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NanceGreggs

(27,821 posts)
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 03:18 AM Jul 2020

Shithole Country?

Millions of Americans are out of work. We are in the midst of a pandemic, and the “pResident” is actively promoting conduct that causes it to spread.

For years, our children feared going to school because they might be gunned-down; now they’re afraid of catching a virus in the schoolroom that could be fatal.

While businesses are shuttered, many never to open again, this administration is giving tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to their wealthy political cronies.

Peaceful protestors have been gassed and assaulted by our own military and police. As a result, many have been wounded; some have died.

People without health insurance are still being bankrupted by medical bills, and hard-working Americans are facing eviction from their rented premises, or the loss of their homes because they can’t make their mortgage payments.

Our allies no longer respect or trust us, and we are now barred from entering many of their countries.

Laws that protect our natural resources have been overturned, and corporate polluters have been given free rein to destroy our environment for the sake of bigger profits.

Those who hold the highest positions in our government are actively shutting down investigations into their own corruption, their own criminality, their own crimes against the country they swore to defend and protect.

Our Russian enemies are paying bounties to those who kill our troops, while they continue to attack our democracy by interfering in our elections.

And in the middle of all of this, the so-called “pResident” continues to race-bait, continues to devote his time to watching TV and tweeting covfefe between rounds of golf, and continues to deliberately look the other way while the country devolves into economic ruin and tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths.

So the question now is this: Is the United States of America now officially a shithole country?

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Shithole Country? (Original Post) NanceGreggs Jul 2020 OP
Failed state. Crunchy Frog Jul 2020 #1
Gee, it's almost like Putin became POTUS in 2016. sop Jul 2020 #2
If Trump and McConnell were working directly for Putin... Girard442 Jul 2020 #6
Excellent summary of the current situation. Laelth Jul 2020 #3
Put that question to the citizens of the world, and see what the answer is. NBachers Jul 2020 #4
Exactly. n/t NanceGreggs Jul 2020 #5
Getting there. I always figured that the Repub immigration plan... Wounded Bear Jul 2020 #7
trump has destroyed our country Gothmog Jul 2020 #8

Girard442

(6,087 posts)
6. If Trump and McConnell were working directly for Putin...
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 04:45 AM
Jul 2020

...they'd be behaving differently than they are now how?

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
3. Excellent summary of the current situation.
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 04:20 AM
Jul 2020

To answer your question, I would say, “No. Not yet, but we’re working on it.”

-Laelth

Wounded Bear

(58,772 posts)
7. Getting there. I always figured that the Repub immigration plan...
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 04:46 AM
Jul 2020

was to turn the US into a shithole country no one would want to come to.

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