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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: wzambon ✶❂🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: The Ride Is Over
Date: 09/22/26 8:01 PM
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The easy ride is over.

For years they coasted on the shallow assertion that Democrats were monsters of one kind or another: communists, socialists, trans, lizard alien overlords, pedophiles, elites. Pick your flavor. All of it has faded in potency and relevance, because voters are now living inside the damage these enablers caused.

It’s hard to sell a long-haul trucker on the imaginary risk of commie lizard people when he can’t afford to fill his truck.

Donald Trump started a foolish trade war, a tariff regime that has wrecked whole sectors of the American economy. Susan Collins didn’t start it. Neither did Mike Lawler, or Rob Bresnahan, or Byron Donalds.

But they enabled it. They knew what it would cause. They knew exactly how wrong it was, how damaging it would be, and how its painful consequences would land on their own constituents in their own states and districts. They cared more about Trump than the people who sent them to Washington. They were willing to cause any amount of pain to Americans to spare themselves the pain of Trump having his delicate, fragile snowflake ego dinged by even the slightest critical word.

And until the panic of 2026 set in, they were silent. Obedient. Dogs in human form, showing their bellies and tucking their tails while Trump whipped them.

Roger Marshall in Kansas, Ashley Hinson in Iowa, Ken Paxton in Texas, Mike Rogers in Michigan, and Ashley Moody in Florida will all watch the farm economies in their states get wrecked by the rising price of diesel and fertilizer, courtesy of Trump’s ill-starred war with Iran. It’s a war every one of them backed, run by a clownish, drunken oaf of a Defense Secretary the senators among them voted to confirm.

Collins, Marshall, and Moody voted to confirm RFK Jr., too. Now they sit uncomfortably, wondering why measles, a disease this country had beaten, is back with a vengeance, killing Americans and harming American children, some of them for life. They can stop wondering. They did that. Their names are on the roll call

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