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Atticus

(15,124 posts) Wed May 27, 2020, 08:20 AM May 2020

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Hearing Trump describe "only" 100,000 dead as a "great job" reminded me of Robert Southey's

"The Battle of Blenheim" in which a field of rotting corpses is termed a "great victory". https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45178/the-battle-of-blenheim

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Hearing Trump describe "only" 100,000 dead as a "great job" reminded me of Robert Southey's (Original Post) Atticus May 2020 OP

His baseline is 15 going down to almost zero. keithbvadu2 May 2020 #1

keithbvadu2

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1. His baseline is 15 going down to almost zero.

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Wed May 27, 2020, 10:04 AM

May 2020

His baseline is 15 going down to almost zero.

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