@discoursedrome said: sometimes I think about the fact that dubya nearly died choking on a pretzel and I feel sad about the human windpipe

Oh my god I forgot about that! Friendly reminder, in January of 2002 US President George W. Bush choked on a snack pretzel while watching football in his quarters and fell unconscious and face-first on the floor, if he hadn’t been saved Dick Cheney would have inherited the presidency before the Iraq invasion.