Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/08/10/trump-says-1917-pandemic-e.html
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President brainworms dribbles concentrated stupid from facehole. News at 11.
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And it didn’t end WWI either, the war was damn near done by the time it hit the front.
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Was this before or after the shooting outside the White House? I think that got him rattled more than usual.
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It was probably on account of how we took over all those Revolutionary War airports.
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Wondering how his cult will argue that obviously he didn’t mean what he said.
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Seriously. They’re so predictable in how quickly they debase themselves for trump.
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Just wait ‘till he learns that WW2 was about those good ol’ nazi boys.
The man and “standards” have divorced many a moon ago, but you’d think ‘WW2 = we beat the nazis and freed the word’* would be imprinted into that cheeto sized brain of his after a lifetime of reinforcement. Jesus christ, I am now sitting here, seriously thinking about whether he actually knows about the holocaust - like does he actually understand what that word describes.
*Yes, of course completely ignoring Russian or anyone else’s contribution, this is the American education system we’re talking about here, and at the height of the cold war.
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He continues to unintentionally establish vote-getting commonality with his proudly stupid base.
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Once again, the king of distraction. While we’re focusing on this stupid utterance, we’re ignoring the fact that he once again accused President Obama of treason, and not a single reporter in the room pushed back.
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So, business as usual?
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Not true of course, and a pointless lie to boot. Based on a possible misheard fact: The flu pandemic probably hit the Central power hardest and might have influenced the (first world) war.
To be honest even that is debatable, there is to this day very little reliable information about the flu epidemic among involved troops. It was called the Spanish flu because Spain was hard hit but as it was not involved in WWI did not censor information about it.
What is more interesting is what made the epidemic worse:
- Misinformation and rumours about the cause
- Misinformation about how the disease spread. (Virology was in its infancy.)
- Censuring and controlling data about the disease because of WW1
- Lack of international cooperation ( Understated this point a bit, maybe?)
- Mass people movements (troops and refugees)
(Edited for correcting some errors and clarification.)
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Honestly kind of curious how his cultists will try to insist that ACTUALLY Trump‘s statement is accurate in some way depending on your point of view so take that nerds and also also it’s totally pronounced Thigh-land YOU are the ones saying it wrong.
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We fought WWII to defeat the Spanish because they gave us the flu. And because Armada.
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Since the first documented case was in the US, we should stop calling it the spanish flu
Just for consistency…
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You mean the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire); the Axis was a WWII thing.
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