Warren G. Harding: The Most Corrupt President in US History 

Here are some suggestions for another video - all interesting people April Ellison/William Ellison Jr. (1790-1861) - a freed slave from South Carolina who became a successful slaveowner and planter himself before the civil war. Anthony Johnson (1600-1670) - a former indentured servant who became one of the first African American property owners in America and a successful tobacco farmer. Lord Mountbatten (1900-1979) - Prince Philip’s uncle and Queen Elizabeth’s second cousin once removed who was assassinated by the IRA Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) - Japanese poet, author, playwright, actor and nationalist who committed seppuku after a failed attempt to overthrow Japan’s 1947 constitution. Robert Walpole (1676-1745) - British politician who was the first prime minister of Great Britain from 1721 until 1742 under King George I and King George II. Eamon DeValera (1882-1975) - prominent political leader in 20th century Ireland who, after the Irish war of independence from 1919 to 1921, was in the public eye for over forty years from 1922 until his death were he served as head of government (Taoiseach/prime minister) and head of state (president). He was nearly executed in the Easter Rising in 1916 and was key in putting into place the new constitution on 1937. A very prominent Irish figure and one of the most important in Irish history. George Eastman (1854-1932) - American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak company. He was a pioneer of photography and a major philanthropist. He commit suicide at the age of 77 because of chronic pain from health problems. Emile Zola (1840-1902) - French novelist and journalist who is an early practitioner in the literary genre, naturalism. He was involved in the Dreyfus affair, a political scandal in France. He died in 1902 at the age of 62 from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. ryoichi sasakawa (1899-1995) - Japanese businessman, politician, sports administrator, philanthropist and was criminal who helped Norman Borlaug with his Green Revolution. Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) - Irish poet, playwright and translator who won the 1995 Nobel prize for literature and wrote a poem about The Tollund Man comparing his cause of death to The Troubles in Northern Ireland. W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) - Irish poet, dramatist and writer with an interest in the occult who helped found the Abbey Theatre and was a senator for the Irish Free State. He is one of the most important historical figures in Irish history. Prince Phillip, The Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021) - husband and consort to Queen Elizabeth who served in the navy as a young man, serving in the Second World War. He died recently so it would be a good choice. Jordan Belfort (born 1962) - former stockbroker, author, motivational speaker and convicted felon who committed fraud via stock market manipulation. His book was the inspiration behind the film The Wolf of Wall Street starring Leonardo DiCaprio in 2013. Andrew Cunanan (1969-1997) - spree killer responsible for five murders before his suicide via gunshot. His victims include Gianna Versace and Lee Miglin. Lee Miglin (1924-1997) - American business tycoon, real estate developer and philanthropist who was spree killer, Andrew Cunanan’s third murder victim. “The Count of Saint Germain” (1691 or 1712 -died 1784) - European Adventurer who achieved prominence in high society in the 1700’s. His real name is unknown while his background is obscure. He claimed to be the son of Prince Francis II Rakoczi of Transylvania. He was arrested for suspicion of espionage during the Jacobite rebellion but was released without charge. Julia d’Aunigny (1670 or 1673 -died 1707) - 17th century French opera singer who was known for her flamboyant lifestyle. Her father was a secretary to the master of the horse to King Louis XIV. She was a keen sword fighter, cross-dressed and tried to run away with a female lover after killing a man in a duel. She died at the age of 33. Past American presidents, British prime ministers, monarchs and Roman emperors would be good as well.

Another suggestion of people are 1. Elizabeth gurley flynn who was a labor activist and member of the iww = International workers of the world she was chairwoman of the communist party 2 Dutch resistance fighter Hannie schaft know as the girl with the red hair she was know to assassinate ss officials and dutch Nazi collaborators . 3 Henry A Wallace who served as secretary of agriculture than vice president under Franklin Roosevelt famously the leader of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party during the 1940s and who was infamously opposed by the conservative wing of the party. 4 Albert parsons who like flynn was a labor activist during the 1870s and 1880s and was a member of the haymarket Martyrs a group of men who were scapegoated 5 Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts who was a abolitionist and was famously almost beaten to death on the senate floor by a pro slavery congress men 6 John Huggins who was a leader in the Southern California chapter of the black panther party and led the black studies program on the campus at UCLA where he was later assassinated by the FBI

Would you make biographics of El Chapo

Please post more videos about -Presocratic philosophers -Thales of Miletus -Empedocles -Parmenides -Heraclitus -Democritus -Anaximenes -Al Kindi

