Tuesday, November 10, 2015

The good news: Jeb Bush understands the paradox of time travel

"MOULTONBOROUGH, N.H. -- Have you ever wondered whether, if given the opportunity, Jeb Bush would go back in time to kill Adolf Hitler in his crib?

Well, wonder no more.

“Hell yeah, I would!” the former Florida governor told HuffPost. “You gotta step up, man.”

The question initially arose when The New York Times Magazine polled its readers last month and found that a plurality of respondents said they would, in fact, kill Hitler as a baby.

Bush was then asked the question directly via the email address that he distributes widely to public audiences: Jeb@jeb.org. But he did not answer the inquiry until asked on camera by HuffPost, while riding on his campaign bus in New Hampshire.

Bush did acknowledge that murdering the future German dictator before he had the chance to ignite World War II would be an act that could set in motion unknown consequences.

But the 2016 Republican presidential candidate remained emphatic that he would, in fact, kill Hitler -- even if the future leader of the Third Reich were an especially cute baby.

“It could have a dangerous effect on everything else, but I’d do it -- I mean, Hitler,” Bush said with a shrug".

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeb-bush-on-killing-baby-hitler_5640e1b6e4b0411d3071da54

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The bad news is the sad video at the link.

16 comments:

William said...

I'd knock off Hindenberg. That would be a twofer. He enabled the careers of both Lenin and Hitler. As a military man he had some tactical skills but not much in the way of strategic vision.........Fucked up nations continue to be fucked up. It's just chance that so many Russian and Soviet leaders ended up in charge, but it can't just be chance that so many of them were psycho jerks. The German nation has a much briefer history, but they also seem to have a flair for picking leaders who march them off the cliff.

Steg said...

Huffpo is the new Onion!

Trooper York said...

The really sad thing is that Jeb actually wants to go back in time to kill the baby Marco Rubio.

deborah said...

Trooper you bad.

Amartel said...

I get why he answered it this way. It's the obvious answer to a stupid question about a completely fanciful hypothetical. But if you knocked off Hitler you might get someone worse under the circumstances which were ripe for an opportunistic totalitarian nationalist.

Trooper, yeah. He's probably previously considered the scenario albeit with a different target.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Jeb has enough money to produce his own Walking Dead... if only anybody would fear him ;)

ricpic said...

"...if you knocked off Hitler you might get someone worse..."

Not likely. From what I've read Hitler wasn't a particularly impressive fellow except...except for one thing, he was absolutely hypnotic as an orator. That was the whole basis of the Germans' Hitler worship. Yes, there might have been a miserable SOB who would have taken the reins of power if Hitler wasn't available, but it is unlikely that anyone else would have been able to mesmerize a whole people the way Hitler did.

deborah said...

Good one Lem :)

Amartel said...

ric "From what I've read Hitler wasn't a particularly impressive fellow except...except for one thing, he was absolutely hypnotic as an orator."

Yeah, that's something people would say in retrospect.
Not my fault because I wuz hypnotized.
Also the whole Leni Riefenstahl, evil genius, thing.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Hitler was good at victim mining.

hmmmm - not like that would ever happen again. nah.

deborah said...

I always heard it described as speaking the inner beliefs of the nation. Like a megaphone for emotions.

Methadras said...

Karl Marx would be on my time travel hit list for sure.

Trooper York said...

Hillary Clinton would time travel to strangle Carly in her crib.

deborah said...

Wouldn't Obama be a better choice for her?

Meth, that would definitely have a bigger affect.

Dad Bones said...

As Trump pointed out Jeb doesn't have enough energy to do it.

deborah said...

He's a wistful teddy bear.