Discussion: Trump Takes Latest Stab At Historical Analysis: 'Why Was There The Civil War?'

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Take it away Tim. Boston is still my favorite episode.

Drunk History - Harriet Tubman Leads an Army of Bad Bitches

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Trump is just too stupid to know how really stupid he is.

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I wish Trump would take up drinking. It might sober him up.

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A high-school history teacher would flunk any student who offered that answer to a Civil War test.

Lincolnā€™s words are memorialized on a monument; these words should be memorialized on Trumpā€™s commitment papers.

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Look up the Dunning-Kreger Effect. Itā€™s all been characterized before.

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He needs to collaborate with Sarah Palin on a book on American history and get Michele Bachmann to do the fact-checking.

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Amazing ainā€™t he ?

"ā€œI mean, had Andrew Jackson been a little bit later, you wouldnā€™t 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 ā€˜Thereā€™s no reason for this.ā€™ People donā€™t realize, you know, the Civil War, you think about it, why? People donā€™t 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: Trumpā€™s big-hearted hero, ā€œAndrew Jackson was a slaveholding plantation owner. He also died 16 years before the Civil War began. This Trump answer is astonishing.ā€

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In 150 years people may well still ask ā€œWhy was Donald Trump elected president?ā€

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150 years? People all over the world are asking that now.

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Why was there a Civil War?

ā€œCause I couldnā€™t get shit done in the first 100ā€“I mean the confederates fired cannonballs into Fort Sumter!ā€

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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 letā€™s Tramp think Mattis actually has rabies, and McMaster lets him think he has a few slaves.

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Iā€™ll save you some time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunningā€“Kruger_effect

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Iā€™m reading a lot about Andrew Jackson. I hear heā€™s doing great things.

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Oh for fuckā€™s sakeā€¦

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Itā€™s 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, ā€œHow did they not see it coming?ā€

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ā€œPeople donā€™t realize, you know, the Civil War, you think about it, why? People donā€™t 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 ā€œDonald Trump projects his staggering ignorance onto the general populaceā€ file.

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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.

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Coming soon:

ā€œ96% of Trump Voters Believe He Could Have Prevented The Civil War.ā€

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These words should be memorialized on the White House toilet paper.

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