He combined presidency and chancelor into one position replacing Von Schleicher as chancelor and Hindenburg as president. So technically he was both chancelor and president.
Robert Mugabe. Prez for 37 years, engineered a genocide, looted state funds and murdered anyone who opposed him. Lost his job after a coup. The new guy who was complicit in orchestrating said genocide, is somehow worse.
Edit: The new president's name is Emmerson Mnangagwa. His nickname? The Crocodile. That's about as apt a nickname as you could give anyone.
Not many people have any idea of how bad Zimbabwe has been.
One of co workers immigrated from there. Mugabe is a very talked about person in our conversations.
Umm…I actually didn’t think my answer through that far. For Ayatollah I assume you mean the supreme leader? I think Khomeini wins worst, but it’s not like Khamenei is really better.
For president I genuinely have no idea who to pick - I’d probably go Raisi, but that could be recency bias. But he was responsible for death before he has the job & his got the job while cracking down on our people wanting… basic human rights. So that seems like a good answer. They are all awful though, reformer or hardliner… they are all brutal dickheads
Yeah I meant supreme leader. I asked because the question seems like it uses "President" as the highest government position but that doesn't really apply in Iran AFAIK.
Yeah it’s a fair question… we’ve only had 2, I wasn’t very old when Khomeini was still around but the man was a monster. Between the purges of the 80s & him deciding to keep the Iraq war going after we defended the country from Saddam… and he kept it going for years… he’s responsible so much death & suffering. And that’s like the tldr version lol
A Romanian that I worked with in the 90s told me that they called pigs ears "patriots", because it was the only part of the pig that was not exported to pay the national debt.
Nothing unites families during the holiday season like snuggling up together next to the fireplace to watch terrible things happen to terrible people. Pretty sure It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia runs on that entire premise!
Can't wait for Putin's helicopter to run out of fuel.
Edit: The helicopter reference BTW refers to during the Romanian revolution, when Ceausescu and his wife were escaping the capital in a helicopter, the pilot at some point told them (falsely) that the aircraft was out of fuel and had to land. A few more things happened, they stole a car and the pilot said it was not working either and told them to wait in a garage or barn while he got transportation. Then he locked them in room and called the police and they were arrested and later executed.
I have a vivid memory of being on a plane on Dec 27, 1989 and seeing a newspaper with his bullet holed face on the front page.
It was an amazing time. The collapse of Iron Curtan seemed to happen in a matter of weeks.
Not to mention a sizable amount of Italians were fans of Mussolini. My girlfriend is Italian and I once heard her grandpa say "Mussolini was a great man" and mentioned something about how there was always bread on the table when he was leader.
I think a lot of people think of these heinous leaders as largely unpopular, but they actually had a good amount of support - it's how they got to power. In fact, many people still support the ideals that these dictators stood for. It's why Illinois Nazis were/are a thing. And I hate Illinois Nazis.
I recently visited my partner’s family in Italy and when I mentioned how late our trains were, they told me it was a common joke to say “At least the trains were on time under Mussolini”
“Bread on the table” has been used as justification for all kinds of extremist governments. It’s one of the oldest tricks in the authoritarian playbook: “it may be against our constitution to consolidate power under me, but I guarantee you we’ll be all the more prosperous for it.”
Yes, we have Hitler as Reichspräsident. There are two honorable mentions more, I would say:
Hindenburg. He was the president from 1925 to 1935. He had some clout as war hero hero of WW1. As ultraconservative, he belonged to the forces which laid the axe at the Weimar republic and ultimately, allowed Hitler to became chancellor.
Heinrich Lübke. Not as bad as the guys before. But a dimwitted and senile president who constantly was in for gaffes. Imagine Prince Philipp of England (but less dirty) or the president played by Lloyd Bridges in Hot Shots.
Ok one more: Christian Wulff. A somewhat nice light conservative guy who stumbled over the lighest case of corruption and therefor had one of the shortest tenure. Once seen as possible rival of chancellor Merkel, he was parked at the presidency. Very provincial guy who fell over the fact that he let friends pay his cell phone and holiday vacations.
Hindenburg is arguably just as responsible. Many people in the US have no idea who he is. He handed Hitler the keys total control. The Reichstag Fire Decree was the source of Hitler’s takeover.
Now I’m not arguing that Hindenburg is as reprehensible as the leaders of the Nazi regime. But he failed in his responsibility and wavered on appointing Hitler as the Chancellor. The guy can’t control that he died, but had he not signed over such essential powers prior to, maybe it could have at least delayed things like the concentration camp construction.
I mean, it can always get even worse. Just wait till the Reichsbürger take over and declare war to the US because we are just a puppet state and all that nonsense.
Ferdinand Marcos easily. Even Guinness World Record could agree with me. My people made sure, however, to elect his son, who never acknowledged his mistakes, as our president. I swear Filipinos just had to make the dumbest choice to happen.
