I think the downfall started with David Cop-a-feel.

Before that, was the attempted coup by Wall Street and Prescot Bush. That was foiled by Smedley Butler.

If America is saved from the present Orange ShtiGibbon, the hero will be a Greek named Popadopoulos.

nan said:

Actually Clinton was going to do a deal with Newt Gingrich to privatize or "reform" social security" and Medicare, but the Monica scandal stopped that in its tracks. Monica is an American hero!  We should all be grateful to Monica.  She saved Social Security and Medicare.  

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2008/05/29/the-pact-between-bill-clinton-and-newt-gingrich

Well probably the credit should go to Linda Tripp.  

And here we are - 20 years later still with no solution to Social Security and how they will "fix" it.  

sprout said:

LOST said:

sprout said:

But no hanky-panky. It's verboten.

So who would want to visit?

I heard Walter Slezak tell that joke on the Jack Paar show.

The Louisiana Purchase. Jefferson betrayed his own principles and we ended up with shithole States like Mississippi.

I thought this thread was going to be about the obesity epidemic.  Or drug addiction.  Or prison populations.

So while Trump burns the U.S. to the ground we are debating Clinton's affair?

Never could figure out how a blow job superceded two crazy fake wars that decimated two generations of young Americans. I’ll say it again. The Democrats need to put up a smart but gangster candidate to counteract this mental madness. 

It began in 1980, with the candidacy & presidency of Ronald Reagan. Read some economic history.

-s.

22 incidents leading to

the beginning of the end of the U.S. as a first world nation

#12 will leave you speechless!!!