Who was the worst US president of the 20th century?

[smahala1991]

I would actually say Jimmy Carter. He didn't even have the balls or backbone to stand to Iran.

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Twentieth century only 1900-1999

[WindAtMyBack]

I think the combination of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter is just what the country needed in the mid-late 70s.

The US was in turmoil and very split at the time - split in a different way than it is now. We hadn't gotten over all the turmoil of the 60s and early 70s. We hadn't gotten over that damn war. We hadn't gotten over a lot of things and were very divided. Plus we as a country just weren't feeling very good about ourselves.

Basically the US needed a great big chill pill. We needed to collectively hold our breaths and calm down. We needed to forget about a lot of the BS going on and just get on with our lives.

All US president are going to be controversial. No matter what they do, a lot of people will hate it. However, compared to other presidents Ford and Carter were non-controversial. The US didn't need any more controversy at that time. So Ford and Carter gave us a time out to take that much needed deep breath and chill the fuck out.

I won't answer who I think is the worst president in the last hundred years, but it's not Ford or Carter. They didn't do anything. But that's what we needed.

[Anonymous]

Franklin Delano Roosevelt:

1: He largely abolished what was left of the Federal Constitution, getting his federal government involved in everything. Thus making it unaccountable on almost any issue. Indeed sitting Federal politicians became so powerful they were able to secure 90% reelection rate which has lasted until today. Before the reelection rate was more what you would expect at around 50% with challengers and incumbents more evenly matched. He also created the modern FBI which was as abusive then as it is today, thank you very much.

2: He along with Hoover before him effectively prevented the economy from recovering by throwing up a constant stream of new barrier to economic activity and trade. Prolonging the great depression until World War 2.

3: He failed to deter or even hinder the ever more war like behavior of NAZI Germany and Imperial Japan. Indeed he put the entire pacific fleet in Hawaii where they could be taken out at once. In addition to being far away from most likely targets of Japan in need of resources in the Philippines. Leading to the crippling of said fleet and the loss of theses territories to fuel the Japanese war efforts.

4: Over is unprecedented 4 terms (he also threw out the precedent of voluntarily stepping down after just 2) he largely packed the Court with men who rubber stamped whatever Washington wanted to do.

Franklin Roosevelt was an unmitigated disaster for the united States and we have to this day never recovered from him.

[bayoubob]

But butt butt butttt? Libtards say? He had polio and he lied to the country he had it. No other President dare do more than two terms. But he is special. He's specialll... Well, isn't Biden an incompetent hair sniffing, child who loves his ice cream? Damn, the people!! Who dare speak against a boob who is Obama 2.0 The next three term Prez? Ahhh, fuck that, he's doing such a super duper job!

[Opinion Owner]

@bayoubob The evidence that FDR was bad president is rather clear in what he did, failed to do, and refused to do in contrast to prior and subsequent presidents.

The man was very much a "special" president, to whom the rules did not apply a president that corrupted and broke the Federal Constitutional system to enable himself to buy his own reelection with the money of the American people.

The circumstances and economic justification for which he did this were in many ways of his own creation. Indeed even the wealth gab that exist today is in no small part a direct result of FDR's oppressive polices which as with his FTC and Social Security regulations made exception for his "rich and powerful friends"

FDR a born with a silver spoon in his mouth was very much a classiest and sought to manage and control the 'poor'.

That he along with the democratic party also felt themselfs above the rules and ignored the 2 term limits is hardly surprising. The real question is if he had not died would he ever have stepped down?
Would FDR have made himself an American Caesar, creating a new imperial order?

[bayoubob]

Monday morning quarterbacking does no one any good. The fact is the cocksucker thought he did such a fantastic job, he could continue to help the people and have his bitch LESBIAN wife by his side while he fucked men, children, and boys in general. Everyone needs to wake the FUCK up. Too many say "We used to have a time where we appointed the smartest people in the world to run this fucking country." It's not FUCKING TRUE. Our history is Grand, but it could be so different. This is where Libtards need to take a back seat in this day and age. If you ain't into that, no one gives a FUCKING damn.

[Opinion Owner]

@bayoubob I would ask you to watch your language and stick to FDR's policy rather than personal issues.

[bayoubob]

You are calling me a Silly Nanny who can't use the F word in your mum's presence? Is that it? I'm in the Toilet Zone of thee Twilight Zone?

[bayoubob]

I ain't your wife. If she prefers kinder words. That is up to her. She can stay on the bank. The bank of thee Bonny Bonny Loch of Lomond. Let's get it. "You'll take the high road and I'll take the low road,
And I'll be in Scotland afore ye.
Where me and my true love will never meet again,
On the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond.
You'll take the high road and I'll take the low road,
And I'll be in Scotland afore you.
Where me and my true love will never meet again,
On the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond. Fuckin rock out! AC/DC! You need to have real rock n roll before you can me or anyone a douche!

