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hansolo lemmy.today hansolo@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-06-07
#52 · Quote Reply

FDR in the great tier is the second dumbest thing on there. If his proposals where in the table the republicans would have a collective meltdown.

And Grant as a failure? Literally the next Republican elected after Lincoln.

This is probably some incel white supremacist president list to start with, where nothing makes any sense.

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sem lemmy.blahaj.zone sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-06-09
#53 · Quote Reply

🤔 they like fdr?

People get their policy positions from their leaders, to a point.

It the leader says FDR is good, wwii, putting America to work, etc, then the base will believe those things.

It only doesn't work when you push too far, like when Trump briefly tried to promote the COVID vaccine.

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MorningWood anarchist.nexus MorningWood@anarchist.nexus
Joined: 2026-03-29
#54 · Quote Reply

Interesting he put McKinley as average since he looks up to him so much (renamed a mountain after him) Maybe he doesnt want people looking into what happened to the last president who instilled a widespread tariff policy...

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RememberTheApollo_ lemmy.world RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-26
#55 · Quote Reply

They left out Eisenhower. Probably because even though he was republican he advocated for social programs. Can’t put him in the winners section because commie, can’t put him in the losers section because republican.

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Trex lemmy.world Trex202@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-03
#56 · Quote Reply

He left out every Republican president from the past 70 years, no Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, HW Bush, or W Bush

He couldn't name them all

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Janx piefed.social Janx@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-12-19
#57 · Quote Reply

I did not expect to see Clinton in the average bracket ngl

He's in the Epstein files with Trump.

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scibra122 piefed.social scibra122@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-03-03
#58 · Quote Reply

Hoover is average? He was a major factor in causing THE GREAT DEPRESSION

He used tariffs, so he can't go too low on this list. Don't worry about the correlation between tariffs and the great depression citizen, big brother does the thinking for you so you can focus on sports and your two minutes hate

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Feathercrown lemmy.world Feathercrown@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-06
#59 · Quote Reply

Where's my main man Garfield

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HubertManne piefed.social HubertManne@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-03-13
#60 · Quote Reply

Its true enough. This is about fellate skills, yes?

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sad_detective_man sopuli.xyz sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2024-11-24
#61 · (edited) Quote Reply

Even ignoring the top spot, this is a really weird list. I feel like he just asked an AI to make a meme that makes him look like the chad and Obama/Biden look like the soyjack.

100%, the dude does not read about presidents. It's just ragebait.

Pretty sure he's not even posting on his truth account this year

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protist Member Joined: 2026-03-10
#62 · Quote Reply

He couldn't name them all

He was alive for all of them. My bet is any ranking of them on this list would cause controversy among his base, because many of them are revered by some and reviled by many

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NotASharkInAManSuit lemmy.world NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-05-06
#63 · Quote Reply

If other people say you’re really cool, you’re probably really cool. If you constantly have to tell everyone that you are cool, you’re a pathetic fucking loser.

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psycotica0 lemmy.ca psycotica0@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-15
#64 · Quote Reply

He left out every Republican president from the past 70 years, no Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, HW Bush, or W Bush

I noticed the same thing! I was like "where did they put their lord and saviour Reagan" and then noticed they just punted by not even putting them into the tier list! Cowardly fuckers!

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psycotica0 lemmy.ca psycotica0@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-15
#65 · Quote Reply

I'm not American, and this is maybe the first time I've seen FDR listed as FD Roosevelt. Is that the same Roosevelt as Teddy? Or just a coincidence?

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ZoteTheMighty lemmy.zip ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-27
#66 · Quote Reply

🤔 they like fdr?

When he had an AI generate it, he probably specified where Carter, Obama, and Biden went, and let the AI do the rest. Everyone always ranks FDR highly because progressive policies are super effective, so that's what the AI did.

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Default Username lemmy.dbzer0.com defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-06-12
#67 · Quote Reply

Putting Grant at the bottom is always a dog whistle. It's lost cause propaganda. Straight up KKK shit.

Also Jackson at the top (under himself).

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TheTetrapod lemmy.world TheTetrapod@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-15
#68 · Quote Reply

Where's my main man Garfield

The Garfield erasure never ends.

