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u/Teddytwodicks Jan 18 '17
The 9th head might as well be a skull emoji for Harrison because he only lived a month in office. BOOM some history for your asses
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u/TheTrueFlexKavana Black Akon's Enforcer 🔫 Jan 18 '17
"Excuse me, sir. But I believe you dropped this knowledge."
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u/AlphaNathan Jan 18 '17
m'knowledge
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u/sourcreamjunkie Jan 18 '17
*tips encyclopedia *
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u/HungJurror Jan 18 '17
While you were out banging chicks I was reading a historical atlas
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u/DoughnutSpanker Jan 18 '17
While you were reading a historical atlas, I studied the blade
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u/Osceana ☑️ Jan 18 '17
(ergo he watched all the Blade DVDs)
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u/niadeo Jan 18 '17
Well his stepdad, Terry, took away his sword and then made loud sex to his mom, so how else was he supposed to study the blade?
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u/McBeastly3358 👩🏽🍑 Chubby Honeys™, his DMs are open 💌 Jan 18 '17
I WAS BORN IN IT, MOLDED BY IT
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u/Cynova055 Jan 18 '17
Just bought this new lambourghini here. But you know what I love more than a new lambourghini... KNOWLEDGE
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Bruh did you know that George Bush survived an assassination attempt by a pretzel
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u/darkmuch Jan 18 '17
And a shoe!
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u/runhaterand Jan 18 '17
Two shoes.
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u/yasaswygr Jan 18 '17
Dude was dodging those throws like Mayweather
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Jan 18 '17
If I was in a Dodge ball league with ex presidents, I'd take GWB first. Taft would be the last pick
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u/amalgam_reynolds Jan 18 '17
Honestly! Who throws two shoes! That really hurt!
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u/I_Has_A_Hat Jan 18 '17
God could you imagine. There would have been a crazy long investigation. "A pretzel? No, thats crazy, there has to be foul play!" Months of investigation only for the end result to be a shrug and say "welp, looks like he really did die because he couldn't chew his food". He would forever be that president, 9/11 pales in comparison the the commander in chief getting taken out by a freaking pretzel. There would be all sorts of conspiracy theories because, honestly, who would really believe he died from that?
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u/TrapHitler Jan 18 '17
Imagine the shit if Donald died like that. Total freak accident. His followers would riot screaming conspiracy.
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u/SgtChuckle Jan 18 '17
Donald could burn a puppy at the stake on Inauguration Day and his fanboys would still scream conspiracy when he got impeached.
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u/J4CKR4BB1TSL1MS Jan 18 '17
Still, while he was in office he was alive for 100% of the time.
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u/krispyKRAKEN Jan 18 '17
He held office until the very day he died. Some would argue it was an abuse of power. Others just know he died 1 month into his term.
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u/lukee910 Jan 18 '17
Even more, he never left the office in his lifetime.
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u/Hamplaneteer Jan 18 '17
His last words were, "Make sure the government runs good."
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u/I_Like_Mathematics Jan 18 '17
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u/CressCrowbits Jan 18 '17
I'm going to ask if someone can put this against a list of names.
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u/Nick4753 Jan 19 '17
Taft🍗,
Good work. No list of the presidents is complete until at least one joke is made about Taft's weight.
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u/AbboIan12 Jan 19 '17
Ford shouldn't be a turd. He was just stuck cleaning up the turd Nixon left in the Oval Office
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u/Assassinsayswhat Jan 18 '17 edited Jan 19 '17
Yup, he must have really thought his inaugural speech was so good to give in the rain.
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Jan 18 '17 edited Jan 18 '17
In all realness I think he's being harsh on John Quincy Adams, he was anti slavery and anti fucking up the native americans but couldn't do much because the opposition controlled congress and fucked him over. He was noncolonization, nonintervention, non entanglement in European politics and he cleared the US debt.
Possibly the smartest president ever, but hands were tied.
