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Kelly O'Donnell Retweeted*Extremely* prescient thread >
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*Extremely* prescient thread (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Jan 2021
OP
Don't forget, tRump called Dec 19 for the protest Jan 6: "Be there, will be wild!"
Bernardo de La Paz
Jan 2021
#1
Yes, it's not really "prescient" when it's a public invitation sent out a few days earlier
Bongo Prophet
Jan 2021
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Bernardo de La Paz
(49,020 posts)1. Don't forget, tRump called Dec 19 for the protest Jan 6: "Be there, will be wild!"
Bongo Prophet
(2,650 posts)2. Yes, it's not really "prescient" when it's a public invitation sent out a few days earlier
To Nora O'Donnell, it might look like magic. Better for her to think that than grok the fact that citizens can 'do journalism' from time to time...
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,020 posts)3. It is prescient, but it is not rocket science. . . . nt
Bongo Prophet
(2,650 posts)4. I guess that is technically true, point taken
If I got an invitation to a party, and told someone I was going to be there on said date, when I shoed up would they say "Ooh, how prescient you were to be here! What foresight, how'd you do that?"
I would probably look at them funny, lol.
IcyPeas
(21,894 posts)5. he's pretty spot-on
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Wounded Bear
(58,676 posts)6. Officials who ignored the warnings were being willfully ignorant...
and should be vigorously investigated.