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BasedAustralhungary on April 24, 2026 9:47 am Still very aware of his own limits and sorry for its incompetence, which puts him above at least three presidents that came after him
TBTabby on April 24, 2026 9:51 am The smartest thing he did was send someone more competent than him to resolve the Pig War.
ThroawayJimilyJones on April 24, 2026 11:12 am European here, I know he was very passive on the slavery issue. Did he have other « controverses »?
Fredwood on April 24, 2026 11:50 am It still amuses me that the best metaphor for the Buchanan presidency is of him hiding behind a curtain hoping his problems would go away.
Temeraire64 on April 24, 2026 12:25 pm I still maintain Ferdinand VII was a worse head of state. Buchanan just let a civil war happen, Ferdinand *made* his happen.
AngryDorian124 on April 24, 2026 12:28 pm “Hiii!, I like dinner parties, satin hats and Windsor soup, and also I’m a fucking idiot” -James Buchanan (source: trust me)
VenerableTahu on April 24, 2026 12:56 pm It’s with presidents like him I’m glad at least some part of government has term limits!
FlanTamarind on April 24, 2026 1:49 pm I always remember this quote wrong as “that’s one great big pile of shit.”😭
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Still very aware of his own limits and sorry for its incompetence, which puts him above at least three presidents that came after him
The smartest thing he did was send someone more competent than him to resolve the Pig War.
“Not the curtains again”
European here, I know he was very passive on the slavery issue. Did he have other « controverses »?
Andrew Johnson took a lot of inspiration from this
It still amuses me that the best metaphor for the Buchanan presidency is of him hiding behind a curtain hoping his problems would go away.
Common?
I still maintain Ferdinand VII was a worse head of state. Buchanan just let a civil war happen, Ferdinand *made* his happen.
“Hiii!, I like dinner parties, satin hats and Windsor soup, and also I’m a fucking idiot”
-James Buchanan (source: trust me)
It’s with presidents like him I’m glad at least some part of government has term limits!
Wait til you check out Woodrow Wilson.
Imagine how big of a pile Drumpf is gonna have!!!
I always remember this quote wrong as “that’s one great big pile of shit.”😭
Worst list:
Trump
Andrew Johnson
Regan
Bush 2
BUCANNAN!!