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8. With help from the "Heritage" foundation, F47 has shown us just how flimsy our body of laws really is
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 11:45 PM
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Apparently, all the preceding presidents -- even the one's I fucking hated -- willingly worked within a much thicker set of constraints than was actually required. Heritage started with Nixon's "If the president does it, it's not illegal" and refined it to "If the Republican president does it, it's not illegal." And here we are.

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