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Remembering the False Gloom and Doom of the 1992 Elections—and the Upcoming Midterms(VDH article)
american greatness ^

Posted on 09/29/2026 7:08:27 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET

The Democrats’ charge that 1992 saw the worst recession in 60 years was absurd(it worked). (The 1973 and 1981 recessions were far worse than the 1990–91 recession.)

The 2025 poverty rate hit an all-time low of 10.2 percent. Median household income also hit a record high of $87,460.

The brilliant Bush campaign strategist Lee Atwater, who virtually destroyed the Dukakis campaign in 1988 died in 1991 at the age of 40 from a brain tumor.

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


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To: DIRTYSECRET

I think young people are less likely to be frightened by AI than many older people.


41 posted on 09/29/2026 10:05:07 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: DIRTYSECRET

President Trump should announce that we will be refining and shipping diesel from Kharg Island within a year, with or without Irans help. There is gonna be a worldwide glut of diesel!


42 posted on 09/29/2026 10:11:49 AM PDT by Theophilus (I'm all out of attention to this matter...)
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To: for-q-clinton

“Also don’t forget the red wave at Biden’s mid-terms...that never happened.”

To believe that, you have to believe, against the evidence, that all the elections were honest.


43 posted on 09/29/2026 11:06:04 AM PDT by odawg
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To: GOPJ

Ultimately, i may agree with everything you said, but it doesn’t matter. Yes, because even when Republicans control congress they refuse to changed the overall direction things are going. They don’t change if for the same reasons the Democrats don’t, it gives them more money and less responsibility. The government doesn’t feel like it has to serve the people anymore, and the interference in the recent elections by the IRS, DOJ, CIA, NSA, EPA, USAID, ect. prove that. Congress just makes sure all of these groups budgets get bigger, and nobody goes to jail, while they pocket the cash and make the US citizen suffer.

Judging the immoral Democrats versus the immoral Republicans when both ultimately are doing the above is less than satisfying for me. I will not vote for the ‘Donkeys’ but we need better options.


44 posted on 09/29/2026 11:31:42 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: PermaRag

We say that every time. Instead we elect the Democrats, they shiite the bed and then we have to elect the adults to clean things up. Only this time, they are going to save Democracy by impeaching and trying to remove the legally elected President like they removed the legally elected primary winner in the last election.

I’m not convinced this is legal. Someone is cheating. People can’t be this stupid.


45 posted on 09/29/2026 11:43:50 AM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: Alberta's Child

“Democrats don’t have to lie very much in 2026 because voters know exactly what their bank statements and their wallets are telling them.”

So what did the Democrats say they were going to do to fix the economy?


46 posted on 09/29/2026 11:45:36 AM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: Alberta's Child

And then three days later he joined a long line of Republican morons in the White House by signed onto a stupid Middle East war that completely wrecked all the progress his administration had made up to that point. If this had all happened with a Democratic president in office, there wouldn’t be enough power generating capacity in America to feed Trump’s own hours-long meltdown on social media.

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Trump didn’t build a case for this war, but decided “we had to do something” for our little Middle East buddy.

Now we’re going to lose Congress to the democrats & the President looks like “a loser & a sucker.”


47 posted on 09/29/2026 6:42:58 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. )
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To: mewzilla
Fear is the mind killer.

Love Dune. I see so many analogies with that series and today's dangers.
48 posted on 09/29/2026 9:14:58 PM PDT by Chani (Drive By poster)
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To: Pete Dovgan

When they say “medicare for all,” what does “all” mean?


49 posted on 09/30/2026 12:44:49 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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