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Overnight Donald Trump promoted a video featuring an extreme close-up photo of his face in black and white, and audio of him making an obvious threat: “If you f— around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before.” Trump “retruthed” […]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (7 children)

American politics, ladies and gentlemen. It's so absurd to watch this show as an outsider. When will enough of you guys finally reach the point where you realize that this shit can't go on any longer like this?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

something has to destabilize the middle class first I'd guess. famine, perhaps?

[–] tsac 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The working poor who have deluded themselves into thinking they've made it to the middle class. Like those of us with decent paying jobs but still a couple missed checks away from chaos.

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