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Ampelas
05/01/17 9:21:18 AM
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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/331349-trump-why-was-there-the-civil-war

"People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?" Trump said during the edition of "Main Street Meets the Beltway" scheduled to air on SiriusXM.

"People don't ask that question, but why was there the Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?"


He then goes on to compare himself with Andrew Jackson...
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CableZL
05/01/17 9:21:46 AM
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Milkman5
05/01/17 9:21:56 AM
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ok? what about it
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awesome999
05/01/17 9:22:19 AM
#4:


Trump is like the country he's president of. A joke
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DrizztLink
05/01/17 9:22:41 AM
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CableZL posted...
It shouldn't be a real quote

but it is

This nightmare of an administration in a nutshell.
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Doom_Art
05/01/17 9:23:22 AM
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"People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?" - Donald Trump, 2017
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05/01/17 9:23:38 AM
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Doom_Art
05/01/17 9:23:40 AM
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I'd make a joke about this, but it'd probably get elected President
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Were_Wyrm
05/01/17 9:24:55 AM
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If only we had a great deal maker back then, someone who makes really great deals, the best deals.
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Irony
05/01/17 9:25:58 AM
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Jackson pwnt Dickinson in a duel
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AugustAdoulin
05/01/17 9:26:22 AM
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Republicans, how can you defend this? He's STUPID. He knows less history than a 5th grader. Jesus tap dancin' Christ.
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Solar_Crimson
05/01/17 9:26:37 AM
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DrizztLink
05/01/17 9:28:23 AM
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AugustAdoulin posted...
Republicans, how can you defend this?

YvJB6ot
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Mikablu
05/01/17 9:30:01 AM
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AugustAdoulin posted...
Republicans, how can you defend this?

He's God-Emperor Trump. They don't have to defend it because everything that he says is really good words. Like, the best words.
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Nomadic View
05/01/17 9:31:16 AM
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It's like he's trying to 1-up the SNL impressions of him.
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Doom_Art
05/01/17 9:32:06 AM
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Irony posted...
Jackson pwnt Dickinson in a duel

He also committed ethnic cleansing and cultural genocide

but yknow "omg he dueled he's so kewl"
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Maze_
05/01/17 9:33:06 AM
#18:


AugustAdoulin posted...
Republicans, how can you defend this?

"Better than Hiliary"
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Irony
05/01/17 9:33:44 AM
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Doom_Art posted...
Irony posted...
Jackson pwnt Dickinson in a duel

He also committed ethnic cleansing and cultural genocide

but yknow "omg he dueled he's so kewl"

Doom_Art politics post
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TheoryzC
05/01/17 9:34:56 AM
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"Noooo. What he REALLY meant was..."
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Doom_Art
05/01/17 9:35:37 AM
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Irony posted...
Doom_Art politics post

Am I wrong in some way?
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Irony
05/01/17 9:36:21 AM
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Nope, didn't say you were
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Phantom_Nook
05/01/17 9:36:56 AM
#23:


AugustAdoulin posted...
Republicans, how can you defend this? He's STUPID. He knows less history than a 5th grader. Jesus tap dancin' Christ.

They won't defend it. They'll avoid this topic, or deflect to literally anyone else.
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Doom_Art
05/01/17 9:37:48 AM
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Irony posted...
Nope, didn't say you were

Then what's that supposed to mean? lol
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Were_Wyrm
05/01/17 9:38:08 AM
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Maze_ posted...
AugustAdoulin posted...
Republicans, how can you defend this?

"Better than Hiliary"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Qy-CYXC1s

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Veggeta_MAX
05/01/17 9:38:34 AM
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Phantom_Nook posted...
AugustAdoulin posted...
Republicans, how can you defend this? He's STUPID. He knows less history than a 5th grader. Jesus tap dancin' Christ.

They won't defend it. They'll avoid this topic, or deflect to literally anyone else.

Just summon them. Here I'll do it.

@Caution999
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awesome999
05/01/17 9:39:57 AM
#27:


Veggeta_MAX posted...
Phantom_Nook posted...
AugustAdoulin posted...
Republicans, how can you defend this? He's STUPID. He knows less history than a 5th grader. Jesus tap dancin' Christ.

They won't defend it. They'll avoid this topic, or deflect to literally anyone else.

Just summon them. Here I'll do it.

