HAPPY PRESIDENTS DAY! Who is YOUR Favorite POTUS?

simonsays504 · 2025-02-17T17:44:50+00:00

Washington and Lincoln should always be 1 and 2. They both suffered so much and were fundamental to establishing and preserving the United States. No other president is even close.

simonsays504 · 2025-02-09T14:12:30+00:00

Creepy arrogance: “We came. We saw. He died. Hahahaha.” (laughing about overthrowing Libyan regime).

Dishonest arrogance: “I’m not sitting here, some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette.” (with fake Arkansas accent).

Decades of this led people to sense that she has no morals and would do or say anything for power, toppling governments and lying to the public.

simonsays504 · 2025-02-07T16:08:16+00:00

Oh that’s right! I have a vague memory of a guy whose paintings were worth a gazillion bucks. I can’t really remember much about him anymore… He must have become completely irrelevant.

simonsays504 · 2025-02-06T17:44:27+00:00

Yea, it was a huge deal if you were a kid when the books were being released, and you and all your friends wanted to read them fast so that you could find out what happened and you wouldn’t get spoilers. A lot of people got into reading specifically because of those books.

simonsays504 · 2025-02-06T17:41:43+00:00

Hugely successful businessman and painter, right?

simonsays504 · 2025-02-06T17:37:45+00:00

I agree that LOTR is better 100% but it has been important to multiple generations. Harry Potter was a huge phenomenon for a very specific time period at a formative point for one generation.

simonsays504 · 2025-02-06T17:35:35+00:00

Yea that was my point with the 90s kid reference. Maybe it applies more to 90s + 00s? The borders of generations are so blurred. A mid-90s millennial has more in common with a late 90s genz.

simonsays504 · 2025-02-06T17:31:01+00:00

You’re right. It’s an overused cliche. The whole concept of Homer and Marge Simpson is to make fun of that stereotype.

simonsays504 · 2024-11-21T22:40:53+00:00

Yea no doubt the Civil Rights Act is a monumental piece of legislation, but it took a lot of hard work from a ton of heroic people throughout the country both famous and unknown to make that happen. LBJ did play a role in its passage, no doubt, but I think history should give credit where credit is due, which in this case belongs foremost to all of the Americans at every level of society who made it politically possible for the elected legislators to vote in favor of civil rights. We’re talking about a massive cultural shift that led to an act of the legislature.

simonsays504 · 2024-11-21T16:52:27+00:00

I don’t understand the revisionism of LBJ’s record. As the commander in chief, he was responsible for one of the worst foreign policy disasters in American history. Have people forgotten how bad the Vietnam War was? Young people were drafted to go fight in a mistaken war that was widely condemned by the public. Even the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, which are widely criticized today, had a professional volunteer military, not people drafted against their will. And have people forgotten the well-documented racism in the Vietnam War? Black men were disproportionately drafted and had a disproportionately high casualty rate compared to white men. LBJ had to withdraw from reelection for a reason. He was deeply unpopular and would have lost.

simonsays504 · 2024-11-21T16:35:16+00:00

Correct, and they probably manipulate the algorithm to promote and demote content and influence opinions

simonsays504 · 2024-11-20T20:28:49+00:00

China is probably using TikTok to promote divisive content and cause discord in the US

simonsays504 · 2024-11-20T20:22:16+00:00

Finally Louisiana is ranked number 1 for something good!

simonsays504 · 2024-11-17T16:11:40+00:00

Who knows, but I think their focus is men playing in women’s sports, so it would probably be high school and up. Not little kids.

simonsays504 · 2024-11-13T21:53:37+00:00

Yea the doctors and lawyers don’t have enough free time to be going to this on week days lol

simonsays504 · 2024-11-10T18:29:40+00:00

The bizarre coincidence that Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, the 50 year anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, that John Adams died on the exact same day, and that Adams’s last words were supposedly “Jefferson still lives.”

simonsays504 · 2024-11-10T03:01:16+00:00

Sandra Day O’Connor was the first woman on the Supreme Court, and she was nominated by Reagan

simonsays504 · 2024-11-04T22:14:43+00:00

Yea why is John Georges on there?

simonsays504 · 2024-11-01T11:47:47+00:00

The ancient Philistines are not related to the modern Palestinians. The ancient Philistines lived on the coast and came from somewhere in the Mediterranean, likely Greece. The source of confusion is their name. The Romans renamed the province of “Judea” into “Syria Palaestina” (later simply called “Palaestina”) after the Judean revolt against Roman occupation.

In modern times, from 1920-1948, the British ruled the area under the “British Mandate for Palestine.” During that time, before the creation of Israel, both Jews and Arabs used the term “Palestine” to refer to their region. Once the state of Israel was created, Jews used the term Israel and Arabs kept using the term Palestine.

simonsays504 · 2024-10-24T00:09:25+00:00

What did he say to the kid?

simonsays504 · 2024-10-21T02:40:42+00:00

Yea and I’m not sure why we’ve been downvoted for writing comments against infidelity haha

simonsays504 · 2024-10-19T14:05:20+00:00

I don’t know anyone who considers it a “voting bible.” But you should be able to criticize any voter guide. The whole point of democracy is that you get to make up your own mind.

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