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Europe... tired and old and willingly feeble.

Author: Curly1918  (17624 Posts - Joined: Aug 30, 2017)
Posted at 12:54 pm on Mar 31, 2026
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It's hard to imagine a group of nations collectively deciding to simply capitulate lo life's challenges like an old elephant wandering away from the herd to go die in the jungle... but here we are.

The Euros once created the modern world with tireless energy and creativity and above all WILL.

Today these peoples act like residents of an old folks home.

They seem to need that everything be given to them by the state without personal effort... and without any appreciation from where the state obtains the resources to meet their insatiable needs.

Is this our ultimate fate as well?


Link: https://www.ft.com/content/0c73f10e-f8aa-11e0-ad8f-00144feab49a

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Jingoistic nonsense…meanwhile, DJT is begging Europe to save him.

Author: TyroneIrish  (24055 Posts - Joined: Oct 8, 2020)
Posted at 3:10 pm on Mar 31, 2026
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Then there’s Europe’s rational response to the very real crisis of Climate Change as opposed to Trump’s dismissal based on $$$$ support from the O&G industry…along with his handler in Moscow.

Nothing good can come from Trump…get off the fence and ditch him.


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Maybe there is some truth to the “good times create weak men” thinking

Author: LanceManion  (10098 Posts - Joined: Jul 16, 2010)
Posted at 2:27 pm on Mar 31, 2026
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Hedonism, nihilism & individualism have had a long-term negative impact on the west.

I think the risks to the U.S. are different than Europe but potentially muted. Europe will become slave to Muslim ideology; the U.S., the digital state.


Imposing corporate abuse, neglect and greed on deserving victims.
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There is truth to that.

Author: NedoftheHill  (46424 Posts - Joined: Jun 30, 2011)
Posted at 3:23 pm on Mar 31, 2026
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It's almost like humanity is not well evolved for peace and security.

"Hard times create strong men.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create weak men.
And, weak men create hard times."


Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.
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Book: Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe

Author: NedoftheHill  (46424 Posts - Joined: Jun 30, 2011)
Posted at 2:08 pm on Mar 31, 2026
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Wikipedia thesis summary (which may or may not be fair): Murray contends that European civilization as it has historically existed will not survive. He explores two factors in explaining this: The first is the combination of mass migration of new peoples into Europe together with its low birth rates; the second is what Murray describes as "the fact that… at the same time Europe lost faith in its beliefs, traditions, and legitimacy".

In many of his interviews, Murray discusses how Europe detests its own traditions and history as evil, and lauds non-European traditions. That is happening in the US as well, as the Left considers it racist to celebrate US heritage, but it constantly seeks to celebrate non-US heritage.

Trump is the natural and predictable backlash to this. But, while I hoped he was chemotherapy for the US soul, I now wonder if he is merely the manifestation of death throes of the US. We shall see.

[I can't see the FT link, by the way. Looks like the author wrote a similar piece in 2011. Or perhaps they are the same.]


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Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.
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There’s at least one European country that’s willingly opened its door to Muslim immigrants driven

Author: TyroneIrish  (24055 Posts - Joined: Oct 8, 2020)
Posted at 4:07 pm on Mar 31, 2026
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out of their homelands since the 1950’s…too bad we have a President who appeals to the worst instincts among us.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland#:~:text=The%20documented%20history%20of%20Islam,12%2C000%20Muslims%20within%20Northern%20Ireland.

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And this is what we have -

Author: jimbasil  (54353 Posts - Joined: Nov 15, 2007)
Posted at 1:42 pm on Mar 31, 2026
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Link: https://youtube.com/shorts/0M16TqXtRts?si=cNoFNhHt50yWcTFk

Jack, he is a banker
and Jane, she is a clerk
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Perhaps if the Dems still behaved like JFK we never would had a Trump.

Author: Curly1918  (17624 Posts - Joined: Aug 30, 2017)
Posted at 3:53 pm on Mar 31, 2026
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Hell... they don;t even ack like Bill Clinton anymore.

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Bullshit. They are doing fine - and wisely steered away from this stupid war.

Author: Chris94  (38506 Posts - Original UHND Member)
Posted at 1:05 pm on Mar 31, 2026
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It's become obvious that you want our military to fail because you want DJT to fail.

Author: ELP  (11288 Posts - Joined: Oct 18, 2020)
Posted at 2:24 pm on Mar 31, 2026
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No matter the cost, no matter military lives lost, you want DJT to fail. Just say it and quit dancing around your intent.

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Lame. You voted for recklessness and incompetence. Own it.

Author: conorlarkin  (22464 Posts - Original UHND Member)
Posted at 3:24 pm on Mar 31, 2026
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Yet, you want to make this about "patriotism."

We are Americans. Sorry if we are critical of Trump's decision to go to war, without a plan, without congressional approval, without allied support, and worse, without any strategic focus. This war is substantially helping Russia.

Because of voters like you, the United States is now a rogue superpower.


The American Dream belongs to all of us. — Kamala Harris
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You're critical of everything DJT does, before Iran and now, so you have no cred.

Author: ELP  (11288 Posts - Joined: Oct 18, 2020)
Posted at 3:30 pm on Mar 31, 2026
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You want our military to fail because you want DJT to fail. That's pretty much the size of it all.

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You’re posting about all of us who didn’t want an ill-fated war in the ME?

Author: jimbasil  (54353 Posts - Joined: Nov 15, 2007)
Posted at 2:30 pm on Mar 31, 2026
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Or are you talking about the “Peace President” and his ill-planned bombing of Iran who is now poised to put “boots on the ground”?

Jack, he is a banker
and Jane, she is a clerk
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Don't let the success & safety of our military get in the way of your TDS.

Author: ELP  (11288 Posts - Joined: Oct 18, 2020)
Posted at 3:28 pm on Mar 31, 2026
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You all had TDS before Iran so the Iran TDS rant isn't anything new.


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