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A Biden Presidency will be a lot like 70s Brezhnev

Undistinguished system guy elevated decades past his prime c...
Razzle-dazzle Violet Public Bath National Security Agency
  09/21/20
I think it will be mostly like Gerald Ford. He's going to f...
Yellow partner meetinghouse
  09/21/20
We’re stagnating now, man, but this guy Gorbachev will...
Razzle-dazzle Violet Public Bath National Security Agency
  09/21/20
There are no clear parallels between the US now and the USSR...
Yellow partner meetinghouse
  09/21/20
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razzle gas station
  09/21/20
Brezhnev was still in his 50s when he took office. I think ...
Red Area Becky
  09/21/20
Cr
sinister native
  09/21/20
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Olive Slippery Garrison Lettuce
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ghee
  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: Razzle-dazzle Violet Public Bath National Security Agency

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=2#40963009)



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Date: September 21st, 2020 9:59 PM
Author: Yellow partner meetinghouse

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=2#40963015)



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Date: September 21st, 2020 10:02 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle Violet Public Bath National Security Agency

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=2#40963034)



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Date: September 21st, 2020 10:06 PM
Author: Yellow partner meetinghouse

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=2#40963052)



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Date: September 21st, 2020 10:03 PM
Author: razzle gas station



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Date: September 21st, 2020 10:06 PM
Author: Red Area Becky

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=2#40963057)



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Date: September 21st, 2020 10:11 PM
Author: sinister native

Cr

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Date: September 21st, 2020 10:08 PM
Author: Olive Slippery Garrison Lettuce



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Date: August 21st, 2025 11:07 PM
Author: ghee



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

Lmao

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



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