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What would you do if George W. Bush resigned the Presidency?

Roach-Busters
09-10-2004, 05:00
The poll will be up momentarily.
Southern Industrial
09-10-2004, 05:03
Well, I think Cheney is the better of two evils. I'm not sure how it would effect the election, but hopefully it will benefit Kerry. It probably wouldn't.
Chodolo
09-10-2004, 05:03
well, Kerry would kick Cheney's ass, yes? :D
Gigatron
09-10-2004, 05:04
I can hardly grasp the joy I would feel. The relief, the happyness... The entire world would erupt in spontaneous festivities, the UN would establish a new international rememberance day of this great historical event of epic proportions as all countries suddenly unite and form... The Federation of Earth. Ok, so I can dream at least, but Bush removing himself (possibly permanently from the face of this planet so I don't have to see his ugly monkey-face again) would be incredibly nice.
Southern Industrial
09-10-2004, 05:05
I think I would stare thoughtlessly at the TV for 15 minutes before regaining self-awareness.
Roach-Busters
09-10-2004, 05:05
Keep in mind, the question isn't what would happen, but what your reaction to it would be.
Ice Hockey Players
09-10-2004, 05:09
I would be extremely surprised...Bush doesn't strike me as someone who would step down, especially at this time. Though if (or rather, when) he gets re-elected, there's a slim chance of it. I would just be extremely shocked.
Heiliger
09-10-2004, 05:10
I would run out into the streets in my undies and shoot guns into the air!

Hey I'm from the South, sue me.
Roach-Busters
09-10-2004, 05:13
I would run out into the streets in my undies and shoot guns into the air!

Hey I'm from the South, sue me.

Are you rich? If so, I'll be happy to sue you! :D

(JK)
Roach-Busters
09-10-2004, 05:16
Can't wait to see MKULTRA's reply. :p
Kwangistar
09-10-2004, 05:18
I would observe a moment of silence, and then begin laughing at all the people dancing in the streets, thinking that Bush is bad when they haven't even seen Cheney yet... :p
Chodolo
09-10-2004, 05:19
As Cheney says, "You don't know Dick."
Heiliger
09-10-2004, 05:26
As Cheney says, "You don't know Dick."

**dies laughing**
Heiliger
09-10-2004, 05:26
Are you rich? If so, I'll be happy to sue you! :D

(JK)

Nope! lol, sorry!
Roach-Busters
09-10-2004, 05:27
Or, what if you found out you (yes, you) were the reason Bush resigned? What if, on live TV, he wept and said, "Gosh darn it, no matter what I do, I can't get that [insert your name here] to like me. F*** it, I quit!" and ripped off his shirt and tie, stomped out of the room, and slammed the door?
Colodia
09-10-2004, 05:28
Finally have a police-loving REASON to burn Bush-Chenney signs (apparently, the 1st Amendment isn't enough!)

That falls under dancing in the streets. I'll be dancing whilst doing it.
Roach-Busters
09-10-2004, 05:33
Or...

What if he gave his resignation speech on live TV...in a bra and panties?
Roach-Busters
09-10-2004, 05:37
bump
Roach-Busters
09-10-2004, 05:41
bump

again
Grigala
09-10-2004, 05:43
I'd stare blankly into space beacuse Bush would be more of an IDIOT then anyone ever thought he was.
Roach-Busters
09-10-2004, 05:49
I don't know what I'd do. :confused:
Heiliger
09-10-2004, 05:55
Or, what if you found out you (yes, you) were the reason Bush resigned? What if, on live TV, he wept and said, "Gosh darn it, no matter what I do, I can't get that [insert your name here] to like me. F*** it, I quit!" and ripped off his shirt and tie, stomped out of the room, and slammed the door?

I would boast that I made the President resign and make a gold plate stating that and hang it over my desk! :D
Roach-Busters
09-10-2004, 05:59
I would boast that I made the President resign and make a gold plate stating that and hang it over my desk! :D

Lol, not to mention the fact that you'd instantly become a celebrity! :D
Heiliger
09-10-2004, 06:00
Lol, not to mention the fact that you'd instantly become a celebrity! :D

Chicks would dig me! :D
Higera
09-10-2004, 06:02
I would be so happy that Dick Cheney was president, I'd cry tears of joy.

