I love your channel, but listening to Bush infuriates me. When he said the war was to stabilize Iraq, I just couldn't watch anymore. Iraq has never been less stable. Iraq was genuinely more stable under the Saddam, the mass murdering dictator, than it was during and after Bush. I don't even know how you manage to keep your good humor listening to this monster. Not even Charles Manson was as full of himself as Bush is. And shockingly enough, Manson's crimes were was less than Bush's.
I love that George's advice is just consistently ignore basic human emotion. "If you ever do anything that you receive massive backlash for, just ignore it".
the fact that in the past 20 years he hasn't realised that his advisors called him "the butterknife" because he wasn't very sharp is lost on him but he still remembers the line is as hilarious to me as it is concerning
eh, I think you overestimate his ego and underestimate his desire to manipulate people and soften his culpability for the past, even if he has to self-deprecate. I always got Car Salesman vibes from Bush, but not in a skeevy sense, in the sense that I feel like people would buy cars from him and go home thinking "wow, a car salesman but a pretty nice guy, so down to earth" because he self deprecates and flatters. Meanwhile there is nothing going on behind his eyes in terms of genuine emotions
@@RedFail1-1probably not an English speaking one, I'm Dutch when you say butterknife or as sharp as a knife I will still say to you that il be as blunt as a hammer or that when the calf has died by drowning people will cover up the water well. And you will not know what I mean by that
When watching satire it's just always such a weird feeling to switch back and forth between having to laugh and being just absolutely left without words by the realisation that this is actually the reality we life in
This guy actually killed millions of people... Like he ordered it. Then he didn't want to admit to his wrongdoing so he doubled down and killed even more. Now he gives masterclasses in how he kept the system rigged and my mind simply cannot comprehend it
The no child left behind was a criminal act that punished schools that struggled instead of lifting them up creating a larger school to prison pipeline.
estimates suggest that up to 20% of US adults are functionally illiterate, and one poll reports 54% read at below a sixth grade level. obviously not all of that can be attributed to NCLB, but it sure as fuck didn’t help. it’s just an enormous problem that nobody talks about.
@@Simonicityno, near criminal incompetence, a hallmark of these guys. They wanted to apply “accountability” rather than funding, training, recruiting, or anything else that costs money to improve school outcomes. These people will only push ideologically-based policy (compare with evidence-based) and that’s why national Republicans are unable to govern long term
I got confused and thought they edited that in because I didn't believe the editors of the masterclass would show something that felt so violently contradictory. It's crazy. Utter madness.
@@Boy_Boy I was going to say, like, "Yeah, you wanna put yourself on our platform you fucking genocidal psychopath? We're going to make you look like an idiot and we're not even going to have to try." but i figured it'd be presumptive to assume things aren't that cynical and they just don't care because it's money
*Thank you for stating he is a war criminal, I am an Iraqi and it makes me feel good that people who are not of my culture group actually care about the bad things he has done. Makes me believe that any race and culture can unite against evil in general*
If only I could go back in time and explain to everyone that there were no WMD's, that the Saudis were responsible for 9/11, and the entire war was bullshit... oh wait, I did do that 😔 We are a dumb species.
The only reason USAsians don't agree universally is because they've been propagandised to hell over the last century. I promise there are Westeners out there who will always be against evil, no matter how white the person doing it is. For what little that matters, materially.
The sheer impunity American presidents have makes me angry. They also bombed Serbia, having a real blast doing it, and then just say it was NATO who did the bombing. Scummy. My family is croatian and my father fought in that war. We do not hate serbians and never did. When I see the footage it gets my blood boiling. America is always the good guy, every one else are terrorists.
