Like, him at the top is bullshit in of itself, and putting Jackson in the top is bullshit too. But, he put Grant in the shitbox. Grant: the man who literally won the Civil War for the Union. Fuck off with that!

*Edit: Linky

**Edit 2: Also, Hoover oversaw the start of the Great Depression. So, that wouldn’t make him average. Also, where’s JFK?

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    Also, where’s JFK?

    Trump’s team pilfered this from the November 1st, 1948 edition of LIFE Magazine. Arthur Schlesinger, a Harvard University historian at the time, conducted a poll of 55 scholars and authorities to rank U.S. presidents. It’s considered the first poll of its kind. The poll leaves off Harrison and Garfield because they died too soon into their terms to be fairly evaluated. They also left off Truman because he was the president at the time.

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    I am so fucking tired of everything Trump says, posts, or does. It is impossible for him to not self-aggrandize and it is so, so, SO exhausting when I think about how he holds the highest office in the nation. He really needs to have an aneurysm already, and when he does, I am going to party so hard I won’t remember most of it the next day.

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    When he finally dies, I’m getting champagne, fireworks, everything! It’ll be a new holiday, let’s call it “America Day!” Who’s with me?

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    Please don’t repost Trump’s shit.

    My idiot cousin posts a new conspiracy theory to pastebin every day. I don’t give him attention or follow his “commands”, I just shame other people who do.

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      I’m old enough to remember the moment when enough of the Greatest Generation had died so the GOP could start in on how FDR had been a failure.

      When the Greatest* were alive they’d talk your ear off about how FDR had saved the country and what a great leader he was.

      But the New Deal was way too Socialist to be allowed today.

      *Please don’t yammer about they weren’t ‘great’ because of the racism and sexism and imperialism. “Greatest Generation” is the commonly accepted term.

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      Well, FDR was a man of snappy quotes, executive overreach, and of throwing a lot of things at the wall and seeing what sticks.

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    The only presidents from the last 80 years included in this are himself and the 4 Democrat presidents alive during his presidency that he has already publically shit on. Almost like he is afraid to put himself over presidents people in his party and target age demographics actually have fond memories of. No Reagan, neither Bush, no JFK, LBJ, Eisenhower…

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      It’s impossible to parody Trump. No matter how ridiculous anyone could make him look, it’s nowhere near the reality of what he does himself.

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        Sure you can!

        Just be a competent leader who makes good decisions. Nobody will believe that!

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          Actually, that mighty be pretty funny. Cut to looks of utter confusion in the press gallery.