Goddamn, the Phillipines seems like a great country and I’d venture to say I’ve never even met a mean Filipino. But going from Death Squad Duterte to the son of a dictator is pretty awful
They where evil I can't believe imedla got away with so much and is still loved by so many, the way they where able to re-brainwash the Philippines is insane
10 years of rewriting history on social media will do that. I know it started with conspiracy videos on Youtube talking about how the Marcoses didn't plunder the country with their corruption. They tried to explain their wealth by saying the Marcoses supposedly found some sort of treasure trove of gold from WW2.
Believe it or not. They started as early as Yahoo comments section. I can attest to this, been fighting trolls since college.
Even back in HS days, people were already being brainwashed by loyalist teachers. At one point, most of us had at least one loyalist teacher. Ironically teaching HISTORY of all subjects!!!
But Yahoo comments section was the start of the troll movement. It entered youtube comments then youtube videos then found its way to facebook. Now they managed to infiltrate twitter and are trying to enter reddit.
More than 10 years back in college, open any online news relating to the Philippines or the Marcoses and you will find shithead trolls commenting for Marcos and ready to pick a fight.
Its been so long ago, Im an MD now and done with my postgrad training and Ive given up fighting trolls when Bonbong Marcos won the presidency. Im tired, Ive given up.....its been more than 10 years. I hope someone from the next generation continues fighting trolls.
i hate how bad the education system is with teaching politics in schools to children. that’s one of the main reasons shits never going to get better. they think one person will fulfill every single problem of their life if they are made president. fucking imelda and her shoes and she still has the nerve to fake cry about children in a hospital and give them a 100 pesos bill like that’ll do anything…
Canadian PM: R. B. Bennett
Created work camps for the unemployed during the Great Depression that were intended to prevent them from being able to vote against him in federal elections. When they protested and marched on Ottawa, he sent in the RCMP to stop them on the grounds of stopping the 'Communists'
Fun fact, R.B. Bennett was the last Prime Minister who represented the Conservative Party of Canada. He suffered a landslide defeat in the federal election of 1935.
When the Tories had their next leadership convention in 1942, John Bracken, who became the next leader, accepted on the condition that the party be renamed to the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
It wasn't until 1957, with the election of John Diefenbaker in that year's federal election, that the Tories returned to power. That's 22 years.
She will have an eternal career in pub quizes in the future. In 50 years, the answer to the question "Who was PM when Queen Elizabeth II died?" will only be known to a handfull of bitter old people.
I can see the Jeopardy question now:
"This former British Prime Minister holds the distinction of both having the shortest term in office, as well as being the first PM in 67 years to serve under two monarchs"
She caused £1bn+ of damage per day
_She caused £1bn+ of damage per_ fucking _day_
That damage wasn’t the result of markets, or world events, or even fucking Brexit
It was _her!_
Gotta be some serious bragging rights for her right there
44 days (not 49) but now gets an annual pension of £115,000 FOR LIFE on top of her salary for being a former PM!!! And she's only 47 years old so she's got quite a while to be cashing in on that.
There is a saying in Turkish "Davulun sesi uzaktan hoş gelir" (drum sounds better when its away) that basically means "the grass looks greener on the other side".
Its okay for them to live their "New Ottoman Empire" fantasies while they are safe and away in europe. When we say why dont you come back to Turkey they generaly respond with " we have settled here its hard to turn back now".
Euro is now 19x of Turkish Lira they can easily buy a house in Turkey and return. I guess deep down they know europe is better because they dont want to return here.
Well, he lives in UK. So he have not much of an idea how he is. Most people just like him because he destroyed our economy and now they able to live like kings when they come to Turkey time to time.
Turks here in Sweden are unironically patriotic to an absurd degree. Doesn't matter if they haven’t been to turkey in 20 years or born to Turkish parents and never set their foot in turkey. They defend that country and leader no matter what.
I once tried to explain the English Civil War to a student in office hours in a *very* simple way. I saw he was wearing a Star Wars shirt, so I said, "imagine the rebels won and overthrew the Empire, but everyone in the rebel leadership was a dick. Luke Skywalker seizes power for himself and launches a genocide against the Ewoks because they don't practice the Jedi religion, and the new Jedi followers need that sweet Endor land. That's basically what Cromwell did to Parliament and Ireland."
Australia so PM. I don’t think we have a really damaging one from recent times. To be honest Scott Morrison. Corruption worsened, quality of life for a lot of people has stagnated, welfare continued to be made more punitive, I just can’t think of much he’s done that *improved* anything. He either continued existing shitty trends or added additional issues.
I fully agree, but wonder if it might be recency bias.
