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Uncle Joe

(62,955 posts) Mon Aug 11, 2025, 09:29 PM Aug 11

Trump's DC Press Conference Fact-Checked Live by CNN; Trump Confuses Alaska & Russia: A Closer Look

Seth takes a closer look at Donald Trump giving an unhinged press conference announcing his decision to send federal troops to Washington, D.C., despite the fact that crime is down.

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Trump's DC Press Conference Fact-Checked Live by CNN; Trump Confuses Alaska & Russia: A Closer Look (Original Post) Uncle Joe Aug 11 OP

So close! So close! We only purchased it from Russia in 1867. Norrrm Aug 11 #1

Yes but that was during the brief "DEI" era of Reconstruction after the Civil War, and enslaved people were freed. Uncle Joe Aug 11 #2

Norrrm

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1. So close! So close! We only purchased it from Russia in 1867.

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Mon Aug 11, 2025, 09:37 PM

Aug 11

Uncle Joe

(62,955 posts)

2. Yes but that was during the brief "DEI" era of Reconstruction after the Civil War, and enslaved people were freed.

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Mon Aug 11, 2025, 09:56 PM

Aug 11

*rump's favorite era of history was the Gilded Age which also happened to take place as Jim Crow was legalized, I believe the two go hand in hand.

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