Then we'd show the world who's boss (at least until Jan, hopefully longer).
Squornshelous
09-10-2004, 06:15
You know, every Predident elected in a year ending in a zero has had an attempt made on their life while in office. Maybe that stat might need some help.
Grigala
09-10-2004, 06:34
Thomas Jefferson
James Monroe
William Henry Harrison (He wasn't assinated, he died of pnemonia(sp).
Abaram Lincoln (Well, mabye him)
James A. Garfield (Well, okay, him)
William McKinley (Him too)
Warren G. Harding
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy (Yeah, him)
and Ronald Reagan (Okay, him too)

all had assination attempts? Please tell me where and when for the ones without footnotes.

Mabye a better way to phrase that would be: "All the Presidents that had attempts on their lives were elected in a year ending in zero". At least that'd be true.
Squornshelous
09-10-2004, 06:37
Oops, I misworded my stat, I meant to say: all presidents that were elected in a year with a zero (wth the exception of Monroe and Jefferson) either died in office or had an assassination attempt. Sorry about the imprecision. FDR died during the first year of his fourth term and someone tried to kill Harding.
Roach-Busters
09-10-2004, 06:42
and someone tried to kill Harding.

Really? I never knew about that. Well, like the old cliche' goes, you learn something new everyday.
Gurnee
09-10-2004, 21:21
I picked other becuase I'd do more than one of the things in the poll. Dancing in the street would be one celebration out of an endless string of celebrations. This should have been a poll in which users are allowed to select more than one response.
Least well known NSer
09-10-2004, 21:28
: other


I would bring him for the judges and give him a fair trial like every criminal has the righ.
Gigatron
09-10-2004, 21:41
: other


I would bring him for the judges and give him a fair trial like every criminal has the righ.
Bush falls under the category "World Terrorist"... he's actually the world's most wanted man (not Osama as he might want you to believe, nah, Osama is cutey Santa Clause, Bush is the evil incarnate himself and I bet a ton of people in the world would like to get him in their hands to do unspeakable things to him, tehehehe). Thus Bush falls under the Patriot Act thingamajig and has no rights, ends up in Guantanamo Bay and is being tortured to get confessions from him that he is the real Osama or somehting.
Bostopia
09-10-2004, 21:48
Or, what if you found out you (yes, you) were the reason Bush resigned? What if, on live TV, he wept and said, "Gosh darn it, no matter what I do, I can't get that [insert your name here] to like me. F*** it, I quit!" and ripped off his shirt and tie, stomped out of the room, and slammed the door?

Await to be mobbed by the adoring British public/my mates, and never return to the USA.
TropicalMontana
09-10-2004, 22:55
Bush falls under the category "World Terrorist"... he's actually the world's most wanted man (not Osama as he might want you to believe, nah, Osama is cutey Santa Clause, Bush is the evil incarnate himself and I bet a ton of people in the world would like to get him in their hands to do unspeakable things to him, tehehehe). Thus Bush falls under the Patriot Act thingamajig and has no rights, ends up in Guantanamo Bay and is being tortured to get confessions from him that he is the real Osama or somehting.

First, i would cry tears of joy and relief.

Then i would worry for a moment about what Cheney might do over the next month.

Then i would be able to vote my conscience in November. Green Party.

and i would push for indictments of all the NeoCon war criminals. Yeah, Guantanamo sounds just about right... I had thought swinging from a tree would be suitable, but you know, now that i think about it,...

why not just drop him off in the streets of Baghdad ;)
Temme
09-10-2004, 22:56
Or, what if you found out you (yes, you) were the reason Bush resigned? What if, on live TV, he wept and said, "Gosh darn it, no matter what I do, I can't get that [insert your name here] to like me. F*** it, I quit!" and ripped off his shirt and tie, stomped out of the room, and slammed the door?

I don't like George Bush, but I'd still feel bad. Terribly, horribly, bad.

Please don't hurt me!
Gigatron
09-10-2004, 23:02
First, i would cry tears of joy and relief.

Then i would worry for a moment about what Cheney might do over the next month.