@Caution999

@Mal_Fet
@The_Admiral
@Milkman5
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MakoReizei
05/01/17 9:40:21 AM
#28:


Milkman5 posted...
ok? what about it

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Caution999
05/01/17 9:41:54 AM
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He's not asking WHY there was a Civil war - meaning "Why did a Civil war happen? I NEVER KNEW THIS OMG!!"

He's saying that it could've been avoided if people could compromise, and do the right things.

What's wrong with that? Do you guys just grasp at straws all day?
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Solar_Crimson
05/01/17 9:41:55 AM
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AugustAdoulin posted...
Republicans, how can you defend this?

They do this:

MakoReizei posted...
Milkman5 posted...
ok? what about it

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Solar_Crimson
05/01/17 9:42:54 AM
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Caution999 posted...
He's not asking WHY there was a Civil war - meaning "Why did a Civil war happen? I NEVER KNEW THIS OMG!!"

He's saying that it could've been avoided if people could compromise, and do the right things.

What's wrong with that? Do you guys just grasp at straws all day?

How could they have compromised on it when one of the major factors of the war was the South's self-determined right to own slaves?
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awesome999
05/01/17 9:43:24 AM
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Caution999 posted...
He's not asking WHY there was a Civil war - meaning "Why did a Civil war happen? I NEVER KNEW THIS OMG!!"

He's saying that it could've been avoided if people could compromise, and do the right things.

What's wrong with that? Do you guys just grasp at straws all day?

TheoryzC posted...
"Noooo. What he REALLY meant was..."

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RchHomieQuanChi
05/01/17 9:45:44 AM
#33:


Trump says what he means! Except for when he doesn't!
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AugustAdoulin
05/01/17 9:46:54 AM
#34:


awesome999 posted...
Veggeta_MAX posted...
Phantom_Nook posted...
AugustAdoulin posted...
Republicans, how can you defend this? He's STUPID. He knows less history than a 5th grader. Jesus tap dancin' Christ.

They won't defend it. They'll avoid this topic, or deflect to literally anyone else.

Just summon them. Here I'll do it.

@Caution999

@Mal_Fet
@The_Admiral
@Milkman5


oh looks like the admiral ran into some trouble at sea. His name's in black.
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AvlButtslam
05/01/17 9:48:26 AM
#35:


Were_Wyrm posted...
If only we had a great deal maker back then, someone who makes really great deals, the best deals.

Lol, this sounds like it could be a real quote
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Doom_Art
05/01/17 9:49:57 AM
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Caution999 posted...
He's not asking WHY there was a Civil war - meaning "Why did a Civil war happen? I NEVER KNEW THIS OMG!!"

He's saying that it could've been avoided if people could compromise, and do the right things.

What's wrong with that? Do you guys just grasp at straws all day?

A word to the not-so-wise about this:

If you have to stretch and interpret what someone said to make it sound reasonable, then they said something stupid.
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Milkman5
05/01/17 9:50:04 AM
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1. I'm not a republican
2. I don't understand what's outrageous about what he said.

Wasn't the civil war the highest american death toll of any war to date?
I can see why someone would think why couldn't there have been another way.

Subtle things could have prevented many wars, but most of it is an in hindsight kind of thing.

They could have prevented world war 2 at the treaty of versailles
They could have prevent world war 1 with a effective bodyguard
they probably could have prevented the civil war too in some way.

originally the constitution proposed an abolition of slavery, if it was pushed harder before the south's economy became too dependent on it, it may have prevented a war, who knows.
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Ampelas
05/01/17 9:50:26 AM
#38:


AugustAdoulin posted...
awesome999 posted...
Veggeta_MAX posted...
Phantom_Nook posted...
AugustAdoulin posted...
Republicans, how can you defend this? He's STUPID. He knows less history than a 5th grader. Jesus tap dancin' Christ.

They won't defend it. They'll avoid this topic, or deflect to literally anyone else.

Just summon them. Here I'll do it.

Caution999

Mal_Fet
The_Admiral
Milkman5


oh looks like the admiral ran into some trouble at sea. His name's in black.

He slipped up and went full racist instead of his usual implied racism in one of his Anti-Muslim topics
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RchHomieQuanChi
05/01/17 9:51:27 AM
#39:


Ampelas posted...
AugustAdoulin posted...
awesome999 posted...
Veggeta_MAX posted...
Phantom_Nook posted...
AugustAdoulin posted...
Republicans, how can you defend this? He's STUPID. He knows less history than a 5th grader. Jesus tap dancin' Christ.

