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PubOption's avatar

Idi Amin's delusions were not restricted to grandeur.

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PubOption's avatar

The deficit is only significant when Dems are in power.

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PubOption's avatar

One army division by land, two aircraft carrier task forces by sea.

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PubOption's avatar

Ian Paisley?

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Lefty Mark's avatar

"...so while King gets some points for showing his work, he still pretty much fails the exam."

So King used the right equation, but still came up with the wrong answer? Hmmm, that reminds me ...

(Wait, why is everything getting all wiggly all of a sudden? Oh, right ... it's a flashback to me in high school math class. )

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BarackMyWorld's avatar

Carlos Danger? (As should we all, by staying the hell off twitter.)

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SullivanSt's avatar

When did they fall out?

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SullivanSt's avatar

Lindbergh was <em>also</em> much afeared that the Joos were plotting to destroy Amurkka from within, which is to say regardless of whether he thought we could be the Nazis, per-Pearl Harbor it's very questionable that he wanted that outcome.

Say, you know who else is afeared adherents of a non-Christian Abrahamic religion are plotting to destroy Amurkka from within?

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SullivanSt's avatar

It's quite plausible that going to war in September 1938 would have been disastrous for the Allies - WW1 was a truly fucking ghastly war and it left a lasting disgust that manifested in a distaste for maintaining a large military that was only dispelled when the threat that Hitler posed became impossible to deny. The Germans had a huge head start in militarizing, and even after a year of furiously manufacturing arms, things did not go so well for the Brits when war was joined in September 1939- their biggest "victory" before the Battle of Britain was successfully retreating from Dunkirk.

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fuflans's avatar

i am so ENTIRELY sick of this...crap about narcissa.

god. so. stupid.

(helen mccrory rocks my world)

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Incoming Ham's avatar

You are expecting too much. Their job is to be reelected.

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bobbert's avatar

Cardinal Law...

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Monsieur_Grumpe's avatar

I’m almost feeling sorry for Hitler these days. Almost.

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Joshua Norton's avatar

<i>you know the Republicans had this debate back in the 1930s when you had the isolationists and the Charles Lindberghs saying we should appease Hitler</i>

That was absolutely a thing. I just finished reading a biography of Alice Roosevelt Longworth (someone left it in the bathroom) and she was one of those isolationist Republicans. Mostly because she disliked FDR, but her ideology became uber-rightwing.

Fun Fact: History tries to paint "Princess Alice" as a fun old Washington grand dame with a sharp wit, but she was really a combo of Paris Hilton in her youth turning into Ann Coulter as she aged. Not a nice person at all.

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Joshua Norton's avatar

Do you know <i>who else</i> liked Godwin analysis?

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