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padfun

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5. Is this just a rhetorical question?

Reply to Triana (Original post)

Fri Apr 22, 2016, 10:27 AM

Apr 2016

Because we ALL know why they haven't been punished. The Kings and Queens NEVER punish themselves.

Did anyone really expect anything else in a plutocracy?

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