They won't defend it. They'll avoid this topic, or deflect to literally anyone else.

Just summon them. Here I'll do it.

Caution999

Mal_Fet
The_Admiral
Milkman5


oh looks like the admiral ran into some trouble at sea. His name's in black.

He slipped up and went full racist instead of his usual implied racism in one of his Anti-Muslim topics


what did he say
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Doom_Art
05/01/17 9:51:33 AM
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But yes this all boils down to

"Trump means what he says, except when he doesn't"



Here's an idea:

He can actually take care with what he says and be clear in his meaning of things instead of tossing out word salad and letting everyone make their own little interpretation of his words.
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AugustAdoulin
05/01/17 9:51:51 AM
#41:


Ampelas posted...
He slipped up and went full racist instead of his usual implied racism in one of his Anti-Muslim topics


Ah, the dog whistle must have been out of key or something.
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Milkman5
05/01/17 9:53:27 AM
#42:


like you guys are reaching to criticize him for this and I'm convinced you guys just find any statement Trump says as outrageous somehow because you guys hate Trump.

suddenly CE is full of expert historians who know for a fact that the civil war was a 100% an inevitability.

and even if that's true and it was 100% unavoidable, how does t make someone an idiot to beg the question?

no one even tried to bother arguing why it was impossible to avoid
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Caution999
05/01/17 9:54:12 AM
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Solar_Crimson posted...
Caution999 posted...
He's not asking WHY there was a Civil war - meaning "Why did a Civil war happen? I NEVER KNEW THIS OMG!!"

He's saying that it could've been avoided if people could compromise, and do the right things.

What's wrong with that? Do you guys just grasp at straws all day?

How could they have compromised on it when one of the major factors of the war was the South's self-determined right to own slaves?


And the South should've let them free and do the right thing. Avoiding war. He's saying that if Andrew Jackson were born later, maybe things would've been different.

Yes, the slave owner, Andrew Jackson. I know the liberal mob acts like this guy was the devil, but he wasn't ENTIRELY bad. Yeah, Trail of Tears, hater and killer of Native Americans, wah wah wah.

https://learnodo-newtonic.com/andrew-jackson-accomplishments

Most likely, Trump is referring to the Nullification crisis that was averted thanks to Andrew Jackson.
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Maze_
05/01/17 9:54:54 AM
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Milkman5 posted...

suddenly CE is full of expert historians

Yes all the expert historians who know about the American Civil War.

That forgotten piece of mostly unrecorded history
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DrizztLink
05/01/17 9:55:51 AM
#45:


Caution999 posted...
Yeah, Trail of Tears, hater and killer of Native Americans, wah wah wah.

"It was just a LITTLE genocide, you babies."

Jesus, you make the worst posts imaginable.
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Doom_Art
05/01/17 9:56:27 AM
#46:


Caution999 posted...
I know the liberal mob acts like this guy was the devil, but he wasn't ENTIRELY bad. Yeah, Trail of Tears, hater and killer of Native Americans, wah wah wah.

Is this seriously a thing you just said? lol

"cultural genocide and ethnic cleansing/relocation wah wah wah"

you serious?
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MakoReizei
05/01/17 9:56:27 AM
#47:


Maze_ posted...
Milkman5 posted...

suddenly CE is full of expert historians

Yes all the expert historians who know about the American Civil War.

That forgotten piece of mostly unrecorded history

simply knowing about the Civil War doesn't make you an expert.
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Milkman5
05/01/17 9:56:33 AM
#48:


and I got to say it's refreshing to hear liberals act like bloodshed and war was the only answer to a problem

lol
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Caution999
05/01/17 9:57:44 AM
#49:


Doom_Art posted...
Caution999 posted...
I know the liberal mob acts like this guy was the devil, but he wasn't ENTIRELY bad. Yeah, Trail of Tears, hater and killer of Native Americans, wah wah wah.

Is this seriously a thing you just said? lol

"cultural genocide and ethnic cleansing/relocation wah wah wah"

you serious?


It was the fucking 1830's. Get over it. Things were DIFFERENT back then. Doesn't make them right, but to strike out all the positive that Andrew Jackson did AS WELL - is asinine.
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Doom_Art
05/01/17 9:58:51 AM
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Caution999 posted...
It was the fucking 1830's. Get over it. Things were DIFFERENT back then.

oh my god this is actually a thing you're saying lol
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