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lambchopp59

(2,809 posts)
2. Accurate to the last detail until the very last sentence of our situation
Sun May 20, 2018, 12:06 PM
May 2018

But worse, far worse.
We watched Nixon get impeached in childhood, thought surely the US wouldn't make the same mistake again.
We threw things at the teevee during Ray gun, when airwaves were analog.
We thought surely by the end of his debacle surely the US wouldn't make the same mistake.
We'd seen the little points of light in the sky several times Bush Sr. spoke of in his "kindler, gentler" reign of war on the poor. They were the stars Eldon and I saw on a clear night I from the incognito cardboard box we had to occasionally sleep in as college students.
We thought surely by the end of his debacle surely the US wouldn't make the same mistake.
We continually laughed in appalled shock as GWB fumbled his way through with the whole world laughing beside us. The "Top ten conservative Idioti of the week" were great back then. But Fox New's effect on old folk's scared me, still,
We thought surely by the end of his debacle surely the US wouldn't make the same mistake.
Now long widowed, I'm trying my best to ignore the most embarrassing, imprudent, unwise, ill-advised, ill-considered, half-baked, harebrained, foolhardy; absurd, nonsensical, inane, fatuous, ridiculous and childish regime that ever has seized control of the US.
Now I stand not so certain by the end of his debacle surely the US still won't make the same mistake.
and
I truly shudder, not just because of Trump but because the best we can do is slow the oligarchy at midterm time, but considering Pence's determination to start holy war leaves us all as US citizens with no good way out of this. Unless serious turnaround, reinstatement of humanitarian, democratic socialist policymaking rebounds significantly, I'll be around for the 2020 elections, but shortly thereafter it's retirement time for Lambchopp.
And I'm brushing up on my Portuguese just in case the oily garchy's hate media cheats/brainwashes/mesmerizes/installs another tougher, meaner bescroogier set of Republicans into office.

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