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Prairie Gates

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4. Agreed

Reply to Klarkashton (Original post)

Tue Nov 12, 2024, 06:49 PM

Nov 2024

World historical bad. I mean, the pandemic was world historical bad, but this will be of the same level.

"Hegel said that all great world historical events and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce."

Marx was wrong: the first time as tragedy, the second as even greater tragedy.

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If trumps whole history is any guide there is going to [View all] Klarkashton Nov 2024 OP

This, too, shall pass. It will pass like a kidney stone, though. Ocelot II Nov 2024 #1

It might pass but dhol82 Nov 2024 #2

As a nation we might but many will not make it JI7 Nov 2024 #3

Or will end in prison or jail or some internment camp. kerry-is-my-prez Nov 2024 #13

Good analogy. calimary Nov 2024 #11

Agreed Prairie Gates Nov 2024 #4

The problem is that every time these MFers not fooled Nov 2024 #5

We need to beat them at their own game. hadEnuf Nov 2024 #6

I feel like we are Germany 1933 and Hindenberg Botany Nov 2024 #7

If the US media was doing a decent job . . . . Aussie105 Nov 2024 #8

MSNBC is doing a good job. kerry-is-my-prez Nov 2024 #12

I see no bottom to how far down he can take us. With both houses NoMoreRepugs Nov 2024 #9

And then, eventually, things really will get better. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2024 #10