# Gaullic crackpot prints Bush Regime deck **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 26, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001 "2003-09-26T17:04:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Thurgood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@Thurgood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thurgood)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/1 "2003-09-26T17:04:14Z")
This is a racist trap. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/2 "2003-09-26T17:09:20Z")
_Sacre bleu!_ Here’s what was supposed to be the OP before it was eaten by a ravenous hamster: > [@](#): > > Remember Thierry Meyssan? He’s the lizard-shit-for-brains crank who wrote the book about how the plane that crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11 was a US government plot. The book became a bestseller in France, presumably bought in droves by the knee jerk, anti-American, amateur conspiracy theorist set who equate Bush to the anti-Christ. (Note: I’m _not_ claiming that many Frenchmen think this way. I’m sure they don’t.) > > Well, he’s back. Check out his latest offering,[the Bush Regime Card Deck.](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030926/ap_on_re_eu/france_us_card_deck_2) :rolleyes: > > Of course, since Bush is only a puppet of the neo-conservative running dog fascists, he’s not the ace of spaces. Rumsfeld is the ace of spades. And of course, Henry Kissinger is included, too. So is Gary Bauer. > > And Tom Ridge? I couldn’t find him. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/3 "2003-09-26T17:35:28Z")
I bet the hamster that ate my post was French. ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/4 "2003-09-26T17:38:49Z")
Gee, somebody likes to throw the word “crank” around. Not to mention insult French people. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/5 "2003-09-26T17:43:08Z")
The OP is not France bashing, it’s idiot bashing. The “French hamster” comment? That was completely gratuitous, and also a _joke_. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/6 "2003-09-26T18:46:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by aryk29 \* > \*\*Gee, somebody likes to throw the word “crank” around. \*\* Your point? If the term “crank” doesn’t apply to Thierry Meyssan it doesn’t apply to anybody. The card deck thing also indicates that he’s too stupid to think up original snide jokes. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/7 "2003-09-26T18:48:41Z")
shrug. So far he’s made $25,000 of some internet cards. There are people everywhere ready to belive anything. Aren’t there **arky29**? ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/8 "2003-09-26T19:12:17Z")
So Americans can rag on the French and that’s OK, but when the French take shots at us, then the gloves are off?:rolleyes: I just want to make sure I understand. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/9 "2003-09-26T19:20:07Z")
If he’s made $25k off of it then I’m just sorry I didn’t think of it first. It sounds like a clever satire, although I"m lost on Kissinger on the deck. What card is Ari Fleischer, BTW? ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/10 "2003-09-26T19:34:46Z")
Everyone remembers that Kissinger was Bush’s first choice for heading the 9/11 investigation right? It hasn’t fallen down the memory hole yet? I think it’s kinda funny. Someone has got to come out with a Corporate Leaders deck. So we can start to get a handle on who actually runs the show. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/11 "2003-09-26T20:43:13Z")
**Michael Ellis** - you just wait till that Frenchy hamster gets his paws on a… 1920’s style death ray. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/12 "2003-09-26T21:18:00Z")
The clearest sign that Meyssan is a certifiable idiot is his placing poor, old, can’t-keep-his-foot-out-of-his-mouth-almost-lost-his-job-Rumsfeld at the top of the pack. (Although I realize that one can spin _that_information to make Rumsfeld the _obvious_ mastermind.) It is kind of funny, although it has no basis in reality. ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/13 "2003-09-26T21:49:01Z")
Yeah, everyone knows Karl Rove is the Ace of Spades. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/14 "2003-09-26T22:04:12Z")
Is Bush the Joker? ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/15 "2003-09-26T22:07:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Casey1505 \* > **So Americans can rag on the French and that’s OK, but when the French take shots at us, then the gloves are off?:rolleyes:** Let me make this perfectly clear. _IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FRENCH TAKING “SHOTS” AT AMERICANS, YOU THUNDERING MORON!! MEYSSAN IS A FUCKING CRANK!!!_ ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/16 "2003-09-26T22:09:15Z")
I figure old Thierry can’t be THAT stupid. His book was a bestseller, despite the inane subject material. Maybe I oughtta get rich, writing a book about how the German invasion of France during WWII never happened, thousands of French civilians never got rounded up and shot, and the French Jews were never rounded up and exported, and it was all a big plot so Charles de Gaulle could take over the country! Think it’d sell? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/17 "2003-09-26T22:09:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Reeder \* > \*\*Is Bush the Joker? \*\* Bush is the King of Diamonds. Bin Laden is the Joker. And granted, Meyssan is a nut, but I don’t see what’s wrong with the card deck. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/18 "2003-09-26T22:09:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Reeder \* > \*\*Is Bush the Joker? \*\* Shouldn’t you know? I mean, it takes one to know one, right? ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/19 "2003-09-26T22:13:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Captain Amazing \* > \*\*And granted, Meyssan is a nut, but I don’t see what’s wrong with the card deck. \*\* Well, partially because he’s an Jean-y come lately (really, how many months worth of “Deck of Hillary” / “Axis of Weasels” spam from Newsmax have you all been getting?), but mostly because, well, he’s a nut. If Charles Manson wrote a definitive history of the Scottish Monarchy, it would still have been written by a nutcake. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/20 "2003-09-26T22:23:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Reeder \* > \*\*Is Bush the Joker? \*\* [HERE](http://www.harcourtschool.com/newsbreak/images/george_bush.jpg) is George W. Bush. And [HERE](http://www.jamesryman.com/color/gallery/joker-print1.jpg) is the Joker. Not much alike. Obviously, George has cauliflower ears! And the Joker has better taste in suits. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001.md?page=2)