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ret5hd

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1. My honest sentiments on this: They are purposefully trying to create...
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 09:47 AM
Jul 2020

a truly epic pandemic/chaos/mass panic, on a scale not seen since the dark ages, in a last ditch effort to retain power.

It didn't start that way. tRump thought he could slide thru this like he has slid thru every responsibility in his life: deny/point fingers/lie/lay low till another distraction.

But this didn't go away, and in fact grew, nay exploded! Wow...what to do now? Let's make it so terribly epically bad that there are absolutely no systems in place to roadblock any attempts to dismantle the remaining social structure.

The end goal of course is money/power. The only institution even remotely capable of preventing a total oligarchy is the federal government. The individual states can always be pitted against each other...see "right-to-work" laws for example. Weaken the federal government enough, and there are no constraints.

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