@@noidea4name that would be also great and not a shocker he’s got one on Pablo Escobar

Try third Biden first Obama 2nd

Trump is first place for worst

@@tombalthis513 you just mentioned the greatest President in the modern era and another who will be up there too 😆 🤣

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@@TheRealJoeMama1 Both men you mentioned were terrible especially the former guy. It was a scary time living under him. I loathed every minute. He basically turned the presidency into nothing more of a joke/sitcom. Every day news would come up of something stupid Donald was doing with his ALL-CAPS TWEETS to his corruption by pardoning his buddies and threatening to pardon himself. It wasn't enjoyable. He was a mistake of a president.

My grandmother was born November of 1922.....and she's still alive. Yikes!

I was born 1/20/77, I was alive for exactly 30 minutes of Ford's presidency before Carter was inaugurated.

@@dontworrybehappy8080 My great-grandmother is 101 and she’s as sharp as a stick still. It’s incredible seeing people live this long, the male lineage in my family however… an 80th birthday might as well be a 500th birthday because it’s a lot rarer.

My Grandpa was born in 23 too and he’s also still kicking

@@Lawnmower737 Good for her. Enjoy the moment.

Trump was a good president

You don't need to look further than the 21st Century to find examples of people who could do nothing and still be in Congress.

Maybe he was about to and that is why he got "sick" and died.

@@glennquagmire3258 There's a conspiracy theory his wife poisoned him due to how much of a womanizer he was

@@redjirachi1 how is that a conspiracy?

@@speakerz74 OK I guess it's more of a rumor

He's got nothing on some of our more recent CE's.

2020Gate?

do you mean Trump? He's far more corrupt than any other president.

No nothing quite that corrupt unless you mean 9/11

@@kageakuma3009 lmao you mean Biden rite? otherwise god help you.

@@SpuddMacgyver - yeah, if you think the mirror mirror defence actually works, the rest of us, however can see what Trump is. Nice try.

U.S. Grant is an exception.

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Sounds just like the 🤡 that’s in the White House right now. The old saying choose your friends wisely, apparently lots of people choose them for what they can get out of them. $$$$$$

Like Biden and Trump, Obama bushes etc

@@deee5520 a dozen members of trumps cabinet weren’t legally allowed to run charity’s

Jerry?

From rick and morty?

Lol did ya'll watch the video? Jerry was his penis

@@slinkbradshaw8674 oh yeah... 😂 Thats FUCKING hilarious! I'm an idiot. Lol

Jumbo needs one too

It's not short. It's not stout. There's no handle to pour the oil out. 🤔

@@LisaBowers … I love you.

Maybe it looks like a style of teapot we have never seen

You can Google it and see that some teapots are shaped like that rock.

@@LisaBowers SWISH!

Thank you very much for that comment. I really needed a good laugh today.

“Any holes a goal and every mole is a practice hole” As we say here in Australia.

@@troystaunton254 Strewth, mate! ❤ 🇦🇺

@@troystaunton254 Hard life in downunder.

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Exactly....trump era back it up 50 yrs or so...you get Nixon....back it up 50 yrs or so you get Harding....oh geez will people never learn? And repugs each time...ughhhhh

@@kevinkelly7543 yes he is, please lay off the kool aid. You must be smoking hunters crack if you think he isnt

​@@kevinkelly7543true dat, calling Tbag corrupt would be an insult to corrupt people everywhere!

​@@piratessalyx7871 You really admire what you say, don't you?

@@piratessalyx7871 TDS. Trump exposed a lot of the corruption going on in our government in media, and Biden is returning that corruption back tenfold.

I'm guessing due to DJTs corruption still being investigated, and ongoing.

@@yeanah2571 im guessing Simon is trying to keep his channel apolitical, which I get

@@SpectacularDisaster As do I, my man. Just kind of shocked at what caused Harding to be an embarrassment, it's bad, but not "scourge of history" bad

@@yeanah2571 he doesn't need to be corrupt, corruption is legalized in the us

Piss-pot dome aka more-a-lardo

Do you have any evidence

Restraining the government but he obviously didn't restrain the banks well enough.

Yeah, keep telling people you like Coolidge because you're so hard for laissez-faire economics. Only 2 types of people like Coolidge: cheapskates and xenophobes.

