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Frasier Balzov

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3. Trump's point must be that law is irrelevant to winning.

Reply to C Moon (Original post)

Thu May 22, 2025, 12:49 AM

May 2025

Law is something you use to crush the vanquished.

He felt that way when the law made him sweat, and he feels the same way now.

Rule of law has become meaningless sloganeering for me.

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Is the trump administration above the law? [View all] C Moon May 2025 OP

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