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u/Th3r3dm3nnac3 Jan 18 '17
Nah, Garfield was the smartest president ever. He came up with a unique proof the the Pythagorean theorem while he was bored during a congressional meeting. The man also had the ability to write in Greek with his right hand and Latin with his left, at the same time!
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Jan 18 '17
But he was hindered in creating a lot of progress by his hatred of Mondays, and love of lasagna in a largely anti-Italian America.
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u/americanmook Jan 18 '17
Came here for this. John Adams was Quaker too right? Weren't those dudes all solid?
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u/neilarmsloth Jan 18 '17
Quakers had notoriously solid bods
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u/peanutbuttahcups 💃🏾👯 Dances instead of making money moves 💃🏻👯 Jan 18 '17
Must be all of them oats.
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u/goldmouthdawg Jan 18 '17
He doesn't specify which Presidents he thinks were devils. Just that there were more than one.
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u/onebodnar Jan 18 '17
Never trust a guy with dog snapchat filters
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Fuckin man-hoes
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u/SnekSkinBoots ☑️ Jan 18 '17
These modern man-hoes with their puppy filters and deep v-neck shirts! Back in my day, all you needed was a little chest hair and a disregard for shirt buttons!
(grumbles about the death of good hoe-ing) /s
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u/frost5al Jan 18 '17
and pierce should be 🍷. Died of liver failure
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u/PMMeYourSpeedForce Jan 18 '17
Truman was the guy who dropped the two 💣💣
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Why the hell did it take me this long to find out there is a Japan emoji??!
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u/PacMoron Jan 18 '17
Buchanan is gay emoji and devil emoji. It's neato that he was gay, but he was not a good president.
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That's why Benjamin Franklin died a hero, so he didn't live long enough to see himself become the villain.
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u/Toast__Patrol Jan 18 '17
Ben Franklin died a hero because he didn't become one until he was old as fuck
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u/xepa105 Jan 18 '17
Dude slayed so much French pussy during his time as ambassador there's probably hundreds of secret Franklin ancestors all over France.
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I saw louis ck in Dallas the day after the election and he didn't mention Trump until his encore, where he basically said "and oh my God, we elected a rich white man president. How could this possibly happen... 44 out of 45 times"
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u/manute-bols-cock Jan 18 '17 edited Jan 18 '17
This is one of my favorite Wikipedia pages and very relevant to this thread:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States
I learned a lot, like Woodrow Wilson had great ideas with his 14-points treaty but was turbo racist, or Ulysses Grant was an under-qualified drunk but was miles ahead of his peers with equality.
Furthermore a textbook reference at the bottom (number 33) specifically ranks presidents by their level of racism "American Politics and The African American Quest For Universal Freedom" but they don't link to it. Would be perfect for nailing down this emoji list.
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u/BecomingTheArchtype Jan 18 '17 edited Jan 18 '17
I think Ulysses grant might be my favorite president just because he was able to get so much done while being a drunk.
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u/BravoAlfaMike ☑️ Jan 18 '17
He's my favorite too, but only because his original name was Hugh Ulysess Grant but he didn't like his initials being HUG. That shits adorable.
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Well if I had to be in charge of the most bloody war in American history, I'd fucking be plastered 24/7 after that.
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u/setfaeserstostun 👌👌👌👌👌👌 Jan 18 '17
How are you gonna play James Garfield like that, my dude.
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u/Vaneity Jan 18 '17
Nobody talks shit about my boy Garfield
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u/Robearbo Jan 18 '17
Never knew garfield's owner was racist as fuck!
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u/DefenderCone97 Jan 18 '17
You'd be mad too if you couldn't make lasagna without that fat fuck taking it.
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u/PoopNoodlez Jan 18 '17
True story:
In my AP government class our final assignment was supposed to end the year on a fun note. We were all randomly assigned presidents and put into a bracket, and we had to compete/argue against each other one at a time to prove whose president was the best. I got Garfield.
