Man rescued from the Taliban couldn't believe Trump was president

[fleur-de-lisa]

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/man-rescued-from-the-taliban-couldnt-believe-trump-was-president/

A Canadian man rescued from a Taliban-linked group in Afghanistan last week said he thought his captors were joking when they told him Donald Trump had been elected president of the United States.

Joshua Boyle and his wife, Caitlin Coleman, were kidnapped and held by the Haqqani network — whose leader is the deputy head of the Afghan Taliban — for five years and one day.

Boyle and Coleman were rarely given any information on the outside world during their time in captivity. They didn't even know Justin Trudeau was prime minister of Canada, for example, until after they were rescued. But when Boyle was forced to participate in a "proof-of-life" video, one of the captors told him Donald Trump had been elected president. At the time, Boyle essentially took this comment as a joke.

"It didn’t enter my mind that he was being serious," Boyle told the The Toronto Star.

We can't believe it either, Canada guy . . .

[matt819]

1. Is anyone else skeptical of this guy's story? (nt)

[The Wielding Truth]

2. No. I can't believe that Trump is our president either.

[Equinox Moon]

4. There is something very fishy about this story.

Really? Americans backpacking in Afghanistan for leisure and oh, BTW, my wife is pregnant. No, this story is way off.

[Merlot]

6. Why of course. So now let's spend time tearing it apart

There's got to be a conspiracy theory in there somewhere.

No, wait, that's a job for bannon/limbagh/faux news.

[Podkayne K]

3. Old Joke, supposedly based on true story

A man in the late nineteen fifties had an accident and went into a coma.

He came out of the coma about 10 years later, the day Eisenhower died, March 28th, 1969. The man looked out the window and saw the flags at half mast and asked who died?

When he was told it was Eisenhower. He shook his head and exclaimed, "That means that Bastard Nixon is now President."

[ffr]

5. So too was the comment of the 78,000 voters who stayed home on election night.

Oh well, after seeing talking points about both candidates having flaws and memes showing people wanting to vote in another candidate, is it any wonder.

Living the nightmare.