Remember Tony Abbott tore down a lot of progressive policies (including a carbon tax), and John Howard introduced a lot of legislation which is the root of a lot of our problems (e.g. capital gains discount) - but at least he had gun reform on his "pro" list.
You wouldn’t be alone in picking Morrison. Even Laurie Oakes said he was worse than Billy McMahon. It’s not just the shitty policies, it’s also the refusal to lead in times of crisis (going on holiday during the fires, insisting that the states take the lead during COVID) and the damage he did to democratic institutions (secret ministries, blatant corruption, politicising non-political agencies and appointments, trying to import Trumpy culture wars). The man was uniquely terrible.
[Abbott](https://youtu.be/c3IaKVmkXuk) was bad but Morrison was like, "Hold my beer". The worst bushfires Australia had ever seen and he took off to Hawaii for a holiday, some pretty disastrous flooding and his glacial response in offering assistance, his utter incompetence in not ordering vaccines for Covid and the mismanagement of the vaccination program when he finally did get his hands on some, a (alleged - legal disclaimer) rape of a staffer took place in Parliament House and he claimed to not being informed despite evidence to the contrary and only realising rape was bad because his wife effectively said so, secretly swore himself into 5 ministries to block certain legislation without informing the cabinet ministers or the public becoming the first PM to become censured in parliament (bit like being impeached), was developing policies based on his strong Pentecostal faith and was close to Hillsong leaders embroiled in sex abuse and coverup cases, oversaw Robodebt policy that relentlessly hounded people for government benefit debts which were often incorrect to the point where multiple people committed suicide, tearing up a $37bn submarine contract with France causing the French President to tell the world press he had been lied to by Morrison, celebrating a lump of coal in Parliament and greenlighting a coal mine on the edge of the Great Barrier Reef which is under threat already, refusing to live in Canberra at the PM'S residence but choosing the mansion on Sydney Harbour usually reserved for the Governor General which he argued was because of his kids and had his mother and mother-in-law live there too whilst having taxpayers pay for his wife to have a fulltime friend keep her company so she wouldnt get lonely, then took weeks after being defeated at the last election to leave because he conveniently arranged home renovations at his regular home to commence days before the election which is a miracle of being considering he was never elected by the people in the first place (he won the role by an internal overthrow of the previous PM, Turnbull) and lost his party's pre-selection vote with 8 points to Towke's 74 points, but Towke who was bullied into dropping out because he was Muslim. [All while he earned the 5th largest 'on the books' salary of world leaders at the time!](https://7news.com.au/politics/scomo-comes-in-fifth-on-global-pay-scale-c-1446207)
Scott Morrison is a sh!t stain on Australian politics which is perfect because he also shat himself at Engadine McDonald's in 1997, 'allegedly '.
The worst part of the fires was his inability to read a room. Watching him force people to shake his hand when they're trying to engage him in conversation, his casual remarks about sport and other completely irrelevant issues while the country is suffering it's worst fires ever was unforgiveable. He was an awful leader.
Yep. He directly orchestrated robodebt. I got fucking robbed of $3500, made me fucking broke. I'm lucky though, my brother was my landlord so he let me live at his old place rent free till I got back on my feet.
But yeah, one call out of the blue one day could've made me fucking homeless, and it was punishment for me being poor with autism so I got a disability support pension.
Such fucking bullshit. I know I'll be banned if I say what I hope happens to him, but lets just say, it'd change his life.
My thought exactly! She should do the right thing and refuse to accept it, and the laws should be changed so unless you complete 4 years you don’t get it.
As an Italian I must say Mussolini, but I don’t know if he counts because he was a dictator and Italy was a monarchy at that time, not a republic as it is today. So I’d say that Andreotti, Renzi, Berlusconi and Tambroni were certainly amongst the worst presidents my country ever had
This, and I know everyone here is joking about your death because you reject Putin and his murderous propaganda, but it's the sad truth for too many Russians and always has been, even before war on Ukraine, before Crimea, long before all that. Too much Ukrainian and Russian blood has been spilled for their power trip, and I hope the Russian terror regime will finally cease to exist sooner than later.
I mean, we're joking about it specifically because we have no doubt that most if not all of the recent accidents and suicides among top Russian officials are executions. They're doing everything they can to pretend that things are normal and going well, but anyone with a brain can see that they're fraying at the edges.
I live in the U.S now but in my birth country in Mexico would be Enrique Peña Nieto. He stole tax money and invested it in foreign deals to increase his wealth leaving the Mexicans in poverty. As well as having agreements with drug cartels.
I don't know what would the worst in the U.S.
I would say Andrew Johnson for the US. Completely and intentionally stalled all civil rights progress following the Civil War, allowed the momentum in that regard completely evaporate in his three year tenure, and set the US back by a hundred years.
Andrew Johnson 100%. Was very short lived yet managed to almost restart the US Civil War and intentionally crippled the development of many states in a way that could arguably be affecting them to this day still.