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Squirrelknight lemmy.world Squirrelknight@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-08-25
#69 · (edited) Quote Reply

Dog whistles are so 2015, the last decade has been just plain whistles. And the occasional boat horn

Putting Grant below Buchanan is a fog horn.

That is literally saying reconstruction was worse than the civil war itself.

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electric_nan lemmy.ml electric_nan@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2022-01-15
#70 · Quote Reply

I'm not American, and this is maybe the first time I've seen FDR listed as FD Roosevelt. Is that the same Roosevelt as Teddy? Or just a coincidence?

They were distant cousins.

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OBJECTION! lemmy.ml Objection@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2024-04-30
#71 · Quote Reply

I'm not American, and this is maybe the first time I've seen FDR listed as FD Roosevelt. Is that the same Roosevelt as Teddy? Or just a coincidence?

It is the same Roosevelt family, yes, they were distant (fifth) cousins. FDR's wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, was also Teddy Roosevelt's niece.

It's worth remembering that while FDR is frequently seen as a radical progressive, the reality is that he came out of an established political family, and his New Deal policies were driven less by some radical ideology and more by recognizing what the moment demanded, and being willing to act on that. If anything, FDR was somewhat reserved in implementing the New Deal and in some cases, he even attempted to roll back his own policies prematurely.

In normal circumstances, he might have been an unremarkable president, but he rose to the challenge and recognized that the economic crisis in front of him required a functional, active government, which created a political will even within the political establishment to break the fundamental US norms that the government isn't supposed to ever do anything good or useful.

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Squirrelknight lemmy.world Squirrelknight@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-08-25
#72 · Quote Reply

Americans should siege the fucking white house right now

That's what Trumps preparing for. It's why he keep rambling about his stupid ballroom, 'cause he's building a bunker under it for protection when shit hits the fan.

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Treczoks lemmy.world Treczoks@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-09
#73 · Quote Reply

Greatest delusional, if anything.

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kryptonianCodeMonkey lemmy.world kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-13
#74 · (edited) Quote Reply

They left out Eisenhower. Probably because even though he was republican he advocated for social programs. Can’t put him in the winners section because commie, can’t put him in the losers section because republican.

There are only 34 presidents in this list. 11 are missing entirely, notably including Eisenhower, Truman, both Bushes, Reagan, Nixon, Ford, LBJ, and Kennedy. Like... big relevant names including very notable Republicans. 9 of the last 14 from the last 81 years missing. Are they stupid or strategically leaving them out of the comparison with Trump and others becuase it is politically tricky due to their recentcy but not so recent as to be part of the culture wars? The only 4 in there besides himself were Obama, Biden, Carter and Clinton. All democrats that were alive during his presidency. Not a coincidence, I'm sure.

Also, the idea that trump knows a damn thing about most of these presidents, let alone enough to reasonable compare them and judge their overall effectiveness and legacy is laughable.

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blueduck piefed.social blueduck@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-10-19
#75 · Quote Reply

I'm not American, and this is maybe the first time I've seen FDR listed as FD Roosevelt. Is that the same Roosevelt as Teddy? Or just a coincidence?

Fifth cousins. The Roosevelt family is / was a political dynasty alongside the Adams, Harrison and Bush families

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leavemealone sh.itjust.works leavemealone@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-07-05
#76 · (edited) Quote Reply

He left out every Republican president from the past 70 years, no Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, HW Bush, or W Bush

Pedos dont like to see bush.

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Bwaz lemmy.world Bwaz@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-09-19
#77 · Quote Reply

Chart needs a title. I suggest "sucesses in being an incompetent asshole"

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teslekova lemmy.ml teslekova@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-08-05
#78 · Quote Reply

Where the fuck is the only President who dropped two atom bombs on an enemy civilian population? Love him or hate him, to leave him out is absolutely insane!

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teslekova lemmy.ml teslekova@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-08-05
#79 · Quote Reply

Pedos dont like to see bush.

Jesus, that's good.

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teslekova lemmy.ml teslekova@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-08-05
#80 · Quote Reply

No one is coming to save you America

Yeah. We'd love to,, but we cannot. Your country is impossible to invade like we did Nazi Germany. It's up to you. Civil war, popular uprising, or miraculous democratic solution, it's all down to the people of America to save themselves this time.

