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Alex Parker's avatar

There are certain moments where a distinction comes into sharp relief. Means and ends. Between a category of people who believe in such a thing as "dirty" power that spoils even the idea of its wielding, much less anything that one might do with it, and those who very much do not.

Losing isn't always worth the beauty. Winning is sometimes worth the stain.

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Michael Portelance's avatar

I agree. Do whatever it takes. They would. They are not a political opponent, they are your mortal enemy.

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Michael Smith Jr.'s avatar

And, hey, given photographic evidence of association, an erratic chronology of alibis, and documented predispositions of infidelity and inappropriate conduct and there is a greater than zero chance you might actually find Glonzo’s cousin Festro in a bathtub somewhere on Pennsylvania Avenue holding up a couple of rubber duckies. We found Saddam in a damn pipe ffs lol.

It’s not like there is not a scent of a carrot at the end of the stick.

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