Gingrich: Biden the ‘Second-Worst President in American History’

Breitbart ^ | 06/07/2022 | Jeff poor

[ChicagoConservative27]

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called President Joe Biden the “second-worst” in the country’s history.

According to Gingrich, Biden is second to former President James Buchanan, who he blamed for getting the country into the Civil War.

“I think it’s important to remember, first of all, to be fair, Jimmy Carter was a disaster,” he said. “But he was a lot smarter and a lot more coherent than Joe Biden. Well, Carter, in the end, couldn’t solve the problems. He at least was there. You could imagine him as a naval academy graduate and a nuclear engineer from the submarine program. He was – he had a kind of competence even if he was incompetent. Biden has neither.”

[DiogenesLamp]

I agree about LBJ he did ENORMOUS damage that has gone on for decades, an economy can be fixed, however the damage done in communities of color and the mindset created of entitlements will NEVER be repaired sad thing is the more kids they have the more money they get SO MANY kids growing up in poverty, gangs, drug addicted parent so few get out regardless of all the programs to get them out!!

Why did Johnson do this?

[ansel12]

Aside from your class warfare views, June 1941 high school grad Carter didn’t find his way into the Navy Academy until 1943 with an originally scheduled graduation in 1947.

“The widely held belief that many more poor and working class youths died in the Vietnam War than their middle- and upper-class counterparts is “a great exaggeration,” say MIT researchers who studied the family incomes of the 58,000 American war dead in Vietnam.”
“Data about the residential addresses of war casualties suggest that, within both large heterogeneous cities and wealthy suburbs, there was little relationship between neighborhood incomes and per capita Vietnam death rates.”
https://news.mit.edu/1992/vietnam-0930

[usconservative]

Hey Newt, the country’s in Civil War now. The only thing that hasn’t started is the shooting. Sit tight, that’s coming for sure.

[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "Are you denying that Buchanan tried to sneak soldiers into Fort Sumter by hiding them below decks on the Star of the West?"

I'm denying that NATO weapons in Ukraine are sufficient moral/legal justification for Russians to invade.

Or that American troops sent to reinforce Gitmo, Cuba are sufficient moral/legal justification for Cuba-Commies to attack Gitmo.

Or that Union troops sent to reinforce Union Fort Sumter are sufficient moral/legal justification for Confederates to provoke war there.

[usconservative]

Carter was a decent man.

An Israel hating, pro-terrorist enabling, incompetent, boob is never a nice man.

And that just described Jimmy Carter.

[DiogenesLamp]

You mean you don't want to answer the question. You know very well Buchanan tried to sneak troops in under cover of a "supply" mission.

As for Fort Sumter, nobody was there until Anderson seized it by force. Everyone was at peace, and in the middle of the night, Anderson ordered his men to commit hostile acts against the confederates, and in the process they took control of that fort which wasn't even finished.

It was as though a hostile enemy force just suddenly appeared at your front gate.

[DiogenesLamp]

“The widely held belief that many more poor and working class youths died in the Vietnam War than their middle- and upper-class counterparts is “a great exaggeration,” say MIT researchers who studied the family incomes of the 58,000 American war dead in Vietnam.”

"A lie is halfway around the world before the truth gets it's boots on."

Songs like "Fortunate son" helped create this impression in the public, and probably a lot of anecdotal commentary did as well.

MIT is one of the Universities I would more likely trust to tell the truth, but I wouldn't actually trust their conclusion without looking at their data and how they collected it.

Statistics can often tell you whatever you want to hear if you torture the numbers enough.

[Pelham]

“According to Gingrich, Biden is second to former President James Buchanan, who he blamed for getting the country into the Civil War.”

This always makes it sound like Lincoln had no choice in the matter. Abe was a mere victim of circumstance handed to him by Buchanan.

[ansel12]

People are usually surprised to learn that Vietnam was fought mostly by volunteers while WWII was fought mostly by draftees.

Losses were about 70% draftees in WWII and about 70% volunteer in Vietnam.

