that they wanted you to remember prominent Democrats saying since the 90s that Saddam did in fact have WMDs

Again, the reason Kerry lost is the left perfectly well knew he was 90% the same as Bush and boycotted.

lol it's funny because i remember Cuckgau column from 04 where he says "so I voted for Nader because Gore was so lame but now even though Kerry is also lame voting 3rd party doesn't work and it's better to just vote for the mainstream Dem candidate for the fuck of it"

>>128943801
>voting 3rd party doesn't work and it's better to just vote for the mainstream Dem candidate for the fuck of it"
This situation was deliberately cultivated

>>128943801
>a boomer said a thing
in all of the presidential elections going back to 92 the only ones where young not boomer voters voted for the Democrat candidate was 92 and 08.

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>>128938665
It had to do with the fact that there were no weapons of mass destruction and 30% of the military stationed in Iraq killed themselves. They fucked the general and the tactician who invented the surge strat too. Now the guy who invented the strat gets harrassed any time he walk by a tv, radio or windows based computer. The patriot act killed all your freedom and it's still in effect today yet they never speek of it. You pay them to lie to you and use you. Shut that Taylor Swift NFL shit off.

>>128943890
thanks for the tip, Reddit

>>128943750
No. Bush won because he was installed by zionists.
Get out of the left-right mindset.

>>128943903
anon is a coward and has never killed another.

>>128943908
>Get out of the left-right mindset.
And into raw dog schizophrenia? No thanks.

>>128944122
no. into refined cat dementia.

>>128938665
He was easy to hate and easy to make fun of. Bad policies, spying on American citizens for the sake of national security and waging war against Iraq without a clear objective. The only people who think he was a republican are democrats.

>>128944319
>spying on American citizens for the sake of national security and
>anon comes to the amazing revelation that civil liberties tend to be disregarded during wartime

>>128938801
This image is literally a decade old now and you’re still triggered by it

>>128938665
because he was a shit president who started a war for no reason you fucking idiot.

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>>128943242
Gorillaz made a whole album about Trump.
>The album features political themes, taking inspiration from the 2016 United States presidential election. Albarn has described the album as the soundtrack to "a party for the end of the world," envisioning a "dark fantasy" in which Republican candidate Donald Trump won the election, which was still considered a remote possibility at the time of recording.

>>128943258
I don't believe anti-trumpers think that election wasn't rigged AF

Trump was consistent at least, he always opposed the Iraq War since 2003 unlike assorted parties who only opposed it when a Republican was occupying the White House.

>>128938665
Bush was kinda proto-Trump because his approach to foreign policy was very 'might makes right', which buttflustered a lot of 'good people' around the world

>>128944727
Just like Trump with Venezuela

>>128945392
and yet Obama neither ended any wars, the Patriot Act, or closed Guantanamo Bay. funny how that works.

>>128945450
when are you guys gonna figure out that we don't actually give a shit about Obama or think he was not another generic neocon

>>128938752
Bush's approval ratings were in the toilet until 9/11, and he had one of the lowest approval ratings in history at the end of his second term. He only got reelected because of 9/11. Everyone absolutely hated him because he was a retard. He was reprehensible to both conservatives and leftists

>>128946973
No he's right. Trump's approval ratings are supposedly terrible, yet every single "le working class" knuckledragger (that doesn't do any actual work by the way) you can throw a stick at loves him to an irrational degree, if you actually go around and talk to them, and he got elected twice as well. Bush didn't actually do anything that the scum masses didn't want, he only enacted their mass-murderous will, the fault is on the voter base, not their representatives. Because right wing vermin have no redeeming qualities whatsoever, the whole point of the Bush meme pivot is not actually anything ideological, but just another way to dodge accountability

>>128945476
You don't realise he was a Kenyan socialist or that, that is why you should be mad at Obamna

>>128938665
Lots of partisan money put into "Rock the Vote" etc youth-outreach, back when Dems cared about young White voters

>>128947142
Bernie will never be president.

>>128946973
>Everyone absolutely hated him because he was a retard. He was reprehensible to both conservatives and leftists
t. was 2 years old in 2004

>>128945476
and yet the usual big mouths like Green Day and Stephen Colbert said absolutely nothing when all that stuff continued and Obama killed hundreds in drone strikes

>>128949343
They didn't care when the person was black and had a D after his name
>Drone strikes
They kinda cared, then 2016 election happened and they brushed any Obama controversy under the rug because "Trump bad". By the Biden administration, they stopped caring entirely and started openly wishing red neighborhoods get drone struck or nuked because "Red voters and gun owners bad!". Basically who gives a shit about what they think about drones anymore.

