# Greatest living American elimination game (game thread) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 16, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-living-american-elimination-game-game-thread/1019715 "2025-06-16T19:12:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 26
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-living-american-elimination-game-game-thread/1019715/501 "2025-08-20T16:51:28Z")
This was a fun and enlightening exercise. Thanks for putting it together (and putting up with the inevitable SDMB … differing opinions.) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-living-american-elimination-game-game-thread/1019715/502 "2025-08-20T18:43:48Z")
But of course - I expected, and would have wanted, no less! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-living-american-elimination-game-game-thread/1019715/503 "2025-08-20T18:47:15Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > I obviously don’t think it was near enough. Remember them yucking it up at Carter’s funeral? He has failed to show leadership on what is the greatest crisis any living American has faced. Your thinking that I wasn’t aware of what he has said on Trump is a misconception on your part. “Deafening… silence,” as you originally wrote, is obviously quite different from “[not] near enough.” ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-living-american-elimination-game-game-thread/1019715/504 "2025-08-20T19:12:02Z")
I think you’re going to have to come to terms with the fact that we disagree and find a way to forge ahead. I think Obama’ responses have been so anemic as to be deafening. They do not in anyway meet the needs of this time and I would argue that if the nation after Obama’s presidency became an authoritarian regime, then maybe he wasn’t that great of a president. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-living-american-elimination-game-game-thread/1019715/505 "2025-08-23T00:03:54Z")
I can certainly accept that we disagree. I just dislike seeing goalposts being moved. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-living-american-elimination-game-game-thread/1019715/506 "2025-08-24T12:10:49Z")
We should have gotten Gabe Ortiz to vote in our contest. > **[Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/tusk81.bsky.social/post/3lx3flahqys2s)** ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-living-american-elimination-game-game-thread/1019715/507 "2025-08-25T00:56:07Z")
“You must sign in to view this post,” it says. A summary, please? ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-living-american-elimination-game-game-thread/1019715/508 "2025-08-25T01:00:05Z")
Oh, sorry! An immigration advocate on BlueSky saying: > It’s my opinion that humanitarian and musical genius Dolly Parton (as well as Chef José Andrés) deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. I thought it was a funny pairing given the game here. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-living-american-elimination-game-game-thread/1019715/509 "2025-08-25T01:06:44Z")
I’ll say - thanks! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-living-american-elimination-game-game-thread/1019715.md?page=25)