[bayoubob]

Plus we need Hank Jr. "I'd love to spit some Beech-Nut in that dude's eyes
And shoot him with my old.45
'Cause a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive." WE WILL ALWAYS do it.

[bayoubob]

The next time you take a prissy beer, I'll buy you 8 Busch Lights before you buy me 1 Grain Belt Premium. I'll take 8 more mystery beers!! And I will have a wine, and Stella Artois? Before I grab a cigarette from your hands? Then the next day, you want your Jameson. It's not different than Jim what's his name? Jim mother fucking Beam. I will give you a plug of real American chew? Knock you on your ass sideways!! But I can't have my Craft Beers? I can't have my wine. You take Castle Danger Cream Ale? The most fantastic thing besides Premium. We all are in it!!!

[bayoubob]

"You'll take the high road and I'll take the low road,
And I'll be in Scotland afore ye.
Where me and my true love will never meet again,
On the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond. You ARE NOT above yourself!

[bayoubob]

TRUMP 2024!!

[sage2021]

John F. Kennedy. He had a lot of affairs with so many women. He and his brother, Bobby, were both messing with Marilyn Monroe, no wonder she was suicidal. I bet they really did a head trip on her that she just couldn't deal with. Kinda funny, both John and Bobby died. Too bad she didn't get to see them dead.

[monorprise]

Although John F. Kennedy was a terrible president responsible for many deasters in his 3 years including the Bay of Pigs which he changed the plans to withdrawing U. S. air support to leave the Cuban exile army to be slaughtered. Frankly we had far worse presidents to choose from.

Marilyn Monroe killed herself because she was infertile.

[Roseboy]

@monorprise marilyn monroe killed herself because of the voices in her head, the trauma from her childhood, her plethora of mental illnesses and abuse she faced in the psychiatric hospital she was in as well

can't comment on her interactions with Kennedies cause i dont know anything

[monorprise]

@Roseboy I know she had issues but A book I read suggested they came down to that one as the key one for which she decided it wasn't worth going on.

[Roseboy]

@monorprise makes sense

[jennifer_bloom]

I know little about American politics but I know everybody says Jimmy Carter was a good person but a bad president, he has that reputation. I dislike George Bush and Donald Trump but Donald Trump is more deadly for America while George Bush is more deadly for the world in general.

[Cubus]

You know they weren't presidents in XXth century, right?

[bayoubob]

@Cubus She's a dumb ass. Lolz. Donald never left. Trump 2024!

[jennifer_bloom]

@Cubus I missed that by skimming only unique words in the question. I only know bill Clinton from my time on earth before 1999 and I thought he was a good guy.

[Cubus]

You know that Clinton had a sex scandal with Monica Lewinsky?

[jennifer_bloom]

@Cubus yes but he had an IQ of 180 and got straight As in an Ivy league school while taking half the semester off to support another person’s political campaign

[Cubus]

IQ doesn't really matter. There's one female singer in my country who is said to have an IQ of 146, and yet she sounds bimbo as hell.

[jennifer_bloom]

@Cubus iq does not matter when you don’t use it but it matters a lot when it’s used, like Obama and his dad both went to Harvard, Obama became president and his dad became a broke drunkard who died in a car crash after 3 divorces.

[BCA6010]

Carter is bad, but it's really hard to beat out Woodrow Wilson. He is given a pretty ridiculous free pass simply for occupying the oval office during our participation in World War 1, but there's basically nothing good to say about him beyond that.

[Avicenna]

Wilson was the original globalist

[DryGermanGuy]

It’s a tossup between Trump and Nixon. While Nixon was potentially more destructive than Trump, the GOP was smart enough to recognize what was going on and drew the right conclusions. Trump is a pompous assclown, but today’s GOP is ready to march into their own grave just to please him.

[StevieNix]

Jimmy. But it looks like he will be handing the worst president trophy to Beijing Biden.

[monorprise]

I would agree, except Joe was never president in the 20th century.

[StevieNix]

@monorprise
Nor did I say he was,

[maximumpower]

Most who lived through the Carter administration can clearly recall how and why he was so poorly regarded - and that was before the media went all to hell.
However, believe our incumbent will prove to be worst.
He's been a train wreck from Day 1 and still has more than two years remaining.

[USLegionary]

Jimmy Carter was OK, the Iranian's held out until Reagan got in.

The worst President was either JFK for losing the Cuban missile crisis or LBJ for deploying troops to Vietnam with no real strategy to defeat the vietcong or NVA.

