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You could substitute the last sentence with, "Joe will leave the USA with a broken society," and it would still be true.

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No, it wouldn't.

Dementia Joe is hands down the worst President in US history--worse even than the dysfunctional Pierce and the ineffectual Buchanan.

Yet Dementia Joe has not nor will not break US society, for the simple reason that US society has always proven to be far more resilient and far more durable than the naysayers want to believe.

This is a nation that has, fitfully and with great difficulty at times, overcome slavery, the Jim Crow era which followed, and "separate but equal".

This is a nation that embraced cultural diversity long before "diversity" became a thing.

This is a nation that endured the Long Depression in the 1870s only to rise to become the world's largest economy by the end of WW1.

This is a nation that endured the Great Depression only to rise up and win WW2, becoming the world's first truly global superpower in the process (and the only one that has endured thus far, the Soviet Union having long since fallen away).

This is a nation that, despite its reputation for crass consumerism, has for decades been the world's leader in charitable giving.

The US has its faults, and US society is enduring some very great challenges and tests of its resiliency, of that there is no doubt. But if American history teaches us anything it is to never write off the American people as "done." Bouncing back is something Americans have done more than once, and have proven time and again, across many generations, to be quite good at it.

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My thought is many American’s believe in “American exceptionalism.” I agree is has many admirable attributes and I’d rather live under American tyranny (British weren’t too bad either) than the other choices, but I’d prefer that there was no tyranny. Thanks from your “Deputy Sheriff” down under. 😀🇦🇺

https://m.independent.ie/world-news/deputy-sheriff-policy-change-stuns-asians-26139645.html

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In the picture even the audience is in lockstep with each of them poised at almost the exact same angle with their cell phones. Good obedient comrades. Also of note the backdrop coloring is similar to Joe's speech.

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Good. The last thing the rest of the world should want is for China to have a competent leader.

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As long as the extent of his incompetence is Zero COVID, I tend to agree.

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Conversely, I think this is bad since several countries seem to think China is a model.

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