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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Tue May-10-11 09:30 AM
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Do yu think the US is the first stages of a long, slow decline and end to superpower status?
   
In this context, superpower means much more than military might. It means such things as economic and cultural influence, technological leadership, etc., too.

Are today's doldrums temporary or the first of a long, slow slide to diminished world status?

Isn't that what you DUmmies want?  :whatever:

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Long slow decline?  If you DUmmies get your way, it'll be more like a fast flush down the toilet.
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Tue May-10-11 09:30 AM
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Do yu think the US is the first stages of a long, slow decline and end to superpower status?
You primitives would love that, huh? Every liberal and DUmmie/progressive would love that.
You people are pathetic.

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I think the DUmmies are in decline. What will probably happen is the sane people of America will band together and recreate civilization and DUmmies will either attempt food raids or simply starve without Uncle Sugar there to wipe their collective butt.
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Do yu pensare gli Stati Uniti sono le prime tappe di un lungo, lento declino e la fine allo status di superpotenza?
   
In questo contesto, superpotenza significa molto di più la potenza militare. Vuol dire cose come l'influenza economica e culturale, la leadership tecnologica, ecc, anche.

Se stasi di oggi temporaneo o il primo di una lunga, lenta a diapositive stato diminuito mondo
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"The nation that couldn’t be conquered by foreign enemies has been conquered by its elected officials" odawg Free Republic in reference to the GOP Elites who are no difference than the Democrats

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I'm surprised Nadine hasn't chimed in on that one.  It's a great opportunity for her to give all the dumb murkins  another lecture on trends.

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Eyetalian translation for frank:
"Do yu pensare gli Stati Uniti sono le prime tappe di un lungo, lento declino e la fine allo status di superpotenza?
   
In questo contesto, superpotenza significa molto di più la potenza militare. Vuol dire cose come l'influenza economica e culturale, la leadership tecnologica, ecc, anche.

Se stasi di oggi temporaneo o il primo di una lunga, lenta a diapositive stato diminuito mondo"
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Veal parmigiana~

Spaghetti.

Anyway, hasn't this country been on a long, slow decline already? 
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Stinkilio, Pazo del tutti pazi.
Go and tell the Spartans, O traveler passing by
That here, obedient to their law, we lie.

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Spaghetti.

Anyway, hasn't this country been on a long, slow decline already? 

Yup--when one can get microwaveable spaghetti . . .  :o :tongue:
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Spaghetti.

Anyway, hasn't this country been on a long, slow decline already?

No. In every way measurable, the American standard of living and quality of life are higher than ever. The gloom and doom fostered by the left has been there forever, it just never before had access to the fabulous system of 24/7 communications that we now enjoy.

The constant anti-American drumbeat that it generates is false, but it's so persistent that it has convinced a lot of otherwise intelligent people that things are bad and getting worse, even as they live better than ever before.

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Since the donks got control f congress in 2007, it has gone down. Since Obama was imaculated, it is almost straight down.
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