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ret5hd

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3. in my admittedly limited world-view...

Reply to niyad (Reply #2)

Tue Aug 19, 2025, 12:46 PM

Tuesday

our FIRST good chance to make-things-go-right was to reelect Jimmy Carter. A good man, a good heart, trying to do right for the long term.

Our LAST (so far, hopefully) good chance was to elect Kamala Harris.

I truly hope that wasn’t truly our last chance.

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Some of us would say it never went right in the first place! mwmisses4289 Tuesday #1

There is that! niyad Tuesday #2

in my admittedly limited world-view... ret5hd Tuesday #3

1980? The year this country elected St. Ronnie the Divine instead of re-electing Jimmy Carter. LoisB Tuesday #4

January 20, 2017 surfered Tuesday #5

OR after the Civil War when this country made heroes of people like Robert E. Lee instead of LoisB Tuesday #6

🚨Trigger Warning🚨 Floyd R. Turbo Tuesday #7