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1. It's called checks and balances you dunce

Thu Jan 8, 2026, 09:29 PM

Jan 8

Been around for 250 years, well kinda and mostly.

We are not a dictatorship (or weren't).

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It's called checks and balances you dunce kwolf68 Jan 8 #1

He didn't write it, that's for sure. oregonjen Jan 8 #2

Can't he just EXPLODE into tiny little pieces tavernier Jan 8 #3

"A brushback pitch by the ear of the White House" 😂 Betty Boom Jan 8 #4