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While I appreciate everyone's good work on documenting the con artistry of these people (hat tip to Taibbi & other SubStackers), there comes a time when we must start having a different dialog. Each day is another revelation in the moral depravity of our business and political class (often one and the same), but with each step we are further mired in The Swamp.

We have exhausted all mainstream means through which we could attempt to extricate ourselves from this morass. The noose is tightening but it goes without notice. I liken this to the anxious ambivalence that many must have felt before being rounded up and [insert crime against humanity here].

Bottom feeders on both sides of the aisle are corrupt beyond any hope of redemption. It's time to stop crying woe is me and start asking ourselves how we can oversee a peaceful national divorce, if that is even possible.

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I’m not sure a peaceful national divorce is possible. So many states are neither red nor blue but purple. How should the separation be determined? And what happens to the people left “behind the lines” if their state isn’t their preferred side? Some people of course would move, but most would be unable to for a whole host of reasons. I don’t have any answers, these are just some of the things that keep me up at night.

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EXACTLY!! Every red state Governor should be formulating these plans. I think Texas is esp since they’re trying to pass legislation on backing crypto with gold. (if I am understanding correctly). Lol.

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A divorce from both red and blue? How is that gonna workout for us, do we get a nice piece of land in NW North Dakota??? It’s as close to the moon as anywhere

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Each state can be a separate nation maybe?

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Their is one problem with that Butterfly, we live a mile inside Washington state side of Idaho border….. grrrrr

It’s a nice conservative place. Not that I am conservative, but the people are nice. The state method would include Seattle for us, no thanks on this method!

We could easily move to Idaho, but it would force a lot of transactions that we would’t want to afford at the time, not to say any of that divorce stuff gives a shit about me or you and what we think.

That in itself would be defined as a SHTF for us, one I am trying to remedy at the moment, just need a bit more time and I can cross that off the list of possible bad situations.

How about you?

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Wasn't Gates' most-recent US Farmland accretion sanctified in the Dakotas?

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The problem is, many MANY people are dependent on government handouts which they will not be willing to give up.

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