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We were once a nation to be envied. We are now a nation to be pitied. (Original Post) CousinIT 23 hrs ago OP
Not pitied, reviled RainCaster 23 hrs ago #1
Right blubunyip 23 hrs ago #2
Yes unfortunately bdamomma 22 hrs ago #5
And laughed at; a laughingstock. nt CousinIT 7 hrs ago #14
A nation to be avoided, a nation to be distrusted. dem4decades 23 hrs ago #3
Above all else, a nation to now be feared. nt Celerity 23 hrs ago #4
It is not the bdamomma 22 hrs ago #6
Oligarchy Iamscrewed 21 hrs ago #7
What SHitler loves about the gilded age: CousinIT 6 hrs ago #15
A nation to be distrusted. Our word means nothing. Demobrat 21 hrs ago #8
Those Billionaires & Corps who won't pay their Fair Share Cha 21 hrs ago #9
And they get most of the benefits of our government working for THEM! FakeNoose 20 hrs ago #12
Not a little truth a whopping big TRILLION $$ TRUTH! Fla Dem 21 hrs ago #10
Great post, CousinIT red dog 1 21 hrs ago #11
Kick. N/T Upthevibe 19 hrs ago #13
It didn't take long, did it. Less than 100 days. The free nations of the world no longer trust us, elocs 5 hrs ago #16
It took Hitler 53 days... CousinIT 1 hr ago #17

dem4decades

(12,693 posts)
3. A nation to be avoided, a nation to be distrusted.
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 04:57 PM
23 hrs ago

A nation to be remembered as once almost great.

Iamscrewed

(161 posts)
7. Oligarchy
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 06:06 PM
21 hrs ago

Study the past tax structure-compared to economy then to today. This isn't fucking rocket science. The sleeping idiot's need to be woken up before we're wading through the stinking decomposing bodies.

CousinIT

(11,270 posts)
15. What SHitler loves about the gilded age:
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 09:51 AM
6 hrs ago

No taxes, only tariffs. Which were paid for by the dirt poor "everyone else" who weren't the wealthy robber barons. The wealth robber barons ran the country, industry, everything -- and everyone else was dirt poor and worked 7 days/week (no labor laws and no "social safety net&quot - everyone else had no life and no wealth - just slavery to support the robber barons.

That's why he loves that age. He wants to return us to THAT.

Cha

(309,991 posts)
9. Those Billionaires & Corps who won't pay their Fair Share
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 06:10 PM
21 hrs ago

of Taxes Are Unamerican

TY!

FakeNoose

(37,232 posts)
12. And they get most of the benefits of our government working for THEM!
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 07:04 PM
20 hrs ago

Even so, they want to cheat Uncle Sam (and the rest of us) without paying for their ample benefits.

red dog 1

(30,754 posts)
11. Great post, CousinIT
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 06:36 PM
21 hrs ago

Love the Ferlinghetti quote, and that billboard needs to be put up all over America...it's perfect!

elocs

(24,128 posts)
16. It didn't take long, did it. Less than 100 days. The free nations of the world no longer trust us,
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 10:17 AM
5 hrs ago

meaning enough of our electorate to vote Trump into the presidency and enough to do it again in the future. Were I them, I wouldn't trust the people of America either not to do it again.

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