"President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas"
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The subtext is less about Texas than about legitimacy. “Sent back home” implies Bush is an interloper who never earned the right to command, that the office has been occupied rather than held. Texas functions as shorthand for a whole cultural bundle - oil, swagger, militarism, conservative tribal identity - and it’s deployed as a punchline that makes the demand feel populist, even folksy, while staying razor-edged. It’s banishment as branding.
Context matters: Jagger’s public life has long braided celebrity with human-rights advocacy, and this kind of line plays to a media ecosystem that rewards quotable moral clarity over procedural nuance. The intent is to collapse distance between audience outrage and action, to make “accountability” sound immediate, physical, and deserved. It works because it’s not trying to persuade Bush; it’s trying to rally everyone else by treating his removal as common sense already.
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| Topic | Justice |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Jagger, Bianca. (2026, January 17). President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/president-bush-should-be-indicted-and-should-be-45650/
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Jagger, Bianca. "President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/president-bush-should-be-indicted-and-should-be-45650/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/president-bush-should-be-indicted-and-should-be-45650/. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.