[MarkRet]

That has to be Warren Harding. He was corrupt all the way through. Jimmy Carter couldn't do anything right, but at least he tried, and he was a nice guy.

[cipher42]

Fucking Reagan. So many issues with modern US society started with or were severely accelerated by Reagan (loss of social safety nets, overreach of corporate powers, tax cuts on the rich, etc).

[Cubus]

Reagan led USA out of the recession.

[cipher42]

@Cubus I doubt his method was the only way to do that. And his other actions that fucked shit up to this day pretty much nullify any good he may have done recession-wise in my eyes

[Roseboy]

while i see your point
Nancy Reagan - meanest and thinnest of the first ladies
(this is a reference) (i hope you know it)

[Sixgunsound]

Obama gave us taxpayer money to Iran and bowed to the Saudis. The character limit prohibits explaining all the things Obama did to compete for that title.

[AviatorTom]

Many historians would say Herbert Hoover, who was President when the Great Depression started... and they still named a dam after him.

[FilmGuy93]

Honestly, this will probably ruffle some feathers, but I think Woodrow Wilson had absolutely no business in the White House

[Avicenna]

With hindsight Bill Clinton looks worse than Carter. Clinton sold out to the CCP.

[bayoubob]

That fucker also banned Armalite Rifles. While taking a Cuban cigar and sticking it in Monica's poontang. It's all totally fantastic though. I mean he was a Blue Dog Democrat. That matters none. Because he still supports modern Libtards. You cannot be White in this day age. You can't do it. You are DEPLORABLE. Obama, Hillary, and Bruce Springsteen say so. However, Louis CK must suffer. Is he rehabilitated? I should say so? Or does he just cave in? Serial masturbators, serial sex fiends, child fukkers, etc. etc...

[Roxxy99]

Ethics wise, Richard Nixon. Policy wise, Herbert Hoover.

[monorprise]

Richard Nixon is famous for doing 1 thing spying on his political enemies in an election. Much like Joe Biden did during 2016 with the FBI, and is probably doing again today.

That ethical gab unfortunate is not terribly unusual among politicians, particularity federal ones who who's party tend to run all systems to which they could be held accountable. If Democrats had not controlled the congress and the court at the time we likely would never have heard or done anything about watergrate. Just as we heard and did nothing about JFK using the same government to wiretap and spy on his political rivals, including MLK.

[NamerOfStars]

1901-2001, actually; the Gregorian calendar has no year zero.

[Fuentes]

Clinton, Carter, Reagan, Johnson

But we all know Joey Biden will surpass them all in history. It would be a shame to even mention the number 46 when talking about Presidents.

[MikeInHawaii]

Joe Biden has Jimmy Carter’s incompetence, Lyndon Johnson’s corruption and has vastly exceeded Ronald Reagan’s dementia.

[TonightYouu]

Nixon of course say what you will about any other president Nixon is the only one who said “FUCK THIS SHIT IM OUT” and just quit

[smahala1991]

He basically was like "Screw you guys, I'm going home"

[TonightYouu]

Basically 😂 he really wasn’t going home he was gonna go to jail people talk about trump being arrested for his crimes but those are just allegations Nixon actually did that shit 🤣

[redbeardsley91]

Nixon. MFer lied to us ALL, and just Watergate:he KNEW weed was safe, but disavowed and vetoed it in order to target black people without saying it was legal to do.

[bayoubob]

Yup. No one realizes that Blacks were played early on. In a day and age where segregation was prime until the Mid 60's. I'm all for the integration. However, Nixon created the SWAMP as we see it. To get the "monkey's" off his back he created the Gangbangers. They either get their money off Welfare or they become banggangers. They need to either, become part of society, or search for their money in their non existent work boots, or become a foot soldier to crime.

[bayoubob]

Nothing to do with weed. The SWAMP is and still based on victim group mentality.

[OddBeMe]

Carter wasn't that bad. Only president in the century to NOT get us into a war.

Gerald Ford did jack crap after pardoning Nixon. So thats my vote.

[bayoubob]

Carter just lives in a quaint abode. 97 years old is he? Bum fuck nowhere US. Does this ring a tune? Bum Fuck Nowhere is the new Anywhere. My and your homes are worth more than where he lives. But we cannot abide by Bum Fuck Nowhere Ideals in Libtards minds. You cannot live peaceably where Carter does. That fucker was probably a sentiment. To one who may have had the best interests in mind. Just like Chelsea Clinton may have once, had the right ideals. But it's so saturated in the beginnings of the SWAMP.

[bayoubob]

Carter is bad bad man in your eyes. He can't live in a quaint Georgia town. He can't enjoy his living. Just when you think I myself can't do it. But we do it. We do it everywhere, except for Dem Ran Shit Holes. Can we reverse Gangbangers? We can do it. We just need your help.

