How evil have American presidents been?- Page 4

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 11/2/23 at 12:26pm

"Would we really be that much worse off if we were part of the United Kingdom?"

Kdogg... how would you answer your own question? I think independence was the right move.

Pulitzer winner Caroline Elkins recently had Legacy of Violence published, I'm reading it now.

 

 A searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century. Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's empire was the largest in human history. For many, it epitomized the nation's cultural superiority, but what legacy have we delivered to the world? Spanning more than two hundred years of history, Caroline Elkins reveals an evolutionary and racialized doctrine that espoused an unrelenting deployment of violence to secure and preserve British imperial interests. She outlines how ideological foundations of violence were rooted in Victorian calls for punishing indigenous peoples who resisted subjugation, and how over time this treatment became increasingly systematised. And she makes clear that when Britain could no longer maintain control over the violence it provoked and enacted, Britain retreated from its empire, destroying and hiding incriminating evidence of its policies and practices. Drawing on more than a decade of research on four continents, Legacy of Violence implicates all sides of the political divide regarding the creation, execution, and cover-up of imperial violence. By demonstrating how and why violence was the most salient factor underwriting both the empire and British imperial identity, Elkins explodes long-held myths and sheds a disturbing new light on empire's role in shaping the world today.

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[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 4/15/24 at 12:44pm

A former president went on trial today.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 4/19/24 at 2:04pm

Jay Lerner-Z said: "A former president went on trial today."

 

LOCK HIM UP!!

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 5/30/24 at 6:04pm

Guilty on all charges.

 

Still not the worst thing a President has ever done, but a day for the history books nonetheless.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 5/30/24 at 8:00pm

LOCK HIM UP ALREADY!!

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 10/12/24 at 12:41pm

Nobel Peace Prize 2024 awarded to Japan Confederation of A-and-H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, Niyon Hidankyo. They continue to campaign to rid the world of nuclear weapons. 106,000 of Truman's victims are still alive, and his inhumanity lingers on. I have the utmost respect for these survivors, and hope that one day they succeed in their mission. Congratulations!

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 9/25/25 at 12:16pm

Can we take a leaf out of France's book?

Former President Nicholas Sarkozy sentenced to five years in prison for corruption.

America really needs to stop treating holders of this office as untouchable. Obama, Bush, Clinton, Biden… all only human. The reverence the office still gets even with the current clown is obscene.

Let's start with something simple. Once they leave office, no longer address them as "Mr. President". In fact, not even while they're in office, but one step at a time.

[KeithfrromQueens]

Posted: 9/27/25 at 11:05am

In my lifetime, the two Presidents who have been evil are Nixon and Biden.  Nixon ran on ending the Vietnam War, but he did not end the war.   20K American soldiers died under Nixon.  As for Biden, using the FBI/DOJ to jail your political opponents is evil as well as organizing and overseeing a totally illegal infrastructure that traffics 12 million illegals into the USA.  That is incredibly EVIL, offensive to all the immigrants who obeyed the law and came here legally, and offensive to the millions of soldiers who risked their lives for our laws, our culture, the constitution.  VETERAN OF THE VIETNAM WAR
 

 

[Seb28]

Posted: 9/27/25 at 4:59pm

KeithfrromQueens said: "In my lifetime, the two Presidents who have been evil are Nixon and Biden. Nixon ran on ending the Vietnam War, but he did not end the war. 20K American soldiersdied under Nixon. As for Biden, using the FBI/DOJ to jail your political opponents isevil as well as organizing and overseeing a totally illegal infrastructure that traffics 12 million illegals into the USA. That is incredibly EVIL, offensive to all the immigrants who obeyed the law and came here legally, andoffensive to the millions of soldiers who risked theirlives for our laws, our culture, the constitution. VETERAN OF THE VIETNAM WAR


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I agree, Biden was extremely evil for all the reasons you mentioned. He also was actively banning free speech on Google and Youtube. 

 

[abcd12]

Posted: 9/27/25 at 9:10pm

Gotta give it to you - you’re certainly one of the most shameless & relentless trolls this board’s ever seen. 

Quite an accomplishment!

Updated On: 9/27/25 at 09:10 PM