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Best and Worst US Presidents
Based on the clue, guess these US presidents ranked the best and worst in history.
Based on aggregate polling data of conservative, liberal, and centrist presidential historians, 1948-2018
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Last updated: December 11, 2018
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You think giving a right wing opinion is trolling? The polls express left leaning values.
As for the general election in '24... if Trump runs either as the GOP candidate or as a 3rd party candidate, if he's going up against Biden, he will be crushed. Just look at Biden's approval ratings for the last month vs. Trump's over 4 years. And then consider that Trump and the GOP did absolutely everything they could to try and steal the 2020 election, and failed, but they're not in power anymore.
Let's do some math here. The probability that Trump engaged in criminal activity with Jeffrey Epstein is at least 95%. Both are known criminals, known to like "younger" women, accused of criminal sexual activity multiple times, have absolutely zero moral compass or conscience, are obvious sociopaths, partied together many times, and Trump is on record in an interview remarking about how Epstein is fun to hang out with and likes women as much as he does and "on the younger side."
The probability that Clinton engaged in criminal activity with Epstein is about 50%. Clinton is also an accused sex offender, though not as oft-accused as Trump.
What's the probability that Trump or Clinton were stupid enough to put themselves in a situation where Epstein could obtain incriminating evidence against them for use in blackmail? I'd put that at 100% for Trump and 60% for Clinton. Trump is a world-class idiot who can't operate an umbrella. Clinton on the other hand is by all accounts a genius, but, he did get caught in the Lewinsky affair, and Epstein is known for being pretty clever and devious. So odds are he could have gotten dirt on both of them.
What are the odds that Trump or Clinton would have the will to have someone murdered? Well Trump is a total psychopath who has repeatedly expressed admiration for murderous thugs like Putin and Duterte. He is a malignant narcissist with 0 capacity for empathy.
And motive? Who is more likely to have the motive to have Epstein killed? Who has more to lose? Well... Trump is the sitting US president. In an election year. If he loses this next election, as an unindicted co-conspirator in multiple felonies protected from incarceration only by DOJ policy to not charge sitting presidents, this means he will likely go to jail. He is also a narcissist who can't imagine losing. He would do absolutely anything to not lose this election. His odds of having motive are 100%. Clinton? He's been out of politics for 20 years and now does charity work. His only reason to not want his..
and finally there's the question of who is more likely to have the power to get Epstein killed. Trump is the sitting US president. Epstein was being held in a federal prison. Trump's buddy Bill Barr is the current head of the DOJ and is completely corrupt and unethical and will do anything Trump wants him to do. On the other hand, Trump is also an incompetent bumbling boob who seems to be too stupid to get away with anything. He might kill Epstein then call and brag on Fox and Friends. But he's got the power to do it and in the end the odds that Trump could have had Epstein offed in prison and gotten away with it are something like 90%.
As for Clinton? Again, he's been out of politics for 20 years. He no doubt is well-connected, and he's a smart, capable guy, but his connections in the DOJ...
Finally, what are the odds that Epstein actually was murdered and didn't commit suicide? Eh.. probably like 35%. It's a possibility. But not terribly likely.
Odds that Trump had Epstein killed:
(0.95)(1.00)(1.00)(1.00)(0.90)(0.35) or around 30%
Odds that Clinton had Epstein killed:
(0.50)(0.60)(0.20)(0.50)(0.10)(0.35) or around 0.1%
And this is ignoring the possibility that Epstein was murdered by associates of Alan Dershowitz, Prince Andrew, any of his hundreds of other contacts, or some random vigilante in the prison.
So, again, you'd have to be colossally stupid to think Clinton did it.
But this was originally in response to BusinessFreak who, among other unsupported conspiracy theories, believes that the Clintons likely had something to do with the death of Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump supporters: "so you're saying you don't like him because he spends 80% of his time tweeting like a retarded 3rd grader? Since when is that a bad thing? Pointing to your dislike of that, which you didn't even mention, clearly undermines your whole argument because everyone should love that he conducts foreign policy the way a small child with tourette's syndrome would."
But the fact that Trump was so bad at governance that he couldn't even get along with the members of his own sycophantic party I don't think will be repeated any time in the near future. If Democrats are able to hold on to the House and expand their majority in the Senate in the 2022 mid-terms, then there's no reason to suspect that Biden won't be able to work with Congress just fine.
Other instances of luck during FDR's term? Somewhat lucky for his ambition to join WW2 that the Japanese decided to attack, and their German allies declared war, ending any debate over this. Lucky that the Japanese failed to hit any aircraft carriers at Pearl Harbor because they were out on maneuvers. Pretty lucky for FDR and the Allies that Hitler was stupid enough to invade the USSR. And that the Germans never invaded Britain. ::shrug:: would have to ask the experts.
