GREATEST AMERICAN OF ALL-TIME: TOURNAMENT

[Diabolical Materialism]

Fred Hampton

[SWE]

Harriet Tubman

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Scatman John

[Del Tachi]

Henry Ford

[Dr. MB]

Eugene V. Debs
Colleen Hanabusa

[Kleine Scheiße]

George Carlin

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

William ("Bill") Theodore Walton III

[Battista Minola 1616]

I will nominate George Washington Carver and Helen Keller.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Hayley Williams
Benjamin Franklin

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Benjamin Franklin

Earlier:

Benjamin Franklin

You still have another nomination.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

Earl Warren

[Sol]

MLK since apparently no one has nominated him yet.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Benjamin Franklin

Earlier:

Benjamin Franklin

You still have another nomination.

Damn. They're kinda-sorta connected obviously, so Franklin was one of the first people I thought of.

Henry David Thoreau, then.

[Sol]

Also, ftr, my high school US History teacher does the same exercise in her classes and encourages alumni to still participate, so I have a pretty wide sample size. Pre-Trump, the winner was nearly always FDR, except in 2012 where Lincoln won due to the movie, but since 2016 or so it has been MLK. It's very unlikely that the winner will be anyone other than those three men imo.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Benjamin Franklin

Earlier:

Benjamin Franklin

You still have another nomination.

Damn. They're kinda-sorta connected obviously, so Franklin was one of the first people I thought of.

Henry David Thoreau, then.

Henry David Thoreau

[Del Tachi]

For S&G, this who the Discovery Channel nominated for the title of "100 Greatest Americans" in 2005:

Muhammad Ali
Maya Angelou
Susan B. Anthony
Lance Armstrong
Neil Armstrong
Lucille Ball
Alexander Graham Bell
Barbara Bush
George H. W. Bush
George W. Bush
Laura Bush
Andrew Carnegie
Johnny Carson
Jimmy Carter
George Washington Carver
Ray Charles
César Chávez
Bill Clinton
Hillary Clinton
Bill Cosby
Tom Cruise
Ellen DeGeneres
Walt Disney
Frederick Douglass
Amelia Earhart
Clint Eastwood
Thomas Edison
John Edwards
Albert Einstein
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Brett Favre
Henry Ford
Benjamin Franklin
Bill Gates
Mel Gibson
Rudy Giuliani
John Glenn
Billy Graham
Alexander Hamilton
Tom Hanks
Hugh Hefner
Katharine Hepburn
Bob Hope
Howard Hughes
Michael Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
Steve Jobs
Lyndon B. Johnson
Michael Jordan
Helen Keller
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
John F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Martin Luther King Jr.
Rush Limbaugh
Abraham Lincoln
Charles Lindbergh
George Lucas
Madonna
Malcolm X
Phil McGraw
Marilyn Monroe
Michael Moore
Audie Murphy
Richard Nixon
Barack Obama
Jesse Owens
Rosa Parks
George S. Patton
Colin Powell
Elvis Presley
Ronald Reagan
Christopher Reeve
Condoleezza Rice
Jackie Robinson
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Babe Ruth
Carl Sagan
Jonas Salk
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Frank Sinatra
Joseph Smith
Steven Spielberg
James Stewart
Martha Stewart
Nikola Tesla
Pat Tillman
Harry S. Truman
Donald Trump
Harriet Tubman
Mark Twain
Sam Walton
George Washington
John Wayne
Oprah Winfrey
Tiger Woods
Wright brothers
Chuck Yeager

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Benjamin Franklin

Earlier:

Benjamin Franklin

You still have another nomination.

Damn. They're kinda-sorta connected obviously, so Franklin was one of the first people I thought of.

Henry David Thoreau, then.

Henry David Thoreau

Jesus Christ.

Ralph Waldo Emerson.

[Battista Minola 1616]

Also, ftr, my high school US History teacher does the same exercise in her classes and encourages alumni to still participate, so I have a pretty wide sample size. Pre-Trump, the winner was nearly always FDR, except in 2012 where Lincoln won due to the movie, but since 2016 or so it has been MLK. It's very unlikely that the winner will be anyone other than those three men imo.

Do you think Trump's rise and election actually had an effect on the results or did you just mention him incidentally as a way to divide time periods? If the former, that sounds quite fascinating.

[Sol]

Also, ftr, my high school US History teacher does the same exercise in her classes and encourages alumni to still participate, so I have a pretty wide sample size. Pre-Trump, the winner was nearly always FDR, except in 2012 where Lincoln won due to the movie, but since 2016 or so it has been MLK. It's very unlikely that the winner will be anyone other than those three men imo.

Do you think Trump's rise and election actually had an effect on the results or did you just mention him incidentally as a way to divide time periods? If the former, that sounds quite fascinating.

Yeah I think it's the former -- a side effect of young people becoming more socially conscious which was in good part driven by Trump's election.

[Kleine Scheiße]

For S&G, this who the Discovery Channel nominated for the title of "100 Greatest Americans" in 2005:

-snip-

Ray Charles! That's a good ch—wait, Phil McGraw?

[Blue3]

Still no Mark Twain, Steven Spielberg,Thomas Edison, Walt Disney, Neil Armstrong... have their stars dimmed, I wonder?

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Albert Einstein
Charles Hamilton Houston

[7,052,770]

Dak Prescott

[Conservatopia]

Benedict Arnold.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

We're at 35 nominated people, i'd like to start at 64 people

so everyone has a third and fourth available nomination, when we get to 64. Nominations will be closed and who-ever is nominated after that is too late.

People who haven't nominated anyone have also four nominations now.