As an American, I just want to say I’m so sorry for what you’ve been through. I know my “leaders” will never apologize to you, and frankly our elections are a joke for getting rid of these people who are causing us suffering too (the school shootings in America are a direct result of Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” and so many other terrible school policies that harm people’s well-being and mental health). But if it’s any consolation, I come from a military family- my father, grandfather, my uncle, and much of my family going back generations were in the Marines. My brother just turned 18 this year, and my father encourages my brother to NOT join the military because he’s so against what is happening in the middle-east and all the wars our military is involved in. Despite campaigns like “No Child Left Behind” letting military recruiters harass students in schools, in the last few years LESS young people are joining the military because the American people are so against these wars. According to USA facts org website, which gets its date from the government, the Army, Navy and Air Force in 2023 all had a 10,000 person shortage compared to their goals for recruitment. When these wars first started under lies that the Iraqis were somehow involved with the ones who crashes our twin towers, those military branches had surpluses in recruitment. Now that Americans know the truth, they’re not joining up any more. Hopefully someday there simply won’t be enough Americans interested in the military, and these wars can finally stop (because America would riot if we ever tried to bring back the military draft for wars we don’t agree with). I really hope Iraq is able to rebuild 🙏 No one in Iraq deserved what the U.S. military did to your country.
eh not true, bush jr was not rlly projected for an office between his family that was actually Jeb. Jr at the time of his running was seen as a candidate that had beaten alcoholism and had founded a successful oil exploration company. ur using hindsight of his 2nd term to judge his running for office in the 1st.
@@phoenixgirl70 he probably just didn’t ask enough questions about it, maybe if he was looking them in the eyes when they said it he’d have realised. Incredibly this sentence applies both to his inability to realise he’s being insulted by his own staff, and the lack of WMDs.
It has been absolutely crazy to see how public perception of him transformed to "better than Trump at least," and "nice old man who gives Michelle candy," or "well he had his issues, but I'd like to have a beer with the guy." It's just.. bruh, are we just gonna forget about the war crimes because he reminds you of your grandpa?
whitewashing ain't an accident, that's true. as we know, the ideology of a time is the ideology of the ruling class of that time. Given that the ruling class controls all the education system and media conglomerates, I'm not sure how you'd expect the average person to figure that out on their own. to just develop class consciousness out of thin air. so It's important to be very careful here and not blame individuals for systemic issues, not blame the heavily propagandized yankees for being heavily propagandized to and deliberately uneducated. Can't have a revolution without understanding that, and especially while blaming fellow workers for "not seeing the obvious".
My uncle enlisted in the disgustingly named "Operation Iraqi Freedom", due to the nagging and manipulations of my grandfather, a republican former military man who voted for Bush. My uncle ended up becoming a combat medic, under a Civilian Support and Rescue task force. He kept journals of what happened over there, I have them now. He didn't really come back the same, and we lost him in 2017. RIP Garrett, you were the closest thing I had to a big brother, and I think about you all the time.
I am so deeply sorry. That the country just swept this under the table, just kept kept sending People back to battle as long as they had all of their limbs, didn’t gaf about the mental horrors. I was in my early 20’s when 9/11 happened and I knew exactly how it would play out. They had to know too. And they lied about the wmd’s. Lied about babies being thrown out of incubators and other atrocities. Had no exit strategy. Did not care about anyone’s life. Oil and a pipeline of course weren’t talked about irl. And it will be kept secret unless people want to educate themselves and realize the US has one of the largest propaganda campaigns but it’s done so well they have no idea. I’m so happy they’re not filling their recruiting quotas. But that’s where taking away abortion rights, sex education, any education so they’ll have a larger poor population who feel they have no choice. There’s no reason for war these days. It’s horrific, nobody “wins”, everyday people lose. And no matter our cultural differences we are more similar than different. Again I’m so sorry about your uncle. He was robbed of the life he was supposed to have. Your whole family suffers.
The reading gains after NCLB by race graph is hillarioius. First, they completely messed up the key, so you just have to assume the point they are making is that the graph when up. Second, the largest increase is between 1999 and 2004. Keep in mind, NCLB was only enacted in 2003. So the graph basically says that reading was increasing across the board, but then NCLB was enacted and growth slowed down.
Yeah, it is hilarious that Bush was president from 2001 to 2009 and the best year is 1999. Someone at MasterClass didn't read-write that graph. 🤷♂🤷♂🤷♂
LMFAO thank you for read writing that awful eyesore of a graph to explain it to us. Once that graph fooled us once, shame on you, fool me twice, you can’t fool me again.
i think its also the delivery, may have just been the edit but it looked like he went completely blank mid way through and rushed through the last bit hoping no one would notice (to me anyway) ive seen that clip before and its gets me every single time @@nikolasscheeks
@@nikolasscheeksbush was trying to say "fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me" It's a very common phrase here in America, and probably elsewhere. Bush had a senior moment and forgot how the saying went. He also said this after 9/11 about how "the Middle East" fooled him with enacting 9/11. There's a good chance he started the first half of that fool me once phrase, and then realized the second half of the phrase could backfire and make him look like an idiot later on so he stumbled through the last half, making him look like a bumbling idiot either way.
