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George H.W. Bush, 41st President of the United States, Dies At 94 (washingtonpost.com)
George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, has passed away tonight at the age of 94. As The Washington Post reports, he was "the last veteran of World War II to serve as president, he was a consummate public servant and a statesman who helped guide the nation and the world out of a four-decade Cold War that had carried the threat of nuclear annihilation." From the report: Although Mr. Bush served as president three decades ago, his values and ethic seem centuries removed from today's acrid political culture. His currency of personal connection was the handwritten letter -- not the social media blast. He had a competitive nature and considerable ambition that were not easy to discern under the sheen of his New England politesse and his earnest generosity. He was capable of running hard-edge political campaigns, and took the nation to war. But his principal achievements were produced at negotiating tables.
Despite his grace, Mr. Bush was an easy subject for caricature. He was an honors graduate of Yale University who was often at a loss for words in public, especially when it came to talking about himself. Though he was tested in combat when he was barely out of adolescence, he was branded "a wimp" by those who doubted whether he had essential convictions. This paradox in the public image of Mr. Bush dogged him, as did domestic events. His lack of sure-footedness in the face of a faltering economy produced a nosedive in the soaring popularity he enjoyed after the triumph of the Persian Gulf War. In 1992, he lost his bid for a second term as president. Bush's spokesman Jim McGrath announced his death on Twitter, but didn't provide the cause of death. In 2012, he announced that he had vascular Parkinsonism, a condition that limited his mobility.
UPDATE: George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, has issued a statement on the passing of his father: "Jeb, Neil, Marvin, Doro, and I are saddened to announce that after 94 remarkable years, our dear Dad has died. George H. W. Bush was a man of the highest character and the best dad a son or daughter could ask for. The entire Bush family is deeply grateful for 41's life and love, for the compassion of those who have cared and prayed for Dad, and for the condolences of our friends and fellow citizens."
Despite his grace, Mr. Bush was an easy subject for caricature. He was an honors graduate of Yale University who was often at a loss for words in public, especially when it came to talking about himself. Though he was tested in combat when he was barely out of adolescence, he was branded "a wimp" by those who doubted whether he had essential convictions. This paradox in the public image of Mr. Bush dogged him, as did domestic events. His lack of sure-footedness in the face of a faltering economy produced a nosedive in the soaring popularity he enjoyed after the triumph of the Persian Gulf War. In 1992, he lost his bid for a second term as president. Bush's spokesman Jim McGrath announced his death on Twitter, but didn't provide the cause of death. In 2012, he announced that he had vascular Parkinsonism, a condition that limited his mobility.
UPDATE: George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, has issued a statement on the passing of his father: "Jeb, Neil, Marvin, Doro, and I are saddened to announce that after 94 remarkable years, our dear Dad has died. George H. W. Bush was a man of the highest character and the best dad a son or daughter could ask for. The entire Bush family is deeply grateful for 41's life and love, for the compassion of those who have cared and prayed for Dad, and for the condolences of our friends and fellow citizens."
Bleh, what's the big deal? Policy hasn't change. Only the hood was taken off. Now you see the real USA
Thus goeth the last Republican politician that I still respected.
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Tho you can say a lot of things good and bad about him, I will always respect how he stood by Dan Quayle as his running mate, essentially knowing it would cost him the election. Any other snark or criticism aside (and there is plenty, sure) I think that speaks a lot to his character.
He was famous for saying, "Read my lips, no new taxes." and then raising taxes. Awful liar.
In retrospect, that was a fairly harmless lie compared to what's come since.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
He's only viewed with rose-colored glasses because the current vulgarian is so awful. He was a warmonger and the US incarceration rate increased 40%(!) during his tenure as President. We're still paying for some of the policies of his era today.
Frankly, I think this country would have been a better/different place today if Michael "card-carrying ACLU" Dukakis had won in 1988. I don't really have much else to say about the guy, honestly. I have no emotional interest in mourning him.
Yeah, another one based on lies!
Damn! It really sucks that people pine over a guy like this only because of what they have elected since then. Christ! we even look kindly on his damn kid now! We are so doomed!
