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ThoughtCriminal

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6. No. We will never be able to explain this away - just hope we survive.

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Sun Jun 9, 2019, 10:38 PM

Jun 2019

Racism, white nationalism, a failed democracy, just plain idiocracy.

It will take a generation of the best leadership just to get back to where we were, and by that time, the world and the country will be clinging on not just to keep a functioning civilization, but even to just survive. We squandered a critical time on the worst that that we could possibly have inflicted on ourselves and humanity. The. Worst.

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The week just past featured several frightening, stupid, arrogant, embarrassing and [View all] Atticus Jun 2019 OP

The slime is thick, strong, and still growing. ananda Jun 2019 #1

Do you not think they are aware that the majority of Americans deplore him (i.e., follow polls)? hlthe2b Jun 2019 #2

we just cannot get a break from that orange turd Skittles Jun 2019 #3

I keep wondering when he will start to decompensate completely. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2019 #4

and here's the scary part... Grasswire2 Jun 2019 #5

No. We will never be able to explain this away - just hope we survive. ThoughtCriminal Jun 2019 #6