This is nuts. You pay _actual money_ for a class on how to be a Business Boy, and instead you get a psychopath justifying the unspeakable evil he committed as the most powerful man in the entire world.
If you're a teenager in 2147, and your history book would read: "In the early 2000s, the president of the most powerful nation in the world, was assassinated in a press conference by a journalist wielding a leather shoe" would you believe your history book?
"You know, when I campaigned here in 2000, I said, I want to be a war president. No president wants to be a war president, but I am one." George Bush, 2006.
Hi! I went to Texas public schools that where changed by Bush. You guys are 100% right. The education and funding got worse and the military came to ask us to join in 6th grade. Teachers had to teach so many different classes they forgot whole topics like geography. I don't feel like anything is real anymore and my country is run by psychopaths. My childhood was so missed up because of school and how it was ran. I still yet to see the good that came from my suffering from that time...
You think that's bad. You should have experienced the joys of public elementary school in the 70s, and 80s. Hooolllyy shit ! That's all I can say. I wouldn't want to repeat that nightmare. High school in the late 80s, was only a slight improvement.
@@stephensmith7293I went to public school in the latter half of the 80’s and thru the 90’s. My experience was amazing. I got a great education. It’s also going to depend on where you were living at the time. State policy can make federal policy worse.
Forgive me since I don't know much about how American grades work, but isn't 6th grade where 12-13 year olds go? Where they sending the military to try and get child soldiers? Wtf even is America man
I was in school when this no child left behind nonsense started. My teachers would make me take the state tests with other classes. I found out later they were putting me in random classrooms to drag the average test score up because our funding was in danger. They would move the better testers to the lower testing classrooms to get a more “acceptable” average, we lost all of our art classes for a while. No gym, or library as well, it all fell under “unified arts”, the parents protested and we got them back eventually. I also remember taking surveys about that umbilical cord program, I remember thinking why are they asking 11 year olds, but also low key believing it would cure cancer. Man what a weird time.
This is still happening. My aunt just retired from teaching math because she said they weren’t actually teaching math, but teaching how to take tests. Her daughter, my cousin, is now an English teacher. She says the same thing is still happening. It’s a shame. I’m glad I grew up and graduated in 1998.
as a graphs enthusiasts, i love the read-write graph. it has the upwards progression for each group. Also the numbers 15 and 20 look very impressive, but I guess 8 is not bad either. The colors are easy to the eye, and makes it easy to find the the year 1999. I love how the color tag for 2008 is something in between of yellow and orange, the viewer can decide if it is a big bar or a small bar. It makes me feel like i'm making the decisions here, and i like that. All in all, very professional output, which i know i could expect from Master Classes
best part is that they got the years for each colour wrong; they're completely backwards, which is why the fellas in the video assumed it says the opposite of what it actually says lmao
As someone who knows how to read graphs, that graph IS absolute bonkers. Yes, the key is indeed useless because the editors somehow failed to make the colours match, but I did dome research and I found why: it's based on a graph made for an online article, which they tried (and failed) to palette swap. And that's not all. They editors also removed the numbers in the original graph, which were the only thing that gave context to the deceptively good-looking shapes; the increases of 8 to 20 points were from test scores out of 300 in which all students from 1999 and 2012 had gotten over 180 points in, although the original website had already omitted out of how many points the tests were, as well as failed to add a y-axis to their graph which might've stopped further confusion about what number the graph starts at. This lack of that detial purposefully induces bias in the reader. This is likely because the article this graph was on, "Did No Child Left Behind Work?" was written on the "Third Way" website, which describes itself as a "national think tank that champions modern center-left ideas". It boasts four achievements on its "about us" page, one of which is "Playing a crucial role in preserving the gains reformers made in No Child Left Behind", giving it obvious motive to advocate the percieved benefits of NCLB. Moreover, their article cites a website outright says "Comparisons of the 2023, 2022, 2020, 2012, and 2008 results to the 2004 original or previous trend results should be interpreted with caution, bearing in mind the differences in assessment accommodations and changes to assessment procedures" - as as if that wasn't enough I couldn't even find any of the data their graph was referencing as all the data their cited website's graphs had on scores by race was from 2012 onwards. TLDR: jeff bush is going to the worst level of hell when he dies
Its so amasing that the person responsible for a million+ deaths gets to have a masterclass where he teaches you how to paint and shit while the families of the people he killed just continue mourning their losses
@@VRNC-kn5tf the west sold them to saddam and he gassed kurds with it. why did the west start antagonizing him only when he launched a war against kuwait? what a bunch of fucking hypocrites.
