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ck4829

(35,039 posts)
Tue Apr 7, 2020, 10:48 AM Apr 2020

The "Make America Great Again" Challenge is over. The year Trump voters need to live in is 1799

1799, everyone!

For background, I wrote this in 2018:


So when was America great before? What does that mean exactly? Sometimes you get vague replies of some before-time that was apparently so awesome it knocked your socks off, I remember a video of a Trump supporter chuckling and then saying "Well... before the gays", so I decided to help Trump supporters out.

Pick the year America was great and give up the horrible things associated with everything after that, and please add as you see fit.

2015 - Same sex marriage legalized in all states and territories

2013 - Black Lives Matter movement

2008 - First black president

2006 - Twitter founded (Give it up)

2004 - Facebook founded


2003 - Same sex sexual activity made legal in all states and territories

1991 - World Wide Web is open to the public

1973 - Roe v Wade

1968 - Last year it is legal to discriminate against someone trying to buy or rent because of the color of their skin

1954 - Last year it is legal to have separate schools for white and black students

1950 - BEST YEAR EVER (Excluding Roy Moore Voters)

1940 - About half of Americans have indoor plumbing (Flip a coin to see if you still have it, heads you do, tails you give it up)

1928 - Penicillin (Give antibiotics up)

1920 - Women get the right to vote

1916 - First billionaire in the US (So give up your already fantasy dreams of being a billionaire)

1914 - First flight service with passengers

1902 - First modern air conditioning unit

1885 - The first car

1868 - Being born in the US means you are a citizen

1865 - Still legal to own black people as slaves

1860 - The year right before the Civil War started, this is when America was great according to Roy Moore

1846 - Anesthesia in surgery

1776 - US declares independence from Britain

Before 1776 - First Muslims in America

Can Trump supporters dare to make America great again and live without the people... and things... after the year they say America is great?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210923374


1799 - Valentine Seaman, physician and anti-slavery activist, brings the smallpox vaccine to the US, inoculates his own children, sees they work, and begins a free vaccination program in New York

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine_Seaman
https://web.archive.org/web/20180913015235/http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/thematic-maps/quantitative/medicine/medicine.html

Got a disease that's not stopped by antibiotics or a vaccine and we're also running low on sedatives to put people under while they're on ventilation. So it looks like conservatives have chosen life in America in 1799.

A life where you get sick and and antibiotics, vaccines, and anesthesia can't help you? Bold. But sorry, Republicans, it looks like you still have to deal with those scamps, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, in the House.
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The "Make America Great Again" Challenge is over. The year Trump voters need to live in is 1799 (Original Post) ck4829 Apr 2020 OP
These days, Newest Reality Apr 2020 #1
Sick of "winning" ck4829 Apr 2020 #2

Newest Reality

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1. These days,
Tue Apr 7, 2020, 10:59 AM
Apr 2020

These days, it appears to me that the "great" he was talking about was the Great Depression. So, in that case, that's the winning.

Winning is losing! I used my secret decoder ring to figure that out.

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