Marquel, TPVs NYTimes For Auld Lang Syne Section correspondent, was watching Al-Jazzera English TV, when he read Jeb Bush’s Revisionist History of the Iraq War.
The would-be president is now parroting the worst propaganda about the run-up to the war. According to old Jeb, if he knew then what he knows now, he would still have marched into Iraq with his BPOUS. Of course BPOUS never marched there but he did fly there in his little soldier suit and his big sign that said we had won.
Not only that but Jeb says we should remember that Hillary would do the same thing, confusing what she did do, which was bad enough, with what she might do now knowing what she knows now, which is that the big sign lied. But of course Jeb is partly right. Only God knows what Hillary might do and even God is wrong about Hillary more often than he’s right.
Marquel found it strange that Jeb, a member of the family that single handedly reduced America from the greatest world power to the level of something like Uruguay or Nicaragua, would take his cues from the two Georges. It’s as if he were in the middle of the French Revolution while watching the line of victims advancing to the guillotine and suddenly got the bright idea,
“Hey let me get in that line!”
But Marquel watched the Jeb interview and noticed that Jeb looked and acted exactly like what he was…the baby brother. He has baby fat around his face, and a bit at the waist, too, and all he wants is to be like the big guys. The Georges.
Baby brothers get fidgety and itchy and usually don’t pay much attention. They know that eventually big brother will push them in the right direction and say something that ends with
“stupid.”
Jeb wasn’t paying attention during the interview. He was asked if he would invade Iraq if he knew then what he knows now. What Jeb knows now is of course debatable but what Hillary knew is less so, and Jeb framed his answer in terms of what Hillary did. He was stuck in 2003 and couldn’t understand the complexities of the question. To prove it would be sensible of him to invade he pointed out that Hillary did too when she supported the original invasion. That was a moment for one of the Georges to kick Jeb in the butt and say,
“listen to the question, stupid!”
So here’s where Marquel and the rest of the serious journalist fraternity, about which Marquel knows absolutely nothing, sort of like Jeb, part company. I don’t think it’s so scandalous for Jeb to say he’ll take his cues from his big brother. What’s he gonna do? He clearly can’t function alone and, like his brothers, has never experienced a thought flow across his brain.
But he needs someone to kick him in the ass, probably several times a day, saying,
“pay attention, and sit still stupid!”
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Fantastic!
This is the shit I needed to read coming home from staring at computers monitoring security and you Marquel made my night. THANK YOU, bro!
I loved this
“Hey let me get in that line!”
so much I keep reading it over and over again and i continue to laugh. Excellent!
You are on a roll. Go, bro, go!
Perfect pitch
Ditto
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