I'm an American teen, and I've really appreciated your channel, because this isn't taught it any US History classes. I didn't know anything about Bush, since it was before my time. Its interesting that two Aussies post so much about the US but don't stop, its entertaining as much as it is educational!
Some of their commentary (like the exact numbers of civilian casualties) is incorrect/more based in pop culture perceptions than research, but it's a good place to start! I get that fact checking everything is overwhelming and untenable, but I've always found it good to look something up before repeating it to someone else. Of course, I'm also a perfectionist who never actually gets anything written, so... ya win some, ya lose some
Jesus, I mean I know that nothing useful is taught in school, but not being aware of Iraq? Very scary times we living in, imagine how many people aren’t aware of current world events. I mean my chemistry teacher literally had to delicate a small portion of class time to telling people about the recent hamas attacks, that’s where we are now, some kids in my class probably JUST learned of the decades long Israeli occupation of Palestine. And to think some people aren’t even aware of the basics of the wars on terror or the war on drugs, just accepting the world as is without questioning it. I mean these subjects are mainstream, I can excuse not knowing about African or eastern European conflicts and politics, or even central American ones, but plain old American conflicts? No wonder so many people are pessimistic about the world. Tragic, absolutely tragic, fills me with utter dread, zero hope for the world ong
27:50 I found what the graph is meant to be (but can't post a link) - the bars are in the order of the key at the bottom, just the colours are wrong. So the very right brown is 2012, and it was looking at an increase in "reading points"
George “I spoke to people who lost their loved ones in the fight” Yes, except for that one woman who lost her only son and wanted to just talk to you and he wouldn’t so she camped out at the entrance of his ranch for months and he’d drive past her and never stop. Heartless.
28:19 my guess is that the graphs have had some sort of color grading, and the key didn't. It looks like if you applied a sort of yellow-white tint over the key colors, you would get the graph colors. ...actually yeah, this probably happened when they overlaid the canvas texture over the graph by using an "add" method or something, but didn't include the key. 🤦 anyway thanks for the videos you make.
"My main concern was with minority students, who it seemed were just getting shuffled through the system..." Holy shit, the level of cognitive dissonance required to think that the result of No Child Left Behind was anything less than a massive increase in kids getting shuffled through the system proves that he is absolutely a demon in human skin or a massive ignoramus. There is no third option.
what did it do? Im not american and all the stuff I can find about it seem to be largely in favour of it. Could someone explain what it ended up doing?
@@lrizzard it basically ended up punishing teachers and schools that held kids back for any reason and set the general standards so low that a lot of more gifted kids ended up not getting the education they should have.
@@lrizzard Basically, they implemented a system that used test scores to determine which schools should receive federal funding. But there's already clear evidence that test performance is better in schools with more money relative to student body size. So schools that needed money the least were more likely to receive money, and schools that actually needed money in order to improve students' education were punished rather than assisted. Also, the standardized tests were up to state legislature, so states simply lowered the standards in order to receive more federal funding. That's why Bush can claim that test scores went up, which is technically true, but it implies that the standards stayed the same and weren't arbitrarily shifted. As a result of this, students were essentially pushed through the system. The school needed them to pass. It's not even just that they needed funding, it's also that they could be punished for not meeting the standards--punishments such as offering free tutoring to students, which puts an even greater burden on the school financially and its already-overworked staff. My mom was a public school teacher during that time and everyone hated it. The funding structure for public education in the US is, in my opinion, the source of many of the social issues we see today. It's literally designed to favor the wealthy and, in the long run, creates a greater financial burden for the average taxpayer than a more balanced or universal system would. And the people suffering the most are just kids who don't even know what's happening. I worked in a low-income district and saw kids whose parents didn't buy them pencils or paper or anything and the school couldn't give him any because they were also running low, and he never brought them back with him after taking them home. The kid was 7. I could go on. It's so awful and although No Child Left Behind was a disaster, it's not as if any other administration has done something really great. The funding structure needs to change. It doesn't even have to rely on funding. But it can't persist without a better system to share tax revenue equally, or more equally, amongst districts.
