T. A. Gardner
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Sure, I do. I read opposing sources, and even quote them on this board, all the time.
Biden Limps out of Office Ranked as Worst Modern President
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It depends on what we're counting. The electorate is famously stupid. Americans in general are undereducated, vacuous dolts, but the results of elections do matter.
In terms of evaluating the relative success of a presidential administration, trained historians obviously "count more".
Presidents ranked from worst to best
Donald Trump, Barack Obama, George W. Bush – how do the presidents of our era compare with those who came before?
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anonymoose
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If you weren’t such an irrepressible dick I’d explain.
You might want to consider posting as a sock that’s more tolerant.
Nah. It takes a particularly desperate loser to create multiple accounts on an anonymous internet website that doesn't matter. I also have a life. Did you ever have one?
But do tell: Why do you create socks?
anonymoose
Classical Liberal
If you weren’t such an irrepressible dick I’d explain.
Sure you would
anonymoose
Classical Liberal
Find a non-dick or non-cunt from the board to ask and I’ll explain to them.
There’s actually a few on this board.
I'm not going on an errand for a foot-stomping tantrum thrower. If you want to explain why you create socks (weird), go ahead. If you don't or can't, whatever.
christiefan915
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There's no formal writing on JPP, ever.!?"_-Wrong . You posed a question with a period.
Question words
(Using question words in English grammar)
Question words in English (which, who, why, when, whose, how, …)
What are the question words in English (what, who, which, whose, when, why, where, how)? How are they used grammatically? What is their meaning?www.usinggrammar.com
"In formal writing, even rhetorical questions must always end with a question mark, so says Fowler and probably most other style guides. In informal writing, and perhaps with certain short questions that have become fixed expressions, a full stop could be used instead. I believe you will often find how do you do and what's up written with full stops."
When is it appropriate to end a question without a question mark?
Basically, if I ask a rhetorical question, it's not really prompting for an answer. Does that mean it should not end in a question mark? Here are two examples: "What's New" used as a title for a
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christiefan915
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Not necessarily, but I sure as hell won't take the opinions of magas about anything.You'll take the opinions of anyone you agree with.
Diogenes
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T. A. Gardner
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Did you read that article? Really read it? I did.It depends on what we're counting. The electorate is famously stupid. Americans in general are undereducated, vacuous dolts, but the results of elections do matter.
In terms of evaluating the relative success of a presidential administration, trained historians obviously "count more".
Presidents ranked from worst to best
Donald Trump, Barack Obama, George W. Bush – how do the presidents of our era compare with those who came before?
Overwhelmingly, throughout it the one thread that is consistent is that the historians who make the rankings put what amounts to social and economic justice at the top of their ratings. They frequently make the Historian's fallacy of applying current social and political mores to past presidents often ignoring serious flaws and shortcomings in favor of this measure.
For example, they rate LBJ highly. Yet, he was a one-term president losing reelection to Richard Nixon. The reason he wasn't reelected was his policies had literally torn the nation apart. From race riots and riots over public housing, to the debacle of his "Great Society" push, to involvement in Vietnam, then the Dominican Republic, LBJ was widely despised and hated by the American public.
But, his policies align very closely and well with the Progressive Left when it comes to social and economic justice. That is what the raters focused on and why they gave him high marks. When taking the rest of his presidency into account, LBJ was pretty much an unmitigated disaster and that's why he lost reelection, and not just lost, but badly lost.
They rate William Harrison in this too. This president should be a "Not observed." He was in office just 32 days before dying. There's nothing to rate him on.
They rate John Tyler poorly on actions he took after being president, not during his presidency. Tyler sided with the Confederacy in the Civil War. That has NOTHING to do with his being president.
JFK is another questionable rating. Of all modern presidents, he brought the US to the brink of nuclear war twice during his time in office, and in both cases largely due to his actions as president. For example, it was his insistence on placing IRBM missiles (Thor and Jupiter) in Europe and Turkey in large numbers against the advice of the military. That prompted the Soviet Union to take an interest in Cuba--a country ignored by the Soviet Union prior to that--as a base to put similar missiles to threaten the US. Kennedy precipitated the Cuban missile crisis and it came down to one man's decision against launching a nuke-- A Russian officer no less--that prevented a nuclear war.
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Washington, D.C., October 3, 2022 - Sixty years ago, on October 1, 1962, four Soviet Foxtrot-class diesel submarines, each of which carried one nuclear-armed torpedo, left their base in the Kola Bay, part of the massive Soviet deployment to Cuba that precipitated the Cuban Missile Crisis. An...
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During the Berlin Crisis, he ordered the deployment to the field in Europe hundreds of crews armed with what amounted to a nuclear hand grenade, a Davy Crockett battlefield nuke. Three enlisted soldiers in a jeep with one of these weapons.
If anything, JFK on the whole was probably the most dangerous, loose cannon, in the post WW 2 era to be elected president.
The ratings in that article suck in their shallowness, use of the historian's fallacy, and general lack of attention to detail.
christiefan915
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That still applies.I once knew someone who said she gives a pass to people she likes.
Diogenes
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You don't need to tell me.
christiefan915
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You're the #1 beneficiary of my graciousness in that regard.
Diogenes
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Am I? Got any examples you could share publicly?
christiefan915
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It wouldn't be prudent for me to do that.
Diogenes
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I didn't expect you could produce any evidence, and I was correct. I still like you, of course.
christiefan915
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