My God, @politico.com. This is beyond embarrassing.
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a good example of how the world is getting dumber. the new politico playbook writer didn't know who FDR was until a reader told him about that whole "new deal" thing. this newsletter is read by every important person in DC.
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That’s because he was he was a monumental figure in
world history and is revered world wide as such.
If Blanchard is American, he should be mortally ashamed,
even if he’s not American he should still be mortally ashamed.
I mentioned Attlee because it was his Labour govt, not Churchill that created the UK's NHS, etc...
Shame, becuase the depression seems awfully familiar right about now.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/04/13/88214251.pdf
(awkward but readable PDF)
Politico is now better than The Onion at satire.
I mean, it is an authoritative source of information!
Yet here we are.
It’s not as if FDR was some obscure, behind the scenes
assistant to an assistant in some government department.
He friggin saved and rebuilt your country and saved the world
from Fascism. The greatest president since Lincoln.
I thought he was another MWM but I guess we're going for charismatic Brit this time.
I'm a Canadian who has never taken a single US history class, and has spent a total of 5 days in your country.
I knew this shit.
@politico.com you should be really embarrassed. That's @FoxNews.com levels of incompetence.
He did not go straight up dictator day one and start blasting EOs.
😁
Jack Blanchard
Now knows of FDR and that’s a good thing, right?
At least he must have taken just ONE World History class in college?
Astonishing.
What can you tell me about Churchill's first 100 days as PM?
Constituted his war cabinet.
Created and took on the portfolio of minister of defence.
Dunkirk.
Finalized Lend/lease.
Opened the Italian front.
I mean ... basic stuff in world history classes.
Nothing in this text suggested the author didn’t know who FDR was.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/06/axel-springer-politico-media-scandal-germany-bild/
They don't know what they don't know, and can't imagine other people do. No wonder they "break stuff."
Soledad O’Brien, 8/25/2021
It’s not the world that’s getting dumber, it’s the US.
You as a student of history would know that, British or not.
It will only get worse
This is why I blocked and muted @politico.com
He’s not even embarrassed.
I’m not even American and I still know more about FDR
and Eleanor than this idiot.
FDR is revered throughout the world.