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"A couple hundred years ago, there was no one here!" -- Ohio became a state in 1803
Link to tweet
C_U_L8R
(45,055 posts)Vinca
(50,354 posts)klook
(12,183 posts)...just not the sort that Trump would consider people.
Fun fact: Ohio is an Iroquoian name
http://www.native-languages.org/ohio.htm
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Harker
(14,160 posts)Not surprising he'd say "nobody".
Norbert
(6,047 posts)Not that it matter to the idiot.
htuttle
(23,738 posts)So we were there, at least. Though I suppose Trump considers us 'nobodies', lol.
Harker
(14,160 posts)as people.
Botany
(70,715 posts)This building was finished in 1819
BTW "Clean Water?" Trump and facts not so much .... every summer the western end of Lake Erie becomes sick
with an algal bloom from fertilizer run off.
Maeve
(42,335 posts)And there were others, both settlers and natives, here before them.
Idjit.
We know he's an idiot...that's a given! The problem is those cult members that keep supporting him!
marble falls
(57,904 posts)set aside for citizens of Connecticut who had been burnt off their property by the British along Lake Erie (the Western Reserve and the Fire lands). There were settlements all along the Ohio river.
There were tribes aboriginal Americans.
Nobody? Lots of people.
Cleveland was founded in 1792, and Marrietta was founded in 1788, Toledo in 1817.
http://genealogytrails.com/ohio/firstwhitesettlers.htm
DFW
(54,609 posts)Maybe 400 years ago there were no Europeans in Ohio, but only if the Iroquois aren't people, which might be a new Republican talking point, can one say no one was in Ohio "a couple hundred years ago."
3catwoman3
(24,187 posts)...across-the-board ignorant than Donald Trump?
I remember a quote from the Game Change book about the 2008 campaign and election, from one of the people trying to work with Sarah Palin, saying, "She doesn't know anything." I was never sure which word to emphasize in the sentence - "She doesn't KNOW anything," or "She doesn't know ANYTHING."
Either way you say it, neither does Trump.
Maeve
(42,335 posts)What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.
He "knows" a lot of things that just ain't so!
LakeArenal
(28,931 posts)Dont make it close. He marginalizes all of you. Vote Democratic.
jcgoldie
(11,674 posts)At that time there were just some empty airports in Cleveland and Cincinnati...
Maru Kitteh
(28,354 posts)when people lived there.
I'm sorry, to me I see one ignorant statement followed by another that doubles down on that error and adds some insult to the mix.
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