>>128949343
neither of those are actually left wing anyway just moar neoliberal mouthpieces

peak Bush butthurt was mostly in 2003-04 and dropped off significantly after he was reelected

Remember when Kerry was speaking at a university or something during the 04 election and this leftist kid in the audience got kicked out for asking "Hey weren't you in the Skull and Bones Society same as George Bush?"

I don't even remember differences between the left and right in the 90s/early 00s.
I think the difference was something like dems wanted to spend 10% more than republicans and that was sort of it.
Then Obongo came in and the left went absolutely insane.

>>128949557
Kerry is also the reason people say "THiisSSSsss PrrraaAAaAAaasiiideennt" instead of just "the president"

>"I actually did vote for the $87 billion. But that was before I voted against it."

>>128949905
>>128949557
that's very funny and nostalgic to me 'cause that was the first presidential election i was old enough to follow from start to finish

>>128949271
Yeah, no shit

TDS sufferers got nothing on talk.politics posts in 2003.

>>128949601
The left has pretty consistently been about common sense neoliberalism for decades now. They were talking about climate change and healthcare back in the 70s and 80s, it's the right that schizophrenically morphs faces. One day a neocon, then a libertarian, then a personality cultist, then a neo-nazi, on and on it goes, it's choose your own adventure. All to distract and escape their failures, which are innate to them.

>>128950223
>The left has pretty consistently been about common sense neoliberalism for decades now
that's not left wing that's neoliberal capitalism, bro

>>128950242
That's what the le left has been about for decades now. If you like free trade and don't want to be tariffed on top of jacked up shipping rates, you're a woke radical leftist, antifa member

>>128939665
>>128939787
the bushes are far from being liberals but dubya's whole texan boy schtick was a very carefully crafted image largely orchestrated by his dad because dubya was such a fuckup for half his life. one of my history teachers in school was doing his phd at yale and taught an undergrad class with dubya. said he was a typical frat boy that didn't care about anything except drinking and doing blow.

>>128943689
rumsfeld floated invading iraq to the NSC in the days following 9-11. they always wanted to do it, it just took them time to get their bullshit reasons together.

>>128950316
it was mostly Saudi Arabia that lobbied for it they really wanted Saddam gone

>>128949601
and the right had a meltdown over a Black man becoming president*
FTFY

>>128949343
Oh yeah drone strikes, that's a throwback, I remember when Obama got elected and the right pretended to be libertarians for about 5 minutes pooh-poohing the collateral damage of drone strikes. Keep in mind the irony, they had just enacted an 8 trillion dollar purposeful bloodbath of women and children in a seething bloodlust a decade earlier. Then Trump won and increased drone strikes, but the issue stopped being talked about the second Obama left office

>>128950342
>lol really both sides are dum anyway tune out and smoke weed XD
go back into your crypt, George Carlin

>>128950349
>go back into your crypt, George Carlin

Was he wrong though?

>>128940042
^This.

also as anon said, nobody gives a shit about Colbert or the other talking heads and nobody thinks they're "left wing." doubt he's ever even read Marx anyway.

>>128950370
That kind is really just a neoliberal capitalist who just has a beef with Republicans or something because he thinks they'll ban him from weed and gay butt sex.

>>128950349
>lol really both sides are dum anyway
Well, I mean, they are.

>>128950223
the identity politics shit only happened after obongo
before that dems were all for quashing illegal immigration, were against fag marriage, they even had welfare reform

the left became disillusioned with Obama a year and a half into his administration anyway so w/e man

>>128950349
No, I didn't say that. The right bad, one side bad. They are a low quality people

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>>128950342
Rightoids get collective amnesia every few months. You can't get them to admit to what their positions were even 6 months ago.

>>128950349
Rightoids love seething day and night about Carlin but there's one thing he'll never get called: wrong

>>128950417
>>128950411
>2025
>still falling for the two party meme when they're 90% identical
Shig.

>>128950399
No the le left never supported 10xing the ICE budget for 50% more results, Reagan did amnesty, Trump didn't solve the issue in his first term, the wall wasn't built, the amount of illegals as a percentage of the population has been pretty consistent for years. Fake nonissue
>gay marriage
You were pretending to be in favor of this as recently as 10 years ago

>>128938761
damn this shit was fire but it looks like the billionaire political elite are winning. elon musk listens to this shit while he releases the fucking hounds to chase down and capture the immigrants he's going to throw into a concentration camp somewhere in south america

>>128950426
Oh I get they're largely the same, but one side is way more vocal on this website so they constantly need to be put in their place

>>128950349
>THE ENEMY IS HERE AND IN CONTROL
>THEY OWN EVERYTHING--BANKS, CORPORATIONS, THE MEDIA, MOST OF CONGRESS
>THEY CONTROL EVERYTHING YOU SEE AND HEAR
>THEY HATE FREETHINKERS LIKE YOU AND ME BECAUSE WE'RE ONTO THEM
>THEY'D GLADLY KILL 600,000 ARABS IN A WAR
>THEY'LL KILL A COUPLE THOUSAND AMERICANS, TOO, WHILE THEY'RE AT IT
>WE KNOW WHO THEY ARE, TOO
>WHITE REPUBLICAN MIDDLE CLASS CHRISTIAN BANKERS

>>128951467
Where's the lie? Oh right, you don't like who he says is responsible.

