For those that were following politics 20 years ago: If the crazy negative bias in the media (news, late night shows, Hollywood, etc) against Trump is a 97 out of 100... then what number would you give the treatment George W Bush received at the time?
I remember a lot of George W Bush jokes and hatred during the early part of this century, but I literally did not follow politics AT ALL until the day after the 2016 election when I started to look into it. ONE of the things that I found strange right off the bat was the over the top, nonsensical and hysterical hatred for our new president. It made me intuit, even before Q or anything else, that something weird was going on. But, some argue that Bush was treated the same way by the media (the legal system is another story). For those that paid attention, how different is this?
💯% When Bush was running I believed there were two sides and I had to choose one.
At the 2016 Republican National Convention no form republican presidents or republican nominees for president showed up for the RNC convention in Cleveland, Ohio. No Bushes, no no name, no Romney, other even the republican governor of Ohio, John Kasich, showed up to the Republican convention. I believe only Bob Dole showed up. He was a presidential nominee against Bill Clinton in the 90s. But that was it.
I was like, holy split! George Carlin said there was ONE BIG CLUB and Trump's not in it!
I knew at that moment that Trump would be the bull in the China shop that our country needed. DC is a China shop, they shop for politicians every day and own them.
Trump disrupted it all, and this is the major reason the global corporate media has been going ape split ever since. Going on 8 years!
When Trump is back, he will destroy them all. And we're going to help.
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I always thought Dole was a decent man. Boring, and lower energy for sure. But not (as?) evil as the Bushes, Clintons, NoName etc.
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Dole exemplified the adage, "All that evil needs to triumph, is for good men to do nothing." It would be like voting for an armchair. I can't remember if I even voted in that election.
So your voting decision is based on how entertaining the candidate is/was?
I respected the fact that when he ran for POTUS, he stepped down from his position in the Senate as the majority leader. Lot of power in that role He didn't keep it as, a backup. I also remember reading at the time that the majority of Congress preferred him over Clinton because he did command respect, but they had to toe the party line.
Here are some links that changed my mind. Chinese lobbyist, nice article from a Chinese paper, and his wife was a president of the Red Cross.
https://www.axios.com/2020/05/13/bob-dole-registers-lobbyist-chinese-chemical-company https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3158846/bob-doles-long-influence-washingtons-china-policy-remembered https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/1999-02-07/thanks-to-elizabeth-dole-the-red-cross-is-in-the-pink
Wait. Is he related to the Dole fruit company?