Non political memes: !memes@sopuli.xyz
Trump was the first one to try to repeal the 14th amendment, the one Lincoln was famous for signing off on, so that Trump can try to take away the rights of, imprison, and remove anybody he wants at any time without a real warrant.
Don't try to normalize this shit.
As opposed to say Andrew Jackson who did that to Native Americans? What about Operation Wetback?
Even if we allow for the concept that most presidents will inevitably commit some evils, and therefore do not simply label them all devils, we would still (at a pretty generous minimum) have to label around 1/3 of them as devils. Obviously Trump is bad and should be vigorously resisted, but it is not as though this country has never had leaders this reckless, this callous to human suffering, or this bigoted before. Future generations will find Trump noteworthy to be sure, but probably not singularly so.
it is not as though this country has never had leaders this reckless, this callous to human suffering, or this bigoted before
Thomas Jefferson trafficked a child to France, started a relationship with the 14 year old slave of his, raped her and had 5 children, and enslaved the children.
Edit: To the 4 liberals downvoting, go on defend Thomas Jefferson's action here you cowards.
Yeah... and I don't even think he's our worst-ever President! It's quite the shitshow, really.
The other presidents left the system intact so their mistakes could be corrected. They left the ability for the US to have decent presidents after them.
Not for lack of trying. Other presidents have absolutely defied Congress or the Supreme Court, filled the government with cronies, or otherwise completely abandoned common decency and the rule of law. If Trump is more destructive than any president before him, it will be because technology put more advanced tools of destruction at his disposal, not because he is somehow more evil or power hungry than anyone before him.
And if Trump had been president in 1801, how do you think he'd have treated his slaves? If he'd been president in 1830, do you think the Trail of Tears would have been any less than an overt genocide?
Come on. This isn't a real discussion if we're just going to make up hypotheticals about what different presidents would do in different contexts. But even if we do base this on such speculation, Trump is still by a wide margin the worst president in American history, because it's hard to imagine him not committing those same crimes but worse.
Did they just kind of forget about Joe Biden?
The tweet is from Jan. 16, 2017. I have no idea why a nearly 10-year-old tweet is being reposted
So add: 👴👹
Damn you're right those 10 years really changed this meme.
It's a tweet from 2017
Who?
Joseph Biden was a semi-successful used-car sales man from Delaware.
OP is a troll.
OP like the original tweet or OP like the poster to posted this post?
To be fair, while yes, we've had a number of similarly bad presidents before (I'd personally argue that Jackson might have been actually worse even, but it's hard to compare given how different the world is from his day), the point of a lot of stuff like this is to try to motivate people to act against the current one. Including more nuance to something like this makes it less emotionally impactful, and unlike those previous presidents, who can't be pressured or resisted unless one has a time machine, Trump is in office today.