I suggest people like you go look up the nationalities of all of the CEOs of all the financial institutions involved in the 2008 recession. It will be quite eye-opening for you but even then you'll most likely deny it.

>>128938665

https://archive.org/details/AF007

>>128938665
he was terrible, that's why it's funny to see these musicians and hollywood types claim he was better than Trump

>>128951684
Because Bush said he disliked Trump, and by then they basically forgot about every bad thing Bush did. Similar shit with Obama where even a couple liberals were angry at him, but were willing to forgive and forget all of it because Trump, to the point where they claim "Obama had literally no controversy", as if drone strikes, Snowden leaks, and not closing gitmo never happened.

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>>128938665
hmm yes what could have possibly gone on between 2001 and 2009 to make everyone hate one man???
https://youtu.be/mfPe8jV1DlE?si=Yr_CFspU16y5iqZW

>>128952483
>NOFX on 1/20/09
...

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>>128938665
Leftists act like children when they lose

>>128951684
people like bush because he's funny as hell lol

>>128949905
>I did... not...
>INDEED I DID

>>128952686
please explain what happened on 1/6/21

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>>128938665
>uses deformative heeb expressions to create anti-Bush JR kino

AH yes! The days I 'member
https://youtu.be/V-O4x5aRz0c

>>128952842
A bunch of trumptards tried to storm the capital, but made the mistake of not storming the media as well.

>>128952842
Two guys in Halloween costumes knocked over an end table in the Capitol Building, caused AOC to shit herself.

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>>128952842
>N-NOTHING HAPPENED I-IT WAS A PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION!

>>128952842
we almost took our country back

>>128953062
What happened after George Floyd died?

>>128950467
they didnt support 10xing ICE because they had not been importing 5 million illegals every single fucking year you retard
>non-issue
WhY cAnT i AfFoRd tO bUy a HoUsE?!
WhY hAvEn'T I gOtTeN a RaIsE iN 20 YeArS?!

>>128950467
gay marriage didn't pass in California in 2008 because black people came out to vote for Obama and voted against the fags

>>128952842
In all seriousness, most people just stopped caring after recent political violence (attempted and successful), the only ones that care are social media libs who more or less use it as a "this you?" gotcha argument more than anything, and whiny journos who failed to hype it up as this generation's 9/11.

>>128938665
The draft was still in effect. People were scared of being sent off to die in the jungle.

>>128953101
>rightoid desperate to change the topic asap because he doesn't want to admit his side committed insurrection and everyone involved got pardoned
lol
lmao

>>128938665
Oversaw the creation of the patriot act and started a retarded war which was massively unpopular. It became a meme that he had fore knowledge of 9/11 as well.

>>128938665
because leftists must rage for the machine. Obama was just as pro war and authoritarian as Bush but they all sucked his dick

>>128939378
You mean Obama.

>>128943689
When we invaded Iraq in March of 2003, over 70% of the us public supported it, including Biden and Clinton who both voted for it.

It didn't lose 50% approval until mid 2004 when it started dragging.

>>128950342
The right didn't care about the drone strikes - they cared about the hyperbolic hysteria over when Bush did it, as opposed to the lack of any criticism when the left did it.

There was more outrage over Trump deporting an MS-13 violent gang member here illegally, than there was when Obama ordered the death of an American citizen via drone strike without a warrant or judicial oversight. That's a fucking problem.

Look at Covid era shit where everyone was being told to lock down and stay apart for safety - then all of a sudden when it was time for the Goerge Floyd Riots, doctors said "It's more important to riot than care about covid safety"

They all back leftist violence and criminals.

it's almost 2026 and you stupid goys are STILL playing partisan politics

>>128954509
they should have given Trump points for having always opposed the Iraq War since it began instead of opposing it only when his party wasn't in the White House

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>>128954893
you have to understand how stupid they are

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S1uc47j1Q4

>>128954795
The site is taken over by the election tourists, every single thread is either a /pol/ thread or inactive, every second not arguing politics is spent thinking about politics.

>>128954893
The invasion itself was a resounding success, Saddam removed in 3 weeks. What was not a success was a multi-year occupation for no purpose outside enriching military contractors that Dick Cheney had stocks in.

>>128955067
yeah no shit

>>128955067
Next to Biden, he was easily the most corrupt vice president in modern history.

>>128947142
This screams projection