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A Biden Presidency will be a lot like 70s Brezhnev

Undistinguished system guy elevated decades past his prime c...
talented step-uncle's house
  09/21/20
I think it will be mostly like Gerald Ford. He's going to f...
Cordovan Cerebral Ticket Booth
  09/21/20
We’re stagnating now, man, but this guy Gorbachev will...
talented step-uncle's house
  09/21/20
There are no clear parallels between the US now and the USSR...
Cordovan Cerebral Ticket Booth
  09/21/20
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geriatric pit
  09/21/20
Brezhnev was still in his 50s when he took office. I think ...
Garnet misanthropic cruise ship tank
  09/21/20
Cr
Mahogany corner famous landscape painting
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Vengeful Office Elastic Band
  09/21/20
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White terrorism, which is far more deadly
  08/21/25
Lmao
cowshit
  08/22/25
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cannon
  08/22/25


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Date: September 21st, 2020 9:58 PM
Author: talented step-uncle's house

Undistinguished system guy elevated decades past his prime cause no one else is available. Doddering old man rarely making public appearances, deferring to underlings. His kids are weird degenerate criminals. Younger apparatchiks vying for power. Dissidents sent to gulags but the system is rotten enough they escape occasionally. Irrational foreign war to flex nuts. Total collapse ~10 years away.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4630231&forum_id=2E#40963009)



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Date: September 21st, 2020 9:59 PM
Author: Cordovan Cerebral Ticket Booth

I think it will be mostly like Gerald Ford. He's going to function mostly as a stabilizer and a seat warmer. The real election is in 2024 and I suspect smart people on both sides are already thinking like this. That's not to downplay what four years of someone in office can do to a country, but I think generally speaking the Biden presidency is going to embody a lot of conservatism with a small c.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4630231&forum_id=2E#40963015)



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Date: September 21st, 2020 10:02 PM
Author: talented step-uncle's house

We’re stagnating now, man, but this guy Gorbachev will fix it. The Soviet Union has another century at least.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4630231&forum_id=2E#40963034)



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Date: September 21st, 2020 10:06 PM
Author: Cordovan Cerebral Ticket Booth

There are no clear parallels between the US now and the USSR then. It's an interesting analysis but your frame for the US should probably be more the long-lived Byzantine Empire than the short-lived USSR.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4630231&forum_id=2E#40963052)



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Date: September 21st, 2020 10:03 PM
Author: geriatric pit



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Date: September 21st, 2020 10:06 PM
Author: Garnet misanthropic cruise ship tank

Brezhnev was still in his 50s when he took office. I think you mean Andropov or Chernenko.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4630231&forum_id=2E#40963057)



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Date: September 21st, 2020 10:11 PM
Author: Mahogany corner famous landscape painting

Cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4630231&forum_id=2E#40963079)



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Date: September 21st, 2020 10:08 PM
Author: Vengeful Office Elastic Band



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4630231&forum_id=2E#40963070)



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Date: August 21st, 2025 11:07 PM
Author: White terrorism, which is far more deadly



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4630231&forum_id=2E#49202675)



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Date: August 22nd, 2025 12:22 AM
Author: cowshit

Lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4630231&forum_id=2E#49202889)



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Date: August 22nd, 2025 12:30 AM
Author: cannon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4630231&forum_id=2E#49202963)