@discoursedrome said: sometimes I think about the fact that dubya nearly died choking on a pretzel and I feel sad about the...
@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.
Wait… reading back on the contemporary articles it’s like “oh, well also he had these medical issues that made him easier to faint” and it’s actually kind of weird that a qualified jet fighter pilot would be more vulnerable to oxygen-deprivation blackouts than the norm