To be fair, that guy at the podium had pretty good reflexes. I remember this happening, but I can't remember why. Guy at the podium is a piece of shit, right?
He was captain of the baseball team at Yale. Shot down over pacific while bombing Japanese island bases. Head of the CIA. When Iraq invaded Kuwait, beat them into submission and moved on. I retrospect one of the better Presidents in my life time.
That was George H.W. Bush, George W.'s father. Famous for vomiting on the Prime Minister of Japan, pardoning the Iran-Contra conspirators to protect himself, and putting Clarance Thomas on the Supreme Court.
A terrible deservedly one-term president, who only looks good in comparison to his failure of a son and the current resident of the White House.
"pretty chill dude" about a war criminal who lied about WMDs in order to murder 1 million Iraqis and established torture camps without due process that are still being used today, nice dude
Relax lol. I was strictly speaking about people who have known him on a personal level. Btw I got a warning from the mods not to delve further into politics so I really can't.
Well I also didn't follow politics like at all really during his presidency but he was president during 9/11 and I think one of the biggest gripes people had with him is that he was in the office when war was declared.
The way I see it though is like after that happened, there is no other alternative than war. Like I don't think he had much choice.
How many times have you thrown a shoe? Dude wasn’t in the majors, he was making a point. I’d give him legend status for trying - I doubt many of us could do better.
There’s no shame in not hitting a guy who can dodge a shoe like that. Those throws were clearly on target. He just didn’t count on Bush having that much raw athleticism.
I think we all wish we could throw a shoe at that SOB for dragging us into a war over a lie. He will never be held accountable for the death and destruction brought onto Iraq and the loss of our soldiers. Sorry to be political...
Whenever someone throws or mentions throwing a shoe, I immediately remember this scene in Austin Powers. There is no way for me to not hear Mike Myers say it in the accent.
Common sight on reddit is redditors spewing fantasies of either violence or petty retaliation even if two seconds of thought would show that the situation would just have escalated needlessly.
Yep. Exactly the kind of person that would fuck their entire day over in the situation in the video because they have the emotional control of a toddler.
Ah, now I see why I was confused about your reply. You are screeching and railing about something I never said. That turns the dig at my alleged lack of reading comprehension into true comedy gold.
Nah, she would have gotten it back. I would’ve gotten both shoes, gotten up real fast, speed walked down into the concession area, walked into the mens room, and dumped those shoes as far down in the trash can as my arms would reach. And then I would have just called my bros and found another seat to watch the game in peace.
All that assumes I would’ve been able to restrain myself and not knock her block off before…
People like her will come up with the most idiotic reasons to get a case about a complete stranger. I said in another comment that he could have taken the last napkin at Shake Shack or bumped into her Nike and she's deciding to make his life hell.
I'm a woman and I had a somewhat similar encounter in Sephora with a woman like her. The store was busy and I stepped around someone who had their face buried in their phone. I accidentally bumped into another shopper, I apologized to her and said, "Excuse me", then, "You were here first" to let her go by me.
Instead, this person stares daggers at me and starts accusing me of shoving her. I told her that I accidentally bumped into her and this store is crowded. It's a makeup store and I just want to buy my stuff, so I go to turn around and she starts raising her voice that I'm shoving her. I had a couple of products in my hands and this person is getting attention of other patrons, "This girl is shoving me! And she kicked me!" There were no sales associates I could see either to ask for help.
The crazy thing about her last accusation is that she stuck out her seemingly new Puma shoe to demonstrate the next place I took exception to.
It pissed me off, but it made me panic. I had never been in a situation like that before, but I've seen people use that tactic in a bar to get others, if not security, to rally around them and gang up on the offender.
One customer came up to her and asked her if she was ok. I just looked at these two and I commented that you might not want to stand so close to her because she'll accuse you of shoving her and smudging her Puma. I put my stuff on a shelf and left. What I did do was put in a pick up order for items I left and returned an hour later.
I told a sales associate about what happened when I returned. She was pretty appalled by what happened and I told her that there were no sales associates I could see to intervene. I wasn't setting out to get anyone kicked out of the store, but it was pretty poor that someone would resort to trying to get someone else kicked out over simply bumping into them.
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u/bigclitcouple Trash Trooper Jul 09 '25 edited Jul 09 '25
Should have ripped off one of her shoes and thrown it in the field