"Nobody had ever heard of it"

[brooklynite]

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[greenjar_01]

1. Good Lord

[SoonerPride]

2. Anything that is news to him is news to the whole world.

So many times when his pea brain encounters new information he extrapolates that no one on earth knew such a thing before.

Because in his universe, there are no other people.

Just himself.

A universe of one.

[MontanaMama]

3. It's really quite amazing, isn't it?

A horrid little universe of one. 😢

[SoonerPride]

8. I used to think that he hated himself more than I hate him

Because I know that he hates himself.

But that equation changed and now I'm sure I hate him even more than he hates himself.

But make no mistake, he hates himself. At his core of his grotesque loathsome being he sees himself as a fat, lazy, failure. And to compensate for that self-loathing his NPD is off the charts, seeking anything to stroke his ego and fill the bottomless pit and emptiness in his soul.

His father really broke his poor little stupid brain.

[Mike 03]

4. Exactly this.

For example, the whole world just learned yesterday that Britain has nuclear weapons and that Finland isn't part of Russia (i.e. the Bolton revelations).

[SoonerPride]

5. Who knew healthcare would be so complicated?

[Mike 03]

6. ...

[maxsolomon]

15. Solipsism.

But without any philosophical underpinning.

[exboyfil]

7. Actually he has a point

For white suburbanites if we heard about it, it did not register BUT IT SHOULD HAVE.

Same with the Tulsa Massacre. It was not covered in American History in high school if I remember correctly (along with most of Jim Crow etc). I wonder how many Americans were educated about the Tulsa Massacre from The Watchmen.

[SoonerPride]

10. I'm a lifelong Okie and the Tulsa Massacre was not covered in HS.

I did learn about it in college at Oklahoma University.

And I was blown away by how it was central to Watchmen. That whole series was just outstanding. As a fan of the graphic novel and movie, I loved where they took the story and characters.

[exboyfil]

11. I agree

In general I do agree with some of the criticism out there on pop culture (ie The Fandom Menace), but they were totally off the rails with their criticism of Watchmen. I loved how it was said that the producers were exploiting a tragedy. My response would be then what was Moore doing with the Vietnam War? I know Moore is against any sort of adaptations (he even criticized the pretty good Watchman movie that was a close adaptation), but I thought the producers of the television show treated the source material with respect. We also got to see the interdimensional squid for the first time on the screen - that alone was worth the price of admission.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Whadda maroon. Everybody but him and his white supremacist goons

has heard of Juneteenth.

[subterranean]

13. I'm neither of those, and I'd never heard of it.

But then I wouldn’t presume that just because I had never heard of it, nobody had.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. And there you have the important difference.

Juneteenth is a huge deal to African Americans (I'm not, but I'd heard of it), but since His Lardship has nothing to do with that community at all it isn't surprising that he wasn't aware of it. Unlike everybody else, though, he had an obligation as president to know about it, especially in light of current events, but he always assumes that if he doesn't know something it must mean nobody else does, either, since it just couldn't be possible for millions of people to know something he doesn't know. I'm glad his mishandling of the Tulsa schedule (if that's what it was, and not an intentional slight) has made more people aware of the significance of that date.

[fleur-de-lisa]

12. Translation:

"I, Donald J Trump, being an ignorant, incurious, narcissistic and racist dumb ass, have never heard of Juneteenth."