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Inconvenient Truths 5-17-2026 (Original Post) CousinIT Yesterday OP
Wonderful! thank you Maraya1969 Yesterday #1
K&R...nt Wounded Bear Yesterday #2
K&R canetoad 23 hrs ago #3
Thanks CousinIT for the brutal truth and some wicked humor. nt ShazamIam 23 hrs ago #4
Each and every one of those is brutally true. AZ8theist 23 hrs ago #5
You are not alone with those feelings! CousinIT 18 hrs ago #6
I was a teenager in the 70's AZ8theist 14 hrs ago #7

AZ8theist

(7,626 posts)
5. Each and every one of those is brutally true.
Sun May 17, 2026, 04:52 PM
23 hrs ago

And it DISGUSTS me.

I cannot believe I would see in my lifetime the systematic destruction of America, but it's happening right before our eyes.
To the benefit of Russia and China. They are getting their wet dream curtesy of Donald J. Trump.

CousinIT

(12,742 posts)
6. You are not alone with those feelings!
Sun May 17, 2026, 09:26 PM
18 hrs ago

I saw the 60s and the VRA and civil rights act, Roe, affirmative action, etc. Now it’s all being UNDONE.

Absolutely disgusting.

AZ8theist

(7,626 posts)
7. I was a teenager in the 70's
Mon May 18, 2026, 01:43 AM
14 hrs ago

So I saw and remembered a lot of what happened in the 60's, like an older brother doing whatever he could to avoid the draft.
Fortunately, I was around to see and experience the Apollo missions which I followed like my life depended on it. Memories I will hold forever.
I do remember the 68 convention and the Newark riots. It was an unsettling time, but on the exit from those times, a better society emerged. Nixon, as corrupt as he was, started good things like the EPA, which has now been neutered by the current Nazi regime.
The Reich Wing has been seething ever since. You know, "cuz FREEDUM!!!"

Someone posted on line it took 50 years to eliminate Roe and the EPA and 60 years to eliminate the VRA. But this fascist regime has succeeded in accomplishing the destruction of those policies they have hated for decades in the matter of a couple of years.

What's next, Social Security???

Just like you, and MILLIONS of others, I'm DISGUSTED.

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