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George W. Bush's Veteran Paintings in the Airline Magazine
from Joel Osteen's Ark · #60
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3 minTim rants about an American Airlines magazine spread celebrating George W. Bush's paintings of veterans and himself in a bathtub, arguing Bush was a worse war criminal than Trump despite the media's rehabilitation of him.
- 14:44George W. Bush's early paintings—a back-in-tub piece with gray hair and toes sticking out has a lustful energy.
- 15:09Tim's problem: Bush painting the people he sent to an unwinnable war is one thing; the press celebrating it is another.
- 15:40Bush is learning to paint now but showed no intellectual curiosity for eight years while miring the country in two unwinnable wars.
- 16:11Tim argues George W. Bush might have been worse than Trump—responsible for millions of deaths and total regional upheaval through preemptive wars.
- 16:45People's outrage over Trump is partly about style and personality rather than actual harm—W. Bush is a war criminal, Trump not yet.
- 17:02You can't say that yet about Trump.