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TheJims@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Trump posts bizarre solar eclipse ad – with his head plunging US into darkness

www.independent.co.uk

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Trump posts bizarre solar eclipse ad – with his head plunging US into darkness

www.independent.co.uk

TheJims@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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During the August 2017 total solar eclipse, the then-president went viral when he ignored all eclipse safety recommendations by gazing directly at the sun with his naked eyes
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    wasn’t there some sort of weird Q-Anon conspiracies surrounding the eclipse?

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      wasn’t there some sort of weird Q-Anon conspiracies surrounding {Insert literally anything here}

      Yes.

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        What were they? (About the eclipse.)

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          https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2024/04/fox-news-migrants-eclipse-border/

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            a real opportunity for smugglers and cartels and migrants to come right in.”

            Sigh

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              Ahh yes, under cover of shade

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                Wide open for a handful of minutes.

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                  “While everyone is watching the sun, we’ll crouch down and sneak right past them.”

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                    evidently their political worldview was heavily influenced by classic vaudevillian antics and screwball cartoons

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                Once in a lifetime opportunity.

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              As a GM I would give my players a bonus to stealth during a total eclipse if they wanted to sneak past some guards, so I think this is a very valid take. ;-)

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                I mean, the guards would probably want to get a look at the eclipse! Haha

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              Yeah I know right? Joe Biden should have done more to stop the eclipse!

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              When else could the cartels cross the region under cover of darkness? It’s not something that happens every night.

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            Oh I so fucking called that when I found out that the path of totality went straight through Eagle Pass.

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          I’m just assuming, probably correctly. I don’t bother with that nonsense. But yes is a safe answer since everything’s a freaking conspiracy with that bunch of nutjobs.

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            Neither do I, I just saw a headline the other day.

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            So in other words just lying? You really answered a question you had no idea the answer to with “yes.”

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              it’s an advanced technique called “guessing”

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                An educated guess.

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              It’s called surmising, and they surmised correctly.

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              I love how you have no response as soon as it’s illustrated that in fact these jack offs did have a dumb conspiracy theory about this shit. Nice one!

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      It was rapture when the path of this eclipse crossed the path of the eclipse two years ago. I think it was somewhere in Missouri/Iliinois. If you ascended, congrats. I get to go to work tomorrow.

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        nope. still here.

        So. Did we finally get rid of the jackasses?

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          Safe to assume that if the rapture was real, most people thinking they were righteous enough to get raptured are most certainly missing their religion’s arbitrary mark, so us decent, upstanding heathens would end up stuck with most of them here anyway.

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            Oh well. It was a nice thought anyway.

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          I’m also still here, so…

          Oh, you meant the other kind of jackass.

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            well… I meant the religious fruitcake variety.

            I assume if a rapture did happen… it’d be all over the news. and uh, celebrations.

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      wasn’t there some sort of weird Q-Anon conspiracies surrounding the eclipse everything that ever happens?

      The answer is yes.

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