If it’s bad for someone else, it must be good for me” as the overriding US policy in all things. We don’t easily come back from what we are tearing down.
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Precisely! Crabs in a bucket syndrome...
aug 6, 2025, 1:04 am • 2 0 • view
😢
aug 6, 2025, 12:32 am • 0 0 • view
It’s a lovely way to live. And as we rebuild from the ashes, we’ll have to defend deficit spending to Fox News…
aug 6, 2025, 12:09 am • 0 0 • view
Not US policy - just MAGA+GOP policy. There is a party consisting of decent people who are educated and empathetic to the needs of others. For the most part.
aug 6, 2025, 9:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Build Back Better.
aug 5, 2025, 11:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe we don't need to come back but rethink and go forward toward a more perfect union.
aug 6, 2025, 11:26 pm • 1 0 • view
We aren't tearing anything down. Being the world's sucker is not a way to do things.
aug 6, 2025, 9:44 pm • 0 0 • view
We will never come back. Just like after covid. Hopefully however, we will be able to do some things even better going forward.
aug 6, 2025, 3:58 am • 1 0 • view
My heart is so heavy with all of this.
aug 5, 2025, 11:49 pm • 7 0 • view
We probably have to start from scratch.
aug 6, 2025, 1:39 am • 1 0 • view
Dems! Please save us all!! 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DM-n0NW...
aug 6, 2025, 12:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Some of my hope comes from my determination to remember how I want the world to be so I will be able to help make it that way when it is possible.
aug 6, 2025, 1:45 am • 2 0 • view
It's so heartbreaking. 😭
aug 6, 2025, 12:14 am • 0 0 • view
I think there’s a corollary: if it’s good for someone else, it must be bad for me.
aug 6, 2025, 12:02 am • 5 0 • view
No shit
aug 6, 2025, 11:04 pm • 0 0 • view
It took 7 years to build the two towers, two hours to destroy them. And that was with people trying to build them.
aug 5, 2025, 11:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Unfettered rogue-state self-sabotage is never the best idea…’otherness’-hating, rage-baiting, failed-stating, fascist-felating, book-conflagrating, consanguineously mating, displaced-abjection guising as ‘patriotism’ for the proles! And the band played on as the ashes smouldered at their feet!
aug 6, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't think we will...
aug 6, 2025, 10:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh yes it will. The people will be behind Jasmine Demanding Liberty and Justice! Jasmine for the Win!
aug 6, 2025, 9:49 am • 0 0 • view
I’m fairly old and I knew during the 2024 election that if Trump won the world wouldn’t return to anything close to normal in what’s left of my lifetime. And here we are.
aug 6, 2025, 1:31 am • 8 1 • view
Same. The 2024 campaign was like watching civilization itself put a gun to its head and on election night it pulled the trigger.
aug 6, 2025, 1:41 am • 4 1 • view
I often think this also.
aug 6, 2025, 1:34 am • 1 0 • view
Please pass on your values so that whoever succeeds you will be inspired to implement them if you can't.
aug 6, 2025, 1:48 am • 0 0 • view
You’re right & I’ve passed my values to a lot of kids & their parents. I was an elementary school teacher for 25 yrs. A elem class spends almost the entire day together. My kids knew me well. I taught kindness, respect, tolerance, & love. As those values are being assailed, I hope some will remember
aug 6, 2025, 2:01 am • 0 0 • view
Thank you! You have influenced so many. Teachers have been very important in my life. I'm still friends with a high school teacher from 1980 and am grateful for those who had a big influence on who I've become.
aug 6, 2025, 1:06 pm • 1 0 • view
That is the zero sum mentality that has somehow been allowed to grow. It’s inane, but it’s here. Actual Americans used to reject that.
aug 6, 2025, 12:05 am • 5 0 • view
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aug 6, 2025, 12:12 am • 1 0 • view
This is exactly the best thing said yet about the US collapse. This has been Trump's message and the basic MAGA idea.
aug 6, 2025, 4:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly
aug 6, 2025, 11:51 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 6, 2025, 1:28 am • 1 0 • view
And still we fight.
aug 5, 2025, 11:58 pm • 2 0 • view