Among the five living men who have served as president, Barack Obama has the most favorable image and Joe Biden the least favorable.

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    it’s difficult to see bush jr as number 2 on that list since he literally started 2 pointless wars on both a flimsy pretext and a bald faced lie about wmd’s.

    both he and his democratic flanks are the clearest sign that americans dgaf if non-americans are slaughtered or their human rights are violated; so long as both social and legacy media alike keep them distracted from being aware of either.

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      9/11 did a lot of work for Bush Jr.'s approval ratings (Gallup ratings). Same with Giuliani. If it hadn’t happened Rudy would have been despised by the public at large a lot sooner.

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      These polls are rather meaningless though, the right will never be honest and say “our guy bad”. They’re authy bootlickers by nature.

      So all of their presidents will be artificially inflated. Not that people’s opinions on them matters when it comes to “how good a job they did” or how much they improved people’s lives, or how “honest” they were etc.

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        agreed and i think it’s just difficult for me because of the detrimental impact obama & bush have had on my life.

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    Trump’s ratings are going to fall like a rock as his supporters realize how much his policies are hurting them directly. I saw a post over the weekend from a lady screeching that her package from Temu was being held for a $42 tariff payment but Trump told her tariffs wouldn’t affect Americans… Welcome to the “find out” phase, idiot.

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      Like a good opposition party puppet, they’ll rehabilitate Trump just like they did with Bush, even after Bush killed a million innocent people in Iraq.

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      …a lady screeching that her package from Temu was being held for a $42 tariff payment but Trump told her tariffs wouldn’t affect Americans…

      there’s a meme out there with nancy reagan explaining that republican’s dgaf about problems until it impacts them and i’m learning that it’s true for all americans, republican or not.

      obama’s followers will continue to like him because his ghoulish policies w immigration, didn’t impact them, but it impacted people like me and, you’re right, that, that direct hurt has made me not like him.

      on the flip side, if trumps policies end up somehow miraculously working like it did for milei or bukele; then trump will likewise become as popular as obama.

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        I mean, if I was asked to pick my least hated president from among 2 rapists (minimum), limp dick Biden, fucking George Bush, and Obama, I’m picking Obama. If you’d have asked me like 2 months ago, it’s Carter hands down, but alas

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        republican’s dgaf about problems until it impacts them

        The way that removed opposed stem cell research until Ronny needed it?

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    Every single one of them should stand trial at The Hague for their crimes. Absolute scum of the earth.

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    Biden learned the hard way that you can’t commit a genocide and still be liked unless you talk like a cult leader and collect millions of loyal dupes.