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GJGCA

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14. A cynical take:

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Tue May 13, 2025, 03:38 PM

May 2025

No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

--H. L. Mencken

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Trump and the Republicans are betting everything on the stupidity of the American people. [View all] kentuck May 2025 OP

As long as Americans have cheap eggs and gas, they don't care about living in a dictatorship. Irish_Dem May 2025 #1

Actually... lame54 May 2025 #15

Yes pretend low prices. Irish_Dem May 2025 #17

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people." Irish_Dem May 2025 #2

Safe bet. dem4decades May 2025 #3

H.L. Mencken's famous aphorism applies: andym May 2025 #4

My ideal scenario odins folly May 2025 #5

"No one ever went broke... Mister Ed May 2025 #6

Yup, the Regime's fascist propaganda networks zorbasd May 2025 #7

Unfortunately, I think your last sentence is correct on this matter. trump will say "I'd be a fool not to take it," Silent Type May 2025 #8

It's not a good prognosis as far as I can tell bucolic_frolic May 2025 #9

Well, the Republicans only make up about 30% of the electorate. everyonematters May 2025 #10

I told a maga hat wearer. multigraincracker May 2025 #11

Some say thinking or intelligence is what separates humans from animals... blue_jay May 2025 #12

That's a winning bet. BlueTsunami2018 May 2025 #13

It may bdamomma May 2025 #16

They aren't tired of it. BlueTsunami2018 May 2025 #18

Really bdamomma May 2025 #20

A cynical take: GJGCA May 2025 #14

Stupidity and complacency. Lancero May 2025 #19

General Strike bdamomma May 2025 #21