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in one generation we went from being the country that went to the moon to being the country that can't put on a fucking mask. fucking pathetic
8:46 AM · Jun 25, 2020
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)But I get his point.
-Laelth
scarletlib
(3,411 posts)I dont blame Obama for any of this during his administration. He got nothing but obstruction from the Republicans.
However, I think this do-nothing attitude began under the leadership of Newt Gingrich.
Budi
(15,325 posts)Didn't the contract include putting children in bording schools while all adults worked in govt run facilities to exist in a meager life of a govt run society?
What govt style does that sound like. 😬
llmart
(15,540 posts)He's just one more hatefilled GOPer.
We used to call it his Contract ON America.
Budi
(15,325 posts)Society under Newt's govt would work to support the govet in exchange for a bunk to sleep on between shifts & a bowl of gruel.
Children taken at birth & raised by govt run orphanages .
Guess Trump's southern border was a grift off Newt's vision.
I hate them all.
niyad
(113,323 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)There was never to be any negotiation .
Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)Katinfl
(157 posts)He just totally screwed the whole thing up by no leadership. It should never have gotten to this point and it never would have if we had a different person in charge. Wake up people!
grantcart
(53,061 posts)US has a pretty good record of passing up easy
Stopping smoking
Going Metric
Putting on a mask.
It could have been done under the right President
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)realized that Jeff Tiedrich is the same Jeff that owns Smirkingchimp.com ... or at least he used to. I spent lots of my time there back when, the same way I now do at DU.
Who woulda thunk it?
Cha
(297,272 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)I've loved his work since I found Smirking Chimp.
MasonDreams
(756 posts)We built-in redundancies and capability to the extreme. The damn thing blew up @ 17,000mph 100,000+ mi. from Earth, and we managed to finish the 500,000+mi. trip. Also, for icing on the cake, we took a nice electric car out and drove around on the moon.
That's not all, Hoover Dam, the Golden Gate Bridge and the Empire State.
Have we really become cry babies 'cause of no haircuts, nightclubs, and now wearing a mask is too much.?