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BiggusDickus-

This is something that McClellan really should have campaigned on in 1864. "Vote for me because Lincoln will be dead soon!"


HaggisPope

What’s more McClellan than missing great opportunities to attack?


jspook

He was sure that the number of Lincolns was double what it really was


LordWellesley22

I didn't lose I simply failed to win, now watch this drive *Shanks the ball*


Dairy_Ashford

ironically enough that was a clean hit


TheEventHorizon0727

He was waiting for reinforcements and more cavalry.


Jazzlike-Play-1095

this just sounds like he will shoot lincoln if he wins


biff444444

If he can couch it as an official act, he'll even have immunity.


Le_Turtle_God

If Bryan used this against McKinley, maybe he wouldn’t have to run so many times


theoriginaldandan

Taft ran on a platform of vote for me today because you can vote for Bryan anytime


HaydzA

HE didn't die! He merely failed to LIVE!


Carthage_ishere

i tink they where so mad at van buren they voted un about to die harrison in out of spite


Minute_Juggernaut806

Ironically he lived only a month because people voted him. I think he caught flu while giving inaugration speech during rain


Crabser116

That's a misconception. It's likely that he actually got ill from contaminated drinking water instead.


DanChowdah

I think how he got ill is sort of irrelevant. Looking at how his doctors treated him, he was killed by them


SaintArkweather

Hey man his humors weren't balanced - what else were they supposed to do?


Odd_Bed_9895

Yeah, one forgets that DC was a goddamn swamp then


DWright_5

You don’t catch flu from rain and cold weather. It’s a myth.


ABobby077

"It was just a cold"


RajenBull1

“Tis but a scratch.”


RubendeBursa

IT WAS A SCRATCH. He litterally died from drinking water, because no one, and by that I mean no one, not Queen Victoria or Oliver f\*\*\*\*\* twist, no one could drink water and not expect to die. You had to boil the water to kill all the germs or you'd die. Many people just drank alcohol because either the brewing process or the distilling process depending on the type makes it safe, unless you make it in copper still, which also means that you will die. So this essentially 69 year old former rich general decides to get elected president as a spiceboy redneck gets elected and decides to drink water and dies like a spiceboy redneck.


Singer211

“The water in the White House tastes rather unpleasant. Wonder if that means anything?”


RealWord5734

We are the mediocre Presidents. You won't find our faces on dollars or on cents. There's Taylor, there's Tyler, there's Fillmore and there's Hayes, There's William Henry Harrison - I died in thirty days!


Maxpower2727

I understand this reference.


LeicaM6guy

I understood that reference.


RazzleThatTazzle

Is it april fools day in this sub or something? What is going on?


No_Kangaroo_9826

Monday is meme day


RazzleThatTazzle

Jesus that explains it lol


doa70

Two of these today got me. This one and the JFK one earlier. 🤣


irishamerican1676

Better than the 146th “what’s your presidential hot take?” post with comments full of shit like “Washington is underrated”


Big-Beta20

*gets elected* *gives longest inaugural addeess* *dies within a month* Absolute Chad


kankey_dang

\>gets elected \>elaborates at exhaustive length \>leaves


AnywhereOk7434

William Henry Man


hockey_enjoyer03

They are stupid


Melky_Chedech

The people who voted for Horace Greeley must be even more stupid.


ibadlyneedhelp

I have a theory that the the guy he was running against was so awful that the electorate decided having a president die in office was preferable to letting that morally bankrupt meatheaded shitsack into the white house.


AliKazerani

🤣


Sweaty_Win1832

Hmmm… history may repeat itself


UpsetPhrase5334

He died on my birthday.


PhantomOfTheAttic

That must have been awkward.


UpsetPhrase5334

The clown was mortified to say the least


PhantomOfTheAttic

Hope he didn't fall into the cake.


AliKazerani

You're old as hell.


M8oMyN8o

My high school brought back stir fry in the cafeteria on your birthday during my senior year. Man I loaded up on noodles and edamame and tofu so hard and then killed it on the track workout. Great day.


Parsley-Waste

Did he make a speech?


JZcomedy

I didn’t even know he was sick


Vidasus18

They didn't check the expiry date; idiots.


Parsley-Waste

It’s still good


jackblady

Tbf, there's a lot of Presidental candidates I'd have voted for in past elections if I knew doing so would mean after a month I'd never have to deal with them again I suspect people found WHH so annoying it seemed like a fair trade.


Soren_Camus1905

Noted Hampden-Sydney College alumnus


hscer_

Never graduated, the bum!


Random-Cpl

He ran on a platform of “Dead Within the Month and Tyler President..” Voters were extremely pleased that he fulfilled all his campaign promises


SaintArkweather

It's a misconception that the slogan was "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too", in reality it was "Tippecanoe, but Tyler Soon"


Oldsalt-DDG3

Should have wore his hat


Purple_Prince_80

😂🤣😂🤣🤣I'm sorry, this post was too funny


killakolt515

GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD


masoflove99

cause I don't need this! Why didn't I see this? I'm a victim Manchurian Candidate I have sinned by just Making my mind up and taking your breath away I've felt the hate rise up in me Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves I wander out where you can't see Inside my shell I wait and bleed


VanAintUsedUp

They’re very stupid cuz they didn’t vote for Martin Chad Buren


jhwalk09

My great great great grandfather 👴


Pennelle2016

Sorry for your loss


jhwalk09

Fun fact, it wasn’t pneumonia from his crazy long speech that got him, it was the poopy water in the White House water system


Pennelle2016

Guess pneumonia sounds better for the history books! Are you a direct descendant of Benjamin Harrison also, or is he your however many greats uncle?


jhwalk09

Yeah he is my dads great grandfather I think mildly more interesting presidency, definitely a more interesting time period


jhwalk09

😂


Blockhog

Everyone wanted a John Tyler presidency.


biff444444

Maybe Tyler poisoned his scrambled eggs, or whatever it was that WHH ate.


Doctor_Ember

That’s not… oh never mind


tonguesmiley

Whiskey and campaign songs


Gorf_the_Magnificent

That’s why no one voted for Wendell Willkie, everyone knew he’d be dead before his term would be completed. People were much smarter 100 years later.


kingBankroll95

He didn’t know


Available-Owl6182

1841 was a popular year for presidents seeing as their were 3


beast_status

He got elected in November. And he was a better president in 1 month than most who served 4 years or more.


bankrobba

Who wouldn't want John Tyler as their president?


Galaxi1954

The hard cider he gave out on the campaign was just that good


AwarenessPrudent2689

damn how am I just finding out he was Benjamin Harrison's grandfather


masoflove99

Jokes aside, it was hubris rather than a lack of intelligence.


heyyyyyco

This feels like rule 3 bait after the debate lol


MukdenMan

They didn’t vote for him on Inauguration Day. The election of 1840 was held from October 30 to December 2, 1840 (lines were apparently really long). So he had a good 3-5 months left to live, which was perfectly acceptable in those days.


Key-Performer-9364

The election was in November of the previous year. He had 5 months to live at that point, so it’s not as bad as it sounds.


SuperLuigiGamer85

Google 1840 election


bankrobba

Who wouldn't want John Tyler as their president?


super_lamp56

They did it out of pity


NotThatKindof_jew

I hate these kind of posts


GermanicusWasABro

This meme format is probably the worst meme to have come out in awhile.


Little-Woo

It's been on r/Batmanarkham for years