Trump threw a baby in lake Michigan
this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2026
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The northern U.S. and the South are essentially different countries.
The year: 1859
The Union took the worst possible course with "reconstruction": it placated and allowed the rot to persist, grow and self-govern again while having equal voice so quickly to states that didn't attempt to secede. The north should have either just let the south secede, or finished the job with a full-scale cultural annihilation that would have taken decades. We have been fighting the civil war since 1860, the civil rights movement a major battle but have now ceded government power to a group who wants to finally kill the union and get revenge on those terrible folks who took away their slave labor.
Reconstruction should have been a New Deal/Marshall Plan level reimagining of a new country. Instead not only did we let things rot and fester while pretending much was solved, but any sort of reparations would make more sense while the actual last generation victims were alive.
I would consider Ohio to be northern, and they're certainly on their way
Indiana too. Technically northern but sometimes we’re not sure.
When illinois legalized marijuana I was like this is awesome because all the states are around us will not take the stick up their but about that no matter how much money flows into our state. I mean wisconsin is the liberal neighbor.
Year 2031. Mexicans: Thanks god, senile Trump finished that border wall, now he can keep under control those pesky illegal USA emigrants.
Should have used the darknet, where at least you're safe from your own government