And inspiration for Garfield Arbuckle.
Absolutely no one here is talking about how strong his genetics are. Damn.
He needs to step up his facial hair game. That goatee shames his ancestors.
I choose to believe both Garfields have very similar faces, which is why James grew that beard and mustache.
nepo baby 🤣
I mean, the dude does know magic. Are we sure he isn’t actually just president James Garfield, kept alive all these years by dark sorcery? History records President Garfield of dying by an assassin’s bullet. But what if it was just an elaborate way for James to fake his own death, so he could step into a younger identity? 😆
Some one should check how many swamps he owns.
I did my sixth grade presidents project on James Garfield. I just liked the name, I didn’t realize that I had picked the absolute easiest president to write a report on. You can sum it up in one sentence. Garfield was elected president, promptly dies.
Skill issue
Fun fact: none of them is related to Garfield the cat.
Garfield suffered an assassination attempt and died in Monday. This is a clear allusion to Garfield the cat.
Did he love lasagna?
Everyone loves lasagna.
Fun James Garfield trivia: he wrote a proof of the Pythagorean theorem.
Notable wiki editor burn: “Garfield is thus far the only President of the United States to have contributed anything original to mathematics.”
I looked up Garfield, he was the second US president assassinate and he wasn’t president a year.
Netflix’s Death by Lightning introduced me to history I probably should’ve learned as a kid but I never paid attention to. I watched the first episode and ended up spoiling the rest of the show for myself by going down a wikipedia rabbit hole.
That has Mathew Mcfadden and Michael Shannon doesn’t it? That has been on my watch list forever and I need to check it out!
That’s the one. Michael Shannon is fantastic. First took note of him in Take Shelter, and since then, if I see his name on something I watch it. He’s why I watched Death by Lightning. He did great.
Yep. After Lincoln made it famous people began to see presidential assassination as rather passe. And he loses out on the shortest tenure record to Harrison, so nobody remembers poor Garfield for much other than his mathematical contributions. Or contribution, singular.
At least he got a 1 hour EmpLemon video out of it.
And the reason Garfield was shot was complete nonsense. There’s a great video on it.
Haha!!
Harrison’s was shorter… Off to wikipedia I go.
He looks exactly like how I imagined the creator of MTG would look.
I can’t wait to watch the documentary on hsi life, Death by Lightning Helix
to pay respect
Now you just have to link Marjorie Taylor Greene to get the full circle, although I suspect you’ll have to go. All the way back to when the Neanderthals and Denisovans were interbreeding.
i.e. one of his sixteen (but possibly fewer) grandparents is James Garfield. I think it’s easy to have a little tunnel vision when talking about more distant ancestors.
Is one of your 16 great grandparents a president? Are you contributing something to the world millions have enjoyed?
Typically one has eight great-grandparents.
And yes, thank you for asking.
Guessing from the hostile tone of your response that my own tone was badly conveyed. I was just making a general observation that we seem to automatically treat relatively distant ancestors with the same significance as grandparents. I do the same.
