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KY_EnviroGuy

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27. Not to mention we're #1 resource hog, nuclear proliferator and major polluter....

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Jan 9, 2022, 06:22 PM

Jan 2022

alongside China, our partner in crime and surrogate abuser.

It's as if we enjoy setting our house on fire and simultaneously flooding our basement, thinking it will extinguish the fire.

KY-EG..........

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T H I S - [View all] kpete Jan 2022 OP

Exceptional. Kid Berwyn Jan 2022 #1

+1 2naSalit Jan 2022 #4

K & R...for truth...nt Wounded Bear Jan 2022 #2

Definitely yes. Mr. Steve Jan 2022 #18

People haven't had a chance to adjust to our reality. We are only allowed to exist now if, if we ShazamIam Jan 2022 #3

Profound malaise Jan 2022 #5

For some the phrase is - Money is the only thing that matters. NoMoreRepugs Jan 2022 #7

Being rich is more important than being civilized malaise Jan 2022 #9

Money is the 'civilized' metric of success. jaxexpat Jan 2022 #14

Agreed DENVERPOPS Jan 2022 #28

Sad but true malaise Jan 2022 #29

The Uber wealthy Repubs DENVERPOPS Jan 2022 #30

We're devolving.... paleotn Jan 2022 #6

Nor presume to call itself "Christian". Ford_Prefect Jan 2022 #8

+1 crickets Jan 2022 #23

But wait, there's more..... twodogsbarking Jan 2022 #10

And the "poverty line" has been set artificially low. ShazzieB Jan 2022 #25

Indeed. twodogsbarking Jan 2022 #26

It wasn't meant to be a country. The people who inhabited it meant it to be, but the owners never ancianita Jan 2022 #11

But, kpete Jan 2022 #12

But, ancianita Jan 2022 #22

It's not the Constitution that is killing us Mr. Ected Jan 2022 #13

Unregulated Capitalism. Tommymac Jan 2022 #15

Unmitigated Democracy Good Mr. Ected Jan 2022 #16

Nobel Prize winning economist, Josepf Steiglitz has a philosophy called Poiuyt Jan 2022 #31

It is unregulated capitalism for sure. OldBaldy1701E Jan 2022 #37

This👆 I_UndergroundPanther Jan 2022 #36

K&R LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2022 #17

The US elite see the American public as totally expendable. Irish_Dem Jan 2022 #19

Damn right. Thank you Evolve Dammit Jan 2022 #20

Exactly. niyad Jan 2022 #21

Da-yum Hekate Jan 2022 #24

Not to mention we're #1 resource hog, nuclear proliferator and major polluter.... KY_EnviroGuy Jan 2022 #27

I'm reminded of the opening scene from "Newsroom" Poiuyt Jan 2022 #32

Rethuglican and Dem corporate whores are why we can't have nice things. OMGWTF Jan 2022 #33

There is that! calimary Jan 2022 #34

Covid is not going away. alphafemale Jan 2022 #35

Not at all. OldBaldy1701E Jan 2022 #38