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LiberalArkie

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18. It is all the same really. What we called slavery controlled by the elites, the Europeans called serfdom controlled by

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2026, 02:16 PM

18 hrs ago

the Lords. Something in that class of people is trying to come back. I believe the non wealthy back in the reptile brains believe that if they just bow a little to the very wealthy that they might be master of the the slaves or serfs. That old "trickle down". They are really craving for the aristocracy to come back.

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See, we are all missing the point: [View all] PCIntern 20 hrs ago OP

And all who are literate which to magats makes them elitists SheltieLover 20 hrs ago #1

Where you plant your boots determines perspective bucolic_frolic 20 hrs ago #2

Indeed. He said that 100 million people have to go. That is a very expansive definition of "the worst of the worst". Midnight Writer 20 hrs ago #3

It's also... GiqueCee 19 hrs ago #4

This message was self-deleted by its author cannabis_flower 19 hrs ago #5

Not all of us. IrishAfricanAmerican 19 hrs ago #6

It was a rhetorical "we". PCIntern 19 hrs ago #7

Trump is planning on a Christian dedication for the United States clevergrrrl 19 hrs ago #8

From a man who has never PCIntern 19 hrs ago #10

or read the Bible, or asked for forgiveness, or followed the Ten Commandments (any version) etc. etc. etc. MLWR 19 hrs ago #11

Anyone who did NOT vote for him. Ferrets are Cool 19 hrs ago #9

We are "the enemy within." hay rick 19 hrs ago #12

You left out LGBTQ, actual Christians who practice Christ's love, and anyone who looks darker than Steven Miller ChicagoTeamster 18 hrs ago #13

So why then are they going after white men and women from Canada, Germany, Ireland , UK and more? Bev54 18 hrs ago #14

To quote me... PCIntern 18 hrs ago #16

Only French Canadians speak with an accent, most that are locked up are not French Canadian Bev54 18 hrs ago #17

The only thing I would change is "non-Christians" to "non-Christian Nationalists"... pat_k 18 hrs ago #15

It is all the same really. What we called slavery controlled by the elites, the Europeans called serfdom controlled by LiberalArkie 18 hrs ago #18

Trump was able for form an alliance between them and the religiously insane and see what happened? CTyankee 13 hrs ago #19

I feel that Trump was just the natural progression of something that started with Nixon, and really got going with LiberalArkie 13 hrs ago #20

I share your concerns! CTyankee 13 hrs ago #22

I agree 100%. spanone 13 hrs ago #21

That's the whole point of Trump from the beginning and how he wins, how Republicans win. betsuni 13 hrs ago #23