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red dog 1

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4. "Sleeping Giant Awakens"

Reply to some_of_us_are_sane (Original post)

Mon Dec 29, 2025, 09:17 PM

Dec 29

America's Sleeping Giant roared when police attacked civil rights marchers.

And after tens of thousands of young Americans were killed in Vietnam.

And when Nixon tried to cover up Watergate.

Today it roars once more â€” at the tyrant in the Oval Office.
— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) 2025-12-29T21:00:12.734314Z

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"Americans are waking up. A grand reckoning awaits us" - Robert Reich [View all] some_of_us_are_sane Dec 29 OP

The collective insanity meter is off the scale. Aussie105 Dec 29 #1

There's an army some_of_us_are_sane Dec 29 #2

Sorry I'm not convinced fujiyamasan Dec 29 #3

"O ye of little faith... some_of_us_are_sane Dec 29 #5

Hope you're right fujiyamasan Dec 29 #7

The cracks are beginning some_of_us_are_sane Dec 30 #8

"Sleeping Giant Awakens" red dog 1 Dec 29 #4

Yessiriee! It rumbles some_of_us_are_sane Dec 29 #6