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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI literally knew that Morning JoeScum would start with the Con saying that the
'1917' pandemic ended WW2 - he's ignorant of history, he's ignorant of government...
Nexus2
(1,261 posts)jayschool2013
(2,312 posts)It's cool around here to demonize "the media," aka "M$Greedia."
Join the club. It's fun to call names!!
niyad
(113,308 posts)jayschool2013
(2,312 posts)We'll just have to disagree on what's witty and clever.
Malaise is certainly a more popular and prolific poster on here than I am.
Peace.
niyad
(113,308 posts)Hes had that nickname here for years. Most of us agree with it, though he seems to have seen a glimmer of light with Trump. Probably because Trump once said Mica had blood dripping off her face from a facelift and that it was gross.
avebury
(10,952 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)World War II began more than two decades after the pandemic.
The president probably meant to refer to World War I, the final months of which overlapped with the deadly spread of the flu, which also began in the summer of 1918, not 1917.
The deployment of troops during World War I most likely contributed to the spread of the 1918 flu because of crowded conditions and intercontinental movement, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
dem4decades
(11,294 posts)Botany
(70,504 posts)brewens
(13,588 posts)my dad WWII. Of course Trump never had any family serve in anything but the KKK. That was my reply to a FB post about this.
babylonsister
(171,066 posts)malaise
(269,004 posts)bird beak shaped mouth
underpants
(182,803 posts)I thought it was going to be him being swept away by Secret Service.
1917 I was just shaking my head and then I thought I heard WWII. What? Did he just...then the young Senator Blutarsky speech.
Voltaire2
(13,037 posts)Not a huge factor, but it helped.
SMoss
(112 posts)It wasn't a factor in ending the war. I studied WWI. However it caught hold in the atrocious trenches and hospitals. Then the soldiers returning home to places like S Africa, Australia, and the US took it with them and made it a pandemic.
Voltaire2
(13,037 posts)were sick from it at a point in time when Germanys war capabilities were collapsing from multiple resource problems including of course, troops. Lets put it this way: it didnt help.
quickesst
(6,280 posts)....you think of as scum to validate the OP. How.....ironic.
Personally, it pleases me that people like Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Claire McCaskill, Eric Swalwell, Al Sharpton, and I could go on, do not share your characterization and appreciates the platform Morning Joe provides for the Democratic Party and it's spokespersons.
I think quitting the Republican Party, becoming an independent, and spending 5 days a week, 3 hours a day, over the last almost four years surgically eviscerating don the con is more that enough to atone for his past.
SMoss
(112 posts)I don't understand the Joe Scum reference.
MF45 is more than ignorant. He can't learn. He made this stupid mistake several weeks ago. His stupid point was that the pandemic that killed 5 million did something good. He thinks it ended a war. Wrong, it came at the close of the war. In a way the war made it a pandemic. But he didn't learn from his ignorant statement. Several weeks later he repeated the mistake and made it worse.
bucolic_frolic
(43,163 posts)and the info just flowed into the vacuum
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)rpannier
(24,329 posts)Or was that the American Revolution? War of the Roses?
I'm certain he rode a Harley into battle
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,835 posts)rpannier
(24,329 posts)One if by land
Two if by sea
Three if by air
Ligyron
(7,632 posts)malaise
(269,004 posts)niyad
(113,308 posts)niyad
(113,308 posts)malaise
(269,004 posts)He's dumb as a rock - a raving lunatic
dalton99a
(81,489 posts)The American Heritage Dictionary defines "moron" as "a person regarded as very stupid," and "idiot" as "a foolish or stupid person."The difference should be quite apparent at this point. An idiot actually is stupid, while a moron is just thought of as stupid.
The question arises: can a person be both? When you call someone an idiot, you are saying he is stupid. But this also conjures up the moron part of things, which requires that you regard someone as very stupid. It appears that a person, having been called an idiot, has also inadvertently been called a moron. And from this, it seems that it would be impossible to call someone an idiot without calling that person a moron. But let's come in from the other angle here. If you call someone a moron, you are just saying that he is regarded as very stupid. You are NOT saying that he is, in fact, stupid, but just that he is regarded as stupid. So, in calling a person a moron, you can rest assured that you are not inadvertently calling him something which he may not be. From this, it appears that the answer to our question is yes, a person can be both, but only if the primary assumption is that he is an idiot. All idiots are morons, but not all morons are idiots.
https://www.cartalk.com/radio/letter/difference-between-moron-and-idiot