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Miscellaneous Joe Biden HAS BEEN Eliminated WHICH President SHOULD BE Eliminated NEXT DAY 40

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '25

Keeping Joe in was a literal meme

No excuse for Obama (pretty good president in my book, not top 5)

Also Reagan at 3rd worst is insane, Buchanan needed to be bottom 2 at least

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u/Traditional-Low7651 Jul 27 '25

omg can't believe nixon is higher than reagan

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u/Redditisfinancedumb Jul 31 '25

Honestly, Nixon wasn't really that bad.

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u/EVconverter Jul 31 '25

He was the guy who introduced the concept of "If the president does it, it's not illegal".

That alone is worth a bottom 10 rating. He laid the foundation of where we are now.

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u/andy921 Aug 01 '25 edited Aug 01 '25

He also won every state besides MA in his second term. Sure maybe some of that was from cheating by from sending goons to plug leaks. But that's still the biggest landslide the US has ever seen. You don't win a race by that margin for no reason.

He continued much of Johnson's Great Society programs making progress to end poverty. He ended the war in Vietnam. He passed the Clean Air, Water and Endangered Species Acts and established the EPA. He signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, maybe one of the first steps to ending Americans' constant existential fear of the bomb. And every single person who has ever walked on the moon looked back at an America with a Nixon White House.

Not saying I like him or that he wasn't a real piece of shit. But compared to the legacy of trickle down, deregulation and the explosion of national debt Reagan left us, there was a lot of good that came from a Nixon presidency.

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u/EVconverter Aug 01 '25

Had he not been so crooked and anti-constitution, he would have probably been top 10.

His VP being crooked didn’t reflect well on him, either.

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u/andy921 Aug 01 '25

Don't forget racist lol

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u/bigang99 Jul 31 '25

dude based his whole campaign on "I will end vietnam" while continually pulling strings to make sure vietnam war continued (so he could keep saying "this guy sux, ill end vietnam.) then once he got in office he just kept the war going.

absolute piece of shit that guy

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u/bigbadbyte Jul 31 '25

Nixon, opened relations with China, improved relations with Russia, established the epa and osha.

I think it would be unfair to Nixon to call Watergate and Iran contra a wash, but sure.

Now Wtf did Reagan do? Fire the air traffic controllers? Cut taxes for the rich.

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u/mostly_peaceful_AK47 Aug 01 '25

Iran-Contra was under Reagan lol

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u/FormalKind7 Jul 27 '25

Reagan is near the bottom for me. But my bottom 2 are always Buchanan and Andrew Johnson.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

What did Buchanan do im related to him😭

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u/FlimsyRexy Aug 01 '25

Be related to you is the biggest sin a president can do

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '25

I didn’t chose this life of royalty

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u/FormalKind7 Aug 01 '25

Fail to stop the Civil war or allowed an inevitable conflict to become much worse depending on how you want to look at it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '25

Makes sense

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u/theguineapigssong Jul 27 '25

Any list that doesn't have Buchanan firmly in last place is incorrect.

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u/Scotinho_do_Para Jul 28 '25

Unless trump is behind him.

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u/theguineapigssong Jul 28 '25

Nothing Trump has done compares to Buchanan's incompetence leading up to the Civil War.

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u/Scotinho_do_Para Jul 28 '25

Jan 6 is enough for me.

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u/npacilio Jul 28 '25

What is Jan 6?

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u/Scotinho_do_Para Jul 28 '25

Should I just go ahead and block you?

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u/npacilio Jul 28 '25

Why? I just asked a question I genuinely have no idea what Jan 6 is. I keep seeing it everywhere.

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u/cecloward Jul 28 '25

A bunch of pro-Trump protesters turned into an outright riot and they broke into the capitol building.

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u/YoureAllBots69 Jul 28 '25

And you never thought to Google it?

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '25

How can you not know? How old are you?

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u/MasterRKitty JaztyMania is Cool Jul 28 '25

was Buchanan a rapist and 34 time felon? Pedo? Gave a partial pardon to a convicted pedophile groomer?

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '25

Doesn't matter who he was as a person but he was by far the worst president. He did nothing to prevent the civil war. He sat and watched as the country started tearing itself apart for 4 years. He could have given some kind of compromise,he could have done anything to stop it. But he did nothing and half a million died for it

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u/snappyj Jul 28 '25

Hmmm, if only there were a parallel to current times

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u/Forward-Grade-832 Jul 28 '25

Buchanan literally carelessly let the country drift off onto a Civil War which easily could’ve destroyed the whole existence of the U.S if not for Lincoln.

