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maxrandb

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11. I wonder if the Germans and the non-Vichy French felt the same way

Reply to CrackityJones75 (Original post)

Tue Oct 19, 2021, 07:12 AM

Oct 2021

But hey, even then, it was just half a decade or so of hell, with death camps and Blitzkriegs, and beach landings, and death and destruction across the globe, but yeah! We got through it.

Maybe the hope is that people will get motivated enough to enable us to skip all that.

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How will we go on? [View all] CrackityJones75 Oct 2021 OP

2016, two Washington Post writers traveled the country to gauge the mood of Americans: betsuni Oct 2021 #1

Great piece. Thank you for that. CrackityJones75 Oct 2021 #2

Everyone has to have some worst case scenario vercetti2021 Oct 2021 #3

Thank for this post. ShazzieB Oct 2021 #4

It's pretty much the same people. Kaleva Oct 2021 #6

Interestingly, Freepers do the same thing. The hyper-doom. Kaleva Oct 2021 #5

Yes! CrackityJones75 Oct 2021 #12

Extremists tend to view everything in the extreme Kaleva Oct 2021 #19

Isn't that interesting... IrishAfricanAmerican Oct 2021 #14

Sadly, drama is the only reason some people get involved. Grokenstein Oct 2021 #7

We misgauged tRump in 2016. Worrying about winning 2022 & 24 is legitimate Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2021 #8

+1000 smirkymonkey Oct 2021 #9

What are your plans if Repubs take Congress in 2022 and Trump wins in 2024? Kaleva Oct 2021 #20

I live in Texas. hamsterjill Oct 2021 #10

I wonder if the Germans and the non-Vichy French felt the same way maxrandb Oct 2021 #11

It won't CrackityJones75 Oct 2021 #13

Actually, I think today's Retrumplican Party is more like Vichy France maxrandb Oct 2021 #18

I visited my wife's family in Seattle last week. brooklynite Oct 2021 #15

Defeatism is not static, it's actively harmful. DeeNice Oct 2021 #16

Precisely! CrackityJones75 Oct 2021 #17