I would say :obama-socialism:
Some might argue its Bush Jr. but Obama destroyed so many nations that his death toll arguably surpasses Dubya's once you include the Ukraine war. One top of that, the Iraq war sparked the largest protests since Vietnam, while Obama's destruction of Syria, Libya, Ukraine, Venezuela, etc. went largely unnoticed by the public. Obama also single handedly annihilated all progress made by Black and Hispanic communities when he bailed out billionaires and bankers. What's worse is that the psychopath is largely popular, worldwide, and libs think that his biggest scandal was wearing a tan suit.
Depends how far back "recent history" is. If it goes back to the 80s I'd say Reagan is hard to beat in terms of being the absolute fucking worst AND laying a lot of the groundwork for the specific kind of dystopian hell we're in nowadays.
Depends how modern you mean. Bush Jr might be the worst because of the war on terror that he started. The other answer is probably Reagan who changed everything economically for big business and workers, but that might be further back than you're thinking. To counter the Obama point, everything he did was a continuation of what Bush Jr started, as far as foreign policy goes. he got us involved in the middle east again which brought so much death.
- Doing fuck all about the Republican Party radicalizing into open fascism.
Something something democracy, something something bipartisanship, something something vote blue
I would say Obama
:kitty-cri: well... Okay.. You can have your o-opi :cri: opinion
I mean depends on how far back you consider "recent" but Reagan is always a strong contender.
I think Obama is a fine pick though, for all the reasons you listed. In general libs tend to ignore the atrocities of their own, so Democrat presidents end up feeling a little more unbearable due to that lack of background resistance (or, you know, "resistance").
This is why I vote Obama. It's impossible to truly quantify the ghoulishness of each president without significant scrutiny but Dems and especially Obama get glorified by so-called progressives that I despise them more based on vibes.
I'll be honest, I think it's W by a country mile. I see your point about Ukraine but Obama's involvement was much more indirect and the entire Trump era altered the trajectory as well. So many other variables. Iraq was so much more entirely on W and his administration's shoulders. If Gore was president, we would never have invaded Iraq. Probably the same with McCain. W genuinely deserves exceptional amounts of responsibility for Iraq beyond your typical US war criminal president's imperialist ventures.
And the Iraq invasion is just so evil, it really overshadows all the really awful shit he's also responsible for.
Far and away it's GW. Reagan after that, and then probably a tie between Bush Sr., Clinton, O'bummer, Brandon and the Orange Menace.
Doesn't really matter. They're all fucking war criminals.
It's easily Dubya. Absolutely no other contender. If you're going by post-WWII, maybe Truman if you blame the rise of the CIA, the machination of the Dulles bros, and the start of the Cold War entirely on him.
It's really important to remember just how mask-off Trump went for fossil capital. Among his first week initiatives were to sign bills for restarting construction on the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines. Energy advisors were coal baron Robert E. Murray, fracking pioneer Harold Hamm, assigned the director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute to the head of the EPA, followed by coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler.
Secretary of Energy went to ExxonMobil & Koch-funded Governor Rick Perry. Secretary of Commerce to Wilbur Ross, founder of Institutional Coal Group, Inc. Secretary of State went first to ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson. Secretary of the Interior to Ryan Zinke, who sat on a board for a pipeline engineering company, then replaced by oil lobbyist David Bernhardt.
He rolled back Obama's already inadequate Clean Power Plan. He lifted the moratorium in leading federal land to new coal mines. He rescinded an Obama-era EPA rule requiring companies to reduce methane emissions. He nullified fuel-efficiency standards for cars. Withdrew from the Paris Agreement. He instructed the EPA to remove all data related to climate change from its website and promised to terminate all research on the topic from NASA.
While Bush Jr. was also bad in this regard, he wasn't as consistent as Trump.
This is no joke - these actions may well serve to end more lives than an invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan.
That's just Dakota Access. He vetoed Keystone XL, the much larger one, before Trump had the nomination
Bush Jr In my book, No Child Left Behind and the wars are insanely evil.
Aggression against Russia from NATO was a neocon policy that was begun under the Bush administration, and there wouldn't have been a bailout if Dubya hadn't allowed the housing market to bubble.
Most if not all of the evil shit the US has done would have happened regardless of who was president at the time, so it's kind of a pointless question imo.
It's definitely
Cheneyumm sorry Bush Jr. If you consider the 80s recent history, then it's Reagan.Drumpf sweetie because he was rude to CNN on twitter :maybe-later-honey:
they've all been infinite onion layers of fractal awfulness. I'm not sure they can be meaningfully ranked because they just get worse and dumber the closer you look at any of them.
