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    Default Historians privately warn Biden that America’s democracy is teetering

    President Biden paused last week, during one of the busiest stretches of his presidency, for a nearly two-hour private history lesson from a group of academics who raised alarms about the dire condition of democracy at home and abroad.

    The conversation during a ferocious lightning storm on Aug. 4 unfolded as a sort of Socratic dialogue between the commander in chief and a select group of scholars, who painted the current moment as among the most perilous in modern history for democratic governance, according to multiple people familiar with the discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private meeting.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...ocracy-threat/

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    Historians have as a profession exhausted their credibility with me....too much politics....and too much lying.
    I choose my own words like the Americans of olden times........before this dystopia arrived.

    DARK AGES SUCK!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawkeye10 View Post
    Historians have as a profession exhausted their credibility with me....too much politics....and too much lying.
    Where did you get credibility?

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    If our democratic form of government fails, it will be thanks to the rabid lunatics on the right who lack the ability to see the forest because of all the pesky trees getting in their way.
    https://i.postimg.cc/PqVCnGks/gojoe1.jpg
    C'MON MAN!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nomad View Post
    If our democratic form of government fails, it will be thanks to the rabid lunatics on the right who lack the ability to see the forest because of all the pesky trees getting in their way.
    McCarthy, minority House Speaker, explicitly threatened the US Attorney General Garland.

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    We're definitely teetering. It's hard to believe this happened in such a short period of time.

    And yeah - this is on Trump. 100%.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BartenderElite View Post
    We're definitely teetering. It's hard to believe this happened in such a short period of time.

    And yeah - this is on Trump. 100%.
    Trump caused the violent coup on January 6.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    President Biden paused last week, during one of the busiest stretches of his presidency, for a nearly two-hour private history lesson from a group of academics who raised alarms about the dire condition of democracy at home and abroad.
    Paused or nodded off?

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    Quote Originally Posted by anonymoose View Post
    Paused or nodded off?
    You are a dumb fuck with nothing to contribute to this forum.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nomad View Post
    If our democratic form of government fails, it will be thanks to the rabid lunatics on the right who lack the ability to see the forest because of all the pesky trees getting in their way.
    The USA democratic form of government failed decades ago from it's Christian Nation political pseudoscience Islamidiotocracy Christiananality pedophilia megalomaniacal "serve the Pope or die" "man is God" suicidal crusade - jihad super egos in sociopsychopathilogical homicidal human farming of those thieving US Constitution - old glory - old testament arsonists crooks on Capital Hill while their second coming Rehnquist Fourth Reich July granting standing for Federal Lynching KKK churchstate of hate fiefdom drug trafficking enforcement WW II Mengele "Angel of Death" baptize thine eyes by urinations of a Washington, D.C. born retired Pentagon staff sergeant to Eisenhower for being Islam Freudian slip in those burning "it's only a God dam piece of paper" thieving National Archives purchased US Constitution Bill of Rights arsonists Bush's Arab 9/11 health care plan; cross conditioned way beyond therapy in attacking the Pentagon for also being Islam, which had been trover & conversion from Eisenhower was a war criminal for their way beyond the pleasure principle schizophrenic more perfect union of Islam "death to the infidels" threatening POTUS granted standing by Federal Lynching KKK churchstate of hate fiefdom drug trafficking enforcement at their former US District Court of Washington, D.C. currently Nazington, Diatribe of the Communism of Christianity business economics holy trinity holycosts.

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    Change the system. It's a good opportunity.

    Yes- CHANGE. It's applicable to everything, including the US political system.

    It would be a victory for thinking Americans, mind- and the rest would just have to accept that.
    " First they came for the journalists...
    We don't know what happened after that . "

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    President Biden paused last week, during one of the busiest stretches of his presidency, for a nearly two-hour private history lesson from a group of academics who raised alarms about the dire condition of democracy at home and abroad.

    The conversation during a ferocious lightning storm on Aug. 4 unfolded as a sort of Socratic dialogue between the commander in chief and a select group of scholars, who painted the current moment as among the most perilous in modern history for democratic governance, according to multiple people familiar with the discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private meeting.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...ocracy-threat/
    yes and biden is destroying it.
    morality is a set of beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that facilitate voluntary, cooperative and mutually beneficial relationships.



    Trump Wins,
    by definition
    https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/trump

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    Quote Originally Posted by moon View Post
    Change the system. It's a good opportunity.

    Yes- CHANGE. It's applicable to everything, including the US political system.

    It would be a victory for thinking Americans, mind- and the rest would just have to accept that.
    please be specific.
    morality is a set of beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that facilitate voluntary, cooperative and mutually beneficial relationships.



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    Quote Originally Posted by AssHatZombie View Post
    please be specific.
    What would they pay somebody to design a new democracy ?

    Or...

    What would they pay somebody to assassinate the designer of a new democracy ?



    Haw, haw................................haw.
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    Quote Originally Posted by moon View Post
    What would they pay somebody to design a new democracy ?

    Or...

    What would they pay somebody to assassinate the designer of a new democracy ?



    Haw, haw................................haw.
    You ain't gettin paid, bro.

    i thought you cared.
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