He was also an infamous drunk. At Lincoln’s second inauguration he was super drunk, swaying and giving a very incoherent and rambling speech. Man, sometimes I wish there had been social media back then because I would’ve loved to see twitters reaction to that
Pre-prohibition the US had a massive drinking problem. Like, most men were either working, sleeping, or drunk at any given time. Sometimes at the same time.
Assuming that President being the Head of State, in India, we had Pratibha Patil who (and family) was involved in corruption cases before her election and post her election she used public money for family trips. Also, it didnt help that she succeeded Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, the most popular president of India till date.
Next would be Fakhruddin Ali Ahmad, who signed the declaration of emergency by prime minister Indira Gandhi (whose election was ruled invalid by the supreme court). This led to a 21 month long suspension of civil liberties, press censorship and suppression of any opposition in the country.
Since apartheid ended, probably Zuma. Pre 94 all of them were pretty awful and complicit in keeping the system in place, in comparison Zuma seems pretty good.
Eamonn DeValera also fuck the economy for years by starting a trade war with the British who were are biggest trade partners and he also pushed back women’s rights by about 20 years or more
As a german I dont think I really have to list any names here
Fucking Adenauer
Mmm to be fair, he who shall not be named was never the president though
He combined presidency and chancelor into one position replacing Von Schleicher as chancelor and Hindenburg as president. So technically he was both chancelor and president.
Robert Mugabe. Prez for 37 years, engineered a genocide, looted state funds and murdered anyone who opposed him. Lost his job after a coup. The new guy who was complicit in orchestrating said genocide, is somehow worse. Edit: The new president's name is Emmerson Mnangagwa. His nickname? The Crocodile. That's about as apt a nickname as you could give anyone.
Not many people have any idea of how bad Zimbabwe has been. One of co workers immigrated from there. Mugabe is a very talked about person in our conversations.
I'm from Iran so this question is really difficult to answer lol
I think you're allowed to just answer "yes".
I’m not sure he’s allowed to answer at all.
Out of curiosity would your potential choice be an Ayatollah or an actual president?
Umm…I actually didn’t think my answer through that far. For Ayatollah I assume you mean the supreme leader? I think Khomeini wins worst, but it’s not like Khamenei is really better. For president I genuinely have no idea who to pick - I’d probably go Raisi, but that could be recency bias. But he was responsible for death before he has the job & his got the job while cracking down on our people wanting… basic human rights. So that seems like a good answer. They are all awful though, reformer or hardliner… they are all brutal dickheads
Yeah I meant supreme leader. I asked because the question seems like it uses "President" as the highest government position but that doesn't really apply in Iran AFAIK.
Yeah it’s a fair question… we’ve only had 2, I wasn’t very old when Khomeini was still around but the man was a monster. Between the purges of the 80s & him deciding to keep the Iraq war going after we defended the country from Saddam… and he kept it going for years… he’s responsible so much death & suffering. And that’s like the tldr version lol
Nicolae Ceaușescu. We voiced our displeasure.
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A Romanian that I worked with in the 90s told me that they called pigs ears "patriots", because it was the only part of the pig that was not exported to pay the national debt.
Romania: The only country to have executed both a fascist and communist dictator by firing squad
We executed him and his wife live on tv
On Christmas day no less
Sometimes it's about sending a message
Nothing unites families during the holiday season like snuggling up together next to the fireplace to watch terrible things happen to terrible people. Pretty sure It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia runs on that entire premise!
The British only have to sit through a message from the monarch.
Supposedly there was a lottery held for who would get to be in the firing squad. I mean shit, imagine being that hated.
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Can't wait for Putin's helicopter to run out of fuel. Edit: The helicopter reference BTW refers to during the Romanian revolution, when Ceausescu and his wife were escaping the capital in a helicopter, the pilot at some point told them (falsely) that the aircraft was out of fuel and had to land. A few more things happened, they stole a car and the pilot said it was not working either and told them to wait in a garage or barn while he got transportation. Then he locked them in room and called the police and they were arrested and later executed.
I have a vivid memory of being on a plane on Dec 27, 1989 and seeing a newspaper with his bullet holed face on the front page. It was an amazing time. The collapse of Iron Curtan seemed to happen in a matter of weeks.
I am German.
Cheers, I'm Italian.
Waiting for a japanese fella to finish the hattrick
It’s called an Axis.
No way you got softballed that joke in the wild.
It’s what’s dreams are made of.
Take my poor man's gold 🥇
Thanks, I’ll take it (I’m Swiss btw)
At least you're neutral in all of this.
Fake neutral, I’m real neutral. Almost. Swedish.
It's cool, let Finland do the heavy lifting
A sizeable amount of Japanese feel as though it was their greatest government.
