XPost: rec.food.cooking, alt.home.repair   
   From: Hank@nospam.invalid   
      
   Mars Sellus wrote on 2/18/2026 5:37 PM:   
   > On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:11:17 -0600   
   > Hank Rogers  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Mars Sellus wrote on 2/18/2026 4:39 PM:   
   >>> On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 22:36:38 -0000 (UTC)   
   >>> Cindy Hamilton  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Of course, Americans think it's somehow   
   >>>> an exceptional place.   
   >>>   
   >>> Of course leftards do nothing but denigrate our nation.   
   >>>   
   >> The MagaTurds are just as bad as the Leftards.   
   >   
   > Not when it comes to churlishly denigrating one's own homeland.   
   >   
   >> Both "parties" are pure evil.   
   >   
   > Yes, Uniparty certainly is!   
   >   
   >> The early founding fathers worried, and warned of the shit they could   
   >> do. We are now living in that predicted hell.   
   >   
   > True, the wimmen lost us a Republic, as Franklin foresaw.   
   >   
   > And they're on their way to leading a global migrant meltdown.   
   >   
   >> Maybe dissolution of the United States will be the best possible   
   >> outcome.   
   >   
   > Into what?   
   >   
   >> Certainly best if the only alternative is remaining an   
   >> authoritarian dictatorship.   
   >   
   > And you think 5 or so autonomous mega-states proposed would not be prone   
   > to the same, and with no hope of Constitutional recourse?   
   >   
   > Conservatism means saving what's right, not flushing the baby and the   
   > bath water.   
   >   
      
   At this point, it doesn't much matter.  Things have deteriorated to the   
   point of no recovery.  If the nation recovers rather than fails, it will   
   have so many cracks, defects, and leftover political booby trap bombs   
   that it won't be able to last very long.   
      
      
   It's Ok.  If you study history, all nations fail.  They rise, rot, and   
   then they fall.   
      
   Maybe it's just our time.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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