Ding Dong.....the US Politics Thread (Part 2)

What? Like a plate? :grin:

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Or that Columbus himself never personally made it to ā€œAmericaā€.

The entire town of St Augustine is marketed around the historical conventional wisdom as where Ponce de Leon first stepped foot on US soil, but most historians think Melbourne beach, about 150 miles south, is the likely landing spot

That is down to Washington Irvingā€™s early 19th century biography of Columbus, which was one of the most popular books in America for nearly a century and was more or less used as a history textbook. The reality is that it had more in common with his Legend of Sleepy Hollow than a history.

One wonders how an astrolabe could be used by someone who thought the world was flat.

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I see alternative facts are an authentic American tradition.

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Fun fact! ColumBUS took a ship!

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@SBYM are you going to be on the Hegseth hearings today? I donā€™t have your updated schedule and your behavior has been erratic lately. Thanks as always.

Oh, you still exist?

I admire his moxy.

And given his credentials are having seen Crimson Tide 7 times, I think heā€™ll do well.

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Except he says Crimson Tide when he means under siege (he liked the bit with the baywatch lady coming out of the cake)

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Ah Ericaā€¦

I hope the years have been good to you. I suspect they havenā€™t.

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The comments :rofl:
Iā€™ve learnt that it costs 54.95 and something something something about a small pickle :joy:

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Surprised it doesnā€™t come with a mushroom, too.

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It looks disgusting.

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That is clearly wrong.

We all know it was Captain Cook

Looks raw in the middle.

https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1879705058075697536
https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1879635009533010302

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Old white blokes.

Oligarchy.

Always makes me think of the OG.

Heā€™s not wrong about the oligarchy.

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