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flashman13

(1,084 posts)
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 04:07 PM Jan 21

Under the heading, "Everything Old is New Again", you might find this video interesting.

While history doesn't repeat itself, it certainly rhymes.

Take heart. Somewhere a reborn FDR walks among us. The nation has survived trials in the past and even an old cynic such as myself can believe that in the end, Trump will fall on his orange face (or his big fat ass).

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Under the heading, "Everything Old is New Again", you might find this video interesting. (Original Post) flashman13 Jan 21 OP
Trump is trying to obliterate The New Deal in its entirety bucolic_frolic Jan 21 #1
Part 2 jxla Jan 26 #2
Well worth watching malaise Jan 26 #3

bucolic_frolic

(49,363 posts)
1. Trump is trying to obliterate The New Deal in its entirety
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 05:43 PM
Jan 21

Imagine what a national emergency Trump will declare when unemployment hits 25%.

Alf Landon cast FDR as a dictator, heck Alf could run against Trump.

We are on a very dark path.

Thanks for the film. McGraw-Hill, the original publisher of the movie according to the video, only exists in small form. The company, which owns S&P. was broken up and sold off. S&P moved to California or Thailand, I think. The publishing arm was sold to a TX company and prints right of center schoolbooks. I don't know what happened to the rest of the company, its information systems.

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