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angrychair

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12. This is wishful thinking

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu May 22, 2025, 01:08 PM

May 22

When This Country Wakes Up

This is never going to happen. I'm genuinely starting to worry the fight might be over.
This belief that Americans are fighters or warriors for democracy or manifest destiny is a lie. That has never been the case. By in large we owe our democracy, our freedoms, our Constitution, to a very small percentage of the US population. Everyone else, especially in the last 100 years, has largely escaped any real hard choices. Especially white people that have lived a life of privilege as they actively undermined and oppressed people of color, women and the LGBTQ+

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AOC Warns GOP Over Trump Bill: 'When This Country Wakes Up ... There Will Be Consequences' [View all] BumRushDaShow May 22 OP

Shyster RepubliCONs are trying to make worst economic provisions kick in after Midterms Bernardo de La Paz May 22 #1

My GA cousin just texted the below this morning BumRushDaShow May 22 #5

Well, I've been trying to get to wake the eff up for 40 YEARS. CousinIT May 22 #2

Sadly, AOC, if the press doesn't take a proactive stance, the public won't wake up until the bill starts having Baitball Blogger May 22 #3

Sadly, berksdem May 22 #4

As long as the GOP owns the libs, the MAGA cult doesn't care what the hell they do. Irish_Dem May 22 #6

That's basically it BumRushDaShow May 22 #7

The more cruelty is displayed the more they like it. Irish_Dem May 22 #8

IMO many MAGAts are of the "have-not" community Zorro May 22 #15

It's all about hurting 'them' - whoever the fuck they THINK 'them' is - not realizing they are THEM. NoMoreRepugs May 22 #9

If, not when DavidDvorkin May 22 #10

Nope. MAGA don't care about people dying and suffering: DetlefK May 22 #11

90 million non voters also DO NOT CARE Ponietz May 22 #14

Close, but not exactly what happened... thesquanderer May 22 #16

This is wishful thinking angrychair May 22 #12

90 million ignorant and apathetic people didn't give a fuck and stayed home on election day Ponietz May 22 #13

re: "'When This Country Wakes Up ... There Will Be Consequences'" - and I look forward to it. It's not impossible... thesquanderer May 22 #17