They did however fail to hold on to the House. woo hoo. Let the investigations into Hunter Biden's laptop begin!
Meanwhile, in response to the 2020 Solarwinds hack, which was far bigger and more serious, and actually backed directly by the Russian government, Trump refused to do anything, because he was a Russian puppet who was entirely deferential to and never criticized Putin in 4 years.
My point remains though that he is getting us out of the biggest health crisis in a century and has created 3 million jobs in 6 months, so for that alone he is above average.
I have no doubt horrible things are going to happen as a direct result of the American withdrawal. Similar to what would have happened if we'd pulled out in 2005 or 2010 or 2015. Those who were always saying the US should leave because the Afghan government/military can handle things themselves, or that the US invasion made things worse for the Afghan people, are wrong and were always wrong.
The only thing I find pretty gross are those who both a) believed and argued strongly that the US should leave Afghanistan and b) are now going to blame Biden for what happens as a direct result of him not stopping what was already in motion and what they wanted. Plenty of those types.
I haven't given this serious thought and don't think it's really very important at all. But I think I'd probably at least rank Cheney above Spirow Agnew. The man so terrible and notoriously corrupt that his own party forced him to resign before Nixon resigned just so that he would never be president.
6th, 6th, 7th, 7th, 13th, 9th, 11th, 8th, 5th, 13th, 6th, 13th, 10th, 13th, 14th, 9th, 9th, 18th, 15th, 19th, 22nd
As you can see, he only really started to fall out of favor since about 2017. Your opinion is an extremely recent one. If the quiz were based only on opinions from the last 5 years, then Jackson would not be in the top quartile. He still wouldn't be in the bottom quartile, though.
Interesting. I never knew that.
The bottom in descending order is Buchanan, Johnson, Pierce, Trump, Harrison, Tyler, Filmore, Harding, Hoover, Taylor, Van Buren, and Hayes. Near misses include Nixon(31st), and Bush jr. (29th, his score seems to be trending upward), Jackson continues to trend downward, and Polk is severely underrated again, and Wilson is very overrated at 13th, should be lower than 25th at minimum.
As you mentioned this poll seems to lean right a bit.
Also, I may be wrong, but why is Jimmy Carter always rated so low? He had the Iranian Hostage Crisis and the Oil Crisis, but he fixed the Iran Hostage Crisis and Largely Fixed the Oil Crisis. A lot of Reagan's success can be attributed to his policies.
I agree that Jimmy gets a lot more hate than he rightly deserves. I think he's usually viewed as weak and indecisive on both foreign and domestic issues. He receives blame for the recession, oil shock, and Iran-hostage crisis he presided over, none of which he had much to do with. And rarely gets credit for other things like the Camp David accords.
Reagan was popular, but his supply-side economics can be attributed to some of our problems we face today+ the war on drugs. I think he is good where he is at. 17th. You could even argue for him being lower.
Polk should be 25th-30th. Overrated President. Recklessly pursued Manifest Destiny and re-opened the slavery debate and divided the country further.
Nothing special about Mckinley. The Economy was good buyt his foreign policy was reckless. He rounded Philippine civilians into concentration camps. Average President.
Obama will be remembered for leading the US out of the 2008 recession and for his pursuit of equal justice. He is similar to Coolidge in the sense that he lead America through a period of strong economic growth and pursued equal justice. Easily top 15, and probably top 10 as well.
Before Richard Nixon, Harding's administration was considered by far and hands down the most corrupt in history. Teapot Dome was synonymous with scandal and corruption the way that ____gate has become a byword for political scandal since Watergate. And Harding has been rated at or near the bottom of all rankings of presidents done ever since.
But if you read about this scandal, which involved some no-bid low-rent leasing of a few Navy oil reserves to private companies.... my god... it just boggles the mind now, in the era of Trump, that this was ever even considered newsworthy. The Trump administration did 5 worse & more openly shameless corrupt things than that *every* day. It's not even remotely close. But ignorance is bliss.
Carter is less controversial. Widely considered to be an ineffective president, he did most of his notable charity work after leaving office. For some reason he got a lot of blame for stuff that wasn't really his fault, and never got as much praise for things he had a hand in and probably deserved.
Both presidents end up ranked around the middle, though Reagan is closer to being on the "best" side while Carter is closer to being on the "worst." According to experts and scholars, and I think also the general American public even though I personally disagree.