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Trump posts bizarre solar eclipse ad – with his head plunging US into darkness
(www.independent.co.uk)
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wasn't there some sort of weird Q-Anon conspiracies surrounding the eclipse?
The answer is yes.
It was rapture when the path of this eclipse crossed the path of the eclipse two years ago. I think it was somewhere in Missouri/Iliinois. If you ascended, congrats. I get to go to work tomorrow.
nope. still here.
So. Did we finally get rid of the jackasses?
Safe to assume that if the rapture was real, most people thinking they were righteous enough to get raptured are most certainly missing their religion's arbitrary mark, so us decent, upstanding heathens would end up stuck with most of them here anyway.
Oh well. It was a nice thought anyway.
I'm also still here, so...
Oh, you meant the other kind of jackass.
well... I meant the religious fruitcake variety.
I assume if a rapture did happen... it'd be all over the news. and uh, celebrations.
Yes.
What were they? (About the eclipse.)
https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2024/04/fox-news-migrants-eclipse-border/
Oh I so fucking called that when I found out that the path of totality went straight through Eagle Pass.
Sigh
When else could the cartels cross the region under cover of darkness? It's not something that happens every night.
Yeah I know right? Joe Biden should have done more to stop the eclipse!
As a GM I would give my players a bonus to stealth during a total eclipse if they wanted to sneak past some guards, so I think this is a very valid take. ;-)
I mean, the guards would probably want to get a look at the eclipse! Haha
Ahh yes, under cover of shade
Once in a lifetime opportunity.
Wide open for a handful of minutes.
"While everyone is watching the sun, we'll crouch down and sneak right past them."
evidently their political worldview was heavily influenced by classic vaudevillian antics and screwball cartoons
And the idea that an eclipse is as dark as being in a cave without a flashlight.
I'm just assuming, probably correctly. I don't bother with that nonsense. But yes is a safe answer since everything's a freaking conspiracy with that bunch of nutjobs.
So in other words just lying? You really answered a question you had no idea the answer to with "yes."
I love how you have no response as soon as it's illustrated that in fact these jack offs did have a dumb conspiracy theory about this shit. Nice one!
It's called surmising, and they surmised correctly.
it's an advanced technique called "guessing"
An educated guess.
Neither do I, I just saw a headline the other day.