Obviously it’s gonna take time for history to tell the full story … but yeah I think it’s better.
— Former President George W. Bush, in an interview with CBS News, when asked if he left the world a better place.
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Pundits say that Trump’s $5,000 midterm bribe was an overreach,
And they agree that if lies were a crime, he’d be impeached.
Despite all the dividend promises he’s made,
The fact is, not one has ever been paid,
So even before the midterms, he already owes us $8,000* each.
*$5000 stimulus checks via “DOGE dividend”; $2000 stimulus checks via a “tariff dividend”; $1000-plus checks via “savings” from expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies
Tom Bodett, of all people, noted that Bush said the worst moment of his presidency was Kanye West calling him a racist, and the best, as previously noted, was catching a really big fish in Texas. In all, not one of our proudest eight years.