@@elitefencer777 That’s not an argument. That’s just ad hominem. The entire point of the US constitution was to limit the power of the central government. The founders didn’t not talk about budgets. Your xenophobe comment is impossible to draw a logical line to limited government. Nearly every group of people from Europe arriving to the colonies was fleeing something. Whether religious freedom or oppressive governments. The populist movement in the US, Europe, South America is the result of oppressive governments. Too many taxes, too many regulations, too many bureaucrats, etc.

I would rate Coolidge somewhere in the middle (ie low 20s). Around where I might rank Clinton or Grant. He may be as close to a ‘Libertarian’ President as we’ve had. I do think there’s something to be said that ‘it’s better to be lucky than good’ in some cases; I think there have been several relatively ‘lucky’ presidents-economically and in foreign policies--Coolidge, Reagan and Obama come to mind in that sense. Im not saying those presidents were bad--only maybe a tad overrated. Of course, purely speculation since we will never know for sure, but I suspect our country may not have fared much better during the Great Depression under his leadership than Hoover, had Coolidge done a second term.

@@mrp4242 I agree with the comment about him being Libertarian. If Trump wins and does a Javier Millei (drastically reduce the size of government and reduce spending) the country will quickly respond. I don’t think that Trump has the policy chops, but Argentina has quickly responded to these policies.

He white

It was the women and the thumbs he was under that killed him.

I'm that age....

Jerry wore him out

@@jrsmith1998 Simple. Elegant. Honest.

Actually, America _has_ changed in that department… for the worse.

In fact the term 'bloviation' (a technical term for bland clichés) was used and described by Warren G. Harding himself.

Hope Make America Great Again Build Back Better

And harken back to an era that they can't really describe.

This is a serious understatement!

Not really.

Harding was "scandalous" in 1923, but his actions are SOP for today's Presidents.

At least Harding knew he wasn't fit for office!

Harding "Most corrupt"? Joe Bidet " Hold My Beer!"

Just believe it :) We sold Alaska to the US for $7,2 million in 1867. At the same time a single building of NY County Courthouse did cost $12 million - nearly twice as much! Nah, THAT level of corruption looks unbeatable. At least for USA.

Exactly! 100% There is no way they are anywhere near as corrupt as the "Bidenista" regime we have today.

Yes he spelled "Donald Trump" wrong indeed 🤷‍♂️

​@@MadScientist267Idc whether you're a repub or dem, you need to pull your head out of your... cul (Google translate that last word if you're not good with context clues, it's French). Donald Trump didn't have the FBI going after his political opponents. Donald Trump didn't receive $1.5 million from China and $4 million from Ukraine in 2019. Donald Trump doesn't have a crack head son using their last name to sell political influence. All of that's been happening since 2020, and has never happened before. Ignoring Biden's ridiculous amount of crimes, making up excuses and pointing the finger at orange man bad doesn't serve anyone, especially you, but the powers that be. That would make you a shill, a weak minded dolt whose opinion is not to be taken seriously... is that you? If not, then shut the hell up with your finger pointing.

Where's the corruption?@@MadScientist267

Political skullduggery at its best!!!

Why didn’t you just post the time stamps at once instead of editing this over and over?

This is the track list for his mixtape.

Ty

You da real mvp

Kind of sounds like Obamas change campaign and the wars in the middle east...then 2 of the many people who I knew from school that served killed in Iraq during "the surge". What a change...

Sounds more like, what morphed into “America First 1.0” ? Nazi collaborators like Lindbergh, Coughlan, Klan, American Bund & Fred Trump Snr. Nearly led US over the precipice into fascism. History repeats, apple never falls far from the tree, etc and here we are?

Wilson allowed the Rothschilds to operate their corrupt Federal Reserve SCAM on Christmas week of 1913

There’s a lot to this, indeed. Also, 20 years of Democratic administrations led to a desire to shift gears because, well, Americans think that is enough good reason to actually change. 😢

We were only involved in WWI for a year.

And that, kind readers, is the moral of this sordid saga. Don't be a Jerry.

Jerry Who? Jerry springer or Jerry Lewis or Jerry Lee Louis 👏👏👏👍👍👍😂😂😂

Beaver hunting was very popular back in the day.......

It's the eye brows!

Please I want to see this be a movie with Eugene Levy a movie about Warren Harding!

ALF

i have never taken anything about a politician at face value. at least you had a few years that were not sleepless nights wondering what nightmare they were/are getting us into next

Be glad, none of them can be trusted!

And sometimes, a coincidence really is just that. Whether this was or wasn't I can't say. But it's always worth keeping in mind.