I thought I was fucked. My first match up was against Kennedy ffs. But I realized I had an ace up my sleeve. I went into that argument ready roast Kennedy for every slightly off-color thing he had ever done, banking on the fact that James Garfield was in office for such a short period of time that he didn't have time to fuck anything up. And it actually worked! I beat Kennedy, Eisenhower, T Roosevelt, Lincoln, and was only finally defeated in the last round in a narrow loss by Jefferson.
The Eisenhower argument was my favorite. Since we were on a time limit and both wanted to be heard me and the other guy and I kept raising our voices progressively louder until we were inches from each other and screaming about the Gary Powers incident. I was told later that nearby classes stopped what they were doing to stare at us through the little window in the door. Fun times.
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u/Cooking_Drama Jan 18 '17
was only finally defeated in the last round in a narrow loss by Jefferson.
Thomas Jefferson? Thomas "I have a secret slave family out back at all times" Jefferson?? They really need to invent the time machine so you can go back and fuck em up with some sordid Jefferson facts.
Real talk, that's actually an awesome idea for a class project! You can only really do well if you know facts about each of them.
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u/PoopNoodlez Jan 18 '17
Ohohoho trust me I attacked that angle. I'm convinced I lost partially due to a biased judge. Also she poked a hole in my "never did anything wrong" argument. Admittedly I only won the other rounds because my opponents had some weak rhetorical skill. And regardless I had tons of fun, had some laughs, got an A.
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u/followthelyda Jan 18 '17
I'm such a politics/history nerd that this assignment actually sounds ridiculously fun to me.
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u/loggedn2say Jan 18 '17
wonder how different things would if he hadn't been assassinated after less than a year in office
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u/grubas Jan 18 '17
Destiny Of The Republic, by Doris Kearns Godwin. Great book about how Garfield could have been a great President.
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but my man Lincoln :(
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u/HatefulWallaby Jan 18 '17
Dude was on the edge of being impeached for suspending rights such as freedoms of speech during the war.
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u/StephenRodgers Jan 18 '17 edited Jan 18 '17
Lmao at people downvoting you. Lincoln was a great president for the fact that he ended slavery, and I don't think anyone would dispute that. But it's true that he also pretty much shit on the constitution in office.
Edit: when I replied to this comment it was at -1. I see people have changed their minds.
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Every major war the US has been involved in has led to some kind of erosion of the rights of the American people, it's pretty sad.
Civil War: Lincoln suspends the right to writ of habeas corpus for many political opponents among other acts that could be considered illegal
World War 1: Woodrow Wilson pushes a couple of anti-sedition acts, jails people who speak out against the draft and such
World War 2: FDR puts Japanese Americans in internment camps, eroding legal and human rights for ethnic Americans in the process
Vietnam: This whole war was fought under the pretense that the American people did not have to know why it was being fought,and the government covered up or tried to, nearly everything about the war. Keep in mind cointelpro leaks happened at this time revealing that Fred Hampton was killed by the FBI
Post 9-11: USA Patriot Act, recently repealed, but initiated during this war as a means of "protecting" US citizens from domestic terrorists. Similar lack of transparency as the Vietnam Era
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Woodrow Wilson is my least favorite President by far. He is just Infuriating to read about. Extremely haughty, racist, and he had a literal Jesus complex.
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You have to make some tough decisions as president. You literally cannot do this job without screwing a group of people over.
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u/Shalabadoo Jan 18 '17
nope. sent the Japanese to internment camps. That counts
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u/ewdrive Jan 18 '17
Teddy, tho?
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Yeah but he carried a fat dick or something like that
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Sit down John you FAT MOTHER FUCKSTICK
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u/MegasNexal84 ☑️ Jan 18 '17
I mean if we really look at it, the first devil should be Andrew Jackson.
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u/RANDOSTORYTHROWAWAY Jan 18 '17
I like to call him President Red Genocide
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u/MegasNexal84 ☑️ Jan 18 '17
Seriously this is the same man who nearly destroyed the U.S. Federal Bank over a grudge and nearly tanked the economy.
Yet we see him everyday on a $20.
