# 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:** 2
**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, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/21 "2003-09-26T22:26:44Z")
“Thundering Moron”? Mind if I use that as a sig? I fail to see how this would make the news if a British “crank” or an American “crank” put a deck like this together. It wouldn’t surprise me if one did, but this guy just happens to be marketing it and making money off of it. Good for him. Even anti-American loons are entitled to make a buck any legal way they see fit. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/22 "2003-09-26T22:35:31Z")
[How about this US school teacher?](http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2003/June/23/local/stories/01local.htm) This is a Jesuit HS in San Jose. ---
**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, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/23 "2003-09-26T22:41:07Z")
Wow, that was in June, she’s American, and it seems to have gotten under the rage radar. How 'bout that? ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/24 "2003-09-26T22:46:28Z")
> [@](#): > > IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FRENCH TAKING “SHOTS” AT AMERICANS, YOU THUNDERING MORON!! MEYSSAN IS A FUCKING CRANK!!! Whoa, man. Somebody’s been taking a lesson from ambushed. And filching pills from our favorite blueist, too. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/25 "2003-09-26T23:03:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Casey1505 \* > \*\*Wow, that was in June, she’s American, and it seems to have gotten under the rage radar. How 'bout that? \*\* I saw her interviewed on one of the cable news channels last summer (wow, it’s not summer anymore!!) and I picked up on it because I have a few friends who teach at Bellarmine and quite a few friends who went there in HS. But I think the story only had a 1 day shelf life. ---
**Author:** ![Ben\_Hicks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@Ben\_Hicks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ben_Hicks)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/26 "2003-09-26T23:11:25Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Michael Ellis sans scary blue font_ > IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FRENCH TAKING “SHOTS” AT AMERICANS, YOU THUNDERING MORON!! MEYSSAN IS A FUCKING CRANK!!! Crank he may be but at least he has a nice dark sense of humour. Besides, given the number of people who consider Bush to be an illegitimate idiot boy king war criminal standing on the shoulders of corpulent plutocratic pigs whose sole priority is the implementation of myriad nefarious ways to dispatch the Iraqizoid heathen children squatting on our oil while ensuring their stock options are high enough to facilitate the oppression of 3rd world farmers arrogant enough to try and wheedle a second bowl of porridge on their dime, you could say it was a handy niche filler. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/27 "2003-09-26T23:31:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Michael Ellis \* > \*\*Of course, since Bush is only a puppet of the neo-conservative running dog fascists, he’s not the ace of spaces. \*\* Actually, Bush was the King of Diamonds on account of he owned a baseball team. Get it? Diamonds = baseball. Whatever else I think of the guy (hint for the uninformed: not much), you gotta give him credit for the culture reference there. ---
**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/28 "2003-09-26T23:40:48Z")
What the hell is Warren Buffet doing on a card? ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/29 "2003-09-26T23:44:44Z")
Umm… You can get these in Britain as well (not made by a ‘Gaullic crackpot’ I don’t think, though). You can buy replicas of the actual Iraqi ones as well. For some reason the ‘Regime Change’ (anti-war) ones are twice the price–now _that’s_ something to rant about :rolleyes:! ---
**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, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/30 "2003-09-26T23:49:31Z")
Poor old Hamid Karzai. Aside from being shot at, the guy only gets put down as the 3 of diamonds. Poor bastard. Meyssan likes Powell though. (Joker #2) ---
**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, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/31 "2003-09-26T23:50:21Z")
> [@](#): > > For some reason the ‘Regime Change’ (anti-war) ones are twice the price–now that’s something to rant about Because they aren’t subsidized by the military-industrial complex? 🙂 ---
**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, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/32 "2003-09-26T23:52:29Z")
Yeah but you’d think you’d get economies of scale. ---
**Author:** ![presidebt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c37758/32.png) [@presidebt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/presidebt)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/33 "2003-09-27T00:01:49Z")
A Russian newspaper has a [deck](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&ncid=583&e=10&u=/nm/20030925/od_nm/cards_dc) too. Bush is the Jack of Hearts in that one. Bush Sr is the Ace of Hearts and Alan Greenspan, oddly enough, is the Ace of Spades. I think it’s funny people would spit gigantic blue text over this. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/34 "2003-09-27T00:09:20Z")
Isn’t blue language obligatory in the Pit? ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/35 "2003-09-27T02:36:04Z")
Please; card decks like this have been around for decades; I remember my first set of “Politicards,” which lampooned nearly every figure in late '60s politics (Ralph Nader as a leather-jacketed “Raider,” stealing the hubcaps from a Corvair - hee!). ---
**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 27, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/36 "2003-09-27T20:48:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Michael Ellis \* > \*\*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!!!_ \*\* I’ll say this once: **Quit stealing my schtick.** Thank you. 😉 😃 ---
**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 27, 2003, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/37 "2003-09-27T20:51:06Z")
Actually “thundering moron” is Scott Adams’ schtick. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/38 "2003-09-27T21:05:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by manhattan \* > \*\*Actually, Bush was the King of Diamonds on account of he owned a baseball team. Get it? Diamonds = baseball. > > Whatever else I think of the guy (hint for the uninformed: not much), you gotta give him credit for the culture reference there. \*\* Nah, I think we can chalk that one up to dumb luck. IME the French know less about baseball than Americans do about cricket. ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/39 "2003-09-27T21:17:34Z")
> [@](#): > > Nah, I think we can chalk that one up to dumb luck. IME the French know less about baseball than Americans do about cricket. So the French can’t use the internet? ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001/40 "2003-09-27T22:24:39Z")
Actually, you may be right, **Gadfly** …only someone who has a familiarity with the Internet, especially the more whacko conspiracy parts of it, could have come up with a theory so off kilter as Meyssan’s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaullic-crackpot-prints-bush-regime-deck/204001.md?page=1)