One thing I've marveled at is that he was the most recent President to NOT be reelected. And that was almost 25 years ago. That's probably a good argument in favor of term limits.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
Skull and Bones, Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg Group, and the CFR are truly saddened. This patriarch of the Bush Crime Family will be dearly missed by the Deep State and all its operatives and functionaries..
Seriously, there isn't even a hint of a tech or geek angle to post this story on slashdot.
Ken
Nixon, and even disagreeing with him politically, he certainly did less damage than the congress and Presidents succeeding him, on both sides of the fence.
He's also the last president to have served active deployment in ANY war. Everyone since has been a political or corporate figurehead.
He did a lot of damage. Set the stage for the 2003 homicide spree in Iraq (Gulf War II). Incarceration rate in the US shot up 40% in his term (1989-1993). Obama began to undo some of the damage caused under his and the Gipper's terms.
As opposed to congress/leftovers from Reagan?
Genuinely curious. And besides Iraq, what wars was he involved in? As far as US strategic interests at the time I can't fault it, especially in comparison to Vietnam. Given the success of that war compared to the 'War on Terrorism', it seems like it was a better investment than the wars preceding or succeeding it, whether officially declared by congress or just known by the rest of us as a WIABN (War in all but Name.)
This monsterous filth murdered more women and children than every combined murderer in USA history. Ah, but we're talking about an industrialised nation (the ONLY one) that allowed widespread use of Human slavery AND reveres Presidents who were slave owners and RAPED their slaves (including the kids).
A new level of satanic scumminess for Slashdot.
How you braindead be-tas are played.
Set the stage for the 2003 homicide spree in Iraq (Gulf War II).
No he didn't. He very eloquently and clearly explained why "going to Baghdad" would have been a supremely stupid thing to do in 1991. Everything he said applied just as much in 2003.
It is not his fault that his son was a moron.
"Read my lips, NO NEW TAXES"
"War on drugs"
And ... his good-for-nothing, that 'president went hiding' son, who launched attack on Iraq BASED ON A GODDAMN LIE !!
>But it should also be noted that when Soviet archives were opened in the 1990s, some of the people that Joe McCarthy was accused of unjustly persecuting turned out to have actually been commie agents.
HORSE SHIT LIES.
Homicide spree? You mean Obama's drone campaign? He murdered more children than any other Nobel peace prize winner. Remember when he bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital and then sent gunners in to murder the fleeing doctors and patients? This was 2015. Don't pretend you don't remember.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Didn't he propagate bringing cocaine to America so he could sway politics in Central America asking for my friend with a Coke habit
Go figure, Kendall our resident apologist here to fawn praise over a war criminal and liar like Bush, and then pretend Trump the fraudulent traitor is somehow also due respect. Fuck yourself back to the Klan, Colorado coward.
"788 amendments were submitted during the ACA’s markup in the Senate Committee for Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee (HELP). Three quarters of them were filed by the committee’s Republican members, according to John McDonough, 'Inside National Health Reform.' Of those, 161 were adopted in whole or revised form."
Dishonest cunt can't even admit what the Republicans voted to pass, and still to this day don't have the political support to even revise, update, fix, or get rid of. You're a pathetic helpless whelp Ken Doll.
highly doubtful you respected him while he was president.
A *whole* lot of people who claim to respect him now were claiming he was hitler at the time.
Kind of like Trump now...
No. Bush I had an average approval rating of 61% in office, as high as 89%. ... keep going ...
Guess what Trump's approval rating is?
No, lower.... lower still
Ding Dong the war mongers dead
Nah, according to recent events in the investigation, Trump is gonna be too busy pardoning himself after getting owned by Mueller. There won't be a Trump 2020, Repubs are gonna have to find a new candidate for that election, or hope Mike Pence can campaign on extremism and hatred as hard as he did to win, which is unlikely.
Hopefully once Trump is out of office, Republicans will realign themselves with reality, and embrace common fiscally conservative sense like single payer healthcare and expanding SS. We may see them recover one day, and I would gladly re-register as Republican if they would just get fiscally conservative again.
