• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I mean. Reagan was literally a movie star. Kennedy wasn’t exactly hideous. Clinton was charming. (Bill, not Hilary.)

    Lincoln had a sort of ruggedly handsome look (and to be blunt he was buff as hell- a skilled wrestler, he was known to toss townspeople. For reasons…)

    And there’s Obama.that dude will rock a tan suit like nobody’s business.

    In fact, the only president of recent memory I would say was straight up hideous was Trump. But even that is part of his “brand” or something.

    (Though seriously. Dude can afford a tailor. He should look one up.)

    Edit: I’d ask where Bernie has been the last few hundred years, but I guess someone has to actually do their job in Washington.

    • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I’m gonna have to stop you right there. Abraham Lincoln was ugly as fuck. Possibly the greatest president of all time. But he didn’t grow that beard until some little girl said, (paraphrasing) “U-G-L-Y, you ain’t got no alibi, you ugly. [clap clap] You ugly.”

      Either Lincoln or FDR is probably the greatest president and both of them had to overcome a major disability. FDR had polio and was in a wheelchair and Lincoln without a beard was so ugly, you could have pressed his face in dough and made gorilla cookies. And I suspect that’s why they both had the resoluteness and empathy required to be a truly great leader. (And probably why Lincoln was so buff. He was getting no hoes with that craggy visage.)

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Well that explains why Bernie was wearing stalkings and a mini skirt.

    …I’m still unclear why he was throwing fried chicken at birds though…

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    2 months ago

    Dude deffo knows about the first Nixon Kennedy debate where Nixon looked like warmed over death and it absolutely fucked with his numbers.

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    I thought this was clearly accepted as a phenomenon that started when Americans started to switch from radio to television.