re: #63 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Anyone else run across MAGAts and other morons who think Benjamin Franklin served as President of the United States? This seems to have become a thing in recent years. There is even a conspiracy theory that Franklin really was President and has simply been erased from history by nefarious liberals, for Cthulhu knows what reason. One MAGAt I met in person insisted that his grade school history texts had mentioned Franklin as POTUS but it was gone from newer editions. He failed to explain how these nefarious libs were able to alter Franklin’s rather large biography in my 1962 World Book Encyclopedia, which has been in my possession since shortly after it was printed.

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I basically live across the river from Ben Franklin Ground Zero and this is literally the first time I’ve ever heard of that one.

Also: that photo is the big ass statue of Ben at the Franklin Institute. It’s just as impressive in real life as it is in the photo.