Then i would be able to vote my conscience in November. Green Party.

and i would push for indictments of all the NeoCon war criminals. Yeah, Guantanamo sounds just about right... I had thought swinging from a tree would be suitable, but you know, now that i think about it,...

why not just drop him off in the streets of Baghdad ;)
Ahhh the Streets of Baghdad... not good for Bushie. If anyone remembers that movie "Running Man", now that would be a TV Hit if they'd show Bushieboy running for his life in Iraq. Hahahaha.
Zincite
09-10-2004, 23:14
I would momentarily go into shock, then scramble to my cell phone with no heed to what I might be knocking over, call all my friends yelling "OMG OMG OMG DID YOU HEAR?", and then run out onto the sidewalk with them into the droves and multitudes who would also be running out of their houses or cars to dance, dance all night...

*ahem* the first part anyway - the rest of the populace might not take such an extreme reaction, but I know my friends and I would be singing and dancing on the sidewalk.
Chess Squares
09-10-2004, 23:19
The poll will be up momentarily.
i would guess he decided to take his meds that day
Temme
09-10-2004, 23:21
What would I do?

I'd ask why. I'd then be relieved that no one would ever use George Bush's Christianity as a justification for the war in Iraq.
Sdaeriji
09-10-2004, 23:38
Or, what if you found out you (yes, you) were the reason Bush resigned? What if, on live TV, he wept and said, "Gosh darn it, no matter what I do, I can't get that [insert your name here] to like me. F*** it, I quit!" and ripped off his shirt and tie, stomped out of the room, and slammed the door?

I'd milk the moment for every dime it was worth.
Tappee
09-10-2004, 23:47
I would be scared (Even thought I don'y like Bush) His suddenly stepping down (at least to me) would show that there are outside powers that control the president.
Siljhouettes
10-10-2004, 00:19
I would be delighted, as there is no way that Dick Cheney could beat John Kerry in an election.

Or...

What if he gave his resignation speech on live TV...in a bra and panties?
What's your fixation on 60-year-old politicians in women's underwear?
Tropical Montana
10-10-2004, 00:21
Ahhh the Streets of Baghdad... not good for Bushie. If anyone remembers that movie "Running Man", now that would be a TV Hit if they'd show Bushieboy running for his life in Iraq. Hahahaha.

Make it worldwide broadcast Pay-Per-View and solve the deficit problem at the same time!
Keruvalia
10-10-2004, 00:30
What would you do if George W. Bush resigned the Presidency?

I'd finally give him that Klondike bar.
Muktar
10-10-2004, 00:38
I'd go to a party of some form and enjoy freedom in it's true form.
Chikyota
10-10-2004, 00:51
I would be delighted, as there is no way that Dick Cheney could beat John Kerry in an election.


What's your fixation on 60-year-old politicians in women's underwear?
Ever since it became known that the one FBI director a few decades back fancied women's underwear, it has become popular to ask, "well maybe this politician does too?"
Incertonia
10-10-2004, 01:18
I'd wonder what the catch was.

Personally, if Kerry wins, I expect Bush to pardon everyone in his administration the day before he leaves office, resign, and then have Cheney pardon him, but that's just the conspiracy theorist in me talking. :D
Heck Hell
10-10-2004, 06:19
Cheney would be President Cheney,
thats all I got to say.
Roach-Busters
14-10-2004, 18:57
bump
Roach-Busters
14-10-2004, 19:04
What's your fixation on 60-year-old politicians in women's underwear?

No fixation, surprisingly. :p
Texan Hotrodders
14-10-2004, 19:04
I would raise an eyebrow, shrug, and go play some comp games.
Refused Party Program
14-10-2004, 19:06
There would be some dancing of the street kind, some singing of the joyous kind and some shouting of the righteous kind.
Anjamin
14-10-2004, 19:07
Cheney would be President Cheney,
thats all I got to say.

at least at first. a few months after being sworn in, the country would be changed from "USA" to "USH", for "United States of Halliburton", and Cheney would have everyone refer to him as "His Royoil Highness".
Roach-Busters
14-10-2004, 19:10
at least at first. a few months after being sworn in, the country would be changed from "USA" to "USH", for "United States of Halliburton", and Cheney would have everyone refer to him as "His Royoil Highness".

