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Last week, President Obama made a historic trip to Cuba and the right-wing went absolutely insane. Republicans were outraged that our president had the audacity to reestablish a relationship with the country more than fifty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis. After the trip to Cuba, The Onion, a satire website, decided to post a fictional article about his trip home; but, in a hilarious turn of events, paranoid conservatives didnt get the joke and Snopes actually had to debunk the article.
The comment section under the article soon filled with people who thought it was real:
More: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/03/26/the-rights-stupidity-forces-snopes-to-debunk-an-article-by-the-onion-screenshots/
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)sarge43
(28,946 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)who believe the unbelievable:
http://literallyunbelievable.org/
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)I can't believe there are that many stupid people out there.
SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)liberal N proud
(60,349 posts)Ignorance.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)Thespian2
(2,741 posts)"the height of stupidity"?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,060 posts)... an agenda shaped by RW oligarchs and including climate change denial.
But none of that denies the level of stupidity involved.
Hydra
(14,459 posts)There's no known limit to either. Bad as this is, it can and will be topped.
Thespian2
(2,741 posts)forest444
(5,902 posts)Ah, we laugh to keep from crying.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)and twice as dense
pansypoo53219
(21,005 posts)i blame CGI.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)PatrickforO
(14,602 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)world wide wally
(21,758 posts)Too bad they can only count to 2
PatrickforO
(14,602 posts)Why did they allow them to cling???
The sickening part of this is that so much of our population has been propagandized by the huge, throbbing, rock-hard right wing propaganda organ to completely de-legitimize Obama's presidency. To these people, he's not even human, and that is so sad and so un-American that it makes me want to cry.
lark
(23,182 posts)Stupid enough to ignore reality and vote for Repugs, which is usually against their best interests. Rich, greedy, selfish, non-caring, science ignoring, assholes are the Repugs natural followers.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)for just enough to keep us doing it. Kinda like slot machines.
And, I suspect, the same bad odds of cashing out.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But that last one from Jan Gorham has clearly missed the boat. My usual rejoinder to folks who say we have to take care of our own first is to ask if they've contacted their congressional representatives about that.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,375 posts)I liked that at least one comment mentioned that the plane flew from Cuba to Argentina. And did it without stopping at the hub in Atlanta!