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The Daily Bitch*: "When in the course of human events did it all go so (Original Post) niyad Aug 2025 OP
Some of us would say it never went right in the first place! mwmisses4289 Aug 2025 #1
There is that! niyad Aug 2025 #2
in my admittedly limited world-view... ret5hd Aug 2025 #3
1980? The year this country elected St. Ronnie the Divine instead of re-electing Jimmy Carter. LoisB Aug 2025 #4
January 20, 2017 surfered Aug 2025 #5
OR after the Civil War when this country made heroes of people like Robert E. Lee instead of LoisB Aug 2025 #6
🚨Trigger Warning🚨 Floyd R. Turbo Aug 2025 #7

ret5hd

(22,588 posts)
3. in my admittedly limited world-view...
Tue Aug 19, 2025, 12:46 PM
Aug 2025

our FIRST good chance to make-things-go-right was to reelect Jimmy Carter. A good man, a good heart, trying to do right for the long term.

Our LAST (so far, hopefully) good chance was to elect Kamala Harris.

I truly hope that wasn’t truly our last chance.

LoisB

(13,488 posts)
4. 1980? The year this country elected St. Ronnie the Divine instead of re-electing Jimmy Carter.
Tue Aug 19, 2025, 01:59 PM
Aug 2025

Or, 1981? when Jack Welch became CEO of General Electric. If I remember correctly, it was Welch who began the destruction of U.S. manufacturing by firing Americans and sending those jobs to third world countries.

LoisB

(13,488 posts)
6. OR after the Civil War when this country made heroes of people like Robert E. Lee instead of
Tue Aug 19, 2025, 02:12 PM
Aug 2025

trying them for treason?

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