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re: Are the good times really over for good?

Posted on 9/11/26 at 10:39 am to
Posted by VOR
New Orleans
Member since Apr 2009
69728 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 10:39 am to
Good God , what alternative reality are some of you living in? I’m still recovering from a stroke and I’m not as negative as you guys seem to be
Posted by Powerman
Member since Jan 2004
175782 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 10:40 am to
quote:

Trump was supposed to clean everything up. He can’t. It’s over.

It's not like he even tried though.
Posted by ManBearSharkReb
Member since Dec 2018
7914 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 10:40 am to
9/11 was the noticeable turning point for me. Growing up in the 1990’s I truly believed America was the greatest country in the world by far. The nation was much healthier then. Financially, physically, mentally, and spiritually the nation was much healthier.

After 9/11 it’s been one crisis after another.

2001 9/11
2001-2008 War on Terror
2008 Great Recession
2008-2016 Obama radical change
2020 COVID
2020-2026 insane and incompetent leadership worldwide.

9/11, the Great Recession, and covid are the three events that are the foundation of everything wrong in this country today.
Posted by DeltaDoc
The Delta
Member since Jan 2008
17031 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 10:41 am to
Your unfettered support for a NY liberal is comical. This isn’t a Trump thread, however. What we are seeing currently dates back 75 years in its origins. Liberals took over academia, removed God from schools, destroyed the family structure, ascribed virtue to the virtue-less.
Posted by Tiger985
Member since Nov 2006
7799 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 10:44 am to
Things can and will change but we have been on a downward trajectory for quite some time.

We might need some sort of global natural cataclysm to save us.

Weed out some problems. Turn back the technology maybe 100 years.

Posted by 4cubbies
Member since Sep 2008
63126 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 10:45 am to
Hunter S Thompson's essay a week after 9/11 was pretty prophetic:
quote:


We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time."

Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history -- which is no doubt true -- but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a war-time economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed.

That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks. The time has come for loyal Americans to Sacrifice. ... Sacrifice. ... Sacrifice. That is the new buzz-word in Washington. But what it means is not entirely clear.


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Posted by Lou
Modesto, CA
Member since Aug 2005
9057 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 10:46 am to
quote:

Are the good times really over for good?
Merle Haggard asked the same question 45 years ago.


quote:

I wish a buck was still silver
It was back when the country was strong
Back before Elvis, before Vietnam war came along
Before the Beatles and Yesterday
When a man could still work and still would
Is the best of the free life behind us now
And are the good times really over for good?

I wish coke was still cola
And a joint was a bad place to be
It was back before Nixon lied to us all on TV
Before microwave ovens when a girl could still cook, and still would
Is the best of the free life behind us now
Are the good times really over for good?

Are we rolling downhill like a snowball headed for hell
With no kinda chance for the flag or the liberty bell

Wish a Ford and a Chevy
Would still last ten years like they should
Is the best of the free life behind us now
And are the good times really over for good?

Stop rolling downhill like a snowball headed for hell
Stand up for the flag and let's all ring the liberty bell
Let's make a Ford and a Chevy
That would still last ten years like they should
'Cause the best of the free life is still yet to come
And the good times ain't over for good



-- Merle Haggard (1981)


Posted by GreatLakesTiger24
Member since May 2012
61752 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 10:48 am to
Nope

It’s never been easy to live a good life in America due to cell phones and AI
Posted by djsdawg
Member since Apr 2015
42331 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 10:59 am to
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You guys to get off the internet every now and then. This is country is still full of people who love America and are proud to be Americans.


Ok.
When you go out, you see how expensive everything is.

Posted by Bard
Definitely NOT an admin
Member since Oct 2008
60456 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 11:02 am to
Posted by Rip Torner
Member since Jul 2023
3465 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 11:02 am to
Yes, and a lot of supposedly educated people are accelerating that process. The average American voter is simply too immature, ignorant, and emotional to vote. It’s more than evident by the quality of candidates that we elect
Posted by Enadious
formerly B5Lurker City of Central
Member since Aug 2004
18756 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 11:04 am to
quote:

Are the good times really over for good?

I'm a Boomer. Every day is good time.
Posted by DomincDecoco
RIP Ronnie fights Thoth’s loafers
Member since Oct 2018
12041 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 11:04 am to
Take it easy pop
Posted by Rip Torner
Member since Jul 2023
3465 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 11:05 am to
You dream. The quality of candidates who are elected is abysmal. It speaks for itself
Posted by dickkellog
little rock
Member since Dec 2024
3472 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 11:06 am to
things are pretty good where i live and where you live doesn't effect me so it's all good.

believe it or not jenny we don't live life collectively.
Posted by weagle1999
Member since May 2025
3946 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 11:19 am to
quote:

Left wing aligned people have been shown to have a higher average IQ than right wing aligned people.


Now do black Democrat voters.
Posted by Tchefuncte Tiger
Bat'n Rudge
Member since Oct 2004
64165 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 11:20 am to
Are we rolling down hill like a snowball headed for Hell? Does a Ford and a Chevy last 10 years like they should?
Posted by Boodis Man
Member since Sep 2020
8451 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 11:30 am to
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Now do black Democrat voters.


No stats available but I would say likely on par with this board's average..probably a little higher
Posted by Stat M Repairman
Member since Jun 2023
3554 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 11:31 am to
quote:

I wish coke was still cola
And a joint was a bad place to be
It was back before Nixon lied to us all on TV


Wild to look back now and see how big of an impact Nixon and Watergate had on people, and how big of a deep state mindfrick that all was.
Posted by cadillacattack
the ATL
Member since May 2020
11445 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 11:41 am to
- restore the separation of powers

- repeal the 17th Amendment

-require proof of citizenship to be eligible to Vote or to receive any benefits directly from the US Government

- return powers and budget to the individual States, ....where it can be better managed .... spend it closer to where the results are expected. Less from the federal government. The size of Federal government is still waaaay to big, despite the recent downsizing.

- Lastly, fully prosecute corruption , particularly inside the beltway. Lobbying is little more than open bribery of our elected officials ... and much of it from outside our country. It must stop entirely.
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