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kentuck

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Sun May 10, 2026, 09:23 PM Sunday

Is the nation in a moral crisis? [View all]

When we are living in the times of artificial intelligence and alternative realities, it is a challenge. The strongest parts of the cult are the religious types. They build golden statues, not of calves, but to a man.

Bomb fisherman out of the waters off Venezuela. It was like a scene from a mob movie. They were drug dealers. Many American lives were saved from these drugs.

Bomb an all-girls school in Iran and kill dozens of young girls. It was a war of choice. No one asked the Congress, the people we voted for, to make decisions such as these.

Demolishes the East Wing of the White House. Now we will build a Grand Trump Ballroom with an impenetrable bunker underneath, to protect Dear Leader, if we are bombed with drones?

The country is asked these moral questions.

What do we do about it?

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