Isn’t that special!

Fun fact: Saturday Night Live debuted in 1975 on NBC, but it was a follow-up retake of Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell on ABC from earlier in the year. The jingle was "Saturday Night Live, Live Saturday Night!" Howard Cosell, the youngest US Army major specialising in military propaganda, and the programming machine continues decades later, it must be inducing the masses.

Like the "police K9" cat?

Idk, he didn't lie, didn't even apply, he just got put into place by others

@@txgunguy2766 😹😹😹

Harding is why the "Peter Principle" was created to describe the ascension of the worthless.

Just like Bill Barr's dad gave Jeffrey Epstein a teaching job when he did not qualify. And that led him into meeting some very prominent people and got him onto Wall Street

Welcome to every other president in American history.

@@quantumfoam140 Nah, most of them were involved in politics a lot more that Harding.

That's a nice summation of what's going on today. What about Harding?

Frank McCourt “half the teachers would hit you if you didn’t know that Eamonn de Valera was the greatest Irishman that ever lived, the other half would hit you if you didn’t know that Michael Collins was the greatest Irishman that ever lived.” 😱

I'd love to see some on Dev, Collins, Connolly, Emmet, Parnell, Casement, etc. Irish history is overlooked on the world stage.

Yes. That would be a great biographics. I hate that bastard because he threw Micheal Collins under the bus and helped catalyze a pointless civil war but I'd like to see a Biographics on him.

Who here is sick of the tapered voice when key info is spoken? Get it together Simon!

Ireland was always in an impossible position in WW2, but sending a message of condolence to Germany after the death of Hitler was somewhat tone deaf.

Your frigging king Leopold is way too much evil for you to need to learn

He's a bit of a forgotten figure even here in America. I knew who he was, but I learned a lot about him here.

I won't hold it against you, most people over here aren't even familiar with your country. Those that are know it for chocolate and acting like a turnpike for the germans.

Yeah. 70% of Americans wouldn’t know this history.

Most Americans would have no idea who he was either.

Lol

Good one.

well you can add biden to that list

Well, at least Jerry wasn't actively screwing America, unlike Trump.

Yes! He is one of my favorite Presidents ☺️.

The silent Cal as we have been told

I agree

He did do Coolidge

@@michaelhurley3171 Nope.

No more highlights on death.

@@kcbh24 You're kidding.

@@kcbh24 is that a cod joke?

@Death More death excuse me?

Simon and team have done an episode on Erick Heartmann ! 😉

What was said was that he took a visit “…to the Western states and Alaska”.

Was not a state! It was a western territory of Alaska!@@edphillips2998

There's a lot of incorrect hisotry in this video.

He was definitely corrupt lol

@@serephita all presidents are.

@@teo2shifty and water is wet :)

Just like the president currently

@@chasebelcher7932 Just like every president in the last 60 years

Rosebud

Why are you people always fascinated with homofilia references?

@@odysseus2656 Why are "you people" offended by ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING?

But it's two lines....

I’m waiting for 4,396,721 comments about bad orange man😂

Yeah right.... We couldn't just have people saying whatever they like. What a terrible concept.

@William Armstrong You bet your sweet pippy. I’ve been censored for responding in the EXACT same way to posters that they’re posting. They can call ME all kinds of names, etc. And that’s all right by them. But, I guess I’m not on the “correct” side or whatever. This will probably get taken down too. 🤷‍♀️ censorship at its finest.

@@JustAnother_Irishman 💥😫💥 Oh..... My..... God! How dare you poke fun at such a serious issue! Of course conservatives and Republicans should be censored, even when posting provable facts in an inoffensive way! Oh, and why shouldn't leftists be allowed to be spiteful and insulting when they arbitrarily label conservatives "Nazis" and "racists" for posting inconvenient facts!? How else can we destroy America(and UK, Australia, NZ, Germany, etc) and create the communist super-state that we corrupt, multi-billionaire leftist oligarchs SO desire!? ☹️⁉️

@@HighlanderNorth1 OMG can't believe you forgot to call me a misogynist patriarchal scumbag 😁

Sounds more like Joe Biden..

@@JamesP29 JOE BIDEN IS THE GREATEST POLITICAN WE EVER HAD HE PUTS ALL THE OTHERS TO SHAME MOVE ASIDE LINCON, THERE'S A NEW HOT PRESIDENT IN TOWN

@@alexanderblack5975 you're being sarcastic right?

