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Orrex

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7. Optimistically? Decades. At the very least.

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Fri Oct 3, 2025, 11:52 PM

Oct 2025

Republican fuckheads will do everything they can to stay in power, and once Democrats take over, Repubs will do everything they can to hobble, impede, and derail any and all efforts at healing the damage that Republicans and Trump have done.

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How long will it take to deMAGAfy the government after he's gone? [View all] Stinky The Clown Oct 2025 OP

We are looking at the Second Great Reconstruction. WheelWalker Oct 2025 #1

Hopefully it will go better than the first reconstruction choie Oct 2025 #12

The next president will have to be willing to overtly defy court orders from Trump-judges Justice Brandeis Oct 2025 #2

It's going to have to take a massive, dramatic change in society. Initech Oct 2025 #3

I question if it's possible. Where is the money now to put back into budgets? Melon Oct 2025 #4

Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg and Ellison stole it all. Initech Oct 2025 #16

It took FDR 3 full terms and a major war to correct the RW Great Depression... Wounded Bear Oct 2025 #5

The kakistocratic toadies markodochartaigh Oct 2025 #6

Optimistically? Decades. At the very least. Orrex Oct 2025 #7

Probably decades, as the USSC is a lifetime appointment sakabatou Oct 2025 #8

It will never happen. The US has been cultivating these folks for 45 years. They are walkingman Oct 2025 #9

A century or two. sinkingfeeling Oct 2025 #10

The stench of his maladminstration, and B.See Oct 2025 #11

Not until they all die out. choie Oct 2025 #13

The deliberate destruction of all our federal infrastructure won't be reversed in my lifetime... Hekate Oct 2025 #14

The problem is we will be bankrupt Tree Lady Oct 2025 #15

I am concerned how we are going to do that in the first place at this point LyfeTimeDem Oct 2025 #17

I agree. I think we are screwed Wifes husband Oct 2025 #18

Not possible. The U.S. experiment failed. Time to come up with something new. Blasphemer Oct 2025 #19