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Thread: Not a Rant: I have an unsettled view of this country's future

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    I'm not an optimist or pessimist OP. I just try to discern what is and what is to come. Personally it feels like having a constant low-grade fever.

    Dunno about 2024. Could be or not. No crystal ball. But America as we knew it is done.

    Trump won't save America. Did Hilary get locked up? Did Mehico pay for the wall? Look reps... you've lost! Your only hope is to break a Union of conservative states away and go out on your own. You can never beat the dems, you are too stupid and weak. Form the Union while you can stupid reps. Dems will eventually own all 50 states and send out the robots to disarm you. Stop the madness reps...you are done for! You have NO HOPE!

    It is not like life will be perfect if a Union is formed. But America is over. Forget MAGA. Your goal should be to save a chunk of America as founded under the Constitution and Bill of Rights. We have Peak Oil in our future that will decimate America and the world. But do you want to be the slaves of dems as well??

    Facists Racists MAGA lr.jpg

    Here are the up and coming voters...

    Reddit political leanings vote 2.26.23.jpg

    $#@! chart Axios.jpg
    Last edited by slackercruster; 04-01-2023 at 12:08 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    I don't speak Mandarin, but I like Mandarin oranges. I don't suppose that'll count for much.

    Maybe not, but it made me hungry for Mandarin oranges!
    ""A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul" ~George Bernard Shaw

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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterVeritis View Post
    I tend to be an optimist.

    But, I also tend to see what I am seeing.

    I wonder if the US will make it as a nation, to 2024.

    I don't believe we can fix what is wrong with us. Those in control hate this nation as founded and hate real Americans. And now they are using every facet of the government to harass us, threaten us, intimidate us, and imprison us.

    And it is almost everybody, all Democrats and most Republicans.

    I think we will see the end of the dollar as the reserve currency. And I think China will defeat us.

    That is all. Have a nice day.
    How do you define “real Americans”?

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    Quote Originally Posted by FindersKeepers View Post
    Maybe not, but it made me hungry for Mandarin oranges!
    Got a super sweet bag the other day. Like candy.
    Cutesy Time is OVER

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    MV claims to be an optimist? In which life was that the case? Certainly not in his current life.
    Last edited by Tahuyaman; 04-01-2023 at 12:29 PM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    Got a super sweet bag the other day. Like candy.
    I love those things!
    ""A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul" ~George Bernard Shaw

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    Quote Originally Posted by RichardMZhlubb View Post
    How do you define “real Americans”?
    We are the ones who make this country work. Another name for us is Normals. I doubt you know any of us.
    Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.


    I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterVeritis View Post
    I don't believe we can fix what is wrong with us.
    The country is a fiscal trainwreck and you are correct it is beyond fixing. The country will hit a debt wall....at some point. When? Impossible to time such things.


    That's a major headwind of course, but there is a tailwind and that's technology.

    The only hope is AI will make us ridiculously productive. There's a potential for exponential impacts there too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tahuyaman View Post
    MV claims to be an optimist? In which life was that the case? Certainly not in his current life.
    I am extraordinarily optimistic.
    Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Newpublius View Post
    The country is a fiscal trainwreck and you are correct it is beyond fixing. The country will hit a debt wall....at some point. When? Impossible to time such things.


    That's a major headwind of course, but there is a tailwind and that's technology.

    The only hope is AI will make us ridiculously productive. There's a potential for exponential impacts there too.
    The Republicans are already giving indications they will cave on the budget. If they do it is the end of the nation as we once knew it.

    AI looks more like an enemy that will conduct a hostile takeover than a savior.
    Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.


    I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.

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