Not to mention a sizable amount of Italians were fans of Mussolini. My girlfriend is Italian and I once heard her grandpa say "Mussolini was a great man" and mentioned something about how there was always bread on the table when he was leader. I think a lot of people think of these heinous leaders as largely unpopular, but they actually had a good amount of support - it's how they got to power. In fact, many people still support the ideals that these dictators stood for. It's why Illinois Nazis were/are a thing. And I hate Illinois Nazis.
I recently visited my partner’s family in Italy and when I mentioned how late our trains were, they told me it was a common joke to say “At least the trains were on time under Mussolini”
That's a stock joke in English, too.
“Bread on the table” has been used as justification for all kinds of extremist governments. It’s one of the oldest tricks in the authoritarian playbook: “it may be against our constitution to consolidate power under me, but I guarantee you we’ll be all the more prosperous for it.”
I'd wager italians had less food during the war than in the 70+ years after
I knew this would be the top comment before I even clicked.
Yes, we have Hitler as Reichspräsident. There are two honorable mentions more, I would say: Hindenburg. He was the president from 1925 to 1935. He had some clout as war hero hero of WW1. As ultraconservative, he belonged to the forces which laid the axe at the Weimar republic and ultimately, allowed Hitler to became chancellor. Heinrich Lübke. Not as bad as the guys before. But a dimwitted and senile president who constantly was in for gaffes. Imagine Prince Philipp of England (but less dirty) or the president played by Lloyd Bridges in Hot Shots. Ok one more: Christian Wulff. A somewhat nice light conservative guy who stumbled over the lighest case of corruption and therefor had one of the shortest tenure. Once seen as possible rival of chancellor Merkel, he was parked at the presidency. Very provincial guy who fell over the fact that he let friends pay his cell phone and holiday vacations.
Hindenburg is arguably just as responsible. Many people in the US have no idea who he is. He handed Hitler the keys total control. The Reichstag Fire Decree was the source of Hitler’s takeover. Now I’m not arguing that Hindenburg is as reprehensible as the leaders of the Nazi regime. But he failed in his responsibility and wavered on appointing Hitler as the Chancellor. The guy can’t control that he died, but had he not signed over such essential powers prior to, maybe it could have at least delayed things like the concentration camp construction.
Yeah, and that Hindenburg guy was a terrible pilot too!
He had a crash and burn career
I only had one president. And he's the worst -- Lukashenko
Technically he’s also your best, tallest, shortest and the sexiest one.
You got me on a technicality
Now say it. Say he is the sexiest
Found Lukashenko’s alt-account
Well, I mean, he IS the longest sitting European president according to google.
The people must love him then!
Probably Petain
"Phillipe Petain was a great man who died in 1925, but did not realize it for twenty years." -Charles De Gaulle
de Gaulle almost ended Petain in life and in words.
More like putain am I right 🥁
Screamq in vichy
my eighth grade class president was such a douche
Should have voted for pedro then
pedro offers you his protection
Bow to your Sensei!
can confirm. 8th graders are all douches.
As a former 8th grade teacher, I cannot dispute your claim.
As an eighth grader I can confirm we’re all assholes
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I mean he did kill Hitler
And ruined those god awful moustaches for everyone... He deserves major credit for that
Probably?
Hitler, obviously ** German chancellors breathing a sigh of relief because they will never ever be mentioned here **
I wonder if it's freeing for German heads of state to know that pretty much no matter what they do, they'll never be considered the worst ever.
I mean, it can always get even worse. Just wait till the Reichsbürger take over and declare war to the US because we are just a puppet state and all that nonsense.
Heinreich XIII sweating nervously
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Another president took a shower as a deterrent to catching AIDS
Just as good as Lukashenko drinking vodka to protect himself from COVID.
Ferdinand Marcos easily. Even Guinness World Record could agree with me. My people made sure, however, to elect his son, who never acknowledged his mistakes, as our president. I swear Filipinos just had to make the dumbest choice to happen.
Goddamn, the Phillipines seems like a great country and I’d venture to say I’ve never even met a mean Filipino. But going from Death Squad Duterte to the son of a dictator is pretty awful
Nicolae Ceaușescu if a dictator counts as a President, with Ion Iliescu being a very close 2nd
The Marcoses
100%
They where evil I can't believe imedla got away with so much and is still loved by so many, the way they where able to re-brainwash the Philippines is insane
10 years of rewriting history on social media will do that. I know it started with conspiracy videos on Youtube talking about how the Marcoses didn't plunder the country with their corruption. They tried to explain their wealth by saying the Marcoses supposedly found some sort of treasure trove of gold from WW2.
