Biden is a lot better than people realize.. getting to 14th in one term is stellar..
and that's with the circus clowns leading the house of representatives, too.
and i'll have to go back and check my history books on this one, but i'm pretty sure he's the only one to take office two weeks after his predecessor tried to end the government
By whom/in what poll? Of what respondents? When? What was the actual question asked?
I hate it when accounts like this just post a "fact" with no supporting documentation, source, link, or even image. Devoid of context, this is either important news or completely meaningless.
If this poll is by a reputable polling outfit, it's probably significant (and the other answers should be available). If it's a JavaScript poll posted on some random site, there's no information here.
If the poll was asked of likely Dem voters, it's not very significant (maybe significant that Biden is ranked so low). If it's a representative sample of likely voters, it's incredibly significant. Historians? Might be significant. "PeopleWhoRankPresidents.net" users? Definitely weird.
If it's a poll from day 1 of the Biden admin, it's not very notable. Though the framing of this tweet suggests the timing is "recently," which may be significant.
If the question was, "rank every president in order of how pretty you think their dogs are," then who cares? If it was "where do you think Biden and Trump rank in terms of policy," then it's almost as meaningless because nobody has taken the time to consider which thirteen go in front of Biden, that number is just a stab in the dark. If it's "rank every president in your lifetime in terms of policy," this is actually a terrible poll for Biden because it essentially puts him second-to-last.
Leaving these details out vastly weakens your point, because it sounds like you're intentionally omitting those data points that don't support your conclusion.
Or it's just your own personal opinion. Which is fine! You're on the internet, you're allowed to have an opinion, just frame it as such. And it would be more interesting than an unsourced poll, honestly; particularly for somebody running a Twitter account about how good Biden is, why did you put him so low on the list?
Or you're (not you, OP, the Twitter user) a Russian troll farm trying to drum up infighting in American politics. Which is, at this point, like trying to rinse off the deck of the Titanic.
So we're just gonna forget about Andrew Jackson?
I just did a quick search to brush up on why Andrew Jackson is a bad president, and I found a lot of similarities about corruption, ruling for personal gain or spite, authoritarianism, distrusting professional merit-based employees and replacing with personal loyalty-based amateurs , etc. Jackson starts with a lead as a war hero, but then again Trump didn’t try to destroy native Americans
He did try to get a native casino in Connecticut closed in 1993. Part of his testimony to Congress was "You're saying only Indians can have the reservations, only Indians can have the gaming. So why aren't you approving it for everybody? Why are you being discriminatory? Why is it that the Indians don't pay tax, but everybody else does? I do."
Also in 2000 Trump paid over $1 million on a smear campaign managed by Roger Stone against the St. Regis Mohawks in protest of their opening of a casino in the Catskills.
So nothing while president, but still not a great track record when dealing with native Americans.
but then again Trump didn’t try to destroy native Americans
He was quite happy for millions of Americans (regardless of ethnicity) to die rather than do the minimum amount of work to get Covid recognised as an actual problem, not to mention actively peddling bullshit theories that probably made things even worse.
I'm not an historian, but from what I know about Jackson, you could make the argument "he was an asshole, but he was of his time", whereas Trump is an asshole regardless of what decade it is.
Jackson starts with a lead as a war hero
Holding New Orleans against the British to preserve southern slavery for another half-century is hardly something to brag about.
Jackson also blatantly committed the high crime of ignoring a lawful court order from the supreme court. But congress knew it was political suicide to censure him for the trail of tears(which was absurdly popular) so he wasn't impeached for it.
Trump is pretty bad. But he didn't order a genocide and flout checks and balances to do it. Not that he isntr trying.
And Polk and Buchanan and Hoover and Nixon.
There are so many more Presidents worse than Trump that we simply never had to live through. Imagine your capital being burned to the fucking ground because your President decided to launch an ill-conceived invasion of Canada. Imagine being so unpopular a President that you come in third place as the incumbent. Imagine kicking off the "Spanish" Flu because you simply couldn't resist playing the Great Game of European Powers at the tail end of the First World War.
Absent a second term to really crank things up a notch, Trump will go down in history as an embarrassment. But he'll be lucky to break the Top 5 in terms of serious bad shit.
