kathyjb.bsky.social
@kathyjb.bsky.social
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Exactly. I want them relaxed and overconfident.
April 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Don’t forget “many people” means “voices in my head”.
April 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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When imaginary people call the buffoonish idiot Donald Trump "sir" you know it's all a lie.
April 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Yeah it was literally the long depression.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_De...
Long Depression - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
April 8, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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We all knew he wanted to bring the US back to the Gilded Age but him admitting it out loud is just... astonishing, really.

A handful of people had everything, and everyone else had nothing. Brazen corruption. Child labor was rampant. No worker protections. People died young.

This. Is. INSANE.
April 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Good lord.

There are whole books about the "Panic of 1873," and even a page at the Department of Treasury web site about it!

home.treasury.gov/about/histor...

For now.
Financial Panic of 1873
The Panic of 1873 After the Civil War, the US banking system grew rapidly and seemed to be set on solid ground. But the country was hit by many banking crises. One of the worst happened in 1873 – duri...
home.treasury.gov
April 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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The strongest period in American history, according to Trump: hunger, tuberculosis and filth.

Left: housing in New York, 1910
Right: the "lung block" in NYC, so called bc of the spread of TBC.
April 8, 2025 at 9:04 AM