i’ll go first: our 17th prime minister one day vanished while swimming in the ocean and not only did none of his friends give a fuck, they started slapfighting immediately for who’s gonna be his successor. no joke they didn’t even let his body turn cold before the arguments began it was all so fucking funny.
that’s a fair point, most of american history is fuckin’ nuts. is there anything in american history that was both super stupid and super funny? edit: also yes i’m australian lol
Back in the 1960s, the us govt wanted to use something like 520 nuclear weapons to dig a canal alternative to the Suez through the Negev desert in Israel.
link to a declassified paper, but it goes to a US GOV website so beware
I dunno why but this is what popped into mind as super stupid but not necessarily super funny.
One time they decided to dispose of a bunch of nuclear waste off the east coast and when the barrels didn’t sink they had fighter planes strafe them.
We have also accidentally dropped several nuclear bombs on ourselves that luckily did not detonate.
In the Korean War General MacArthur wanted to create a nuclear umbrella Shield against the Chinese when they backed up the Koreans, he wanted to drop 100 or so tactical nuclear weapons all across the border of Korea and China. I think it was Eisenhower as president at the time that told him to fuck off and fired him. MacArthur ran for president at least once and got just crushed.
The soldiers in World War II hated him partly because he changed their food from good real food to like processed crap food like egg beaters for eggs and spam for meat and such.
MacArthur was such an ass
Nope it was Truman, who had enough of MacArthur’s shit after dealing with him through the final months of WWII. The two famously never got along, even when Truman was Vice President. MacArthur’s insubordination during the Korean War was the last straw when he was contradicting Truman in the press.
Truman also didn’t think he’d look very good if he not only approved nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but Korea as well. Either it sets a precedent the US is going to use nuclear weapons in every conflict (which is a diplomatic nightmare), or he’s the only president who used them (which is still true).
President Garfield getting assassinated on a Monday is a good one.
George W. Bush choking on a pretzel
Zachary Taylor eating too many cherries on a warm day
William Henry Harrison trying to prove he wasn’t uneducated by writing a ridiculously long speech with ancient Roman references, all so he could give himself pneumonia
George Washington dying because too many doctors wanted to save him, so they all bled him with leeches and for some reason he kept getting weaker
I forgot about the Washington thing that’s a really good one lol
RIP to our driest president
The OG dryboi