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Irish_Dem

(48,608 posts)
2. Yep. Screwed by any metric we can think of.
Thu May 9, 2024, 03:52 PM
May 9

Trump and the GOP have thought of everything to destroy our democracy and country.
And most of the Americans living here.

benfranklin1776

(6,460 posts)
7. Damn straight.
Thu May 9, 2024, 05:06 PM
May 9

He is an existential menace to us and future generations 🤬 His stealing of the election would be an extinction level event.

Irish_Dem

(48,608 posts)
8. Yes there is going to be a very steep learning curve.
Thu May 9, 2024, 05:12 PM
May 9

On the part of the American people.

And it will not be pretty.

benfranklin1776

(6,460 posts)
11. Yes a sad prospect which is wholly unnecessary
Thu May 9, 2024, 05:23 PM
May 9

A modicum of historical awareness of the dangers of fascist demagogues like him by the majority of today’s electorate would have relegated him to the Love Canal of history long ago. An openly Hitler spouting psychopath who pledges to be a dictator would have been, at the very least, tarred and feathered by the generation of Americans who sacrificed mightily to defeat the last bloodthirsty incarnation of such an evil madman in world war 2 and to ameliorate the death and destruction he inflicted. He most assuredly would not have been a major party political candidate.

Irish_Dem

(48,608 posts)
13. Yes greatest moral collapse in US history.
Thu May 9, 2024, 05:27 PM
May 9

Greatest civic duty failure.

Sometimes people have to learn things the hard way.

All the attempts to warn them fall on deaf ears.

benfranklin1776

(6,460 posts)
15. Brought to us by a willful barrage of deliberately crafted right wing propaganda.
Thu May 9, 2024, 05:37 PM
May 9

Which steadily ate away that moral substance in too many quarters of our society. That said I believe the majority of the electorate as the last election and intervening elections have shown still reject such profoundly anti American ideas and, with our utmost efforts will once and for all repudiate them and its vile vessel.

Irish_Dem

(48,608 posts)
16. Yes years of GOP lies and gaslighting have been successful.
Thu May 9, 2024, 06:08 PM
May 9

But yes, I hope the majority of the electorate can do the right thing.
It is up to We The People now.
No one else will save the day.

Given human nature, I seriously doubt the fascists will give up.
They see how close they came to owning it all.

erronis

(15,521 posts)
9. Maybe the oil companies and other nations can deposit $1 per gallon of oil sold in the US in the last year
Thu May 9, 2024, 05:14 PM
May 9

to a trust fund administered by the US Treasury.

This fund would go to the treasonous traitor tfg (redundant, I know) if he wins.

Otherwise, it can be used by the US government to provide a better world for everyone when he loses.

Any takers? I thought not.

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