George W. Bush's Paintings of Immigrants

• 37:45Tim criticizes Bush for painting immigrants while ignoring the millions killed in his wars and the use of depleted uranium in Fallujah.
• 38:14Bush's 'Portraits of Courage' project actually focuses on immigrant subjects despite the framing.
• 38:41The painting includes a random assortment of ethnicities—Muslim, Black, Hispanic, lesbian, Pacific Islander, Eastern European—that reads like a diversity checklist.
• 39:14One figure in the painting looks like a Nazi bartender incapable of getting aroused, not an immigrant at all.
• 39:51The upper left portrait appears to be Martina Navratilova, a tennis player, raising questions about what constitutes an 'immigrant' in Bush's vision.
• 40:03Tim compares Bush's immigrant paintings to what Trump might do—release a line of chocolates shaped like historic Black figures during February.
• 40:38Trump's hypothetical chocolate busts would use dark and milk chocolate depending on the historical figure's skin tone.
• 41:05The idea is so repulsive it would somehow become palatable to the media because they'd be distracted by a new villain.
• 41:24Once a new boogeyman emerges, Trump would be freed up to pursue similarly obscene ventures without scrutiny, just like Bush is doing.
• 41:39Tim suggests the media's attention will inevitably shift to a new target, creating space for previously controversial figures to operate unchecked.

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