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mdbl

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5. "The USA is a house of economic cards at this point"

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 6, 2025, 10:50 AM

Jun 6

Describes our economy for the last 50 years. That's why it's so easy to make it fall. Just the fact that our whole retirement system is reliant on a casino currently being manipulated by a crook like trump shoes how unreliable it's become.

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