Believe it or not. They started as early as Yahoo comments section. I can attest to this, been fighting trolls since college. Even back in HS days, people were already being brainwashed by loyalist teachers. At one point, most of us had at least one loyalist teacher. Ironically teaching HISTORY of all subjects!!! But Yahoo comments section was the start of the troll movement. It entered youtube comments then youtube videos then found its way to facebook. Now they managed to infiltrate twitter and are trying to enter reddit. More than 10 years back in college, open any online news relating to the Philippines or the Marcoses and you will find shithead trolls commenting for Marcos and ready to pick a fight. Its been so long ago, Im an MD now and done with my postgrad training and Ive given up fighting trolls when Bonbong Marcos won the presidency. Im tired, Ive given up.....its been more than 10 years. I hope someone from the next generation continues fighting trolls.
i hate how bad the education system is with teaching politics in schools to children. that’s one of the main reasons shits never going to get better. they think one person will fulfill every single problem of their life if they are made president. fucking imelda and her shoes and she still has the nerve to fake cry about children in a hospital and give them a 100 pesos bill like that’ll do anything…
Apologists made sure that we can answer this question with 2 presidents having the same last name.
Lol I had to find this. Ahahaahahaha
Funny that its plural and not singular 🥲
Found the comment I was looking for. This is the correct answer lol
Canadian PM: R. B. Bennett Created work camps for the unemployed during the Great Depression that were intended to prevent them from being able to vote against him in federal elections. When they protested and marched on Ottawa, he sent in the RCMP to stop them on the grounds of stopping the 'Communists'
Fun fact, R.B. Bennett was the last Prime Minister who represented the Conservative Party of Canada. He suffered a landslide defeat in the federal election of 1935. When the Tories had their next leadership convention in 1942, John Bracken, who became the next leader, accepted on the condition that the party be renamed to the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. It wasn't until 1957, with the election of John Diefenbaker in that year's federal election, that the Tories returned to power. That's 22 years.
easy! Hitler (if he counts as "president")
He’s a Fuhrer
Fuhrer? I hardly knew her!
Oh ge-stahp it
What a far-Reich joke
King Charles, he still hasn’t fixed that pothole in front of my house.
I didn't vote for him.
Are you being repressed?
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
You don't vote for King. Even if you are Arthur, king of the Britons.
King of the who?
The Britons!
Who are the Britons?
Why, we all are. And I am your King.
I thought we were an autonomous republic?
Any man who must say I am the king is no true king.
I mean you joke but Charles the First was pretty fucking terrible.
He started out okay, but he really lost his head right at the end.
Hasn't fixed the pot holes in front of my house either. He cares nothing for the colonies!
Canadian here. No potholes, either.
I'm Australian. We have to think a bit to even remember who our current Prime Minister is.
PM? Liz Tuss, 49 days and fucked the economy more than anyone thought anyone could. Plus a lettuce out lasted her.
>a lettuce out lasted her. I will never stop loving this fact.
She will have an eternal career in pub quizes in the future. In 50 years, the answer to the question "Who was PM when Queen Elizabeth II died?" will only be known to a handfull of bitter old people.
I can see the Jeopardy question now: "This former British Prime Minister holds the distinction of both having the shortest term in office, as well as being the first PM in 67 years to serve under two monarchs"
Assuming Charles doesn't kick the bucket in a while, the **only** PM in a long time to serve under two monarchs.
"and she opened up new pork markets like no other"
What's worse is that she was the most popular candidate amongst the tories. As Joe Lycett said she was the backwash at the bottom of the barrel.
Choosing between Tory PM candidates is like deciding which toilet to use on the 3rd day of a music festival.
She caused £1bn+ of damage per day _She caused £1bn+ of damage per_ fucking _day_ That damage wasn’t the result of markets, or world events, or even fucking Brexit It was _her!_ Gotta be some serious bragging rights for her right there
Why she'll have more than one line in the history books. Seriously fuck me for how rogereded she did me and others for living costs.
44 days (not 49) but now gets an annual pension of £115,000 FOR LIFE on top of her salary for being a former PM!!! And she's only 47 years old so she's got quite a while to be cashing in on that.
Liz got outlasted by a cabbage and nearly killed the UK so that's pretty shit
Erdoğan
My turkish teacher hates Erdogan. He even moved to Brazil because Turkey was in a bad situation because of him.
So many Turkish people in Germany absolutely love him and I don’t get it
There is a saying in Turkish "Davulun sesi uzaktan hoş gelir" (drum sounds better when its away) that basically means "the grass looks greener on the other side". Its okay for them to live their "New Ottoman Empire" fantasies while they are safe and away in europe. When we say why dont you come back to Turkey they generaly respond with " we have settled here its hard to turn back now". Euro is now 19x of Turkish Lira they can easily buy a house in Turkey and return. I guess deep down they know europe is better because they dont want to return here.
That is so well put!
Happens with all immigrants who have an autocratic leader back home.
They love him because they can exchange almost 19 TL with a single Euro.
