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We were once a nation to be envied. We are now a nation to be pitied. (Original Post) CousinIT Apr 2025 OP
Not pitied, reviled RainCaster Apr 2025 #1
Right blubunyip Apr 2025 #2
Yes unfortunately bdamomma Apr 2025 #5
And laughed at; a laughingstock. nt CousinIT Apr 2025 #14
A nation to be avoided, a nation to be distrusted. dem4decades Apr 2025 #3
Above all else, a nation to now be feared. nt Celerity Apr 2025 #4
It is not the bdamomma Apr 2025 #6
Oligarchy Iamscrewed Apr 2025 #7
What SHitler loves about the gilded age: CousinIT Apr 2025 #15
A nation to be distrusted. Our word means nothing. Demobrat Apr 2025 #8
Those Billionaires & Corps who won't pay their Fair Share Cha Apr 2025 #9
And they get most of the benefits of our government working for THEM! FakeNoose Apr 2025 #12
Not a little truth a whopping big TRILLION $$ TRUTH! Fla Dem Apr 2025 #10
Great post, CousinIT red dog 1 Apr 2025 #11
Kick. N/T Upthevibe Apr 2025 #13
It didn't take long, did it. Less than 100 days. The free nations of the world no longer trust us, elocs Apr 2025 #16
It took Hitler 53 days... CousinIT Apr 2025 #17

dem4decades

(13,694 posts)
3. A nation to be avoided, a nation to be distrusted.
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 03:57 PM
Apr 2025

A nation to be remembered as once almost great.

Iamscrewed

(486 posts)
7. Oligarchy
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 05:06 PM
Apr 2025

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

(12,254 posts)
15. What SHitler loves about the gilded age:
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 08:51 AM
Apr 2025

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

(316,859 posts)
9. Those Billionaires & Corps who won't pay their Fair Share
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 05:10 PM
Apr 2025

of Taxes Are Unamerican

TY!

FakeNoose

(40,213 posts)
12. And they get most of the benefits of our government working for THEM!
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 06:04 PM
Apr 2025

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

red dog 1

(32,511 posts)
11. Great post, CousinIT
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 05:36 PM
Apr 2025

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

 

elocs

(24,486 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, 09:17 AM
Apr 2025

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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