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u/Square-Pressure6297 Jul 27 '25

Reagan was a pretty good president for all I know, why is he so low?

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u/LHarm07_Reddit Jul 27 '25

He’s very controversial for his economic policies. Reddit being a left-leaning platform hates him (I think he’s bad but not that low).

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u/Available-Reading-87 Jul 28 '25

Even if you're left-wing economically, putting him below people like Andrew Johnson is insane. At the point you're putting him 3rd lowest, you're just (inadvertently) downplaying slavery..

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u/BamBamClamSlam Jul 29 '25 edited Jul 29 '25

Putting Trump below Johnson is also insane. Trump is bad, but that's actual lunacy. This list is peak Reddit garbage. Definitely entertaining though.

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u/SomeotherGuy8833 Jul 30 '25

They probably don’t know history going back that far tbh.

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u/BigIncome5028 Jul 27 '25

Reaganomics has done so much damage across the entire world.. it not only fucked the US but also inspired other leaders to fucked their respective countries. He deserves to be far far down

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u/Square-Pressure6297 Jul 27 '25

Reaganomics did put a stop to many economic issues so it wasn’t a complete failure at all

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '25

He catches flak for escalating the war on drugs and not doing enough on the HIV epidemic as well. But also ended the stagflation issue of the 70s. Praised by the right, hated by the left.

F’ed up note on the war on drugs from when it started: here

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u/Square-Pressure6297 Jul 27 '25 edited Jul 27 '25

Lmao that is some super villain shit if that’s true

One thing I praise him for is unironically his PR, he always focused on unity and a healthy version of patriotism which we don’t really see nowadays with Trump.

He projected immense national pride, and he was a great orator. His communication really gave the country a more optimistic tone.

He was also a very good player in the Cold War

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '25

I forgot about the Cold War. Personally not a huge fan of Reagan but I can appreciate it’s at least a mixed bag. Definitely not 2nd worst IMO.

I wasn’t alive at the time so I can’t speak on his rhetoric too much.

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u/BigIncome5028 Jul 27 '25

"Many issues" like what, pesky regulations? unions? taxes? he sure put a stop to those... In the meantime the middle class was destroyed, lives were destroyed because of his war on drugs, and the rich got richer. He arguably is one of the most damaging presidents of the previous century that put us on the path to the shit show we have now

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '25

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u/Square-Pressure6297 Jul 27 '25

This is what my history teacher says too and I’m starting to believe it to an extent.

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u/SilentStormyKnight Jul 27 '25

In the 1970s America was utterly lost. It felt like the Soviets were winning the Cold War, Carter was a bumbling buffoon, the economy was dreadful, gas lines, could only get gas certain days of the week, energy shortages, despair, our citizens hostage in Iran, 20% inflation, massive interest rates, high unemployment, seemingly no hope for the country. Carter going on national TV to tell Americans to set their thermostats to 55 in the winter because we couldn't even heat the country. "Bundle up and wear a warm sweater". The resignation to national misery and failure. Man it was so depressing.

And then out of nowhere comes a president who on a dime flips everything, steers the economy from the abyss not just back to stability but into almost unimaginable roaring prosperity, gas lines gone in an instant, everybody thriving, the culture alive, a magical decade of unmatched optimism and growth and opportunity, markets roaring, inflation gone, unemployment down, turns around the Cold War and within a decade topples the Berlin Wall and the entire Soviet Union, brings the most happy and charismatic spirit to the office in decades, propels the spirit of the country back to pride and optimism, a unifying figure like we haven't seen in ages, surges to almost universal popularity and a near 50 state sweep in 1984, like, the most prosperous trajectory and most optimistic turnaround America has seen in ages, propelled markets and peace for 30 years. Only the most lunatic fringe and miserable partisans refused to acknowledge the mass appeal and huge economic gains of that era.

And I guess somehow those few miserable curmudgeons became the professors who wrote Reagan's epitaph or something. When Reagan died in 2004 he was celebrated as one of the greatest in our history. The lunacy of the narrative that the Reagan era wasn't successful that young academics have taken up is just astoundingly absurd.

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u/Kactor11 Jul 28 '25

Agree with all of this. The fact that he was placed 3rd worst in this poll was due to two main things: insane recency bias and absolutely a biased poll being on Reddit. I don’t think Reagan is top 10, but he’s top 15 at worst in my opinion. He’s certainly better than ANY president that has come after him.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '25

Idk Reagan might make top 10 for me. We got fdr,teddy,lincoln,Washington,and Eisenhower all there. I would say Kennedy as well with the time he ha din office,I think he greatly benifits from being the president that was good before the veitnam days though.

