Outrage Fatigue

[bigscary]

Bush makes joke about pollution, pumps fist, walks out of room...

...during a G8 session. He's basically the jock from an 80's movie now? "Yeah, we messed up the gym pretty bad. Have fun cleaning it up, NERDS!" [Walk off guffawing and tossing a football back and forth]

Comments

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Wow. I really hope he leaves office before he can start uttering lines like "I did it for the lulz."

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

Heh. Well at least we'll win the talent competition and bone his girlfriend in the end. (Pretend it's Jenna if that helps.)

[hslayer.livejournal.com]

It's hardly the first time he's made a joke about his shitty performance in office. Remember, "Nope, no WMDs under there"?

Honestly, if his presidency were fictional (i.e. without consequences), it'd be riotously funny. It's like having Butt-Head as president. Cheney even looks kinda like Beavis with that grin of his.

Maybe Bush himself finds it all so amusing because he lives in Fantasy Land and doesn't understand "consequences".

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

Wait there's more to that punchline.....

EPA won't act on emissions this year

EPA knocks $900,000 off value of a life

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I DO NOT GET IT. HOW IS HE PRESIDENT? HOW?

I'm suddenly, mortifyingly glad he was restrained for the past seven years with the threat of a) re-election and b) legacy. Because now he doesn't have to worry about the former and the latter is shot to shit anyway, he's completely off the wall. What. The. Shit!?!

[avram]

The thing that makes me sick is the knowledge that when he eventually dies, the news media will give him respectful eulogies that totally ignore what an evil fuckhead he was, just like they did for Nixon.

[jlc.livejournal.com]

Equally impressive:

Mr Bush also faced criticism at the summit after Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, was described in the White House press pack given to journalists as one of the "most controversial leaders in the history of a country known for government corruption and vice".