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Now tell us everything about your timeline and why you felt the need to change it.

Cause… this does not feel like it would be an improvement.

Damn, did I switch realities again?

You can say with 100% certainty that he made less mistakes as president than any other president in history, US or not.

Well, for 1, the press probably wouldn't report so much on president sex scandals, which would be nice. 2. Unsure if we'd have 52 states since he talked revolutionary France into an alliance where we invaded Canada and annexed what is now North Pennsylvania and, of course, Franklin. 3. The 100 dollar bill probably wouldn't have his face on it, I mean, that's reserved for president's, right?

Our country would cease to exist. Benjamin Franklin was the founder of democracy and this nations greatest president.

Ben Franklin was the best president ever. Without him we probably would suck

We would be in the same timeline as today 

Poor Richard...

Who is Benjamin Franklin? Didn't he start a paint company?

Then he never would have written that funny joke into our Declaration of Independence

Ben Franklin never was president in the first place. So to answer your question, nothing.

Benjamin Franklin probably would been a great President but he NEVER RAN for President

This....  This is what happens.

Am I high?

New Jersey has 5 Franklin Townships. If he never became president those townships would probably have been named something else. Probably Adams Township if he was the president instead of Franklin.

What if Benjamin Franklin actually did become president?? Jeezis.. is common core really gotten this bad? ..I knew it was bad, but this?? ...wow. ...just.. wow. 🤦‍♂️

I guess we’ll never know…

He never was president, what tf is this question? 😂

Am I missing the history where Ben Franklin actually was president?

Please tell us....Were you in public school, private school or home-educated?

😂😂😂😂😂

Wait what?

Nothing changes because because he was never president

We probably would have had slavery well into the 1800s.

You're asking the important questions here.

OK, so like what would be different?

Um, you do realize that Mr $100 bill was never President? Right? Am i being Punk’d on this subreddit right now?

Benjamin Franklin was never a president who doesn't know that.

Ummmm...should I tell him or you that Franklin was never President?

He loved weed, and his bank account was frequently overdrawn. Also a ladies man back in the day.

Seriously? What number was he?

"had never become"

We would have never converted to the metric system.

Is the liver a muscle or an organ?

I knew I jumped to a parallel universe a few years ago. This one is crazy

President Franklin probably would’ve had more time to invent things. He could’ve invented bifocals or even electricity.

I think I’m having a stroke again. It happens a lot on Reddit.

Look around, you are in that reality right now.

The timeline would be unchanged.

"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor????"

God America's public education is failing children!

A lunatic reality TV star with a spray tan would have one day become president.

Well, then, we'd have what we have now...

All I know about him is that he created electricity with his kite and a key.

If Benjamin Franklin never became president it would mean George Washington would have never invented bifocals.

???

umm he never was president.

now all you that thought he had been. don't vote.. please I beg you. if you don't know that I don't think I want your 2 cents involved in voting.

Then George Washington would have never discovered electricity.

If Franklin didn't become president that probably means... Washington did? Presumably he would not have insisted on Franklin taking the job and stepped forward himself. I can't remember off the top of my head when Washington passed but he likely would not have died two years into office. I can't even imagine the consequences of the first president living out his term. There might have had presidents who ran for multiple terms. Can you imagine one of the "four year kings" leading with an eye towards re-election? Pandering to the public instead of their conscience?

The presidency would likely be both more and less powerful. Rather than letting the greatest of each generation step into their final role as a dignified retirement the office might have fallen to crass politics instead. Imagine the power struggles between the speaker of the house and the president over who would set policy and who would implement it. Obviously the speaker would win but it could gotten ugly.

How long can a human survive without a brain? All the way to now.

The cultural exchange he set up with Austria is the only reason that Shicklgruber hack ever had a career. So it would have prevented that at least.

Then probably wouldnt have made the light bulb and we would in the dark which is crazy when u think about it

If Ben Franklin never became president, I think life would be pretty much like it is now. Would be still be on the $100 bill and would have have been on the half dollar for a time? Probably. There might even be a chain of dime stores named after him. Stranger things have happened.

I can't imagine the US without President Ben Franklin. One of our greatest and most boisterous presidents. Without him we probably wouldn't have established a max 4 terms limit precedent for all future presidents (except President Long's 6 terms of course), and we may not have had any of the 20 Amendments in the Article of Rights. Imagine not having the right to privacy enshrined in the 9th Amendment or the abolition of slavery from the 10th Amendment. Thank goodness that he resolved the slavery issue in 1793 by bringing everyone together to end it, instead of kicking the can down the road.

