Take it away Tim. Boston is still my favorite episode.
Drunk History - Harriet Tubman Leads an Army of Bad Bitches
Trump is just too stupid to know how really stupid he is.
I wish Trump would take up drinking. It might sober him up.
A high-school history teacher would flunk any student who offered that answer to a Civil War test.
Lincolnās words are memorialized on a monument; these words should be memorialized on Trumpās commitment papers.
Look up the Dunning-Kreger Effect. Itās all been characterized before.
He needs to collaborate with Sarah Palin on a book on American history and get Michele Bachmann to do the fact-checking.
Amazing aināt he ?
"āI mean, had Andrew Jackson been a little bit later, you wouldnāt have had the Civil War. He was a very tough person but he had a big heart and he was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War. He said āThereās no reason for this.ā People donāt realize, you know, the Civil War, you think about it, why? People donāt ask that question. But why was there a Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?ā
As NBC Newsā Brad Jaffy pointed out, there are some problems here: Trumpās big-hearted hero, āAndrew Jackson was a slaveholding plantation owner. He also died 16 years before the Civil War began. This Trump answer is astonishing.ā
In 150 years people may well still ask āWhy was Donald Trump elected president?ā
150 years? People all over the world are asking that now.
Why was there a Civil War?
āCause I couldnāt get shit done in the first 100āI mean the confederates fired cannonballs into Fort Sumter!ā
1 / His distorted cartoon-version of reality seems to get him through the day. I bet he asks himself What Would Scooby Do?
2 / His gutless sycophants dare not correct him. Even Mad Dog Mattis probably letās Tramp think Mattis actually has rabies, and McMaster lets him think he has a few slaves.
Iāll save you some time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DunningāKruger_effect
Iām reading a lot about Andrew Jackson. I hear heās doing great things.
Oh for fuckās sakeā¦
Itās been clear for awhile that the idolization of Andrew Jackson by the alt-right is because he oversaw the massacre of huge numbers of non-whites.
History books will have much to say about this era, but the most worrisome observation may be, āHow did they not see it coming?ā
āPeople donāt realize, you know, the Civil War, you think about it, why? People donāt ask that question, but why was there the Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?ā
Josh, this is a classic for your āDonald Trump projects his staggering ignorance onto the general populaceā file.
ahemā¦it started about 150 minutes after the fact and continues within the mainstream scribbler press. Cable tv has moved on to its traditional shouting matches.
Coming soon:
ā96% of Trump Voters Believe He Could Have Prevented The Civil War.ā
These words should be memorialized on the White House toilet paper.