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yellow dahlia

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47. Yup!

Reply to Blues Heron (Reply #10)

Sat Jan 24, 2026, 10:20 PM

7 hrs ago

And they are going to do it again.

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'When the American empire finally collapses, historians won't be stunned by the greed of the elite' [View all] Joinfortmill 21 hrs ago OP

Not this poor working class............. Lovie777 21 hrs ago #1

Well said, Shawn Ryan UpInArms 21 hrs ago #2

It is a basic premise of hegemony theory that the upper class creates the values and norms ... Intractable 21 hrs ago #3

Patriotism is used for shame. twodogsbarking 21 hrs ago #4

I hope Greenland takes over the United States of Anarchy. twodogsbarking 21 hrs ago #5

their weather is attacking us right now LymphocyteLover 19 hrs ago #14

Colder than a witch's back porch. twodogsbarking 18 hrs ago #28

Or worse yet, those poor people think they are going to be that rich someday as well. Crowman2009 20 hrs ago #6

Faux News convinced a former coworker that he was rich. Dr. T 19 hrs ago #17

Well, he is "rich" compared to 1950's simple rural working class haele 18 hrs ago #33

Or the elite got rid of the votes against them.... n/t Chemical Bill 20 hrs ago #7

Since they manufacture the machines that count the votes, it's not difficult questionseverything 14 hrs ago #38

Yup. yellow dahlia 7 hrs ago #48

I'm glad he is seeing the light; He was after all part of the problem tulipsandroses 20 hrs ago #8

Our message for the mid-terms needs to have a poor vs rich theme KS Toronado 20 hrs ago #9

Trump said Elon hacked the vote counting. Blues Heron 20 hrs ago #10

Yup! yellow dahlia 7 hrs ago #47

All great empires in history fell SocialDemocrat61 20 hrs ago #11

I think I would say that all great empires fell due to a lack of oversight by the masses. OldBaldy1701E 20 hrs ago #12

that's what FoxNews has done a brilliant job of-- working class fascist propaganda LymphocyteLover 19 hrs ago #13

Propaganda plus illiteracy is a lethal combination as we're seeing. live love laugh 8 hrs ago #45

Shakespeare amended: lastlib 19 hrs ago #15

Well bdamomma 11 hrs ago #42

let it go down. llet i all go down and then they will whine and pine on how good they had it. my late mom. AllaN01Bear 19 hrs ago #16

J P Morgan building x 100 talking-liberally 19 hrs ago #18

Well, Shawn, YOU helped put him in office. Not ME. Callie1979 19 hrs ago #19

Exactly!! I do find him more genuine in his disgust for trump tulipsandroses 18 hrs ago #32

And I'm glad to see that too. You should read comments under some of those. Callie1979 17 hrs ago #34

It will be the leading example of... WestMichRad 19 hrs ago #20

Your post brought to mind something Aldous Huxley said: sop 19 hrs ago #21

Despite the truth of that, soldierant 10 hrs ago #43

Shawn Ryan is a right wing podcaster SouthBayDem 19 hrs ago #22

In this case he's right. Go figure. Joinfortmill 19 hrs ago #26

Further down thread irisblue 19 hrs ago #23

com·pla·cen·cy Mr.Bee 19 hrs ago #24

My children and grandchildren will know barbtries 19 hrs ago #25

Even after it happens, IF it does, only a slim majority of the 74,000,000 will know who caused that collapse. ancianita 19 hrs ago #27

The only disagreement I have with this is that laws are often broken Bristlecone 18 hrs ago #29

At long last the BS of calling us a nation, not an Empire, s exposed. GreenWave 18 hrs ago #30

The noticing MenloParque 18 hrs ago #31

The legacy of Rush Limbaugh Glaisne 16 hrs ago #35

Hasn't this same explanation been given for the confederacy? BadgerMom 16 hrs ago #36

De-education is the root cause beginning with underpaid teachers having to buy their own supplies. live love laugh 15 hrs ago #37

When the autopsy on the US is written, the whore media will be found as the cause of death. OMGWTF 14 hrs ago #39

Loyalty Of The Poor gfarber 13 hrs ago #40

a percentage of that mystifying set of 'poor' Quanto Magnus 11 hrs ago #41

Americans worship money too much. In this society, money is the measure of all things. nt eppur_se_muova 10 hrs ago #44

Yep. Aussie105 4 hrs ago #49

They didn't vote against their interest. For some racism, misogyny JI7 7 hrs ago #46