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Ferrets are Cool

(22,694 posts) Wed Feb 25, 2026, 11:28 PM 14 hrs ago

IMO, the next President, who WILL be a Democrat, will face the hardest job of any President since

Franklin D. Roosevelt pulled the US out of the Great Depression. Possibly the MOST difficult. My little peanut brain cannot even fathom how to begin to turn it around from the abyss of a disaster they will face.
All I know is that if I hear the phrase "we must look forward and not to the past" I will lose it.

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IMO, the next President, who WILL be a Democrat, will face the hardest job of any President since (Original Post) Ferrets are Cool 14 hrs ago OP

Step One, without which no repair or restoration is possible: Fiendish Thingy 14 hrs ago #1

Fiendish Thingy

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1. Step One, without which no repair or restoration is possible:

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Wed Feb 25, 2026, 11:34 PM

14 hrs ago

Expand the court, and kill the filibuster to do so,

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