• ace_of_based@sh.itjust.works
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    18 hours ago

    Sometimes it feels like they aren’t even trying to do their stated jobs, they are ein the business of pleb control

    I’m with ya. It’s like they have given up governance and desperately want us to forget that’s kinda what they’re for

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      17 hours ago

      That’s exactly what they’ve done because their goal is to run the country like their own company.
      Which is why going forward I am open palm slapping anyone who tells me they want the country run like a business.

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            11 hours ago

            You mean GHW Bush, grandson of Prescott Bush who was too busy helping Hitler get into power to take part in the Business Plot? That one?

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              6 hours ago

              You forgot the likely involvement with the assassination of JFK, too.

              He would have won a second term if Ross Perot hadn’t split the vote.