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FullySupportDems

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7. Yes. I didn't think that first escalator "Hate Mexicans!" speech would work

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon Jun 15, 2026, 10:10 AM

11 hrs ago

I didn't realize how awful, stupid and gullible so many people would be. I look at my fellow citizens differently now. And also I never realized how lethal casual bigotry and stupidity could can be, not really, not like I do now. I never thought our country would be doing what it is doing now, and sadly I think part of that is my own ignorance of what we've been doing all along.

I'm sorry, I think all that doesn't answer the questions being asked.

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Has Trump caused you to look at the power structure in the world differently? [View all] kentuck 12 hrs ago OP

I sure looks like it. OLDMDDEM 12 hrs ago #1

Giant egos with giant bank accounts The Madcap 12 hrs ago #2

at least, in the ussr, the babushkas eventually got a cabbage. rampartd 12 hrs ago #3

Oligarchs have all gone full Bond villian Johonny 12 hrs ago #4

Yes, the OP is spot on in a nutshell bucolic_frolic 11 hrs ago #5

That's where we are and it sure feels awful. Biophilic 11 hrs ago #6

Yes. I didn't think that first escalator "Hate Mexicans!" speech would work FullySupportDems 11 hrs ago #7

its turning into a dark sci fi novel Blues Heron 11 hrs ago #8

The biggest surprise to me is that they are so incompetent. yardwork 11 hrs ago #9

I think you are right. kentuck 11 hrs ago #10

It proves there's no all-powerful cabal of oligarchs successfully conspiring to take over the world. betsuni 11 hrs ago #11

I think there's a lot of billionaires trying to take over the world. yardwork 11 hrs ago #12

No honor amongst thieves? kentuck 11 hrs ago #13

Because it's not all about money. They want the power to remake the world according to their own ideology betsuni 11 hrs ago #14

So then, they will start wars... kentuck 11 hrs ago #15

No because there have always been men like Trump EdmondDantes_ 10 hrs ago #16

No, but as long as we're doing stream of consciousness today, apparently. BannonsLiver 9 hrs ago #17

A stream would be an improvement over the trickle that comes from some immense minds... kentuck 8 hrs ago #19

Don't be so hard on yourself. BannonsLiver 6 hrs ago #21

It's a gift I have. kentuck 6 hrs ago #22

Yes, and it looks like it will continue to take over the world or universe. The interconnections are sinkingfeeling 9 hrs ago #18

The power brokers used to do their work in private. Boomerproud 6 hrs ago #20

It does to seem that way. kentuck 6 hrs ago #23

No. flvegan 6 hrs ago #24

I tend to agree with most all your points.... kentuck 5 hrs ago #25

Or do we just hear about it more flvegan 2 hrs ago #26

I don't think all the billionaires would have all lined up behind the president in the Oval Office... kentuck 2 hrs ago #27

Already knew just ripped off the congenitality mask Blue Full Moon 2 hrs ago #28