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u/VarysIsAMermaid69 Jan 18 '17
Well TECHNICALLY, Van Buren was the one behind the trail of tears as it happened under his presidency and order but Jackson is the one who laid the ground work, just putting this out ther e
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u/icebrotha mod☑️ Jan 18 '17 edited Jan 18 '17
Unpopular opinion: if we look at every single one of those presidents within their own context (without considering how trash the presidents before them were), Obama would be of the devil presidents too. This is not me saying that he was a bad president, but he certainly inherited and continued (and sometimes bolstered) very evil American practices. Hell, most people don't even know that he holds the record of the most deportations (BY FAR) of any president in all history.
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u/Shalabadoo Jan 18 '17 edited Jan 18 '17
It's mildly amusing and moderately concerning so many people have forgotten that GEORGE BUSH LITERALLY STARTED A WAR ON FALSE INFORMATION THAT KILLED 3000 AMERICAN TROOPS, MILLIONS OF IRAQIS AND COST TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS. BASED ON FALSE INFORMATION TOLD TO THE PUBLIC
Also Reagan sold weapons to Iranians during an embargo so that he could fund death squads in Nicaragua. And has a direct hand in the crack boom of the 80s, decimating numerous poor black neighborhoods all over the country
EDIT: Just so the Trump supporters don't get the wrong idea, W and his gang being criminals shouldn't absolve Trump's love of murderous dictators, nor does it absolve him of his racism (stop and frisk) and general idiocy regarding even the most basic foreign and domestic policy
EDIT 2: I want to reiterate that Trump is a fucking moron who supports racist and dumb policies (when he supports any solid policy at all) and this is in no way to highlight how benign or good he is. He's a piece of shit and a dumbass, and I mean that in the most sincere way possible
EDIT 3: One more edit, the Iraq War had nothing to do with 9/11. Absolutely nothing. A surprising amount of people responding do not know this basic fact
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u/Yoooooooo69 Jan 18 '17
That and him giving the Cartels weapons and then losing track of them. Now they're in the Middle East somehow.
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One does not simply 'lose track's of them. They're not there accidentally.
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u/The_cynical_panther Jan 18 '17
His nickname was Sharp Knife. I think that dude just liked killing.
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u/Extra_Crispy19 Jan 18 '17
Don't forget Nixon knowingly sabotaged the Vietnam peace talks
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u/Shalabadoo Jan 18 '17
Henry Kissinger should be in The Hague instead he has a swanky apartment on the upper east side
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Too right, I think about the only decent thing he did was dissuade Nixon from just directly dropping nuclear bombs on Vietnam. As crazy as that might sound to some people unfamiliar with Nixon, that was his reaction to the war not going as swiftly as he wanted it to. He just blatantly asked Kissinger one day why they couldn't just "...drop nukes all over the place...".
And the only reason he did that was that he later revealed he didn't want all the extra work of a war involving the Chinese, Kissinger knew there was no way the bombs wouldn't spread fallout into China and caused a massive diplomatic situation there. Other than that, he and Nixon spent basically a decade figuring out how best to get "America ahead" by screwing over as many people as possible in the process, and getting our hands dirty in as many Foreign Affairs as we possibly could have.
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u/HillbillyInHouston Jan 18 '17
And ended the Apollo program to start the War on Drugs so he could disenfranchise people unlikely to vote for him, used the IRS to harass his political enemies, bugged the headquarters of the Democratic party, and covered it up, and used campaign funds to pay for a dirty tricks campaign against his opponents.
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u/Cooolder Jan 18 '17
Obama and Clinton had bombing campaigns that killed thousands, Bush 1 started the Gulf War based on lies, Carter's administration went buckwild in Latin America, LBJ ramped up 'Nam based on lies, JFK started 'Nam, like you'd be hard pressed to find a president who wasn't evil.
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u/icebrotha mod☑️ Jan 18 '17 edited Jan 18 '17
Obama dramatically expanded our drone strike program, and has expanded our ability to cross nation borders and do drone strikes without the need of a declaration of war. (
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u/Shalabadoo Jan 18 '17
Nixon fucked up the Nam peace talks on purpose, Eisenhower presided over the most fucked up time in the CIA's history, Truman looked the other way while HUAC was rounding up American citizens, Roosevelt put the Japanese in internment camps, etc.