The apple bounced far from the tree.
Yes, it is. The first war was predicated on falsehood also, stop making excuses you old saggy titted liar.
What falsehood, that Iraq invaded Kuwait?
Are you seriously interested or pretend interested? Ask April Glaspie.
Tell me again how he deserves respect?
During the first Gulf War, when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and Saudi Arabia(*):
Generals: Estimated casualties to take Bagdhad and remove Saddam Hussein, 5,000 US troops.
President HW Bush: Not worth it. End the war. Kicking the Iraqis back to their own country was our mission, not regime change.
(*) Yes Saudi Arabia too, Battle of Kafji. 3 Iraqi divisions invaded, stopped by US Marines and Rangers and a hell of a lot of air support.
Guess what Trump's approval rating is?
More than the new speaker for the Democrats?
"His name was James Damore."
G H W B is D E A D
B S D is D E A D
Dead Things.
Go jump out of an airplane over the Pacific and let us know how much kinship you feel you vicarious-living charade.
Jumping out of a plane going down in flames isn't really the accomplishment. Flying a perfectly good airplane to the island that is heavily defended and known to be commanded by someone who beheads captured pilots and practices ritualistic cannibalism is the accomplishment.
I was not in agreement much the time with the elder Bush when he was in office. But at least he knew enough to look and act the part, and to speak about things in a somewhat intelligent fashion.
My opposition to Trump stems not so much from his political or philosophical positions (he essentially has none), but rather from the fact that he was plainly incompetent and quite possibly detached from reality having spent all his life surrounded by yes-men. He's done nothing but confirm this since he's been in office. Add to that the fact that the same crew who engineered his election victory were also responsible for engineering the Brexit vote.
Oh, and treason. Lots and lots of treason.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Part of G. H. W. Bush's plan was to kill BSD. He pulled out all stops, and used every trick in the CIA handbook. It was ugly, and sad to say, Bush succeeded. BSD is dead, never to live again.
His CIA excursions in Central America are responsible for the migrant caravans.
Are you seriously interested or pretend interested? Ask April Glaspie.
Actually according to Gilespie in her meeting with Saddam a week before the invasion she had him briefly convinced the US would respond, but then he dismissed her and re-convinced himself the US would not.
My son thinks I am the best dad one could hope for, so neargh.
Fun fact: guess what Obama's approval rating was at the same time in his presidency? No, lower...
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
So dont morn this asshole.
Fun fact: guess what Obama's approval rating was at the same time in his presidency? No, lower...
I'm going to guess higher than Trump. Hey I was right. Why would you tell me to go lower? Do you have some blind partisan agenda to support the Organeutan?
George H. W. Bush was a well known aficiando of custom and exotic butt plugs. World leaders routinely gifted George with hand made butt plugs representative of their country's culture. Although not as extensive has his butt plug collection, George's many sets of nipple clamps were the envy of every first family from Canada to Zanzibar. It is essential that these artifacts of his reign be preserved for future generations to marvel over and perhaps enjoy themselves.
Trump is the first US president in modern times to never get above 45%. That can still change, but smart money says it won't.
Set the stage for the 2003 homicide spree in Iraq (Gulf War II).
No he didn't. He very eloquently and clearly explained why "going to Baghdad" would have been a supremely stupid thing to do in 1991. Everything he said applied just as much in 2003.
It is not his fault that his son was a moron.
His son was not the reason why Dick Chaney and corporate America made it a priority to invade Iraq instead of going after Pakistan and the Taliban. At the time Sadam was continuing to manage to ship oil on the sly to Asia and work in conjunction with Pakistan to develop strategic nukes. If Sadam had managed things better then things might have been different, he would not have been caught with his pants down and might have even clobbered the shit out of Dick Chaney and company if he had taken the help that was offered to him on the sly by China and some of the disaffected crowds in Russia. That is why Chaney was in such a hurry to take out Sadam, he was starting to effect the worlds oil supply again and was slowly building up support in Asia and Russia that would soon have made it impossible for the US to control.
