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Blue Full Moon

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11. That's why they destroyed the learning channel

Sat Nov 9, 2024, 10:27 AM

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And the rest that were modeled after it. One of them was going to run a documentary on how the country was following the pattern of 1930s Germany. Bush jr stopped them from showing it. Then soon after destroyed the programming on those stations. We ended up with Honey Boo Boo and the rest of that crap.

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Are we now Germany of 1933*? I just know that the election was dirty** and I have existential dread bad. [View all] Botany Nov 9 OP

I agree 100%! Island Blue Nov 9 #1

I think we just lost. Elessar Zappa Nov 9 #2

The way to correct it is Bettie Nov 9 #9

I'm so tired enigmania Nov 9 #18

Me too Bettie Nov 9 #21

I don't think anyone is suggesting we don't have women candidates or we become republican lite Buckeyeblue Nov 9 #23

I am. We've been burned twice trying to elect a woman Meadowoak Nov 9 #27

You are right. Infantile intimidation and jealousy carried more weight on voters' choice than any real policy, jaxexpat Nov 9 #36

So ironic that Germany Marthe48 Nov 9 #40

Oh, my, she was magnificent. Joinfortmill Nov 9 #39

I disagree. EndlessWire Nov 9 #50

Gotta go Bernie style. Lucky Luciano Nov 9 #41

People said the same thing after Bush and after Obama and after Trump EdmondDantes_ Nov 9 #53

Maybe in your universe GoreWon2000 Nov 9 #56

Right on point. I was delusional thinking our country represented something that it doesn't. Pepsidog Nov 9 #26

I think that something is wrong with the election as well. EndlessWire Nov 9 #43

Like 2008 Cosmocat Nov 9 #64

at the very least, they did a good job of suppressing our votes. mopinko Nov 9 #3

I think voter suppression, the loss of ballots, and the threats... ananda Nov 9 #19

Please Read this: Fiendish Thingy Nov 9 #4

Something's not right Ananda62 Nov 9 #5

I have worked election protection for years and I don't know where the weak spot is in our current... Botany Nov 9 #8

The only weak spot I can think of is the Mail In Ballots didn't show up in the proportional increase like they did for uponit7771 Nov 9 #49

It looks like "they" were into the data somehow either prior to the election (voter suppression?), Botany Nov 9 #57

Yep, it was the number of new small donors to the DNC that I'm hanging on, that's usually a banked vote. Voter ... uponit7771 Nov 9 #61

In 2020, everyone mailed in or dropped off their ballots due to Covid. Who is in charge of the mail japple Nov 9 #65

Right !!! I'm not tryna start CT but Harris had record number of individual votes which are 90% a banked vote. uponit7771 Nov 10 #69

This and record number of **NEW** small donors to the DNC, those small donors was 80% going to vote. uponit7771 Nov 9 #48

The US government soon will be led by Putin's Puppet. Kid Berwyn Nov 9 #6

He freaking told us... MiHale Nov 9 #7

Right along with the Big Lie Blue Full Moon Nov 9 #16

Exaxtly cilla4progress Nov 9 #25

No comparison Beck23 Nov 9 #33

This. MontanaMama Nov 9 #29

To answer your question, yes. Nothings yet totally baked in, but we're on that road. I'm terribly saddened to say. ashredux Nov 9 #10

That's why they destroyed the learning channel Blue Full Moon Nov 9 #11

Honey BooBoo and The Apprentice. japple Nov 9 #13

Don't forget "The Apprentice" which marketed Trump as a business genius when in fact he was a failure. Botany Nov 9 #14

Remember when they banned Saving Private Ryan? live love laugh Nov 9 #35

Totally agree. It smells as rotten as yesterday's fish. And it seemed to start smelling about japple Nov 9 #12

fuck fuck fuck... Ysabel Nov 9 #15

A hard choice needs to be made way up the ladder Blue Full Moon Nov 9 #17

I think that was the choice and always was. ananda Nov 9 #20

Fascist always place loyal people on both sides Blue Full Moon Nov 9 #22

Michigan has a Dem gov, SOS, AG and legislature Kaleva Nov 9 #47

Well, it wasn't just suppression, was it? ananda Nov 9 #58

Hispanics went for Trump Kaleva Nov 9 #60

I've already posted about what I think happened with Latinos. ananda Nov 9 #62

It's probably more of a nationality thing Kaleva Nov 10 #66

I appreciate the sound thinking here. cilla4progress Nov 9 #24

It would be tough to make him a dictator at this point. ColinC Nov 9 #28

So I live in NJ and took my wife and four adult kids to vote. Voting was always easy and fast. This election the line to Pepsidog Nov 9 #30

Lots of Harris signs still out in Northern Virginia Beck23 Nov 9 #34

+1, Did you do mail in ballot in 20? I've been screaming about voter suppression being effective for 4 years. This time uponit7771 Nov 9 #52

We'll need to practice goose-stepping. bif Nov 9 #31

Although Nazi Germany had a ban on handguns Aviation Pro Nov 9 #32

Some here want to disarm us. Kaleva Nov 9 #45

The majority are concentrated in the hands of 3% of America (link). Also, its not like Jewish people didn't have shotgun uponit7771 Nov 9 #54

2016 numbers Aviation Pro Nov 9 #59

I wonder if it's the American version of the fall of the Soviet Union. jeffreyi Nov 9 #37

I agree with everything you said except the Garland part. I'm reserving judgment on what the Joinfortmill Nov 9 #38

Some things I can't square Marthe48 Nov 9 #42

Hitler was defeated in a landslide in the '32 presidential election Kaleva Nov 9 #44

***HITLER ENTERED INTO OFFICE WITH LESS IMMUNITY THAN TRUMP*** uponit7771 Nov 9 #46

yes, the us is kaput. nt yaesu Nov 9 #51

We shall see. OAITW r.2.0 Nov 9 #55

Yes Cosmocat Nov 9 #63

I have ZERO DOUBT what side repukes would have been on during WWII Skittles Nov 10 #67

2016 was 1933. Were in 1934 now. /nt artemisia1 Nov 10 #68