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SiliconValley_Dem

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14. so what? we voted 8 years of peace and prosperity under Clinton and decided that was no good

Reply to HotTeaBag (Reply #13)

Tue Aug 4, 2020, 01:07 AM

Aug 2020

and got wars, domestic terror attacks, and multiple recessions under Bush. I am not talking the political. I am talki g ALL of us and how we don't have the mettle to stare this existential crisis down and just do the right thing.

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How stupid and inane are Americans? [View all] SiliconValley_Dem Aug 2020 OP

Some of us, at least, are spectacularly stupid. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2020 #1

but it must be a sizable minority SiliconValley_Dem Aug 2020 #2

Tell us about it. To the rest of the world we are pariahs who they... brush Aug 2020 #3

SOOOOOOOO STUPID onecaliberal Aug 2020 #4

It's the hatred and bigotry which has resulted in Trump JI7 Aug 2020 #5

We have become an idiocracy. Jeebo Aug 2020 #6

great bumber sticker. yep, I am due foe a other Idiocracy viewing SiliconValley_Dem Aug 2020 #11

From my experience most people just don't think. Some like the Prez & support anything he says or . napi21 Aug 2020 #7

name one thing he has strategically done right about COVID SiliconValley_Dem Aug 2020 #12

I never meant to sound like I ever support DT, I can't think of anything he's done strategically re napi21 Aug 2020 #24

Looks like an acute phase JustGene Aug 2020 #8

will check those out--thanks SiliconValley_Dem Aug 2020 #16

Here... JustGene Aug 2020 #23

we are a global embarrassment NRaleighLiberal Aug 2020 #9

As long as there are no penalties moondust Aug 2020 #10

Hard to say - we inane and stupid Americans voted Obama in twice. HotTeaBag Aug 2020 #13

so what? we voted 8 years of peace and prosperity under Clinton and decided that was no good SiliconValley_Dem Aug 2020 #14

Exactly! If we had behaved so badly in 1941, we'd all be speaking German Thekaspervote Aug 2020 #21

I agree cilla4progress Aug 2020 #15

i think so. at least in 80's and 90's you had large swathes od Americans who SiliconValley_Dem Aug 2020 #17

when I think of what my English mum went through during WWII Skittles Aug 2020 #18

exactly! good on her! SiliconValley_Dem Aug 2020 #19

Maximum. greyl Aug 2020 #20

delusional thinking is a sign of mental illness, its not stupid that GOP has a problem with, its beachbumbob Aug 2020 #22

It's like common sense & decency got sent to Mars? Brainfodder Aug 2020 #25

The real issue is the system can't self correct due to corruption? Brainfodder Aug 2020 #26