[bayoubob]

You are supposed to see the Clown World as it sits. Who is the most evil? That is it.

[OddBeMe]

@bayoubob i enjoy convos with those I disagree with, but please be more concise and less crazy. Half the shit you write means nothing and is annoying as fck… just an fyi

[OddBeMe]

Carter, unlike most ex presidents, devoted his life to founding Habitat. And still today goes out to help build homes.

[hostboy__fastestlaps]

Twentieth century is actually 1901-2000. You're confusing the 20th century with the 1900s decade as an entirety. Anyway, Nixon and pretty much any Jim Crow-era president

[hostboy__fastestlaps]

I'd add Kennedy too, what a manwhore

[exitseven]

It is probablt Carter. Nixon was no prize either.

[Pudsmucker]

I would say Lynn Johnson. He rearranged the social security. The next goofball in line is the clown in office today. Then I would say Jimmy Carter.

[Still-alive]

Trump then probably Andrew Johnson, James Bucanan and Woodrow Wilson

[smahala1991]

Twentieth century only but Wilson was pretty shitty too

[Still-alive]

Herbert hoover sucked too

[smahala1991]

So much they named a vacuum after him

[Cubus]

I would say Warren Harding. He didn't have time to accomplish anything.

[ChiTown33]

While I do think he's a good man, Jimmy Carter.

[Twalli]

Really? Harding violated The Constitution blatantly.

[anylolone]

I'd say rosevelt, maybe nixon, but carter is a good pick.

[LeftHappy]

This administration is creating a big stink similar to Nixon and those who were running the war in Vietnam!

[QuietRunner]

Economically - probably Jimmy Carter

Racially - Woodrow Wilson

[legalboxers]

Nixon, Bush 1, Regan

[DCooper]

Either Wilson or FDR

[TheNewGeneration]

Warren Harding

[Danzigdawson]

Nixon and Regan. Tie.

[BCRanger10]

Of the 20th Century? I say Woodrow Wilson.

[NathanDavis]

Andrew Johnson...

[msc545]

Trump, followed by Nixon.

[Cubus]

Trump wasn't a president in XXth century

[msc545]

You are right he wasn't. Thank god.

[Roseboy]

i would probably say woodrow wilson

[Dargil]

Carter is second to Biden.

[TheNewGeneration]

But Biden wasn't president in the 20th century. The 20th century was 1900 to 1999.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Jimmy Carter, Trump

[Titanic1912]

Carter was the worst during that time.

[EnglishEuropean]

Woodrow Wilson

[llorando]

Herbert Hoover.

[BLP11520]

BIDEN... come on man! LOL

[JustaaverageM]

Biden then obama then jimmy carter

[monorprise]

Then your vote is for Carter as He was president in the 20th century the other 2 were from the 21st.

[Nikki1989]

Trump

[crossdressingrihno]

Trump is 21st century

[Cubus]

I didn't know Trump was a president in XXth century #themoreyouknow

[bayoubob]

@nikki1989 Trump is the most evilist person ever? Two impeachment hearings? FBI raiding his home? I didn't know this guy that totally got TRUMPED by 81 quadrillion votes? Will be running in 2024? 12 seconds later. Biden and the Kamel Toe will try to do it again? Really?

[bayoubob]

Son of a fucking bitch!!! You are some kind of stupid.

[bayoubob]

6 plus years 10's and 10's and 10's of Ukranians dollars? Cleanest dude on the planet? Orangeman Rad. The greatest thing? He's going to be your President 3? Count it 3 times?

[Kichbazp_]

Joe biden

[Cubus]

He wasn't a president in XXth century

[Kichbazp_]

@Cubus huh?

[Cubus]

XXth century started in the year of 1901 and it ended in a year of 2000. Biden is a president since 2021 Anno Domini.

Nope, he wasn't a president in the XXth century.

[legalboxers]

@kichbazp_ dumbass he said 1990-1999. During your parents time.. moron

[Kichbazp_]

@legalboxers still joe biden you dumb ass

[legalboxers]

@smahala1991 THE TIME FRAME IS 1900-1999 MORON. WE ARE IN 2022.

[MrTaboo]

Bidden

[smahala1991]

Again Twentieth century

[MrTaboo]

He was alive then

[MountAverage]

Reagan

[bayoubob]

He's Number 2. Trump is Number 1.

[MountAverage]

@bayoubob It's about the 20th century only though. Otherwise I would agree with you. Trump is by far the worst overall.

[MiseriaCantareAFI]

Nixon

[Reijen]

FDR I'd say.

[Celtrabbit]

Obama