My personal opinion is that statement applies to 95% of all public officials who have ever existed and 99% of all current public officials....

Come on as more information comes out the Trump administration is going to be the winner of this game. Just look at the basics, using campaign money to pay someone off. A hooker no less, 26 rape accusation (one by his 1st ex wife) 2 impeachments, Jan 6, footsies with the Russians, and we are just barely looking into the last 2.5 months in office. Harding is going to look like the Pope himself.

Yes he does lmao

@David Erickson nice try

@David Erickson not a fan of Biden but i don't think he is the one that is hiding his tax returns desperately or the one who put most his family in the cabinet getting payed with tax payers money yet still doing business with countries they go to as " official government visit" , or the one who pardoned crooks who helped him get elected ...shall we continue , the list is still veryyyyy long

@@crystalnait455 u do realize he never accepted his pay for being prez all four years in office. He didn't didn't take any tax payers money so u can scratch that off your list

@@jamespero6803 oh he did , making officials stay at his hotels and charging them at the expense of the tax payers , not to mention charging security services for staying at his resort in Florida while protecting him and his family , which makes every dime go back right into his pocket Let's not forget also about the sweet deals Ivanka git in china and Saudi Arabia while in official visit as usa envoyee Politicians are all corrupt some more than others but Donald trump and his family really take the cake

What did Kevin Hart do to deserve that?

And it still rings true today...

More today than ever. Americans don't have the attention span to watch debates of the nineties. They need reality TV stars and the equivalent news anchors.

Look at trump……

@@ziggymorris8760 oh look, there's a bland cliche now

BADUMBUMPUM-PSSSHHHH

Maybe that's why joe has no energy it's being drained out by the ladies , lol unfortunately it's more like the kid sniffing making him tired

@@youtubehatesfreedom1870 please, take your meds. How come you Q people have this unhealthy preoccupation with paedophilia?

*everyone turns to biden, trump (maybe), obama, and clinton and an honorary mention richard nixon

Some Presidents should be forgotten.

@@Foolish188 like your mom

It's a shame what history did to Hoover. He wasn't nearly as terrible as people think. FDR, on the other hand...

@@stevenschnepp576 ikr

@@stevenschnepp576 could you suggest reliable sources of information about FDR? Thanks

"just hit the west side of the LBC, on a mission; trying to find president Warren G"

Sounds like the same thing said about JFK.

Our history teacher said it was bc women tot the right to vote and he was better looking.

@@thebookwasbetter3650 He won by such a huge margin that I'm pretty sure he got a majority of the male vote too.

Ahead of their time.

Not too far off

BUH DUH BUM BUM TISSSSS

Nope, it was HARDing that lent a hand to Jerry. Really stiffened him up. Pushed him forward. Took him places. Helped him make friends. Harding -- the ultimate wingman. 😁👍🍆

Biden

finally, someone has correctly said diet coke instead of beer. Trump never drinks alcohol or smokes, but he continues to drink that garbage despite his famous tweetstorm over diet coke.

Then the Obamas and the Clintons came along. Making him look like a saint

You mean the Trump’s came along, who excelled at corruption in Government as president.

@@BlaccTony69 Look at your President now lowest approval rating in history 👏

@@neilsmith9066 Yes, you are correct; Bernie Sanders would have been a better option as president. 👏🏾

@@BlaccTony69 Nah that man would be worse. You should have voted for Trump and we would be back in 2019 when he had everything booming and Gas was $1.45 a gallon

Charity

Sounds eerily Kennedy-ish doesn't it?

I was thinking it describes quite a number of presidents.

Just remember what Eddie Murphy said in raw when you become president you should be allowed to get a BJ whatever you want

I can think of around 6 after he died with a similar description

Kennedy was that kind of president but he did a great job. Clinton was also that type and he wasn’t a absolute disaster. Trump fits that description and we need another decade to so to really view him objectively however I still think he did a decent job. All of these guys are better than a dementia ridden puppet.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Learn the history kids.

Its cool to be able to say you attended a school named after a crooked greedy horndog. Its like having your school named after Al Capone lol

@@jessicajujubean5004 😆😆😆. Not quite as cool as Capone middle school would sound.

Warren Harding is the best president in history.

Toxic orange faux tan. Wasnt good looking. How does he fit in?

@@goatmealcookies7421 He strategically helped the people who are now putting him in their tell-all books. :V

American reality? That's the human reality. That's a fact of life in every country that has ever existed. Seems a little conniving to portray America as the sole purveyor of this universal truth