The Crazy SCANDAL Behind Building the Washington Monument - #50
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The Drone and the Swamp
DC is built on reclaimed swamp land, which is where politicians have come up with the drone slogan from. I think it's partly because they're like, drone the swamp because they know it's full of corruption and all this sort of stuff. And then I think it fits with DC because DC is built on a swamp. When you go in the summer, it gets extremely humid. It's that meeting point between the north and the south, isn't it? Like the whole history of them deciding to build the city there,.Finding out that the British went and burned down the White House because of a border dispute between the US and like at the time British Canada.
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