# The REAL victim in Charlottesville

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 23, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455 "2017-08-23T13:09:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455/41 "2017-08-24T19:10:05Z")

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> [@E-DUB](#):
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> Huey Logan wrote: “OH MY GOD!!! TRUMP IS JUST LIKE SADDAM HUSSEIN!!!”
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> Have you ever seen them together?

If I saw Donald Trump and Saddam Hussein struggling to keep from drowning in a pond, I’d recall those Florida teens who were in the news briefly a month or so ago. Then I’d grab lunch.

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455/42 "2017-08-24T19:13:17Z")

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> [@kayaker](#):
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> If I saw Donald Trump and Saddam Hussein struggling to keep from drowning in a pond, I’d recall those Florida teens who were in the news briefly a month or so ago. Then I’d grab lunch.

I’d wait around to see if that thing on Trump’s head tries to save itself.

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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455/43 "2017-08-24T19:37:04Z")

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Doesn’t it inflate when he pulls a little cord on the side?

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**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455/44 "2017-08-24T22:13:25Z")

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> [@running\_coach](#):
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> I’d wait around to see if that thing on Trump’s head tries to save itself.

Yeah, and then it becomes a hell’s toupée. [https://youtu.be/DWkcw-2WMMo](https://youtu.be/DWkcw-2WMMo)

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**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-victim-in-charlottesville/794455/45 "2017-08-24T22:39:27Z")

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> [@SteveG1](#):
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> Somehow I don’t think Lee thought too much of or about statues either.

You are correct. He didn’t.

[QUOTE=Robert E. Lee]  
“I think it well, moreover, not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife and to commit to oblivion the feelings it engendered.”  
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