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Redditmodstouchgrass lemmy.zip Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-07-18
#81 · Quote Reply

Even ignoring the top spot, this is a really weird list. I feel like he just asked an AI to make a meme that makes him look like the chad and Obama/Biden look like the soyjack.

Yeah, like, does he know most of his base doesn't like Lincoln?

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MJKee9 lemmy.world MJKee9@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-30
#82 · Quote Reply

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Lucidlethargy sh.itjust.works Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-28
#83 · (edited) Quote Reply

The coward didn't even include Reagan. Too many Republicans worship Reagan, and his fragile ego doesn't let him share the number one spot.

He's probably just too senile to remember Reagan. Ironic, since I think that's how Reagan went, too...

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VoteNixon2016 lemmy.blahaj.zone VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-08-10
#84 · Quote Reply

Where's my main man Garfield

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collapse_already lemmy.ml collapse_already@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-11-29
#85 · Quote Reply

Says the man that is actually the worst by more than five standard deviations.

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DarkFuture lemmy.world DarkFuture@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-11-06
#86 · Quote Reply

Is this a list of pedophiles from most to least prolific?

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DarkFuture lemmy.world DarkFuture@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-11-06
#87 · Quote Reply

Hoover is average? He was a major factor in causing THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Crashing the economy is a quality to cuckservatives. That's why they keep voting for losers that do it.

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Thebeardedsinglemalt lemmy.world Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-07-17
#88 · Quote Reply

Just like all those peaked-in-highschool fucktards wearing ALPHA tshirts.

If you have to tell someone you're an Alpha...you're NOT alpha

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Thebeardedsinglemalt lemmy.world Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-07-17
#89 · Quote Reply

If other people say you’re really cool, you’re probably really cool. If you constantly have to tell everyone that you are cool, you’re a pathetic fucking loser.

If you have to tell everyone you're the cool mom, you're not a cool mom

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Thebeardedsinglemalt lemmy.world Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-07-17
#90 · Quote Reply

The coward didn't even include Reagan. Too many Republicans worship Reagan, and his fragile ego doesn't let him share the number one spot.

Because if he included Reagan them people would know where he stole his slogan from

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Thebeardedsinglemalt lemmy.world Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-07-17
#91 · Quote Reply

Small dick energy

That describes most everything he does.

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raspberriesareyummy lemmy.world raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
#92 · (edited) Quote Reply

Of the quite relevant ones, Dementia Diapers Dodo casually forgot Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan, Bush and Bush Jr.

Edit: oh, and Ford.

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jballs sh.itjust.works jballs@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-13
#93 · Quote Reply

There are no modern republicans on it and that’s not by chance.

Yeah he didn't want to anger anyone by saying Bush sucked or that he was better than Reagan. Definitely intentional.

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chiliedogg lemmy.world chiliedogg@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-26
#94 · Quote Reply

Where the fuck is the only President who dropped two atom bombs on an enemy civilian population? Love him or hate him, to leave him out is absolutely insane!

At least the guy behind the greatest genocide in American history made the "great" list.

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banause feddit.org banause@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-07-26
#95 · Quote Reply

If you have to tell everyone you're the cool mom, you're not a cool mom

If you have to tell everyone you're the cool brother, you're not a cool brother

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CentauriBeau lemmy.world CentauriBeau@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
#96 · Quote Reply

Leaving Nixon out because the optics of having him the “Great” category I’m sure, based on how his mind works. “This guy cheated and lied, one of my own and someone I can relate to!”

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Evotech lemmy.world Evotech@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-10-11
#97 · Quote Reply

Totally reasonable post /s

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PumpkinSkink lemmy.world PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-02
#98 · Quote Reply

Bro made a president tier list and put Jackson in A tier. Wild self-report there.

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AlteredEgo lemmy.ml AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2024-01-26
#99 · Quote Reply

Totally reasonable post /s

Stable genius

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mojofrododojo lemmy.world mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-25
#100 · Quote Reply

Yeah, like, does he know most of his base doesn't like Lincoln?

goddamn, if they met, lincoln would bitchslap him too

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hactar42 lemmy.ml hactar42@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-06-08
#101 · Quote Reply

Where the fuck is the only President who dropped two atom bombs on an enemy civilian population? Love him or hate him, to leave him out is absolutely insane!

He was poor. Therefore completely ignored by Trump

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