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slightlv

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11. I hope you're right....

Reply to paleotn (Reply #5)

Tue May 13, 2025, 05:14 PM

May 2025

but that's why he's building his own army of jackboots... he can't trust he can get the military pared down enough to do what he says, no matter what. I used to be a cop in my younger days... and even *I* don't trust today's cops as a whole!

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