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Jeebo

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5. This is a brilliant analysis of the situation we are facing.

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Sun Dec 29, 2024, 03:54 PM

Dec 29

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I hope it doesn't turn out to be this bleak. Since the election, I have been feeling glad that I'm 75 years old and probably won't be above the ground for much longer anyway. I don't think I'm going to like the next several years.

-- Ron

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"I have been an admirer of the US and its people. But I am frightened of it now, and I am even more frightened of them." [View all] Dennis Donovan Dec 29 OP

Any guesses how many times this asshat voted for tsf? chicoescuela Dec 29 #1

He's Canadian n/t Lulu KC Dec 29 #2

So zero ? chicoescuela Dec 29 #4

Kinda what I'm thinking Lulu KC Dec 29 #6

I have no words Happygram Dec 29 #3

This is a brilliant analysis of the situation we are facing. Jeebo Dec 29 #5

I share his fears. sinkingfeeling Dec 29 #7

Andrew Coyne - author of that quoted piece erronis Dec 29 #8

Some of the comments on BlueSky about Andrew Coyne are not particularly positive. erronis Dec 29 #9

NATO will ditch us, and rightly so. A couple of weeks ago the Sec. Gen. of NATO spoke out... Hekate Dec 29 #10

Sounds about right. Evolve Dammit Dec 29 #11

Trump's war against Iran is what will light the fuse. NBachers Dec 29 #12

To Trump's fuckhead KKKultists, even a far-right Canadian is a woke commie socialist liberal. Orrex Dec 29 #13

I am frightened too. Any chance at a happy retirement are gone, destroyed, obliterated. I now am garbage under trump's dai13sy Dec 29 #14

I am an American and I am frightened also. What a nasty, stupid way to treat our neighbor Stargazer99 Dec 29 #15

Heartbreaking and frightening... karin_sj Dec 29 #16