No the second gulf war was a war to make certain that oil would only flow to China largely through companies approved by the real oil cartels which are run by the major corporations. Chaney made certain that the big payoff for the US in undertaking the second Gulf war was the sudden dominance in world wide oil patch industries by Halliburton. In Canada Halliburton then swallowed up all sorts of major corps like Schlumberger and the like as a direct result of all the cash they were paid to do the logistics of the second Gulf war. In case you are interested at the time Canada started to ship more oil to the US than any other country or region on earth so the US was not that interested in how Iraq oil effected the world market only that Sadam would stop making his money from it.
The Bush era was and is the era of big oil and the consequences of not diversifying the energy economy fast enough in the US. This is the real legacy of the Bush presidencies, the inability to wean the US off fossil fuels quickly enough. GM and others have finally seen the writing on the wall, as does anyone with half a brain except the petro chemical industry which still runs the United States and far to much of the worlds economy. The legacy of the Republican party and the petrochemical industry in the US is what history will remember the most about the Bush family. And the fact that the oil industry controlled the presidency of the US and led the world down the path to what has is essentially corporate despotism culminating in the presidency of the complete moron puppet that is now in power.
So which former President is he going to pal around with?
George and Barbara couldn't stand him.
Obama? The Obama's despise him for his birtherism crap
George W. Bush? He and Laura wouldnt even vote for him.
Jimmy Carter?
Ronald Reagan snubbed Trump over and over again during his presidency.
What, nothing here about how the Bush family made their fortune from selling steel to Germany during WW2?
GW reminded me of a time when government wasn't so at odds with one another. It wasn't as toxic as it is today, and opposite sides could compromise on issues and actually resolve them. Today we all should be ashamed of how dysfunctional our government is. I hope GW Bush is in a better place without all that nonsense.
It is not his fault that his son was a moron.
You can't just put all the blame on Barbara!
Fun fact: guess what Obama's approval rating was at the same time in his presidency? No, lower...
Obama winning triggered all the deep seated racism in the country, and, all the people who thought, "Hey, I could use that deep seated racism to my advantage." Much of the damage to his approval rating was that, and well simply because it is so hopelessly partisan.
Trump seems to both have deep seated racism and realize that it can be used as a tool to benefit Trump.
I'm a democrat, but I believe all the presidents in my lifetime were patriots, except for the current one. Sure I may have severely disagreed with policy decisions and I thought W was a disaster in his own way, but I'd take W in a heartbeat over the current guy. His late father was better still.
The disapproval of the current president is not because of racism. It is also not really about party. Trump, simply put is about Trump. There are no higher ideals than that. The disapproval of Trump is a rejection of Trump himself, the same way a body would fight off disease.
In fact the best comparison I can think of for Trumpism is a disease on the body of American Politics. We need people like George H.W. Bush to recover from this sickness. We need people who look to do what is right, regardless of the consequences.
George H.W. Bush was instrumental in undermining the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro ... and then bullshitting about it, calling the US a "global leader" for the climate in a speech.
After having got a letter from his buddy Ken Lay at Enron before the event, he made sure sure that the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change's mandatory emission cuts were replaced with voluntary measures. He also got it changed that developing nations would be exempt. For many nations, including the US -- the world's biggest polluter -- this meant no change at all. Also, that China -- then (and for some inexplicable reason, still ) classified as a "developing nation" could increase its emissions.
Greenpeace called him a "environmental degenerate" and a "highway robber".
It has been said by many researchers that have looked back, that if it hadn't been for Bush in '92, the world's climate would have been in a much better state than now.
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
ORANGE MAN BAD? Wow, seriously? Damn I've been talking to an NPC. Wow, I didn't realize it .
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
His other daughter. Just something to think about.
Come now, dont you know by now to never underestimate how low a group of people can get to.
Bet people said the same about the now 2nd lowest rated ex usa president.
Of course not. Now that the media is out of the closet and full on campaigning for Democrats, no Republican will ever get credit for anything positive and all will get bashed. If you think journalists are really unbiased, you haven't seen enough facts.
