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Old 05-17-2024, 04:59 PM
 
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Gettysburg. Wow.” -Donald Trump and also Jon Stewart’s 7th grade book report



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjZ0un61IRM

 
Old 05-17-2024, 05:44 PM
 
Location: A Nation Possessed
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Thread fail...

We have no shortage of videos wherein politicians say really stupid things. Some more stupid than others. So if you want to go there, we can.


Guam...
 
Old 05-17-2024, 07:21 PM
 
Location: Honolulu/DMV Area/NYC
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The problem with the left is that they use the same language for every Republican, no matter who they are. You can only claim doomsday but so many times before people start tuning you out.
 
Old 05-17-2024, 07:26 PM
 
Location: North of Canada, but not the Arctic
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Anyone who is not wowed by Civil War battles should not be involved with or commenting on politics.
 
Old 05-17-2024, 07:48 PM
 
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What's beautiful about fields of dead men and boys? What's beautiful about the wounded with amputated limbs? What's beautiful about children without fathers? What's beautiful about blood soaked land? What's beautiful about a field of dead horses used in the battle?

What's beautiful about the free Black farmers in PA who were kidnapped by Lee's army and made slaves?

The men were brave, but a field of gore is not beautiful.

https://www.mainememory.net/record/4286

In the end, Gettysburg was a strategic and tactical failure by Lee and should be remembered as such. Pickett may or may not have said about Lee "That old man destroyed my division” but the sentiment was real and he rightly blamed Lee for the catastrophe.

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Old Yesterday, 03:22 AM
 
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It succeeds cuz it's so darn true and pathetically sad.

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Thread fail...

We have no shortage of videos wherein politicians say really stupid things. Some more stupid than others. So if you want to go there, we can.



Dumb Trump...
 
Old Yesterday, 04:28 AM
 
Location: My house
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So who wrote that skit? Jon Leibowitz or his team of writers? Sad that a “comic” isn’t smart enough to come up with his own material. Also, Trump jokes on a left wing show? Talk about low hanging fruit
 
Old Yesterday, 05:49 AM
 
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So who wrote that skit? Jon Leibowitz or his team of writers? Sad that a “comic” isn’t smart enough to come up with his own material. Also, Trump jokes on a left wing show? Talk about low hanging fruit
Calling out the writers (regardless of their political leanings) for putting out so-called unoriginal material isn’t going to convince most people Mr. Trump’s own words regarding Gettysburg are not laughable, immature, and lack the appropriate gravitas. Certainly other politicians (including Mr. Biden) choose their words poorly and come across as rubes, so this is not unique. However, commentary such as yours doesn’t diminish the pathetic and laughable manner in which Mr. Trump articulated his statement.

By the way, I watch the Daily Show with some regularity and they frequently show Mr. Biden’s verbal blunders. They are cringe worthy in their own right, but the idea that they hate Trump is the reason they put this stuff out is absurd. They may well hate Trump, but the absurdity of his (and others’) statements is what gets the Show’s attention.

Why is it so hard for MAGAs to say, “Yeah, Trump’s still my guy, but that really was a stupid/funny/absurd/etc, thing to say?” For me, I think it’s pathetic that Mr. Biden is talking about his uncle being eaten by cannibals (or whatever), but Trump sucks so hard, he’s the better alternative. Most Trump haters are not voting for a Biden——they are voting against Trump. Very understandable.
 
Old Yesterday, 06:34 AM
 
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Calling out the writers (regardless of their political leanings) for putting out so-called unoriginal material isn’t going to convince most people Mr. Trump’s own words regarding Gettysburg are not laughable, immature, and lack the appropriate gravitas. Certainly other politicians (including Mr. Biden) choose their words poorly and come across as rubes, so this is not unique. However, commentary such as yours doesn’t diminish the pathetic and laughable manner in which Mr. Trump articulated his statement.

By the way, I watch the Daily Show with some regularity and they frequently show Mr. Biden’s verbal blunders. They are cringe worthy in their own right, but the idea that they hate Trump is the reason they put this stuff out is absurd. They may well hate Trump, but the absurdity of his (and others’) statements is what gets the Show’s attention.

Why is it so hard for MAGAs to say, “Yeah, Trump’s still my guy, but that really was a stupid/funny/absurd/etc, thing to say?” For me, I think it’s pathetic that Mr. Biden is talking about his uncle being eaten by cannibals (or whatever), but Trump sucks so hard, he’s the better alternative. Most Trump haters are not voting for a Biden——they are voting against Trump. Very understandable.
What is the problem with what Trump said?

He said the battle was horrible and vicious, 'but beautiful in some ways.'

There was beauty in dedication to country, cause, your brothers in arms. The park is hauntingly beautiful today with natural beauty and monument/sculpture beauty.

The cemetery is home to arguably the greatest speech in US history with words that have captivated generations.

It is TDS to think this is a huge gotcha.

Biden described Arlington National Cemetery as beautiful. Please wake me when propagandist Jon Stewart shrieks about how bad it is to describe Arlington Cemetery as beautiful when it's about people dying in gore on civil war battlefields and other wars, as well as assassinated people like JFK.

It was only "wrong," because Trump said it.

https://youtube.com/live/il5cTUuwg4k...kgcwU5KSDxZ11R

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Old Yesterday, 08:05 AM
 
Location: North of Canada, but not the Arctic
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Lifetime member of the NAACP:

https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/179...-trouble-if%2F

Poor man doesn't know the difference between million and billion:

https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/179...-trouble-if%2F

or trillion:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEl4E_zZtkg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiBmfcYaBoI


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28jXiZHPThk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jfav9QPL44

or thousand:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9NYS53lbk8


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3vF8WvJT_4

Maybe someone who isn't good with large numbers shouldn't have a job that involves large numbers?
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