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PearliePoo2

(7,768 posts)
Sat May 26, 2018, 02:26 PM May 2018

Seth Abramson Tweet today:

"We're all being judged by the future. Right now. Which side were you on when a cruel, corrupt, venal villain put a "For Sale" sign on America's government, values, and norms; ripped immigrant children from the arms of their mothers; threatened the free press and the right to protest?"

Benjamin Franklin's warning?

At the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Benjamin Franklin was queried as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation. In the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Maryland’s delegates to the Convention, a lady asked Dr. Franklin “Well Doctor what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?”
Franklin replied, “A republic . . . if you can keep it.”

Are we there?

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Kirk Lover

(3,608 posts)
1. RUMP is going to be the one that exposes an International crime syndicate. He shoulda never ran.
Sat May 26, 2018, 02:28 PM
May 2018
And ya know what....the ship will be righted.

PearliePoo2

(7,768 posts)
4. I've spent most of my life on ships of all sizes, both professionally and recreationally.
Sat May 26, 2018, 02:38 PM
May 2018

Never capsized, but had to "right" a few a few times!

I hope you're right about THIS one!

tparrett62

(268 posts)
3. McMafia
Sat May 26, 2018, 02:34 PM
May 2018

The show doesn't do the book justice, but this has been building for a long time. It's going to take a lot of people in high places down, if we have the stomach for it. Imo, this started when the Soviet Union broke up.

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