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Swede

(38,207 posts)
Tue Dec 8, 2020, 09:34 PM Dec 2020

Deadliest days in American history:

1. Galveston Hurricane - 8,000
2. Antietam - 3,600
3. 9/11 - 2,977
4. Last Thursday - 2,861
5. Last Wednesday - 2,762
6. Last Tuesday - 2.461
7. Last Friday - 2,439
8. Pearl Harbor - 2,403


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Liberty Belle

(9,701 posts)
4. 1906 San Francisco earthquake killed 3,000 including the fires after; how many died on day one?
Tue Dec 8, 2020, 10:11 PM
Dec 2020

D-Day, though not on American soil, killed around 2,500 Americans.

ffr

(23,322 posts)
7. Elections have consequences. Your life depends on voting for the right people.
Tue Dec 8, 2020, 11:00 PM
Dec 2020

The people that made this happen were the wrong choice.

For the sake of all Americans, SHAME REPUBLICANS EVERYWHERE! May the pit full of dead Americans rest on REPUBLICAN incompetence & inaction.

keithbvadu2

(40,915 posts)
8. Four out of eight are p/o the Trump/Pence death count.
Tue Dec 8, 2020, 11:07 PM
Dec 2020

Four out of eight are p/o the Trump/Pence death count.

Their death count will carry on into the Biden administration and they will falsely blame Biden for it.

jO456

(62 posts)
10. Spanish flu killed 195,000 in just October 1918
Tue Dec 8, 2020, 11:58 PM
Dec 2020

Hopefully we do not average about 6000 per day like October 1918

Darkstar53142

(79 posts)
12. All these needless deaths are because cheato downplayed the threat...
Wed Dec 9, 2020, 12:55 AM
Dec 2020

...are a black mark on his character and person, not considering the office he holds.

He's by far the worst president, the most demonstrably un-American tyrant, and the worst piss stain on the constitution ever.

I thought George W. Bush would be the worst president I'd see in my lifetime.

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