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They're waiting until more people get evicted and can't get the checks... Wounded Bear May 2020 #1
That makes it a buyer's market for the filthy rich, therefore a GOP dream come true. Hermit-The-Prog May 2020 #47
Yep. The Rs like Yertle and Graham think they've already done too much stopbush May 2020 #2
Herbert Hoover took the same attitude. wnylib May 2020 #37
We don't have newspapers like we used to have mahina May 2020 #49
And average Joe is brainwashed and agrees live love laugh May 2020 #48
As various Governmental Wellstone ruled May 2020 #3
That's what happens in an economic system that replaces living wages with easy credit. CrispyQ May 2020 #54
Chicago School of Economics Wellstone ruled May 2020 #60
Nope JmAln May 2020 #4
Soc. Sec./Medicare is funded mostly by payroll taxes. dixiegrrrrl May 2020 #43
step back and look Grasswire2 May 2020 #5
+1, Hitler told Germany his goal too and people didn't take him literally uponit7771 May 2020 #11
He hates America, hates us. So why does he want to be president again? To continue his destruction. notdarkyet May 2020 #55
He wants to get reelected so as to run out the clock on the statute of limitations Native May 2020 #63
The GOP should read some history...this ain't gonna end well for them ashredux May 2020 #6
It will be worse than the last great depression. nt yaesu May 2020 #7
Trump is the new Herbert Hoover. kskiska May 2020 #8
+1, My understanding is HH didn't want to get involved with anything related to Great Depression uponit7771 May 2020 #13
Trump is no Hoover! Grins May 2020 #16
This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar May 2020 #26
I am trying to remember a quote from a veteran about the difference between Hoover and FDR. shockey80 May 2020 #30
True. Look up "Hooverville." kskiska May 2020 #40
And Eleanor did not wear a raincoat that said, "I Don't Care. Do You?" nt alphafemale May 2020 #52
True NonPC May 2020 #62
John Barry wrote an excellent book, Rising Tide, about the Flood dixiegrrrrl May 2020 #44
If I recall correctly. ChazInAz May 2020 #56
I think so. dixiegrrrrl May 2020 #65
Yes!! THAT book! "Rising Tide" Grins May 2020 #69
I love "social histories" dixiegrrrrl May 2020 #70
Thank you. He may have been the wrong person for the presidency at the time, Crunchy Frog May 2020 #67
It would've been easier if we had... Buckeye_Democrat May 2020 #9
+1 n/t Laelth May 2020 #45
Republicans told us we'd all be cowering in our homes because ... wait for it ... bucolic_frolic May 2020 #10
If trump gets a second term... Johnyawl May 2020 #12
I have tried to wrap my head around this possibility leftieNanner May 2020 #17
I feel the same. Lonestarblue May 2020 #53
I have felt for a while that we are already a third Jspur May 2020 #20
Only the rich will survive. It's going to get real ugly. SammyWinstonJack May 2020 #24
by the end of it? sdfernando May 2020 #27
Agreed. Jspur May 2020 #33
I have been thinking the same thing for a while now. Solomon May 2020 #35
We already are well on the way to wnylib May 2020 #39
Black Death Pause May 2020 #14
I don't think of "God's Flowers" as lowly, but I agree with you that hemp WILL save the planet. OMGWTF May 2020 #23
OMGWTF indeed! robbob May 2020 #64
Yes it will help alot burrowowl May 2020 #68
There were 2 strains of bubonic plague. wnylib May 2020 #41
I will not call it a depression until safeinOhio May 2020 #15
Bankers will not be jumping out the window Jspur May 2020 #22
And the asshole in the WH wants to blame China for it all -- KPN May 2020 #18
Oh yeah. MissB May 2020 #19
Lol. If you got neighbors you won't be having a rooster. Solomon May 2020 #36
Luckily I live in an unincorporated part of my county MissB May 2020 #38
Stick with hens... druidity33 May 2020 #50
Maybe this is why gun sales have been so strong recently Hulk May 2020 #21
The fragility of the global economy... the_sly_pig May 2020 #25
Sectors that depend on large events will be hit harder than others IronLionZion May 2020 #28
Hospital closings have been happening for quite awhile. What was DeLay's friend's name from Tenn Hestia May 2020 #66
Even a solid small business in this country teeters on the brink at all times. RhodeIslandOne May 2020 #29
The Republicans don't care. They don't work for us. They work for their donors. Yavin4 May 2020 #31
to boot Covid almost took out Leslie Stahl Roc2020 May 2020 #32
We can spend $2 billion a day on "defense" gratuitous May 2020 #34
Welcome to The Big Quickening fellow DUers BadGimp May 2020 #42
A very fine post, thank you Pluvious May 2020 #46
Thank you. I restrained myself. dhol82 May 2020 #51
I also watched this segment of 60 Minutes, and after reading your post, I found myself c-rational May 2020 #57
Thanks, the truth we are living is flat out scary. shockey80 May 2020 #61
You know it's bad, when we get to the point where... Dopers_Greed May 2020 #58
Of course we are, it was inevitable the day Dopey rammed through Warpy May 2020 #59
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