Lol
Gauthier
14-10-2004, 19:50
I'd wonder how long it would take for the Secret Service to find the real Dubya tied up and gagged in a White House broom closet. By that time of course Mystique would have gotten away clean.
Kryozerkia
14-10-2004, 19:52
:eek: he resigned? :fluffle: :fluffle: :fluffle: let's all unite and celebrate! YEEHAH! *snicker* ;)
Greedy Pig
14-10-2004, 19:58
Hmm.. I would go 'Thats nice'. And continue on with life.

As long as Kerry don't have any new hunka junka tax laws that would affect me.
Merridonia
16-10-2004, 00:12
I'd wonder how long it would take for the Secret Service to find the real Dubya tied up and gagged in a White House broom closet. By that time of course Mystique would have gotten away clean.

If I wanted babies, and chose their fathers based on people who could make me laugh my ass off, I'd totally ask you to be one of their dads. Or moms, if you're a girl. I hear they can do that now :p
Straughn
16-10-2004, 02:38
Or, what if you found out you (yes, you) were the reason Bush resigned? What if, on live TV, he wept and said, "Gosh darn it, no matter what I do, I can't get that [insert your name here] to like me. F*** it, I quit!" and ripped off his shirt and tie, stomped out of the room, and slammed the door?
I might just acquire a few copulative conquests and some good whiskey in celebration of my magnificence!
I also would record every pundit's reaction to it and put it on my answering machine, alternating with the day.
Come to think of it, i'd also rake in some bucks on a short lecture circuit and other political opportunities ... wow. Thanks, you just brightened my day!
Straughn
16-10-2004, 02:40
I'd wonder what the catch was.

Personally, if Kerry wins, I expect Bush to pardon everyone in his administration the day before he leaves office, resign, and then have Cheney pardon him, but that's just the conspiracy theorist in me talking. :D
THAT doesn't sound at all like conspiracy, that sounds like reasoned experience. Good call.
Tyrandis
16-10-2004, 02:41
I'd welcome my new Halliburton overlords (no sarcasm).
Straughn
16-10-2004, 02:43
I might just acquire a few copulative conquests and some good whiskey in celebration of my magnificence!
I also would record every pundit's reaction to it and put it on my answering machine, alternating with the day.
Come to think of it, i'd also rake in some bucks on a short lecture circuit and other political opportunities ... wow. Thanks, you just brightened my day!
....and then i'd probably immediately get on to a way of removing those other fanged arseholes in his cabinet, as well as a few other appointees.
Straughn
16-10-2004, 02:47
Or...

What if he gave his resignation speech on live TV...in a bra and panties?
I should hope the republicans would already have in motion the Good Old imPeachment process to nail him for what they would consider tawdry and lascivious behaviour ... and then have their request summarily dismissed (publicly) on grounds of a lack of funding since too much money's already committed to Iraq.
Straughn
16-10-2004, 02:51
Make it worldwide broadcast Pay-Per-View and solve the deficit problem at the same time!
You ROCK!
Straughn
16-10-2004, 02:56
I'd wonder how long it would take for the Secret Service to find the real Dubya tied up and gagged in a White House broom closet. By that time of course Mystique would have gotten away clean.
So Dubya would've been soliciting in a bar, probably under the influence, and met with Mystique in a bathroom somewhere and had some kind of fluid injected into his buttocks? Again (college, etc)?
Doesn't sound too far-fetched to me. It would kinda figger in with his presentation in the first debate, all hunkered over the podium like that.
Zincite
16-10-2004, 02:56
Or, what if you found out you (yes, you) were the reason Bush resigned? What if, on live TV, he wept and said, "Gosh darn it, no matter what I do, I can't get that [insert your name here] to like me. F*** it, I quit!" and ripped off his shirt and tie, stomped out of the room, and slammed the door?

I would... uh...

First of all, be in shock.
Secondly, spend a night or two marveling in horror at the power I apparently have.
Third, stop feeling bad as I consider how stupid he must be to think that his policies would make me like him.
And finally, enjoy the proceedings of finding a new president.
Onion Pirates
16-10-2004, 05:01
If Bush quit today I'd dance. A huge majority in this country knows Cheney's a creep. Kerry in a landslide.

If Bush won the election and then quit, I'd shoot myself.