Good god, Deplorables have the IQ of eggplants.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Last edited Fri Jul 20, 2018, 09:53 PM - Edit history (3)

A viral image suggests that the late Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain hinted at a future Donald Trump presidency over 20 years before it happened.twitter.com/ufpnation

FALSE


On 30 July 2016, the pro-Donald Trump Facebook page “Trump Train” posted an image of the late Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain overlaid with a message ostensibly uttered by him in 1993 endorsing Donald Trump for president:

The “Trump Train” Facebook page didn’t provide any information about where Cobain allegedly made this prediction (e.g., in an interview, as part of a television appearance, during a concert) and noted only that it he supposedly uttered it sometime in 1993. We found no record of the Nirvana singer’s saying anything like the statement attributed to him by that page in 1993 (or any other year).

This quote appears to have originated with the “Trump Train” Facebook post of 30 July 2016, made long after Cobain’s 1994 death by suicide. (In addition to the dubious citation, the image also incorrectly spells Cobain’s given name as ‘Curt’ rather than ‘Kurt.’)

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kurt-cobain-predicted-donald-trump-presidency-in-1993/

[csziggy]

1. Snopes rates that as FALSE

On 30 July 2016, the pro-Donald Trump Facebook page “Trump Train” posted an image of the late Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain overlaid with a message ostensibly uttered by him in 1993 endorsing Donald Trump for president:

The “Trump Train” Facebook page didn’t provide any information about where Cobain allegedly made this prediction (e.g., in an interview, as part of a television appearance, during a concert) and noted only that it he supposedly uttered it sometime in 1993. We found no record of the Nirvana singer’s saying anything like the statement attributed to him by that page in 1993 (or any other year).

This quote appears to have originated with the “Trump Train” Facebook post of 30 July 2016, made long after Cobain’s 1994 death by suicide. (In addition to the dubious citation, the image also incorrectly spells Cobain’s given name as ‘Curt’ rather than ‘Kurt.’)

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kurt-cobain-predicted-donald-trump-presidency-in-1993/

[wishstar]

7. Trump Train on Facebook is like gospel to Trumpers I know

[Tiggeroshii]

3. What do you have against eggplants?

[tonyt53]

4. That does a disservice to eggplants.

[RhodeIslandOne]

5. Kurt Cobain was a heroin addict

So who cares anyway?

[MrScorpio]

6. "Be careful about you read on the Internet."

- Abraham Lincoln
1864

[dalton99a]

12. +1

[NRaleighLiberal]

8. Please..I made a great eggplant dish tonight. Don't insult eggplants!

[wonkwest]

9. When a government doesn't work for people, they'll reach for stupid things

Cobain wasn't a prophet. It's written into every history book ever on Western History.

The people who are surprised surprise. Really? You didn't see this coming? At all?

I don't expect everyone to be a history major, but it was apparently a tall order for our self-appointented commentariat to know.

Trump succeeds because politicians failed. Power failed. So you have a lot of people running around making choices based on their feelings.

And look where that's getting us.

But let's pretend none of us hold no responsibility for any of this. That'll make things better.

Trump is an inexpressed id. A nasty one in many ways. But an id of a frustrated Republic nonetheless. We ignore and dismiss that and feel superior to that at our peril. You can be smarter. Many of us are. But, where you have voters, newp. You'll fuck yourself, then wonder why.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. Cobain never uttered the words Deplorables attributed to him.

[wonkwest]

19. No, we made that one up after we failed

We failed, too. One word: Unions.

[brush]

11. trump's public posturing and bragging fooled a lot of people.

[Vilis Veritas]

13. most likely russian meme, their campaign is social engineering

no need to hack votes when you can hack the minds of people who lack critical thinking

[AlexSFCA]

14. is thag authentic? looks like russian propaganda meme

[Xolodno]

15. The frustrating thing....

...you bring out snopes and wing-nuts have already dismissed it as a "liberal" website. They will believe the meme no matter how untruthful because its what they want to hear/read....self validation.

[Initech]

16. I could tell it was fake by the misspelling of the name.

Of course your average Trumplodyte wouldn't care.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

17. I bet Curt Cobain actually did say that!

I know Curt Cobain and that sounds exactly like something he would say!

And if not Curt Cobain, it sounds totally like something my other friend would have said, Curt Kobain.

[dweller]

18. and all along I thought it was

Eddie Fedder