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slightlv

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40. The repugs gave him ample room to finish breaking the

Tue Jan 7, 2025, 02:45 PM

Jan 2025

social contract. They've been actively working on it since at least the days of FDR.

I know not everyone around here is into Astrology... and I'm a complete amateur... but I've been told by those I respect that the alignments now are tracking with what they were back in the days of the start of the civil war. Also, during WWII (although I'm less certain of that).

What do they say? History doesn't repeat, but it sure rhymes a lot of the time!

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