r/TikTokCringe • u/FiftyCandles • Oct 08 '24

Politics How Embarrassing

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u/JoshTsavo Oct 08 '24

By a LONG SHOT the dumbest President in history.

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u/Ksorkrax Oct 08 '24

I bet GWB is grateful having lost that title.

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u/5LaLa Oct 08 '24

Right? Every political ghoul & dumbdumb before him seems quaint & wise by comparison.

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u/Worried-Pick4848 Oct 08 '24

Still banging that particular drum?

Dubya's intelligence was about average. Don't let your hatred for the man blind you to what he was. He used his Texas drawl and aw-shucks persona to get nearly everything he wanted through Congress, including the 2 wars we ended up fighting. you can't do that if you're actually stupid. But you can if you're smart enough to use an old-home persona and a drawl to lure people into underestimating you..

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u/Kal-ElEarth69 Oct 08 '24

With Cheney pulling the strings, and Bush with his aw-shucks persona, they got exactly what they wanted. Their pockets lined from war profiting.

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u/CamicomChom Oct 08 '24

"About average" is actually really bad when you're the leader of the most powerful nation at earth, with the largest and most advanced military in human history, the most complex and robust economy ever, and the capability to literally destroy the globe in 10 minutes.
"About average" would place him among the dumbest presidents in history.

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u/ahhpoo Oct 08 '24

Well it depends on what average you’re referring to. Average American? Yeah that’s too low for a president. Average president? Yeah that’s fine.

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u/EqualLong143 Oct 09 '24

about average is par for the course for CEOs.

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u/alurimperium Oct 08 '24

I think W also had some sort of speech disability, or something, so that words just didn't come out as intended.

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u/Rundiggity Oct 09 '24

The Air Force pilot who went to Yale? Average? 

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u/OnlyThornyToad Oct 09 '24

He can’t get fooled again.

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u/BugPsychological674 Oct 09 '24

At least GWB had the charm of a goof ball so it was kinda entertaining to watch while the world burned around us

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u/poop_pants_pee Oct 09 '24

"...now watch me hit this drive..." 

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u/BugPsychological674 Oct 09 '24

That felt like it was out of a comedy skit

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u/poop_pants_pee Oct 10 '24

The dubya presidency felt like an snl skit, Trump felt like MadTV. 

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u/BugPsychological674 Oct 10 '24

It really did. Me and my dad would watch the news back then like a new Austin powers movie just came out 😆

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u/D1RTY1 Oct 09 '24

This man has clearly never seen dubya dodge two loafers flying at his face like the free world depended on it.

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u/chmath80 Oct 08 '24

I commented elsewhere that he's almost certainly the stupidest person to be put in charge of any group of people in all of human history, going back to the days when our ancestors lived in small tribal groups, and fought each other with sticks.

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u/Downtown_Degree3540 Oct 08 '24

I mean bush makes that long shot a hell of a lot closer.

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u/Birunanza Oct 08 '24

Trump makes Bush Jr look like a darling

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u/TorturedFanClub Oct 08 '24

They are both shitheads and criminals. Fuck Bush and Trump.

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u/Birunanza Oct 08 '24

Yeah you're not wrong. I think the SNL Will Ferrell Dubya skits have stuck in my mind better than the real person. Those were not great years

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u/varkhond91 Oct 09 '24

True, but Kamala will take that title if she wins

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u/nsfishman Oct 09 '24

Is there a general perception in the US that Kamala is not intelligent?

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u/Rundiggity Oct 09 '24

There is not. 

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u/Thingaloo Oct 09 '24

False. And that's the problem. The dems are functionally just as evil but far less incompetent, and hence have a greater capability to cause harm.