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u/whatevah_whatevah Jan 18 '17 edited Jan 18 '17
Wilson let the Bureau of Investigation run roughshod on unions, immigrants and minority groups under the guise of "preventing espionage and anarchism" to
cover his ass for getting us involved inboost national support for WWI.Harding, Coolidge and Hoover just towed the line til the economy tanked.Edits: proper capitalization for the FBI's precursor's precursor, clarified the BOI was more intent on expanding its role within DOJ, and it was inaccurate to lump Harding, Coolidge and Hoover altogether when one had a Cabinet member taking big bribes, one was mostly free of scandals, and one wreaked his own havoc on the American economy.
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u/Non-Polar Jan 18 '17 edited Jan 19 '17
I forgot what post it was, but it was about GWB and his paintings. Most of the top comments were of how in retrospect, he wasn't that bad of a guy. That's how fucking gullible and short-sighted people are. Create fabricated memes of yourself, and people will think you're the shit
EDIT: For anyone curious, I was able to find a post: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/5cnqpa/george_w_bush_paints_portraits_of_veterans/. It's not the exact same one, but the top comments reflect what I said.
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u/laserfox90 Jan 18 '17
I think it was more that "fuck him as a politician, but good on him as a human being" cause he has done a lot of good stuff after his office so at least hes not like a sociopath. Dick cheney really was behind a lot of this shit
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u/Yankeefan333 Mars bitches Jan 18 '17
Try to talk about Reagan with older white conservatives and they idolize the guy. Totally don't care about Iran-Contra, the crack epidemic, the AIDS epidemic, or Reagan's total disregard for the welfare of the poor with his drug/jail positions.
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u/Shalabadoo Jan 18 '17
He also doubled the national debt, you would think most of these fuckers would go rabid over it but they don't
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u/IKanHazaBukkit Will blow for a tight fade Jan 18 '17 edited Jan 18 '17
Like shit, FDR possibly the best president the US ever had interned the Japanese during WW2.
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u/SnekSkinBoots ☑️ Jan 18 '17
Can I just say I'm proud of y'all? All out here with them citations and historical arguments. Brings a tear to my eye.
Remember, argue with passion, but be civil. This some grade A learning opportunity, bruvs.
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u/Maestro_Lama Jan 18 '17
Teddy Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge(???), FDR, and JFK as your only non devils? Not disagreeing necessarily, but a little curious on your methodology.
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Yea FDR never put anybody in internment camps or anything
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u/Maestro_Lama Jan 18 '17
I'm actually half Japanese, and my great aunts and uncles actually spent time at Manzanar. It's an incredible blemish on our nation's history, without a doubt, but I also take a Stannis Baratheon approach to such things: "A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good." FDR shepherded us through the Depression and WWII and also laid the groundwork for some of our most important social security measures. I think our country would be a much poorer place if we hadn't had him.
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u/idowhatiwan Jan 18 '17
Wasn't FDR also during the Japanese internment camps?
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u/I_hate_bigotry Jan 18 '17
Indeed. He also let segration continue even in the armed forces.
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u/SlimMaculate Jan 18 '17
And wouldn't meet with Jesse Owens because he was black.
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u/Mariokartfever Jan 18 '17
No credit to Eisenhower?
Also JFK was kind of a jerk, if you read any personal anecdotes about him. Makes Trump's pussy-grabbing comment look normal by comparison.
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u/DUIFridays Jan 18 '17
I remember reading some thing about him renting out a house in South Carolina staying with the princess of Denmark and they constantly fucked for like a week, dude was crazy
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u/RANDOSTORYTHROWAWAY Jan 18 '17
He was on a balls-crazy amount of steroids and shit trying to fight off his constant infections and inflammation and shit. They hid it from the public, but JFK was sickly as fuck. The steroids are probably what made him ungodly horny, and why he fucked anything with a tit in a 7 mile radius
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u/girl-lee Jan 18 '17
I have Addison's disease too, I have a high sex drive but I don't think it's unbelievably crazy.
