• ProgAimerGirl [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    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)

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      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.

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

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        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)

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    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.

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      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