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[–] ProgAimerGirl@hexbear.net 30 points 4 months ago

two taftisms, pick your favorite:

taft would go walk in the rose garden and hide from his staff. when they sent someone to find him, he'd jump out from hiding and try to scare the bejeezus out of them. then he'd laugh till he was crying red in the face

and then:

taft would invite foreign dignitaries to breakfast, where he had the kitchen specially prepare cold gruel to be served. taft would explain that it was one of his favorites. when the gruel came he would watch the table and let his guests debase themselves to praise the president's favorite cold gruel, while not touching his own meal. then, once everybody had finished, he would put his full, untouched bowl of gruel on the floor for his patiently waiting dog. breakfast with william howard taft, there you go

both of these are true because i learned them in AP US History, as you know an AP US History teacher cannot tell a lie (the george washington curse)

[–] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 29 points 4 months ago
[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

geordi-no The Big Wet Boy

geordi-yes The Bigger, Wetter Boy

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Was Taft actually bigger than Trump? He was only 6ft, 243 lbs. Trump claims to weigh 215 which is preposterous. Trump is probably closer to 315 than 215. He also claims to be 6'3", but is a little shorter than 6'1" Tiger Woods in a photo I saw.

[–] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Crazy that Taft is renowned as "The fat president" and was only 243 lbs.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

You get stuck in a bathtub one time and suddenly you're the fat president forever.

[–] HamManBad@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

There's no way taft was 6' and 243 lbs. He was either shorter or heavier, or both. Or was he filled with helium?

Edit, per Google AI because I'm too lazy to look at the actual search results- He was 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall and his weight was between 325 pounds (147 kg) and 280 pounds (130 kg)

[–] Alisu@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

Wow, close to my height, more than double the weight

[–] Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Well, you sold me. We all gotta get on the raft with Taft.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aKuV4FzBgPU

[–] citrussy_capybara@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The time has come, the fight is on
We've picked the man to run
For President Ohio sent
Her noble worthy son

no thank you, heard tell that a city there has managed to set a river on fire multiple times, plus the East Palestine incident, no politician from the province deserves higher office

[–] Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The Cuyahoga River first caught fire in 1868...

Jesus, what were they doing there at the time. I thought the state was still just filled with corn farming Union veterans. Even the handsome generals don't get a pass here.

[–] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ohio is too good for the rest of this dog shit country. Setting your river on fire is a sign of progress. Ohio is a microcosm of the country and should be a country into itself. We also have the best flag. And we won the war against Michigan even if they have better beer

[–] citrussy_capybara@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

the Maryland flag is better
the Ohio pride flag video is funny, though

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

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[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Would voters like Genocide Joe more if he grew a beard?

[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

he should start cosplaying the other joe stalin-stoic

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 months ago

✅ Done. They are both corpses.

[–] Pentacat@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can facial hair grow through plastic?

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 months ago

Hair and fingernails appear to keep growing after death, so probably yes.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago

Taft Punk was a groundbreaking supergroup formed by former American presidents and progressive rock music pioneers William Howard Taft and Theodore "The Tedster" Roosevelt. The group produced only one album, Industry, under the official record label of the Republican Party. However, Industry was so successful that it sold over six million albums, is considered one of the most influential albums by any music group to date, and inspired a two hundred page rant on the economic and social fallacies of rocking out too hard, by Upton Sinclair.

[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No shot Harris is that high

[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

She’s been a couple points up or down of Trump but within the margin of error in every poll I’ve seen since the debate. Biden on the other hand is decisively losing to Trump in every poll.

This is a pretty new shift, until recently Kamala was basically the only democrat that polled worse than Biden

[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

I feel like there's a whole subset of people that would vote for biden even if he's old but would not vote for kamala because she's so weird

[–] axont@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Finally, proper sized bathtubs are coming back to the white house

[–] Darth_Reagan@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago