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hedda_foil

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7. Too true.

Reply to RockRaven (Reply #6)

Sat Jan 30, 2021, 06:57 PM

Jan 2021

And they can always find Jeeezus in prison and come out in a couple of years cleansed of the corruption and ready for more.

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The Rich GOP say they want freedom, so how is showing fealty to Trump [View all] applegrove Jan 2021 OP

For rich GOP, freedom means freedom from regulation and taxes. hedda_foil Jan 2021 #1

But they are now prisoners of corruption. applegrove Jan 2021 #2

Only if they are charged and convicted. Otherwise, corruption is just good business. hedda_foil Jan 2021 #3

Even arrests and convictions don't matter if Trumpy POTUSs and governors sell pardons RockRaven Jan 2021 #6

Too true. hedda_foil Jan 2021 #7

If you are rich enough, corruption is freeing. You buy favors and influence because the money is RockRaven Jan 2021 #4

Then the middle class is gone and the only way for some poor to be able to applegrove Jan 2021 #5

That's why they're all in for facism to control the wild west without bothering them. hedda_foil Jan 2021 #8

I think this is happening worldwide too. Baked Potato Jan 2021 #10

corruption is the alternative to following rules and procedures DBoon Jan 2021 #12

They talk of freedom because it gets them in the front door of Baked Potato Jan 2021 #9

freedom to do what they want... stillcool Jan 2021 #11

"freedom, in the slogans of the strong..... rampartc Jan 2021 #13

From Qanuts to See ee ohhs, few are truly free sanatanadharma Jan 2021 #14

They've bastardized Jamaal510 Jan 2021 #15

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