Yes, Trump has made mistakes and has some seriously wrong positions. But everytime you read or see anything on the news, they throw in some adjectives with negative connotations and add some obvious falsehoods. One example, Trump didn't start a trade war with China. He chose to respond to a lengthy, ongoing one started more than a decade ago.
He'd need a Ouija board to pal around with Reagan, he kind of died back in 2004.
Inheritance is the sincerest form of nepotism.
How this qualifies as "News for nerds, stuff that matters".
Did they at least get the stack dump from his robot body and try to locate the hideout of the other escaped Replicants associated with the New World Order terrorist faction?
The US basically tricked Iraq into invading Kuwait. Kuwait was pumping oil from Iraqi oil fields (horizontal drilling). When they refused to stop, Saddam Hussein met with American diplomats to ask if the US would have any problem with an Iraqi military action against Kuwait. The US told him that it wouldn't be a problem since we don't get involved in regional conflicts.
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he's been at 51% mark higher than obama. but CNN fake news won't report on that.
His grave stone epitaph should read: "No New Taxes".
"NPC" is your little pet name for "people who have access to facts", I'm guessing?
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Yep, Trumpâ(TM)s is almost as bad as Obamaâ(TM)s!
The disapproval of the current president is not because of race.
This just corrects my previous post.
"Go after Pakistan"...?
You DO know that Pakistan has nukes, right?
Are you seriously suggesting that the US should have started a NUCLEAR WAR while simultaneously criticizing W Bush for invading Iraq?
Holy shit, you are fucking crazy.
It is not his fault that his son was a moron.
isn't the moral thing to do to public tell your son is a moron, if he's about to cause a war?
Fun fact: guess what Obama's approval rating was at the same time in his presidency? No, lower...
Fun fact: Obama was dealing with the worst economic situation since the 1930s. Trump has the excuse of... ?
No former President has had a lower approval rating than Trump (going back to Truman):
* https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
Trump hasn't even had an approval rating higher than 50% in the 680+ days he's been in office. No other President has ever that that happen (not even Gerald Ford).
War criminal, mass murder, CIA president, friend of the Bin Linden family and Kuwaiti royalty, that he did not die in prison shows there are is no honor, no justice in this United States. I marched in the street many times to end war his illegal war and to bring him to justice. We failed. To honor this pig and his crimes now fills me with disgust. That "thousand points of light" as a excuse to insure the fate of million homeless that we still face today, begun in the Reagan years.
Your accusation of treason against Trump is that two guys at a Trump rally worse "I'd rather be Russian than Democrat" T-shirts?
Seriously? Out of ALL the things Trump has fucked up, THAT is what you choose to run with?
Ladies and gentlemen and slashdotters, this is what Trump Derangement Syndrome looks like.
Jeb and war criminal son need to die off too. Take Trump with them.
George H.W. Bush, a patrician New Englander whose presidency soared with the coalition victory over Iraq in Kuwait, but then plummeted in the throes of a weak economy that led voters to turn him out of office after a single term, has died. He was 94.
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NO CLASS AP, No CLASS
Obama, in fact, was not consulted with regards Kunduz. And actually, Kissinger, Phoc, De Klerk, Arafat, Peres, Rabin, are responsible for even more deaths, but the most vicious killer among Nobel Prize Winners is probably Anjezà Gonxhe Bojaxhiu with her opposition to providing basic medical care.
You still believe polls - even after the 2016 Hillary has a 90% chance of winning fiasco.
Polls tell you exactly what you want them to tell you.
You're a moronic pedantic coward who never served, you have nothing in common with him or anyone who did, STFU thank you very much.
Judging him based on his glasses is probably the dumbest thing I'll ever read from you, but who knows. You may top yourself someday.
Go jump out of an airplane over the Pacific and let us know how much kinship you feel you vicarious-living charade.
Loser.
He is in Hell. His Nazi-colluding father is in Hell. With any luck, soon his son will also be in Hell. Maybe they can save of cost of living and rent the same lava crater together or whatever. Burn, Bushie, BURN.