Well that was like 20 years ago, the state of the world right now has hardly changed. Go look at any mainstream news outlet in the west right now, they're all cheering for an apartheid state dropping bombs on children because a militant group operates out of their territory. The colonial powers of the past and present along with their affiliates won't even vote to call it a humanitarian crisis in the UN. The same people were liberal, progressive, forward looking and freedom loving just a month ago, now they're willing to obliterate an already starving populace by any means because they're sheltering "terrorists".
He gets a pass not because anyone thinks he's innocent, but because even thinking about bringing him to justice would require America to give up its image of itself as ethically privileged and uniquely positioned to govern the world. And I think we all know they'd rather plug both their ears with gunbarrels, sing the national anthem till their lungs burst, and vote for trump again so he can blame everyone but themselves for the failures of the past twenty years, than do that.
It's politicians protecting their own. If you go after Bush then you have to go after nearly everyone in the federal government. They're all complacent in these things.
Love watching these videos. It’s nice to see people with an actual moral compass. I’m Palestinian and I’m sure I know your stance on that so You should definitely do a video reacting to Israeli propaganda. Laughing at their hilarious mess ups is the only light of the situation right now. They literally said there is a list of hamas members and it was literally a calendar. They also showed their own devises and said it was hamas. There is so much to dig up. This is a content gold mine for you
It's chilling that he laughs at that, too, honestly. cause like... he doesn't care when people make fun of him. he doesn't have to. he knows he's won every game ever. you can laugh at him, you can think he's a monster, you can call him a fascist, you can say he ruined millions of lives, you can call him a moron to his face, he doesn't give a shit. you're a mosquito buzzing outside the indestructible mosquito net of his bottomless privilege.
I do think the graph is just backwards. It's supposed to measure students who are illiterate and that's gone down since 1999. But maybe Dubya said "the people like graphs that go up not graphs that go down... Also I'm colorblind and let's fuck with the fonts"
I do think the graph is just backwards. It's supposed to measure students who are illiterate and that's gone down since 1999. But maybe Dubya said "the people like graphs that go up not graphs that go down... Also I'm colorblind and let's fuck with the fonts"
this is one of the most insane bad graphs I have seen in a long time and I can't belive that it ever got though any check.. if i were an us american, I would be insulted
I was in the middle of a set of shoulder presses when the Bush quotes started playing. I laughed so hard I dropped the weights and put a hole in my floor
Man, as an American, I miss the days when we could make fun of George Bush. In the past, despite his actions, he seemed harmless. Now we have someone even less competent, and you aren’t even allowed to make fun of him.
At this point, we can't wait for the Jeffrey Dahmer Masterclass on Cooking! Why not? If Bush can give life lessons, I am sure Jeffrey's culinary delights should be shared with the world!
I'm an American who was 9 years old on 9/11. I've been calling for George Bush and Dick Cheney, among others, to be prosecuted for war crimes for years. Most people just laugh.
What's sad is most are so jaded by trump and other political figures that bush seems like nothing. Trump and Hilary definitely made me not care about bush anymore. After what happened during the Bernie Hilary election I saw how fucked everything is that I gave up entirely. Like how they rigged the election against Burnie. I was 11 when 9/11 happened. And refused to celebrate the fourth of July because I was sad for those kids in the middle east. It feels so hopeless now. I used to be so political and stuff. I still care a little but my passion has ended. Because my spirit was crushed.
Understandably so. Who is going to prosecute him exactly? There's no time for liberal nonsense. The US will pay for its crimes, but probably not Bush himself. The empire will fall soon, but not that soon.
