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BaronChocula

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12. When you've "been around politics for 60 years"

Mon Sep 29, 2025, 12:46 AM

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you're bound to speak in anachronisms.

Add to that, I'm skeptical that things today work as they did 60 years ago. Or 50 years ago. Etc. But I remain hopeful that the bottom falls out of this regime.

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