During the Vietnam war, myself, my younger brother and stepbrother volunteered for Army while my older brother went Navy.

There are a lot of leftist myths about America and war including claims that only the poor and losers serve in the military.

[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "You mean you don't want to answer the question."

I answered your question perfectly clearly -- no number of troops sent to reinforce Union Fort Sumter was sufficient to morally/legally justify Confederates provoking war.

No law anywhere says Confederates had a legitimate claim to ownership.
The US Constitution requires Congress dispose of Federal assets, and Congress never transferred Sumter, or any other property, to Confederates.

DiogenesLamp: "As for Fort Sumter, nobody was there until Anderson seized it by force."

Rubbish, Anderson merely transferred his command from one Union Fort to another.
It was a matter of no concern to such "combinations" as pretended to rule in Charleston.

[x]

So many men wanted to fight after Pearl Harbor that the military couldn’t process them and industry couldn’t spare them, so the government told men to wait until their draft number came up.

[DiogenesLamp]

I answered your question perfectly clearly -- no number of troops sent to reinforce Union Fort Sumter was sufficient to morally/legally justify Confederates provoking war.

You substituted your own question for a question I asked.

But if you think it was legit, why were the troops hiding below deck? Hiding makes it seem like they were trying to get away with something that wasn't legit.

If they were sure of the rightness of their actions, they would have gone in with all complements on deck and all flags flying. Instead they try to pull this secret sneaky thing. Sounds like they didn't think it was legit either.

No law anywhere says Confederates had a legitimate claim to ownership.

Declaration of Independence says they do.

and Congress never transferred Sumter, or any other property, to Confederates.

They transferred the property to Congress. The acknowledged power of Eminent domain allows them to take it back, especially since the Federal Government never lived up to the conditions to which they agreed when the land was originally relinquished to them.

Rubbish, Anderson merely transferred his command from one Union Fort to another.

Using force and violence. He took a ship captain hostage and forced him to carry his men and supplies to the unfinished fort, leaving behind a burning mess and destroyed cannons, which implied he regarded the people around him as an enemy.

[x]

Learn the lesson. Don’t vote for anybody whose message is that they are decent or compassionate. Those qualities ought to be assumed in prospective presidents, and anybody who goes around the country talking about how honest or righteous or bighearted he is probably isn’t any of those things. Carter was too directionless and detail-obsessed to be any good, however honest and decent he boasted about being.

[x]

Lincoln could either cave into the secessionists and let the country fall apart or else take a stand, maybe a purely formal stand, in an effort to keep the country from losing its capital. That was what Buchanan left him, and war was what the secessionists gave him.

[ansel12]

Actually men were avoiding ground combat services so the draft was made total so that the ground units could be filled.

[x]

Maybe, I don’t know. But the military didn’t want everyone leaving their jobs until they were able to train them. Men might have been safer in the army than in bomber crews.

[ansel12]

The government did need control but where the enlistees wanted to go was the most important factor, it wasn’t only about personal safety and living comfort but also about glamor.

When wars get large and nasty, the Army and Marines have to draft WWII, Korea. Vietnam.

The draft and historical amnesia
VFW Magazine, March, 2003
“No 20th century war could have been waged, much less won, without draftees. During WWI, 72% of servicemen were drafted—50% of the men in France’s trenches were conscripted.

In WWII, 66% of all U.S. forces were drafted. Of the 10.5 million Army personnel, a whopping 93% were draftees. A poll taken in 1941 showed that just more than half of Americans would be willingly drafted for overseas service.

From 1946 to 1973, 5,077,185 men were drafted. During the Korean War era, 30% of total troops were drafted. In December 1950, 82% of the Army in Korea was made up of regulars. Exactly two years later, the ratio was 37% regular to 63% draftee in the war zone.

During the Vietnam era, 1,728,344 men were drafted. Of the forces who actually served in Vietnam, 648,500 (25%) were draftees. Draftees (17,725) accounted for 30.4% of combat deaths in Vietnam.”

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

Johnson stated at the time he would have those (the N word) voting democrat for the rest of time!!!