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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums2025: Sum up the United States in 10 words or less.
4me: "Murphy was an optimist."
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2025: Sum up the United States in 10 words or less. (Original Post)
speak easy
Thursday
OP
Oddly enough, another suggestion came to me by way of the radio this evening . . .
hatrack
Thursday
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InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,705 posts)1. Doomed under tRump.
Think. Again.
(19,961 posts)2. "Rotting from the inside out."
PhilosopherKing
(387 posts)3. Circling the drain
Whyisthisstillclose
(97 posts)4. What the fuck is he screwing up today?
hatrack
(61,408 posts)5. High on her own supply, Norma Desmond lost her keys.
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speak easy
(10,957 posts)8. All right, Mr. DeMille.
hatrack
(61,408 posts)16. Oddly enough, another suggestion came to me by way of the radio this evening . . .
"And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention" - Talking Heads, " Nothing But) Flowers)"
Hugin
(35,019 posts)6. "Fresh Hells, served fresh." n/t
jalan48
(14,580 posts)7. We've turned into a television reality show audience.
Tommy Carcetti
(43,635 posts)9. We brought it on ourselves.
Sad but true.
brer cat
(26,662 posts)10. The inmates are running the asylum.
Tommy Carcetti
(43,635 posts)11. Fool us twice, shame on us.
Or Dont get fooled again, according to one former President.
dalton99a
(85,265 posts)12. 330 million terrorized by demented rapist felon
sakabatou
(43,429 posts)13. "Welp, we're fucked."
FirstLight
(14,381 posts)14. Buckle up, we are so Screwn...
I see the Climate kicking our asses more than anything... as we humans scramble like ants in a rainstorm. It's too late to turn it back and Trump's ineptitude will only exacerbate an already fucked up planet.
AKwannabe
(6,486 posts)15. Fucked
Johonny
(22,495 posts)17. Dunning-Kruger effect and the end of experts
Spells doom.
multigraincracker
(34,562 posts)18. We Have The Best Government Money Can Buy.
sinkingfeeling
(53,445 posts)19. Not fit for civilized society.
Blue Dotty
(75 posts)20. Darwin was wrong
roamer65
(37,252 posts)21. Dying empire.
Emile
(31,474 posts)22. Easily conned.
oasis
(51,859 posts)23. U.S. democracy: It was good while it lasted
Fla Dem
(26,048 posts)24. America, Home of the Brave and unfortunately the corrupt Oligarchy
No longer "the Free".