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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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    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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                  And the idea that an eclipse is as dark as being in a cave without a flashlight.

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

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

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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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        deleted by creator

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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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