My Review of George W. Bush's Substack
I have advice for this spunky upstart
There’s a new Substacker in town — say hello to this plucky young fellow:
I’ve never heard of this guy, but I did some googling, and his claim that he was the 43rd president of the United States checks out. It seems that W is the latest president to dabble in content creation, following in the footsteps of Gerald Ford’s Friendster page and Toasted Peanut, the YouTube channel where Jimmy Carter would get high and review horror movies. Bush has one post up so far, and my first bit of friendly advice — which I am happy to lend, because it’s important for established Substack writers to encourage young blah blah blah it makes me feel like a big shot — is that Bush needs to publish more often. This game is about quantity, Mr. President. Publish something, anything — do you think I clawed my way to the top of the Substack charts by obsessing over quality? Any reader of this blog will tell you: I did not.
Also, I freshened up your banner — this will get the subscribers rolling in:
Trust me, Mr. President: Follow my advice and you won’t be stuck at 4,000 adorable little subscribers for long.
Bush’s first post is about George Washington. It is not titled “I Was President: Here’s the Secret About George Washington That Will Blow Your Mind” because Bush still sucks at being a Substack author. The essay is a largely biographical account of Washington’s life, which makes me suspect that this might be a marketing ploy by the people who made the upcoming Young Washington movie.1 At any rate: There’s not much to nitpick here, unless you feel the need to quibble with sentences like “General Washington resigned his military commission in 1783.”
