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27. What does "sustain our positive trajectory" mean?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Mar 25, 2025, 02:19 AM

Mar 2025

Does that mean that letters from Germany to the USA, that took five or six days to arrive ten years ago, and now take four weeks, will soon take six weeks to arrive?

That certainly does sound like a Republican version of a “positive trajectory,” alright.

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