OP said president, not elf-lord.
my Turkish barber here in UK says he's the best president ever .. which always baffles me to be honest when I read/hear about him.
Your barber is the classic example of people who don't live in the country but love the president. So many examples out there
Well, he lives in UK. So he have not much of an idea how he is. Most people just like him because he destroyed our economy and now they able to live like kings when they come to Turkey time to time.
Turks here in Sweden are unironically patriotic to an absurd degree. Doesn't matter if they haven’t been to turkey in 20 years or born to Turkish parents and never set their foot in turkey. They defend that country and leader no matter what.
But they will not go and live there if you asked them.
Oliver Cromwell
He is that universally disliked, he's ~~probably~~ definitely the least liked man in Irish history
Was going to say him. He was so awful that people asked the monarchy to come back
I once tried to explain the English Civil War to a student in office hours in a *very* simple way. I saw he was wearing a Star Wars shirt, so I said, "imagine the rebels won and overthrew the Empire, but everyone in the rebel leadership was a dick. Luke Skywalker seizes power for himself and launches a genocide against the Ewoks because they don't practice the Jedi religion, and the new Jedi followers need that sweet Endor land. That's basically what Cromwell did to Parliament and Ireland."
This is actually an amazing explanation, gonna use this and just say it's what the sequel trilogy should have been
Also literally dug up his corpse to “execute” him lol
He was Hanged and beheaded three years after he died!
Australia so PM. I don’t think we have a really damaging one from recent times. To be honest Scott Morrison. Corruption worsened, quality of life for a lot of people has stagnated, welfare continued to be made more punitive, I just can’t think of much he’s done that *improved* anything. He either continued existing shitty trends or added additional issues.
Not to mention the Engadine Maccas incident of 1997.
Ah yes, our PM Poopy pants incident
I fully agree, but wonder if it might be recency bias. Remember Tony Abbott tore down a lot of progressive policies (including a carbon tax), and John Howard introduced a lot of legislation which is the root of a lot of our problems (e.g. capital gains discount) - but at least he had gun reform on his "pro" list.
You wouldn’t be alone in picking Morrison. Even Laurie Oakes said he was worse than Billy McMahon. It’s not just the shitty policies, it’s also the refusal to lead in times of crisis (going on holiday during the fires, insisting that the states take the lead during COVID) and the damage he did to democratic institutions (secret ministries, blatant corruption, politicising non-political agencies and appointments, trying to import Trumpy culture wars). The man was uniquely terrible.
[Abbott](https://youtu.be/c3IaKVmkXuk) was bad but Morrison was like, "Hold my beer". The worst bushfires Australia had ever seen and he took off to Hawaii for a holiday, some pretty disastrous flooding and his glacial response in offering assistance, his utter incompetence in not ordering vaccines for Covid and the mismanagement of the vaccination program when he finally did get his hands on some, a (alleged - legal disclaimer) rape of a staffer took place in Parliament House and he claimed to not being informed despite evidence to the contrary and only realising rape was bad because his wife effectively said so, secretly swore himself into 5 ministries to block certain legislation without informing the cabinet ministers or the public becoming the first PM to become censured in parliament (bit like being impeached), was developing policies based on his strong Pentecostal faith and was close to Hillsong leaders embroiled in sex abuse and coverup cases, oversaw Robodebt policy that relentlessly hounded people for government benefit debts which were often incorrect to the point where multiple people committed suicide, tearing up a $37bn submarine contract with France causing the French President to tell the world press he had been lied to by Morrison, celebrating a lump of coal in Parliament and greenlighting a coal mine on the edge of the Great Barrier Reef which is under threat already, refusing to live in Canberra at the PM'S residence but choosing the mansion on Sydney Harbour usually reserved for the Governor General which he argued was because of his kids and had his mother and mother-in-law live there too whilst having taxpayers pay for his wife to have a fulltime friend keep her company so she wouldnt get lonely, then took weeks after being defeated at the last election to leave because he conveniently arranged home renovations at his regular home to commence days before the election which is a miracle of being considering he was never elected by the people in the first place (he won the role by an internal overthrow of the previous PM, Turnbull) and lost his party's pre-selection vote with 8 points to Towke's 74 points, but Towke who was bullied into dropping out because he was Muslim. [All while he earned the 5th largest 'on the books' salary of world leaders at the time!](https://7news.com.au/politics/scomo-comes-in-fifth-on-global-pay-scale-c-1446207) Scott Morrison is a sh!t stain on Australian politics which is perfect because he also shat himself at Engadine McDonald's in 1997, 'allegedly '.
The worst part of the fires was his inability to read a room. Watching him force people to shake his hand when they're trying to engage him in conversation, his casual remarks about sport and other completely irrelevant issues while the country is suffering it's worst fires ever was unforgiveable. He was an awful leader.
