The American Empire is over.

[elocs]

Richard Wolff

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All world empires have eventually come to an end, some better than others.
Our sin in America has been one of national pride, hubris in that we could never anticipate or believe that our empire could ever end because that only happened to lesser nations who were not as great as we are. And yet, here we are.
Even if we recover from what Trump has done to us, the United States will never be the same again.

[FarPoint]

1. I do not agree

I will not surrender.... Let's focus on winning back our losses.... Yes, it will take time to regain trust....We will do this and more...

[wordstroken]

2. Agree 100 percent, FarPoint. We can't cave. Got to keep fighting for as long as it takes. Whatever it takes.

[Initech]

3. If not we invent time travel and stop the rise of Limbaugh and Reagan!

[FarPoint]

4. I can't find anything current or relevant with your recommendation...

Maybe you are trying to say Legacy News Media "entertainment" needs new journalistic parameters.... I agree with that.... I see online media sources taking over more and more each week....successful with factual broadcasting....

[Initech]

5. The propaganda started with Rush Limbaugh and Jimmy Swaggart.

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Nearly all of our current problems can be traced back to the rise of Rush Limbaugh, Swaggart, Limbaughism and the Reagan GOP. Reagan eliminated the Fairness Doctrine and Fox News was born out of that.

[FarPoint]

6. Yes...

I agree...these folks laid the ground work....

[mitch96]

8. It looks like they were playing the long game...nt

[Sky Jewels]

13. I'd also go back in time and secretly sterilize the grandfathers of

George H.W. Bush and Trump. That way we don't get that Nazi sympathizer/coup plotter Prescott Bush, let alone H.W. and Dubya and Jeb, et al. And we'd snuff out the Drumpf/Trump Nazi line.

[mitch96]

7. I can see countries that are close to Canada that have warm winters, will profiting from this..

It will be interesting to see what happens to Hollywood Beach Florida. A HUGE seasonal French Canadian
migration. Will the Toronto Blue Jays stop coming to west central Florida?
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[elocs]

10. There are a number of YouTube videos about states that might want to join Canada,

all of which at least having a geographic connection to Canada, others also having a cultural connection. A number of these states also have a dependence on Canada for their energy needs.
But for sure, the US tourism industry will be hurt by Canadians choosing to stay home or at least not visit the US this summer or next winter.

[mitch96]

9. When the shelf become bare, maga will understand tfg's folly..Hopefully they will vote him out soon..

Hello my congressman? Impeach him
Hello my senator? Impeach him
Hello my supreme court?...........
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[elocs]

11. Well, Trump can't be voted in or out again & impeachment w/o conviction is unsatisfying.

He was already impeached twice a in his first term but not convicted.

I wonder...has anyone written an alternate universe novel with the election of Hillary in '16 as the subject? What a different world it would be now had that happened.

[0rganism]

16. The alternate universe fiction exists, albeit centuries into the future: it's called Star Trek

Unfortunately, we're on a different path now.

[misanthrope]

19. Well, that alternative history

Also had the Eugenics Wars in the 1990s and World War III began in 2026. It only became what it was because they developed complete mastery over both general and special relativity.

[elocs]

20. My alternative history would have been one where Hillary Clinton beat Trump and

all the changes that would have brought us. But that Trump was elected twice by Americans is one of the big reasons that the other free nations of the world do not trust us because they know we could elect another like Trump after he is gone, if he goes, that is.

[0rganism]

21. Fair point, perhaps those wars are inevitable regardless of leadership

But it did give us Ricardo Montalban's greatest screen performance

[0rganism]

15. Far too little, much too late.

By this time next year, we won't even recognize our country. F47's crew is engaged in a complete demolition, a thorough rape, pillage, and plunder. They're playing it right, too: by thoroughly demolishing our legal system and upending our way of life the assholes protect themselves from legal consequences. The focus needs to be as much on rebuilding something better a it is on disabling individual saboteurs who've already done much of their work.

[misanthrope]

18. Sadly, that is the only thing they will care about

It has to hurt them for it to move their needle. All of it is an offshoot of this nation's worship of materialism and selfishness.

The U.S. is the blade humanity is using to slit its own throat.

[flashman13]

12. I can't argue with his financial analysis, but his take on the Ukrainian situation is bullshit.

[FakeNoose]

14. Sorry I'm not listening to this, nor will I recommend it

This guy is full of shit. The complicit right-wing media is 100% to blame for where we are now. Chump is 100% to blame for the rotten, corrupt politics of his administration, BUT the media got him into the White House TWICE!

I'm not going to listen to this guy deflecting it on the American people... like it's "our own fault."

[Mosby]

17. Richard Wolff is a Marxist and founding member of the Green Party.

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