You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
"You're listening to 98.9, K-Swag FM! Thank your based god and snap a selfie, 'cause we're taking you back to the 'teens with all your favorite 'hashtag hits!'"
"You're listening to 98.9, K-Swag FM! Thank your based god and snap a selfie, 'cause we're taking you back to the 'teens with all your favorite 'hashtag hits!'"
I laughed, I cried, I bled to death while chanting dark prayers to forgotten gods.
Bush does seem like he would be an OK person to just have in the neighbourhood or something, but he was a horribly incompetent leader who had an awful habit of delegating to corrupt and conniving people at once smarter and even more useless than himself.
I associate Bill Clinton with generally being a great president... except for DADT, NAFTA, and many of the aspects of our intervention in Kosovo. Bad ideas.
On the other hand, we had a massive budget surplus and very low unemployment, and most of the world actually liked us for a change, which is positive.
^^ It's more that he went along with a lot of dumb things pushed by other people in the belief that the end result would work out for the best. Which did not happen.
In fairness to the man, Reagan was nowhere near as lunk-headed about his (rather crappy) economic policies as Bush, and he did put the nuclear disarmament of the US on the table as a serious offer at Reykjavik. So I'll give him a smidgen of credit. Bush the Second? Hahaha, denied.
Nixon's reputation is marginally better now than it used to be: He was the first American president to have a serious rapprochement with China, and his proposal for healthcare reform was basically Obama's plan with actual teeth. He wasn't an awful administrator; he was just a paranoid, misanthropic piece of work.
IIRC, Nixon was first and foremost a politician. This coming from an old professor who actually worked for the guy. It was, "Can I sell this policy to the American people and benefit politically from it? Yes? Then I'll do it." Hence his jumping on the environmentalism issue. See, that attitude does good things from time to time.
I associate Bill Clinton with "I 'voted' for Ross Perot in like grade school or something because he had a funny name but then I remember having a warm feeling that Clinton won our home state of Florida in 1996 when my mom told me about it". Also I hear it was a time of relative economic boom.
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