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Awkward: Bush Brother Dresses Up as a Communist on China Trip

Neil Bush, the brother of George and Jeb Bush, cracked a smile in China recently, posting a picture of himself decked out in communist paraphernalia.

“I’m thinking of joining the CCP. What do you think of my accessories?” he jokingly asked on the Chinese social site Weibo, brandishing a mug and a messenger bag with the face of Chairman Mao, and the well-known green communist officer’s field cap.

Here is the picture, via Weibo:

Neil Bush Dresses in Communist Garb, Chairman Mao Bag and Mug, in China

(Photo: Weibo)

According to the Wall Street Journal, the picture was posted on the man’s verified account and generated roughly 1,600 comments in the first six hours.

The comments were a mixture of praise that Bush has finally “figured it out,” so to speak, and criticism for China’s Communist Party.

Here are a selection of the comments, via the Wall Street Journal:

@UncleNiujileng: Your accessories do not qualify. These days the basic Communist Party gear is: Patek Philippe watch, Hermes wallet, Armani suit…

@LinYuntao: Lead the way to the glorious liberation of the United States!

@Highland (in English): Over qualified

@YourContentHasBeenScreened: Day doesn’t understand the night’s darkness

@DuskinPragueSquare (in English): awesome.

@SongFan svan (in English): You are not prepared!

@jiayi5001: Converting to our party — you’ve finally figured it out.

@JuneLyn2012 (in English): Take the CCP to USA, leave freedom here please.

Some likened dressing up in the Communist garb to wearing a Nazi outfit because the ideology is responsible for far more deaths, but others pointed out that Chairman Mao bags are more “mainstream.”

Neil Bush has a long and profitable history of working with China, and while converting to communism was clearly a joke, Bush is serious about his interest in the country.

“In the past 35 years, I have been to China 80 times and I am in awe of China’s development,” he says in his personal description, according to the Daily Mail.  “I hope all Americans see China’s long journey of development in to a global force with better understanding.”

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  • isobamamadd
    Posted on August 28, 2012 at 8:46pm

    all of these sorry politicans/globalists are commies,

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    • jhaydeng
      Posted on August 28, 2012 at 8:58pm

      When will the Bush family just go away? Not the baked bean guy’s, the one’s who love having a large government!

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    • Mr.Fitnah
      Posted on August 29, 2012 at 9:08am

      @JHAYDENG
      Never they are deep inside.
      41 worked for the Rockefellers before WW2 and helped found the CIA
      They are worse than you can imagine Im ashamed to have voted for 41 and 43 and a Florida Governor.
      Never again.

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  • woodyee
    Posted on August 28, 2012 at 8:02pm

    Really, much ado about nothing here…

    just one question, Mr. Bushhhhhhhhhhhhhhhsha! You said – “In the past 35 years, I have been to China 80 times and I am in awe of China’s development,” he says in his personal description, according to the Daily Mail. “I hope all Americans see China’s long journey of development in to a global force with better understanding.”

    “…better understanding.” WOULD YOU CARE TO ELABORATE? Dang sissypuss…one cream pie in the face is all it would take to send yet ANOTHER Bush into obscurity…and take John McCain with you! Please.

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  • as_mad_as_hell
    Posted on August 28, 2012 at 7:55pm

    What a twit. When I look at China’s so-called prosperity (remember, most of their population still craps in a hole in the ground). I always recall the 1989 student rebellion and how that was quelled (don’t look for it on You-Tube — no videotapes of it exist!) and the larger-than-life portrait of that smiling tu*d Mao outside the Forbidden City. Chinese officials are NOT to be trusted.

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  • TEARS FOR AMERICA
    Posted on August 28, 2012 at 7:40pm

    “In the past 35 years, I have been to China 80 times and I am in awe of China’s development,” he says in his personal description, according to the Daily Mail. “I hope all Americans see China’s long journey of development in to a global force with better understanding.”

    Shame on you, Mr. Bush! The glorification of a murderous system of government that has forced abortion, the bondage of humankind to a tyrannical central government, the raping of the spirit of freedom, religious freedom inhibited, and crony capitalism which sucks revenue into a maoistic monster is the nightmare you are praising here- the New World Order will elect you jester-in-chief, right?

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  • MBA
    Posted on August 28, 2012 at 7:27pm

    Every family has one! ********.

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  • v15
    Posted on August 28, 2012 at 6:58pm

    Mao has been dead for almost 40 years but I guess Neil mocking communism is still too soon? This is just journalistic fodder. A pointless story. Neil’s an idiot. So what?