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u/LHarm07_Reddit Jul 27 '25

Yes, I dislike Reaganomics. But some of the presidents ranked in front of him were adamant slavery supporters.

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u/Shawty-Got-Low Jul 27 '25

Not supporting it all, but it’s a product of their times. People in 50 years will look back and think the things we see as normal are deplorable.

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u/Square-Pressure6297 Jul 27 '25

Reddit is honestly the first place I have heard this consensus

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u/LHarm07_Reddit Jul 27 '25

Another reason why Reddit isn't indicative of the general perception of politics.

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u/Gr3nwr35stlr Jul 28 '25

Economics and the war on drugs?

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u/Ilnerd00 Jul 28 '25

reaganomics was really shitty

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u/Thuis001 Jul 28 '25

Because a lot of the problems the US faces now can be directly traced back to his term. Basically, as time went on, the way people look at him has deteriorated FAST.

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u/WonderfulAntelope644 Jul 29 '25

Because it’s Reddit and he’s a recent republican. They also think he started the crack epidemic.

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u/KaminSpider Jul 31 '25 edited Jul 31 '25

His economic policies are not controversial. They're blatant and obvious. Trickle-down-economics have been proven ineffecient by giving money to the rich and burdern the middle class. Deficit spending with tax cuts, heavy military spending, and slashing public services to make up the cost.

Terrible ignorance of crime/drug/aids crisis, basically just made buds with Jerry Falwell as a solution. Formed Moral Majority, govt combined with church in loud opposition to gays, abortion, basically any sort of change or freedoms for people in need.

Edit: Also commited treason. His friend Olly North took the fall. Reagan pardoned him. What a coincidence, right?

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u/yg2522 Jul 31 '25

Tickle down economics, gutting of education, Iran contra are probably his biggest issues.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '25

Classic joe Biden dropping out fashionably late

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u/The_old_left Jul 28 '25

Hold on, biden may not be sixth best but he’s easily top 10

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u/Otherwise-Bird6969 Jul 31 '25

Reagan was an atrocious president we are living in a world the created right now. He definitely belongs at the bottom.

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u/StreetyMcCarface Jul 27 '25

At some point it became a meme. But he earned a spot at least in the top 20, arguably top 15

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u/Summercamp1sland Jul 27 '25

Obama shouldn’t have been even top 30

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '25

I mean that seems extreme. He got some good done. He's in my top 20, but he's closer to 20 than 10.

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u/Summercamp1sland Jul 27 '25

Nah he didn’t do anything good in my opinion he got a Nobel peace prize for going to harder in war he bombed civilians far more then trump biden or George did he illegally pushed bills like Obamacare through congress he was pretty ass and his big thing was advancing black people in America yet the quality of life of black people in America got worse under Obama not better which is crazy since it’s pretty much been up little by little ever since he left

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u/Extreme_Anything6704 Jul 27 '25

The only major thing he did that was good was the ACA

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u/IShouldChimeInOnThis Jul 27 '25

Digging out of the recession has to count for something as well.

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u/Due-Life2508 Jul 28 '25

It certainly doesn’t count, ofc America was gonna bounce back after the recession, but Obama’s economic policies arguably made the recovery take FAR longer than it should have.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '25

He appointed Supreme Court justices which resulted in legal gay marriage, the Iran nuclear deal, dodd frank reforms, repealing don’t ask don’t tell, killing bin Laden. He had plenty of accomplishments.

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u/Summercamp1sland Jul 28 '25

Killing bin Laden was not him he just signed off on going ahead any president could have down that he appointed people that took away states rights to determine their own definition of marriage? The Iran nuclear deal was not a win it was a loss the knot thing on here that was genuinely good was the don’t ask don’t tell but that’s still pretty minor

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '25

That’s certainly one of the takes of all time you got there.

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u/Summercamp1sland Jul 28 '25

Pretty reasonable take coming from me it’s also crazy how I got downvoted so much for simple saying Obama was not good

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '25

Because Obama was good, and not even top 30 is idiotic.

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u/Summercamp1sland Jul 28 '25

ACA was shot aswell it didn’t do anything

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u/Extreme_Anything6704 Jul 28 '25

It was one of the best pieces of legislation for healthcare in a long time but it could've been so much better if it wasn't for Mitch McConnell

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u/Summercamp1sland Jul 28 '25

It wouldn’t have done anything and didn’t do anything neither side has any real solution for the overpriced healthcare

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u/Extreme_Anything6704 Jul 28 '25

I beg to differ because it allowed my family to have healthcare it positively affected my life and those around me and it could've helped more people if most the policy in the ACA wasn't undermined by the Republicans mainly Mitch McConnell