According to which criteria? No doubt he’s better than Trump, but 14th place feels way too high.
That's the report in question.
It always irked me when people used "45" as a moniker for Trump before, but now it feels... apt.
Looks like AS, ass, to me
Man look, I don't like Trump either, but it is legitimately offensive to so many minorities to call him the "worst president" when you have contenders like Andrew Jackson
It’s not offensive it’s just recency bias. How are people honestly supposed to rank a leader that is 100+ years away from their own lives? It’s just a poll, it’s not a course on all the presidents and then an invitation to rank them in order.
Trump is the worst president in most living people’s lifetime, extrapolating more than that from this is a mistake.
I will maintain the position that Ronald Reagan did more damage to this country than any other president in modern times.
I genuinely worry that Trump will get back in and that the consequences will be dire.
Sincerely hope that all the right wing nutjobs are a vocal minority and that we don't actually have close to half the US electorate agreeing with Jan 6th.
Trump proves a few things, impeachment and federal charges don't matter when your political system resembles the fandom of two rival sports teams.
I mean, outside of Nixon, who else had a major scandal?
Andrew Jackson committed a genocide
If you squint hard enough and hate him enough, you could argue Wilson as well (not the genocide part, but that depends on how much you think an earlier American entrance into WW1 would change things.
Edit: I should add that Wilson is basically single handedly responsible for the rebirth of the KKK
Not coincidentally, Andrew Jackson is one of Trump's favorite presidents. He once displayed a portrait of Jackson in a room he was meeting with Native American leaders in.
I'll ignore what could have happened with Teddy at the wheel entering the war as quickly as he could.
Wilson wrote Southern Revisionism, as you said refounded the KKK, segregated The Federal Government, expanded the presidential powers to tyrannical proportions with the sedition and insurrection act, erected a bunch of statues that we are finally tearing down, of people that said they never wanted statues because they were traitors, started and expanded wars in South and Central America to create banana republics, and fostered endless US wars with Wilsonian Doctrine.
Just what he did doesn't require squinting at all.
FDR threw 200,000 Americans in concentration camps
Let’s go ahead and reserve the word concentration camp for the industrialized murder factories hitler built in Europe. The Japanese internment was a horrible policy and it shows a real paucity of humanity. We are right to condemn our grandparents who perpetrated and supported the policy.
But,
It was NOTHING like the final solution.
Bush 2.0 invaded a country and lied about why.
Bill Clinton, I guess. By Trump's standards what Clinton did is a walk in the park tho.
What still gets to me is Gingrich leading with the goddamned trumpet against this... unconscionable marital betrayer from the Democratic Party... then gets his multiple affairs and betrayals exposed. So he quits. The trumpet is proudly picked up by Livingstone... who promptly gets his Washington extramarital affair exposed.
It's incredible how republicans turned all of our politics into a toilet, arrogantly huffing and puffing as some sort of self-appointed moral and christian "keepers of the flame", and they cannot handle a lesson as simple and crucial as that story in the Gospels - "He who is without sin, cast the first stone".
And look at them now. Today republicans are worse in every respect, including mental/emotional health or balance, by an order of magnitude. They don't care about optics anymore, have gone up their own assholes several times over, like some sort of fleshy klein bottle.
republicans are warped beyond reality and decency, by a hypocrisy from a self-imposed ignorance, that is as corrosive as greed.
EDIT: it was during a late-90s afternoon, driving on the highway from Bakersfield to Los Angeles while listening to the Clinton impeachment charade live on NPR Radio, that something clicked inside my head and I clearly realized that republicans are an enemy of the true common good. That's when I started hating that group of political cancer cells on society. Then we got cheney and baby bush.
Wilson, Jackson, Polk, Reagan. If you really want scandalous Jackson is easily the most scandalous President in history. The country was shocked when he got in, and he went on to cause the Trail of Tears, and the deepest (by percentage, not actual dollar value) and longest depression in US history, by paying off all the national debt, and rendering the country unable to trade with other countries for a few years.
Wilson wrote Southern Revisionism, refounded the KKK, erected a bunch of statues that we are finally tearing down, segregated The Federal Government, and may have caused WW2, and definitely set the stage for endless wars with Wilsonian Doctrine. He also caused and expanded several conflicts in South and Central America creating banana republics. Oh yeah, he expanded the presidential powers to tyrannical proportions with the sedition and insurrection act.
