re: Who is your GOAT president since 1980?

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GEOTUS and Ronaldus Magnus are neck in neck as the two best in at least the last 100 years.

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I think Trump will end up proving to be one of the best presidents we have ever had, but he still has quite a bit of work left to do and I don't think it's fair to rank him just yet. But aside from that, did you just throw the 100 years thing out there for the hell of it?

We have had some damn good Presidents over the last 100 years. Eisenhower comes to mind. Eisenhower oversaw the invasion of Normandy for fricks sake. Then he went on to build our interstate highway systems, integrated public schools, formed NASA, launched the space race, oversaw a great economy and warned us explicitly about the Military Industrial Complex on his way out the door. Considering he was a 5* General, he was in a very good position to understand the dangers the MIC posed, and although his warnings didn't really stop much of anything I respect the hell out of the man for having the balls to call them out.

We have had some damn good leaders in the past 100 years. I hope Trump can continue on his trajectory though because he may pass them all up if he does.

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That’s almost word for word the assessment I was given. For me, I want results. I do like that trump is taking on the media. This media isn’t the same as it was in Regans day. They at least pretended to be non bias.

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They weren't as bad bias wise but I think a lot of that is also due to them having less air time than today, especially if you include social media into the mix. In Reagan's time you had three networks who spent 30 minutes each day covering the news with a one hour interview show on Sunday mornings and special report break ins when something truly significant or important occurred. No one was one 24 hours continuously and the plague of locusts on Facebook and Twitter didn't exist. It was easier to find freedom from the press back then.

Trump is the best man in the history of people

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Congress deserves a lot of the credit for making it so, but the answer is Bill Clinton.

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Total bullshite.

IMO we haven't had a president since 1980 that was worth a single frick except Trump.

Reagan? Yeah, he oversaw the dissolution of the USSR, but he also launched this disastrous neo-liberal "we will remain in the middle East from now til forever" doctrine.

Reagan and it is not even close.

Trump could not tote his jock strap.

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However, as far as moving the ball on their agendas, Trump is second to none.

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Why do you say that?

He has failed in almost all of his agendas.

I will give him credit on the tax cut and I am glad a republican was there to make this supreme court nominations for the republican Senate to vote on. Any republican would have made similar nominees.

He has not accomplished the trade deals most of his avid supporters think he has. USMCA really is not Earth shattering different from NAFTA. Phase 1 China benefits China a lot more than it does the US. I am just happy they quit fighting and some of the tariffs are going away. If you can't admit to those facts you really are close minded and a Trump minion.

He has not built this huge wall and has done nothing to change the law on illegals or to identify and deal with "illegals" in the country.

He has not accomplished anything with North Korea.

He rolled over on the debt limit in August.

There is no new health care plan like he promised.

Reagan got things done. He passed two tax cuts---massive tax cuts. He restored the military after a decade of disarray. He basically ended the cold war--younger people have no idea how bid this was. (In elementary school we had Civil Defense drills in case of nuclear attack.) He cut the bureaucracy--he actually eliminated a massive agency the ICC. He restored confidence in the American people and worked with Democrats on legislation. He stood for everything they hated but they liked him. He almost passed a balance budget amendment.

Trump is better than a democrat but he is mostly talk and he is not accomplished a single legislative win.

I voted for Trump and will probably do so again but he is not Ronald Reagan or Calvin Coolidge. He is not even a Nixon or Eisenhower who both accomplished a great deal----Nixon ended Viet Nam, began direct talks and restored some commerce with the USSR and China (Americans couldn't even fly to those two countries for two and half decades and farmers couldn't sell them grain.) Nixon started the EPA which was need to protect property owners from pollution of other people which is a function of government just like protecting people from thieves and murder are. Eisenhower ended the Korean War, built the interstate system and kept his thumb on democrat war mongers like LBJ in the Senate.

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Reagan and it is not even close.

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Amnesty and expanding the Earned Income Credit , that's what I think of when I hear people talking about Reagan.

Clinton was more conservative then Reagan.

I can't even believe I'm not saying Reagan. But. OMB