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Midnight Writer

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3. After spending trillions of dollars to construct history's mightiest war machine,

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Thu May 1, 2025, 01:20 PM

May 2025

we get taken down by a conman, some greedy aristocrats, and a 250-million-dollar campaign buy-in.

It wasn't the foreigners, it wasn't the gays, it wasn't the blacks, or the Jews, or affirmative action, or the communists, or the fluoride in the water.

It was rich, incompetent, greedy white men.

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The 'USA' brand was 250 years in the making. It took just 100 days to trash it [View all] Zorro May 2025 OP

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The US destroyed their brand 60 years ago by installing dictators. DetlefK May 2025 #2

After spending trillions of dollars to construct history's mightiest war machine, Midnight Writer May 2025 #3