@@FukaiKokoro It's not hopeless. There is a lot that can be done and is being done. Sensationalism in the media and online makes things seem far more bleak than they really are. The positives of our society are almost never represented in media due to the fact that it doesn't pay as much to present them. True progress is being made every day, and the more people who take action to improve things, the better. And things are generally getting better, in spite of the negatives. Inaction is what the government wants. Don't give in to the lie.
As an American we see these graphs on the news all the time. They're actually really easy to read; it means whatever they want it to mean! Since most of us Americans dont know how to read write it's how our corporate overlords show they know what's best for us!
@@NonameNoname-ce7nm The joke is that most Americans don't know how to critically assess what a graph is actually communicating, so they fall victim to classic tricks that help to pedal false ideas.
@@NonameNoname-ce7nm Not to be mean but both you and the person you're replying to have typos in your comments. I definitely do think most people here know how to read, but reading comprehension is another layer that is probably what the original commenter was referring to I believe.
I just can't fathom how this guy flew fighter jets. It's an incredibly complex job and yet he strikes me as someone who wears velcro shoes because laces are too complicated.
Did he really fly them though? They’re so slick and smooth with the bullshit to talk themselves up and how would the citizens really know? He was in the back seat of the Mission Accomplished stunt, I have a feeling the best pilots could do it themselves. And by that point it’d been a long time since he flew anything. His dad was head of the CIA, then president and they all lie about so much shit. I just don’t believe it.
As an American, I had the unique experience of travelling to a lot of countries during Dubya's presidency. Everyone was crystal clear about their disgust for him...especially in Cuba!
I like that the person with the most basic understanding of an issue gets to make the final decision on how to deal with that issue. America really has it all figured out!
That's what representation is at the end of the day. I honestly believe allowing everyone to vote on issues through a website would be a better solution, if it was made to be resilient to malversation.
imo it’s a bit more complicated than that. The US foreign policy has remained remarkably consistent-too consistent for it to be up to the whim of one man. It’s the whole state apparatus really and the forces that come with being an empire.
@@Boy_Boy like a knife, you would think he would cut straight to the heart of any issue he faced. Well, he would, but like a butter knife, he's not very sharp. Does anyone else get the feeling: a) someone actually told him the 'punchline' to his nickname, but b) being so dumb, he seamlessly went from thinking he was known as 'the knife', to knowing that he was called 'the butter knife', and c) literally being too dull to understand the joke, he continues to think it is a point of pride?
best yt channel ever XD i love your vids together! hahaha i hopewe had more longer history connections to these subjects and cover why it all started a bit more to be honest to learn and also hear your opinions on it in a fuller manner really but i digress haha these are fantastic:P
Love how he openly admits to ignoring what the public wanted. Also love how he admits that he never understood what the experts/ analysts were saying. I was just a joey when he was in power so I'm extremely grateful I'm not American or Iraqi and living with the consequences of his administration.
Unfortunately it's starting to be talked about that the US military is the #1 polluter in the world that definitely contributes to climate change. And they have bases everywhere 🤯
A former leader of a supposedly democratic country saying disregard what the people want you to do as their representative is some next level mental gymnastics. Truly, an artist and an athlete
7:16 One of the most reality warping quotes from the Bush admin was in late 2004 when he stopped using the term “weapon of mass destruction” (because by then everyone knew there were none) and started using the jumbled up phrase “weapons of mass destruction related program activities”
Bush told my dad he was giving me the greatest gift on earth “being born in Texas” and that’s one of my favorite and least favorite things I’ve ever heard
1st class: How to trick the general public into supporting a 20 year war against a country that wasn't even tangentially related to the reason for the conflict. 2nd class: Painting with George.
its wild too cause like, some one was on set directing this, someone had to edit this masterclass... compositing was involved.... sooo many eyeballs were on this this project and this is what they came up with.
I never post YT comments, but I love you guys. I sometimes wonder if I'm the only person that realizes that we are in the dark timeline, then you guys post a video and remind me that you realize it too.
I feel the same exact way, like I'm the only one who is sane and can actually think critically instead of being brainwashed like all my friends, family, and coworkers are and it's so depressing at times. At least I'm not alone even though I feel like it most of the time.
It's interesting to think how many times many people before us felt the same way in much the same situations. It's kind of a curse to know how doomed everything while being fully aware that as a single person you just cannot affect the outcome as we're still, after who knows how many thousand years, back in the same position.
