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klook

(12,162 posts)
3. There were also people there well before 1803
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 09:20 AM
Jan 2020

...just not the sort that Trump would consider people.

Fun fact: Ohio is an Iroquoian name —
http://www.native-languages.org/ohio.htm

Norbert

(6,040 posts)
6. The Shawnee, Eire and Kickapoo tribes were here well before Columbus arrived
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 09:29 AM
Jan 2020

Not that it matter to the idiot.

htuttle

(23,738 posts)
8. Some of my ancestors moved to Ohio from Pennsylvania a few years before 1803
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 09:31 AM
Jan 2020

So we were there, at least. Though I suppose Trump considers us 'nobodies', lol.

Botany

(70,552 posts)
5. Putting aside the insult to the Native Americans I would like to point out O.U. was founded 1804
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 09:29 AM
Jan 2020


This building was finished in 1819

BTW "Clean Water?" Trump and facts not so much .... every summer the western end of Lake Erie becomes sick
with an algal bloom from fertilizer run off.

Maeve

(42,287 posts)
9. My father's family was here in Ohio a couple of hundred years ago
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 09:35 AM
Jan 2020

And there were others, both settlers and natives, here before them.

Idjit.

atreides1

(16,087 posts)
10. Ah yes
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 09:43 AM
Jan 2020

We know he's an idiot...that's a given! The problem is those cult members that keep supporting him!

marble falls

(57,145 posts)
12. By the 1800 there were were large settlements consisting of Revolutionary War vets, and land ...
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 09:55 AM
Jan 2020

set aside for citizens of Connecticut who had been burnt off their property by the British along Lake Erie (the Western Reserve and the Fire lands). There were settlements all along the Ohio river.

There were tribes aboriginal Americans.

Nobody? Lots of people.

Cleveland was founded in 1792, and Marrietta was founded in 1788, Toledo in 1817.

http://genealogytrails.com/ohio/firstwhitesettlers.htm

DFW

(54,428 posts)
13. More Republicanese
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 10:02 AM
Jan 2020

Maybe 400 years ago there were no Europeans in Ohio, but only if the Iroquois aren't people, which might be a new Republican talking point, can one say no one was in Ohio "a couple hundred years ago."

3catwoman3

(24,026 posts)
14. Is there anyone more...
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 10:02 AM
Jan 2020

...across-the-board ignorant than Donald Trump?

I remember a quote from the Game Change book about the 2008 campaign and election, from one of the people trying to work with Sarah Palin, saying, "She doesn't know anything." I was never sure which word to emphasize in the sentence - "She doesn't KNOW anything," or "She doesn't know ANYTHING."

Either way you say it, neither does Trump.

Maeve

(42,287 posts)
16. Mark Twain had a line for this--
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 10:10 AM
Jan 2020

“What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

He "knows" a lot of things that just ain't so!

LakeArenal

(28,835 posts)
17. Come on Citizens of Ohio. Vote the idiot out.
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 11:30 AM
Jan 2020

Don’t make it close. He marginalizes all of you. Vote Democratic.

jcgoldie

(11,636 posts)
18. "Most people don't know this but..."
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 11:31 AM
Jan 2020

At that time there were just some empty airports in Cleveland and Cincinnati...

Maru Kitteh

(28,342 posts)
19. Who cares when it "became a state." Has exactly nothing to do with
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 11:32 AM
Jan 2020

when people lived there.

I'm sorry, to me I see one ignorant statement followed by another that doubles down on that error and adds some insult to the mix.


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