Polk did Manifest Destiny, and was generally an asshole to the natives, and Monroe created The Monroe Doctrine, continuing the general assholery towards the natives, though those two probably weren't considered scandalous in their day.
Reagan had Iran Contra. That did give us some fun video games though.
Us history: the list is too long
Lots of presidents have done bad things even Obama with his invasion of privacy cyber monitoring to "keep us safe"
In a poll of historians.
I'd say Trump is neck and neck with Jackson. Wouldn't wanna make him #1 at anything.
Wilson and Jackson are both worse than Trump. He was bad, but not refounding the KKK, segregation of The US Government, or Trail of Tears, bad. Heck Polk and Monroe could be considered worse than Trump and most people can't remember who the first one was.
I'd say it was Reagan. For sure. Nixon close second. But fuck Trump too but I'd put him like 3rd or maybe even 4th worst
Were you there for Reagan? He was very personable, very persuasive, and able to build overwhelming popular support. You may not agree with many of his policies but he was successful. He also had a very capable cabinet. Again, you may not agree with some of what they did, but they were successful at it.
Lastly, most importantly, while conservatives may worship Reagan like an ancient god, he would be un-nominatably moderate when compared to current leading Conservatives.
Compared to Reagan, Trump is more authoritarian, less capable, less persuasive, more Conservative, more corrupt, more self-serving, and surrounded by incompetent yes-men.
Wilson, Jackson, Reagan, Nixon, Polk. Trump didn't do even half the damage to the natives and the country that those 5 did. Wilson is why the US claims to act as "world police," as well as a fuckton of other shit that is still affecting the citizenry to this day.
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Did you copy this from a Truth Social comment?
I tried my best to be as obnoxious as possible to ensure authenticity. Distilled gravy seal, Karen energy. Bam: Parlor.. I mean Truth Social. Both, really.
I don't think you needed the '/s' indicator there
You'd be surprised.
Why do we do this to ourselves?
It's not like we're short of objective evidence of Trump being awful, why hold up a glorified buzzfeed listicle as evidence as if it's not incredibly cringe? Nevermind the trivializing of actual genocides
When are people going to understand that the president is not in charge of anything, and the president does not make any decisions? And this has been true since probably Kennedy was assassinated.
But yes I agree trump has been the worst all-around human being with lowest moral & personal character & lowest verbal abilities, (equal with Biden's lowest cognitive abilities) to ever pretend to be figurehead of the United States.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States
You should read through what the president can do.
Sure but he still can't do any of that without the approval of a lot of other people.
Checks & balances.
Joe biden has the lowest approval rating of any US president that has ever sat in the oval office. By literally every single polling metric and every poll that has been conducted. He has lower approval than jimmy carter. Donald trump even though hes an evil moron. Still retains more popular support. I dont see how this post is anything more than 1 persons personal opinion of Joe biden.
I dont see how this comment is anything more than 1 persons personal opinion of Joe biden
That comment is an accurate summary of recent polls. Polls are representative samples of the public's view. So no, the comment is clearly more than just "1 person's personal opinion" because it provides a summary of the public's opinion.
Trump is bad and I hope Biden wins. That doesn't mean we need to bury our heads in the sand about Biden's current polling. Especially when a lot of that poor polling amongst young people is caused by Biden's enabling of Israel's genocide in Gaza
The ranking was conducted by "expert historians." So not exactly a random person, but take it for whatever that is worth to you
Trump is worse than Reagan? Trump is just stupid, Reagan was actively evil.
Dismissing Trump as 'just stupid' is dangerous as fuck. He is incredibly successful at damaging the US, strengthening our enemies, and commiting evil - and then playing the village idiot card to skirt accountability.
Dude's the closest thing irl to the fucking Darth Jar Jar theory.
Reagan may have done a lot of things people here disagree with, but he was successful at being wildly popular and he did do a lot of things that projected strength and leadership in the US. Compare that to Trump being extremely divisive, self-enriching, self-serving, corrupt, actively damaging the US government both internally and on the world stage. Even if we agree that Reagan perpetrated evil that has lasted decades, that is a kind of success that Trump will never know
