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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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    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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