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SpankMe

(3,754 posts)
Fri May 15, 2026, 10:53 AM 10 hrs ago

Important Instagram post. Please watch. Subject: The South rising again

This IG post offers a perspective on the current state of affairs in the US and why we are so royally fucked. It's an IG reel, several minutes long. Please watch and digest its content:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYSR3CrOt73/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

The poster articulately describes how the current goings on are ultimately tied to the south rising again from the civil war (as they've bee promising for 160 years) and how failing to hold them to account - and just letting them "go home" - at the end of the war was a mistake. The current US government is a white supremacist power grab that will hold the US in its grip for the next 100 years, and that Trump was merely the useful idiot the movement found to finally implement their plan. Voting Republicans out in 2026 and 2028 probably may not be enough to change course. The whole plan has been set in motion and a departure of Trump - from the 25th amendment, health issue, or anything else - will no longer work in countering this new direction.

He states that the people in general aren't consciously aware of what's going on and need to really wake up.

He tells it better than I can here. This IG reel is really worth watching, sharing and saving somewhere. Watch it severl times and memorize some of its main points.

For all the "what's wrong and what's happening" narratives I've seen from the left - including here on DU - this perspective seems the most plausible to me.

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Important Instagram post. Please watch. Subject: The South rising again (Original Post) SpankMe 10 hrs ago OP
Oh yes, I thought that all along it doesn't matter how many times we beat them and kick their ass Walleye 10 hrs ago #1

Walleye

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1. Oh yes, I thought that all along it doesn't matter how many times we beat them and kick their ass
Fri May 15, 2026, 10:56 AM
10 hrs ago

I guess they got nothing else to do with their lives and make us miserable

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