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bluestarone

(19,384 posts)
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 07:31 PM Mar 18

I just gotta say these fuckers are making it look easy to destroy the strongest country in the world.

Hell just get both houses and the white house. Plus some religious supreme court judges assistance. executive orders like there is no tomorrow. And here we sit!

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I just gotta say these fuckers are making it look easy to destroy the strongest country in the world. (Original Post) bluestarone Mar 18 OP
It feels likes it is over PJMcK Mar 18 #1
Well yea, but bluestarone Mar 18 #3
Remember the financial crisis we lived thru? Someone said... Hekate Mar 18 #2
It's the money... LaRaven Mar 18 #4
they've been at it a long time stillcool Mar 18 #5
TY for this. bluestarone Mar 18 #6
it has to be my favorite book stillcool Mar 18 #9
Just maybe we weren't as strong as ... Dave says Mar 18 #7
I know it's literally like everything is made out of balsa wood JanMichael Mar 18 #8

Hekate

(97,042 posts)
2. Remember the financial crisis we lived thru? Someone said...
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 07:36 PM
Mar 18
How long does it take a great bank to fall?
Very, very slowly — then all at once.


That’s the US in the moment, afaict. Democracy got lazy and flabby, while the corrupt and greedy got very busy.

LaRaven

(115 posts)
4. It's the money...
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 07:42 PM
Mar 18

And their notion of self-entitlement. And Project 2025 is their revenge on Humanity.

stillcool

(33,526 posts)
5. they've been at it a long time
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 08:13 PM
Mar 18

I just started re-reading "The Rich and the Super-rich" by Ferdinand Lundberg. I find it very relaxing to understand the road that's brought us here. Not surprising at all. If anyone is interested in reading a great book, it is available for a free download from the Soil & Health Library due to it's copyright expiration.
https://soilandhealth.org/copyrighted-book/the-rich-and-the-super-rich/

bluestarone

(19,384 posts)
6. TY for this.
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 08:22 PM
Mar 18

Greed will destroy anybody that allows it. I'm not a reader but i bet others here will enjoy this book.

stillcool

(33,526 posts)
9. it has to be my favorite book
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 08:27 PM
Mar 18

he's such a great writer, and it has so much really boring financial charts, and percentages of wealth, that make my eyes cross, but the writing that follows the re-focusing of the eyes is almost whimsical.

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