Dan Quayle? The man who spoke out against single mothers? Remember when Murphy Brown stopped her hit TV show, broke character, and spoke directly to him and all the misogynist bigots just like him, vigorously defending single mothers?
History judges such people harshly.
Really? I can find no less a liberal site than the Washington Post defending Quayle. Here's what Quayle actually said, BTW, since you didn't bother to quote it and instead prefer to let us imagine something far worse:
The article goes on to point out that yes, single parents are on the rise and it's harmful to the children, and this is backed by scientific research.
This raises the question: why are you denying science based on the word of a has-been celebrity like Murphy Brown?
At the time so many of us hated the 16 years of one Bush or the other in the White House, feeling they were evil men.. but compared to what we're having to endure now, these men were saints. Godspeed, Dubya. History will be much kinder to you than some that came after you.
YES, YES, YES!!!!
No. Moron is what we have now. Bush Jr was of the same caliber as Obama: establishment stooge.
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
Apparently you did not read your own citation. You focus on a vague communique and ignore the face to face meeting where she clearly told Hussein not to use military force.
Plus you ignore the 6 months of military build-up and instructions to leave Kuwait that preceded the US led war.
This story is literally everywhere else on the Internet. Why is it a Slashdot type of story?
I hate this is becoming a generic news site. Now, if Al Gore "Inventor of the Internet" died, that would be different. :P
Strawman. Boring.
I know this is important to world events, but shouldn't this site really be about... science and technology? Post anything you want, of course. It's just regrettable that you set precedents like this. David Bowie was at least weird enough that he appealed to hacker culture....
Well, genetically speaking, it's about half his fault. :-D
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Oh dear, Zontar seems to have pissed off DNS-and-BIND's sockpuppets. I'll bet he's quivering in his boots.
Why yes, Bush, Sr., did fight against the Nazis!
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Funny, those polls were predicting a Democratic wave election and wow they were right!
As "waves" go it was a "Blue Ripple", compared to typical first-term-midterms losses. But you missed a couple other points:
First: He GAINED several seats in the Senate, where it really mattered.
Second: The Rs were going to lose the house anyway. So the US electorate (with Trump's assistance in the form of non-campaining for the R-side swamp creatures), took the opportunity to do some swamp-draining in the House.
Notice it was primarily the RINOs and Never Trumpers (that hadn't already retired) who were the losers.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
I don't believe he ever fought in the European theatre. But unlike some of his successors, at least he was on the correct side.
In the meantime We and our descendants will have to continue dealing with all the ugly mess every president have left.
Trump didn't start a trade war with China. He chose to respond to a lengthy, ongoing one started more than a decade ago.
LOL! You're really going to go with, "We've always been in a trade war with China." Nice one. I've been using that to mock Trump for a while now. Although, I usually say Canada.
Carter will work, he is too senile to know the difference. Hell, if Carter was in office now and used a term the "peanut shuckin'" he would be lambasted as a racist.
Bah ... this is like evaluating a man by how much money he makes or a woman by how many dates she gets invited on.
Trump's approval is higher now than Obama was during this point in his presidency and Clinton never received over 42% of the vote.
And yet, we have always been in a trade war with China. We just didn't know it, but they sure did. To pretend otherwise is..well, kinda dumb.
I worked for a company way back in 1998, some of their manufacturing was was being done in china.
Their Chinese partner simply copied the machine and started trying to sell it. The circuit boards even had the same fake circuits my company had placed in there to show if this occurred.
Get over your petty red-v-blue partisan politics.
I was just pointing out that Bush I comparison to Trump was wrong.
WTF does Obama have to do with that?
Of course approval ratings are not a good metric. US presidents usually get high ratings by starting or escalating a war.
Isn't it a strange Slashdot thing, that a poster makes an assertion and then provides a reference link that states the exact opposite, thus destroying their own assertion.
I don't travel the Internet widely, but I see that happen here more than anywhere else.
remember jfk
It's treason all the way down, baby.
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