@process: The base doesn't care, and when the time comes for consequences, they and the administration will continue blaming the libs, the immigrants, the Commies, the Jews, the Pope, NATO, The Deep State, and whomever else. Textbook Big Brother, and that's because it works.

@thedisasterautist oh of course. Country could go bankrupt and it’s everyone else’s fault. Just look at Russia. Or any other place that lost its collective feckin mind.

@process: Eventually they'll notice and smack their foreheads, but by that time it'll be too late to do much, and it also may be just after the junta's fall (or bailing out) or whatever passes as "the revolution".

@process

They can’t put it together.

@process Ok. 🤷‍♀️

@process Don't suppose that matters if you're planning to do away with elections..

@process I had that exact same thought. Their babies will be shoved into iron lungs, their precious boys will go sterile from having mumps, or they'll die from measles and scarlet fever.

I have a couple ancestors who died from scarlet fever. The husband has a couple who died from the Spanish flu. My oldest caught scarlet fever when she was about 3 and it was no big deal.

Don't forget taking fluoride out of the water!

@GeezerWench it’s just awful - now we don’t have fluoride in our water here - we also don’t have great teeth comparatively

@process I grew up on well water, so there was no fluoride in that. We got fluoride treatments at the dentist.

So far *knock wood* I still have most of my teeth, but I've got four crowns, and probably be needing another one. *sigh* However, my sister has had all her teeth pulled, and my brother was looking kinda snaggle toothy last time I saw him. Maybe I'm just more anal about brushing and flossing. And I've had regular dental visits since I've been married. They did not have that.

@ecksmc @process: They've raised three generations of The Cult of Hustle, of "They're not people; they're product", "It's survival of the fittest", etc. Useful idiots. Cannon fodder/ Crypto fodder.