85 years ago today

[Doctor Phibes]

Oh God, I hope the Brexit brigade don't start going on about Churchill and Farage again.

The biggest problem with WW2 is that half of England wants to go back and live in it.

[Horace]

21,000,000 million illegals entered America. Let that sink in. That's 21,000,000,000,000. That's around 20 billion COVIDs.

One COVID was enough for me. But I guess the Democrats wanted 19 billion, 999 million, 999 thousand, 999 more.

Count me out.

[jon-nyc]

For contrast:

[LuFins Dad]

Oh, is he back from Maternity Leave?

[jon-nyc]

I thought you were against transing people? He took paternity leave like a lot of men.

[Renauda]

My only question is, how the hell did Trumpigula’s X rant get shoehorned into a thread about about Dunkirk?

Sick.

[Axtremus]

@Renauda said in 85 years ago today:

... how the hell did Trumpigula’s X rant get shoehorned into a thread about about Dunkirk?

The USA celebrates Memorial Day on the anniversary of Operation Dynamo. Trump's post talks about Memorial Day.

[jon-nyc]

Trump’s post speaks movingly about the debt and gratitude we owe to fallen soldiers. Some 1000 British soldiers died in Operation Dynamo while saving some 340k soldiers from capture or destruction by German forces.

[Horace]

@Renauda said in 85 years ago today:

My only question is, how the hell did Trumpigula’s X rant get shoehorned into a thread about about Dunkirk?

Sick.

Because I posted it there. Is that ok with you?

[Renauda]

No

[Horace]

I've already sent several draft posts to my editors, which were to be published in the coming days and weeks. I will let them know to remove the sick parts.

[Doctor Phibes]

Trump would have won Dunkirk.

By a lot.

[Renauda]

@Doctor-Phibes

In fact, it wouldn’t have happened if Trump were president.

@Horace

I've already sent several draft posts to my editors, which were to be published in the coming days and weeks. I will let them know to remove the sick parts.

555

[Mik]

@Renauda said in 85 years ago today:

My only question is, how the hell did Trumpigula’s X rant get shoehorned into a thread about about Dunkirk?

Sick.

It does rather taint an otherwise noble (rare?) thread.

[jon-nyc]

@Doctor-Phibes said in 85 years ago today:

Trump would have won Dunkirk.

By a lot.

The fuck you talking about? Trump did win Dunkirk. But it was stolen by the Brits. Or maybe the Germans.

[jon-nyc]

@Mik said in 85 years ago today:

@Renauda said in 85 years ago today:

My only question is, how the hell did Trumpigula’s X rant get shoehorned into a thread about about Dunkirk?

Sick.

It does rather taint an otherwise noble (rare?) thread.

Heh heh heh. He said ‘taint’.

[Horace]

This thread was too beautiful for this world. I became insanely jealous of it, and in my spite, I tainted it.

[Renauda]

Hater.

[jon-nyc]

[AndyD]

War cemeteries are intensely emotional places. You gaze over a sea of crosses and contemplate our nature. What must it be like for leaders who sent men to fight?

Meanwhile the little ships were commemorating last week
https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2025-05-21/dunkirk-little-ships-to-make-historic-journey-85-years-on-from-evacuation