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  • toomuchgovt
    Posted on August 28, 2012 at 6:50pm

    We wonder why the republican party is in the toilet? Gee one name BUSH. Did anyone see the RINO lineup of speakers? I can see 5 I want to hear. What is Romney thinking? What was Boehner thinking this afternoon. I was watching on CSPan and the nays had the vote, it was not all Paulies it was the Tea Party, the conservatives too. Point of ORDER. Boehner lost what little respect I had left for him.

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  • Wango
    Posted on August 28, 2012 at 6:33pm

    Savings.And.Loan.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on August 28, 2012 at 6:31pm

    Brilliant, all Bush brothers please stand down for the next 3 months please.

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  • Eric_The_Red_State
    Posted on August 28, 2012 at 6:24pm

    This is story number 2 – of the 5 per day – that the blaze comes out with daily to make Republicans look stupid.

    Thanks Blaze — good job.

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  • semihardrock
    Posted on August 28, 2012 at 6:22pm

    The truth is……America is NOT that different in how it treats its people…..fiscally speaking. What the US doesnt get in taxes, it gets in speeding tickets, building permits, parking meters, cell phone tax, gas tax, alcohol, tobacco, and on and on and on…….

    China is not the only one stealing from its people….. We are just better at disguising it…….It is reason why most countries think of Americans as idiots…..

    THIS is the CHANGE Obama is talking about….OR “you didnt build that” comment. Lets face it….we will NEVER pay down that debt….thats a fact! It is only an excuse for full blown Communism, which Obama wants….and was trained for…by US tax dollars at Harvard. WE BUILT OBAMA!

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  • marine249
    Posted on August 28, 2012 at 6:22pm

    oh yawn HONEY get me a beer.
    and I don’t drink.

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  • idaho1
    Posted on August 28, 2012 at 6:21pm

    I understand China first and formost has a horrible human rights history.
    I understand that FoxConn has had several workers commit suicide jumping from the top of their barracks while working to create Apple’s next best product.
    I further understand that Foxconn has felt bad about this and then installed “Nets” to capture these would be suicidal individuals and then grant a pay raise to help it’s damaged world perception as a slave labor camp.
    I Totally get a Bush getting in bed with these commies.
    What I don’t get is the humor in any of this.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on August 28, 2012 at 6:17pm

    Every family has a moron, the Baldwins’ have Alex, the Reagans have Ronald Jr., the Stalones had Frank, and the Obama’s have the villiage idiot that got kicked out of Kenya, and he also had a son that took after him.

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  • ijava44
    Posted on August 28, 2012 at 6:13pm

    It’s a joke, ok. And besides who cares. I hope he dresses however he wants whenever. whatever i can’t see any point to this story, except the unending giggling from the left maybe, but they do that to everybody..

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  • curmudgeon60
    Posted on August 28, 2012 at 6:13pm

    It was a joke JERKY! Even so , NO family is ever w/out an embarrassing family member, I‘m betting you are your family’s. Awwww

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on August 28, 2012 at 6:36pm

      Fact is, the whole Bush clan are big government progressives. It’s not just Neal.

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  • bikerdogred1
    Posted on August 28, 2012 at 6:11pm

    You like the way they dress,maybe you should stay there,or become a democrat they like the way they dress there to.

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  • ChangeAll
    Posted on August 28, 2012 at 6:11pm

    Neil has been nothing but an embarrassment to his family..he seems never to mature!!

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on August 28, 2012 at 6:10pm

    What really sucks ,is that they are more capitalistic than we are………hard to believe that a major American political party thinks that foodstamps and unemployment checks are they key to our children’s prosperity………

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  • NewLife56
    Posted on August 28, 2012 at 6:10pm

    What in the hell are you doing Blaze? Is this really a story?

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  • FREEDOMoverFEAR
    Posted on August 28, 2012 at 6:10pm

    Yup China developes fast, they can build a ten story building in a couple of days. Problem is they fall down sometimes. LOL They do not have OSHA, no form of EPA. They literally have orange rivers that look like HI-C. Oh and it looks like the house of cards that their economy is based on is about to come crumbling down. DUMB A55. I bet his family is proud.

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  • face.chewer
    Posted on August 28, 2012 at 6:10pm

    Hopefully the Navy Seals will not become enraged over this.

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  • Maxim Crux
    Posted on August 28, 2012 at 6:10pm

    It probably runs in the family. Never elect another Bush

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  • KingCanon
    Posted on August 28, 2012 at 6:09pm

    Nay. And again I say nay.

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  • The_Jerk
    Posted on August 28, 2012 at 6:07pm

    It’s fitting for a Bush.

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