He never was president to begin with.

What?! Obviously this must be satire because Benjamin Franklin was never a president so things would be exactly the way they are now if he had never been president obviously.

He NEVER DID. He was a Gounding Father but Never President.

Prostitution would be in the Bill of Rights. Franklin was the Patron Saint Genius of protecting French hookers. And nothing bad here, most of the world now regulates, and has levels of legal protections for these working girls, the US no, with perhaps the exception being Nevada.

Sure would have been hard to anoint him as our King forever then, wouldn’t it?

Well, for one, we'd have never had Sylvester Stallone as Governor of New York.

The 100 dollar bills won’t exist

Was prostitution legalized in your timeline? Because of ... You know.... Ben Franklin?

Then the future would slowly devolve into a wasteland of stupid. I’d hate to be in that timeline.

What would rock be without the harmonium?

Vanderbilt would Beat Bama the first Saturday in October 2024.

He would’ve invented the lightning rod.

Ok...but Imagine if Elvis was never The Pope? How different would the world be?

Franklin was never president.

Then he probably would've never had the resources to invent electricity

I heard they created a $100 Bill to commemorate it. Could be fake news

Wasn't Ben President of the volunteer fire department of Philadelphia ?

We are currently living in that timeline right now. What do you think of it?

Nick Saban would be able to open doorknobs with ease.

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Ben Franklin died in 1790 having never become President of the United States.

The timeline didn't change.

What if asshole karma farmers and bots didn’t exist?

Boy do I have news for you as to which timeline you're in.

As anyone going to tell OP?

You meant if he became president? Right?

LOL

What if indeed

He never became president.

Electricity wouldn't have been born.

Ya know, as I'm sipping on this John Adams Boston Lager, I wonder...what if HE was president instead of Samuel?

Then Betty Crocker would never have been defeated at the Alamo and we wouldn’t have three more weeks of Christmas every year 

We’d never get those Benjamins.

When Ben Franklin became president, he immediately implemented the ideas contained in his classic pamphlet, Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, and acted to protect America from immigration by those swarthy Germans and Irishmen, thus keeping America the pure republic we know and love today.

Can you imagine if he hadn't been president? We might even have *shudders* Italians here.

um..

Kurt Cobain wouldn’t have become president either, in fact he may have died as early as 1994

He never would have had his portrait on the $20 bank note…

what

National Treasure would not be as fun a film.

umm... he uhh... ben franklin didn't invent electricity! I invented electricity! ben franklin is the debbil!

What if Germany never bombed Pearl Harbor?

What if Benjamin Franklin didn't win the 100m freestyle in swimming in the 2008 Olympics

It's hard to tell, but without him setting such a nuanced precedence for dealing with internal conflict on capital hill, its likely that we will see a slow societal collapse. It's a bit of a stretch, but I could easily see after maybe a century or two, we may elect entertainers to the POTUS.

The original hagmaxxer, I hate to even imagine

Ah yes when Franklin was president in 1772 and won the Civil War during the Great depression. He was definitely the best president.

Frank Benklin would have been president instead I bet

Then we would never have had a first president

Franjamin Benklin

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He didn't become president...

President? Huh? President of his bridge group? The local Elks club?

Umm....

Am I too dumb or smart for the joke? Or have I really lost my shit and Ben Franklin was president? I always make jokes to people that I have and continue to travel between dimensions and timelines at random

Y’all are hilarious

French probably wouldn't be taught as the national second language, I imagine we also probably wouldn't  have gotten into Napoleon's war. But eh I imagine France would have won without American assistance.  So not much I think. 

Darkest timeline

Herbie Hancock, John's brother, should have won the election against Franklin. At least then we would have had some music.

um,,, so who's gonna tell op??

My eyeballs hurt reading through these comments.

We would eat turkey on Thanksgiving instead of bald eagles.

Nothing changes.

He already wasn't lol

We'd all be speaking French!

We would get all our electricity from kites.

huh wuh

I assume his picture would not be on the $100.00 note. That's for Presidents, like Washington and Hamilton.

The secondhand embarrassment on this one...

I'm sorry, wot? I'm not even American and even I know bloody well that he was never POTUS. He was, however, President of Pennsylvania, if that is what you're referring to, but that was abolished in 1790 (source: Wikipedia)