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ProudLib72

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12. I suppose you're right

Reply to Shipwack (Reply #11)

Fri Jun 29, 2018, 04:28 PM

Jun 2018

If baby prisons doesn't get someone to change their opinion of him, a military parade certainly won't.

The only difference, though, is that baby prisons are something that is happening to "illegals" in another part of the country. A military parade, on the other hand, is the executive branch behaving like the dictator of a third world country. That should concern everyone. However, I have a feeling that the majority of our country don't understand that military parades are what third world dictators do.

So maybe the upside will be that many more in our military will turn against him.

You can see why I'm ambivalent about this! So many variables. So many unknowns. It'd be best just to call it off.

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