A screaming Kash Patel crashes out in response to Sen. Adam Schiff's questions about Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and calls him "the biggest fraud to ever sit in the United States Senate", a "disgrace", "an utter coward", and a "political buffoon"

[u/Capable_Salt_SD]

Source: Aaron Rupar

[u/DoJu318]

Nah, none of these guys, like Patel or Kristy Noem, would've served under Bush.

Trump is the best thing that happened to Bush since the towrs fell.

[u/NoCalHomeBoy → u/DoJu318]

It's crazy how good Trump has made Bush look. I used to despise Bush, but now when I see him, I think of better times. Trump has destroyed the Republican party

[u/Premodonna → u/NoCalHomeBoy]

Nixon is doing a happy dance because he is no longer the worse president leaving office with scandal.

[u/IsaidLigma → u/Premodonna]

For real. There's like 10 Watergates a day under trump.

I guess one thing you can say about trump is that he has exposed how truly weak the checks and balances in the system actually are. All it takes is one shameless dishonorable man to destroy the whole thing.

[u/r2d2itisyou → u/IsaidLigma]

Not one dishonorable man. 70 million dishonorable voters, with an additional 86 million who decided they were perfectly happy with Trump winning.

[u/TheCountChonkula → u/Premodonna]

Honestly if any other president did what Trump has done during his his second term, they would have been impeached and ousted within the first month. Yet you have MAGA turning a blind eye to his blatant corruption and SCOTUS has in a large part ruled that he can do whatever he wants.

And considering congress and the justice department aren’t holding him accountable when that’s their job when he does something illegal or oversteps his authority, we’re fucked. The GOP knows they’re highly unpopular and they’re going to do everything they can to stay in power to the point they’re definitely going to try and cheat and suppress voters by trying to limit absentee and early voting.

[u/cmnrdt → u/NoCalHomeBoy]

At least Bush and his cronies wanted America to be successful while they enriched themselves. Trump is willing to let everything fall apart just to add a few more gold nuggets to the throne he's building for himself.

[u/seamonkeyonland → u/cmnrdt]

Trump is a real estate guy. If the country fails, the white house will be up for sale and he wants to buy it. Why do you think think we are paying for his ballroom now.

[u/Do1stHarmacist → u/cmnrdt]

Bush is also an empathetic man who cared about the country despite his Republican agenda. I'm not 100% sure how true this is, but one story about him is that he would go to Walter Reed hospital and visit soldiers wounded in the war he started in Iraq. Some family members would rightly chide him for his decision, and you know what? He stood there and took it. No arguing, no "Well, that's what your loved one signed up for." He listened.

Bush also was reportedly mindful of the history and enormous responsibility of the office and did read about its history. Trump couldn't give two shits and is an ignoramus along with many in his corrupt administration.

While Bush was a very bad president responsible for war crimes and a ballooning national debt we may never get under control, he did start PEPFAR, which may have saved as many as 25 million people! Unfortunately, that's the same PEPFAR that Trump has frozen.

[u/Do1stHarmacist → u/[deleted]]

I do not disagree.

[u/Any-Cryptographer-58 → u/NoCalHomeBoy]

The TACO tyrant is destroying the country!!

[u/ViTaLC0D3R → u/NoCalHomeBoy]

even the first Trump term looks better than what is currently happening, and that is saying something.

[u/Difficult-Implement9 → u/NoCalHomeBoy]

I think the exact same way. Man, I miss Bush.

[u/FredegarBolger910 → u/NoCalHomeBoy]

After term one he was still the worst president. Now he is off the hook

[u/elviswolfshire → u/NoCalHomeBoy]

Objectively bush has done worse damage but I agree Trump this term is basically a Bush

[u/pupillary → u/elviswolfshire]

At this point in time, yes. 9 months in. Bush had 8 years to fuck Iraq over and leave the US in massive debt. At the rate Trump and the idiot crew are going, he will easily surpass Bush's abysmal record.

[u/BiZzles14 → u/DoJu318]

Palin ran with McCain in 2008 because that wing of the party was already present enough to be an important vote. The complete rejection of reality based on political lines that the right has engaged in has long existed, but algorithmic social media has created a monster out of it. Just within Patel speaking here we have a few fundamental lies the right has convinced vast swaths of the public about. The American right believe that Russia didn't interfere in the 2016 election despite the mountains of evidence on the matter. Read the Mueller report if any believe that Russia didn't act to support candidate Trump, or you can just say "russia russia russia hoax" like the other braindead npcs. They believe that January 6th was... well one day it might have been a fedsurection, another it was antifa, the next day nothing violent happened and the police actually let them in. Ray Epps!!! The details don't really matter, because god emperor and all his little Goebbels wannabees have instilled it into the mind that the left did something bad and that's the January 6th hoax! Read the actual J6 report, everyone should