r/stupidpeoplefacebook • u/Numerous-Ad-4033 • 8h ago

What About Jerry Ford?

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Perhaps because President Ford was never hit.

But he was a target on two separate occasions by two women in September 1975, in California. The first was a Manson cult member, the second an FBI informant turned left-wing activist.

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u/itsnatnot_gnat 8h ago

Lincoln was Republican but that's when they were the progressive party.

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u/Bubbly-Following-966 8h ago

John Wilkes Booth wasn't even a Democrat. He belonged to the "Know Nothing Party. Also known as the "American Party".

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u/LabradorDeceiver 8h ago

Basically the MAGA of the times.

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u/Winter_Tone_4343 7h ago

Literally the maga of the times.