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kentuck

(115,219 posts)
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 10:38 AM 21 hrs ago

America is the frog in the pot...

There is an old analogy about putting a frog in a pot of water and slowly turning up the heat until the frog is boiled to death. The frog was unaware of his surrounding doom because it was done gradually, step by step.

Is America now in that pot of water? Step by step, the regime turns up the heat. They invade Venezuela and capture their leader. They stand before our allies in Switzerland and vilify them and threaten to invade their sovereign territories. They send their private armies into our cities to harass and intimidate our citizens. They murder them in cold blood. They hide the evidence. They raid an election warehouse, where all the ballots from recent elections are stored, and confiscate them. Then, last night, they arrest a couple of journalists.

Do you feel the water warming up just a little?

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America is the frog in the pot... (Original Post) kentuck 21 hrs ago OP
We are almost to the boiling point if not already there. Irish_Dem 20 hrs ago #1

Irish_Dem

(80,325 posts)
1. We are almost to the boiling point if not already there.
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 10:55 AM
20 hrs ago

One third of Americans love it.
Another third don't give a damn.
The rest of us cannot do much to change it.

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