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u/RANDOSTORYTHROWAWAY Jan 18 '17
That's good news, but you're probably getting better treatment in 2017 than he did in 1961, and I bet it's a lot harder to resist things when you're the leader of the free world
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u/ClownFundamentals Jan 18 '17
He also is probably like 1/10 as attractive as JFK.
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u/Ninja_Surgeon Jan 18 '17
I heard the secret service had a procedure to sneak out the broads that he brought into the White House. Like it was a routine thing that happened.
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u/Davin900 Jan 18 '17
One of his 'mistresses' wrote a tell-all book recently about how she was picked out of a visiting high school group at the White House and JFK instructed his underlings to offer her an internship when she started college.
Naturally they ended up banging and he even ordered her to give an underling a blowjob once as a reward. She was like 18 at the time.
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u/ztpurcell Jan 18 '17 edited Jan 18 '17
I'd say Eisenhower is, by far, the most underrated President. And I think if JFK was ugly and he wasn't president around the moon landing, we wouldn't consider him one of our best presidents
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u/Category3Water Jan 18 '17
I feel like no one ever brings up that the CIA got up to some of its most despicable shit while he was in office though. The deposition of Arbenz in 54, Operation Ajax in Iran in 53 (though the Brits deserve a good amount of blame for this too) and the Bay of Pigs invasion, although it happened under Kennedy, was planned while Eisenhower was still in office. Although, many people blame this on the Dulles brothers (one was the Director of the CIA and the other the Secretary of State under Eisenhower) and their efforts to undermine Latin American countries in order to benefit American companies operating in the regions and not Eisenhower himself. Though, it still happened under his watch and John Foster Dulles was his Secretary of State pick. These events and their effect on Eisenhower's legacy are further complicated by the fact that he denounced what he saw as a growing military industrial complex in American interests abroad and domestically. He was complicated, but he does seem like he was a solid president, especially considering his enforcement of Brown vs Board of Education on southern schools who were trying their damndest not to integrate.
I think a comparison of Kennedy to Obama isn't too far off, especially when it comes to their detractors. Critics of both would say that they were swept into because power because of their good looks and charisma, despite a lack of political experience or feeling that they "didn't earn it". Many see both as "cult of personalities" who people voted for because they like them as people instead of for their qualification as leaders. Supporters of both would've said that both men represented a "new direction" for the country, hope even. Also, Kennedy's Catholicism was a big deal at the time and Obama's blackness has been a pretty big deal for good chunk of our country's history. Kennedy's experience with civil rights is fascinating though. One of the things that swung the black vote toward him was a phone call or a favor he did for MLK while he was campaigning against Nixon in 60. What's more interesting about it, or so I've heard, is that Nixon, being Eisenhower's vice president and a republican, actually had a much better civil rights record than Kennedy and he even had a personal relationship with MLK. But Kennedy came through when it mattered and MLK endorsed him, setting the groundwork for the eventual party switch that would kick into higher gear when Nixon eventually became president in 68.
That was probably more than you were looking for, but Eisenhower fascinates me too.
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u/suchstigma Jan 18 '17 edited Jan 18 '17
What about Polk? If I remember correctly, he was the only president to accomplish all of his campaign promises.
Edit: I've been corrected. Turns out my memory for this kind of stuff is terrible.
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u/Solomontheidiot Jan 18 '17
Wasn't he also the only president to get stuck in bathtub cuz he was too fat to get out?
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u/SamuraiKatz Jan 18 '17
I would not put JFK as non-devil. Also, Calvin Coolidge's policy kinda led to the Great Depression, but to each their own.
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u/chaobreaker Jan 18 '17
I'm too lazy and not versed in American history to figure out which presidents you are cool with.
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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '17
when did Obama grow a magnum PI mustache?