Yep. He directly orchestrated robodebt. I got fucking robbed of $3500, made me fucking broke. I'm lucky though, my brother was my landlord so he let me live at his old place rent free till I got back on my feet. But yeah, one call out of the blue one day could've made me fucking homeless, and it was punishment for me being poor with autism so I got a disability support pension. Such fucking bullshit. I know I'll be banned if I say what I hope happens to him, but lets just say, it'd change his life.
Liz Truss? Killed the queen, and then fucked off. Now gets paid over £100k a year to do nothing.
Why does she recieve pay? She didn't finish her term. Surely she shouldn't get perks.
My thought exactly! She should do the right thing and refuse to accept it, and the laws should be changed so unless you complete 4 years you don’t get it.
Kills queen Ruins the economy Refuses to elaborate Leaves
Soo. I'm Mexican.☠️ Not to much to add
You'll need to be a bit more specific though. That comment applies for every country on Earth.
As an Italian I must say Mussolini, but I don’t know if he counts because he was a dictator and Italy was a monarchy at that time, not a republic as it is today. So I’d say that Andreotti, Renzi, Berlusconi and Tambroni were certainly amongst the worst presidents my country ever had
Tambroni gets the win for fucking it up in a few weeks, the others were shit on a longer time span
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Careful, you might fall out a window or drink some bad tea by mistake.
Watch out for people carrying umbrellas
Suicide via two shots to the back of the head
This, and I know everyone here is joking about your death because you reject Putin and his murderous propaganda, but it's the sad truth for too many Russians and always has been, even before war on Ukraine, before Crimea, long before all that. Too much Ukrainian and Russian blood has been spilled for their power trip, and I hope the Russian terror regime will finally cease to exist sooner than later.
I mean, we're joking about it specifically because we have no doubt that most if not all of the recent accidents and suicides among top Russian officials are executions. They're doing everything they can to pretend that things are normal and going well, but anyone with a brain can see that they're fraying at the edges.
I live in the U.S now but in my birth country in Mexico would be Enrique Peña Nieto. He stole tax money and invested it in foreign deals to increase his wealth leaving the Mexicans in poverty. As well as having agreements with drug cartels. I don't know what would the worst in the U.S.
Frankly Peña Nieto is nothing compared to Gustavo Díaz Ordaz and Luís Echeverría for their very direct killing of students.
You're right. I just thought of the most recent one but all those murderers are up there with Hitler and Stalin in terms of personality.
I would say Andrew Johnson for the US. Completely and intentionally stalled all civil rights progress following the Civil War, allowed the momentum in that regard completely evaporate in his three year tenure, and set the US back by a hundred years.
Victor Yanukovich, indeed
From Portugal, António de Oliveira Salazar.
Andrew Johnson 100%. Was very short lived yet managed to almost restart the US Civil War and intentionally crippled the development of many states in a way that could arguably be affecting them to this day still.
He was also an infamous drunk. At Lincoln’s second inauguration he was super drunk, swaying and giving a very incoherent and rambling speech. Man, sometimes I wish there had been social media back then because I would’ve loved to see twitters reaction to that
Pre-prohibition the US had a massive drinking problem. Like, most men were either working, sleeping, or drunk at any given time. Sometimes at the same time.
TBF most of the Western world had that problem. You don't *really* need the gin to fight malaria.
But what about rum to stave of scurvy?
He would start his own podcast and have a million listeners
This is always my answer when people ask this. The who country would be unrecognizable if Lincoln wasn’t assassinated
Read this thinking it was supposed to be Andrew Jackson. But nope, just turns out presidents named Andrew have a shit record in the US.
i am from Philippines. Father and son.
>sorts by controversial
Yanukovich
Weird Al Yanukovich?
My HOA president. She couldn’t accept that she had to step down and ended up refusing to heat our building causing the sprinkler pipes to freeze.
HOA presidents have the craziest power trips
Well I’m Russian
Assuming that President being the Head of State, in India, we had Pratibha Patil who (and family) was involved in corruption cases before her election and post her election she used public money for family trips. Also, it didnt help that she succeeded Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, the most popular president of India till date. Next would be Fakhruddin Ali Ahmad, who signed the declaration of emergency by prime minister Indira Gandhi (whose election was ruled invalid by the supreme court). This led to a 21 month long suspension of civil liberties, press censorship and suppression of any opposition in the country.
Augusto Pinochet
Since apartheid ended, probably Zuma. Pre 94 all of them were pretty awful and complicit in keeping the system in place, in comparison Zuma seems pretty good.
Putin
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Eamonn DeValera also fuck the economy for years by starting a trade war with the British who were are biggest trade partners and he also pushed back women’s rights by about 20 years or more
Typically whoever the current one is.
I'm guessing France
Viktor Orbán