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Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

by Miranda Devine

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“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
― Winston S. Churchill

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“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”
― James Bovard, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty

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“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.”
― Bertrand Russell, New Hopes for a Changing World

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“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
― Jose Marti

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“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

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