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“I don't think they (the Bushes) are a dynasty we need bother with. I don't see much future for them. It's going to take four or five years to recover from this administration-to get the Constitution back, to get the legal codes back. They've done a lot of damage for a sort of nothing family.”
— Mar 31, 2025 04:26AM
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Dustin Black
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“If Lincoln had taken his stand on the high moral ground of abolition of slavery, then he could at least have said, "There is a higher moral good than the Constitution." But he didn't. He took his stand on the Constitution and he fell right through the fabric.”
— Mar 31, 2025 08:46AM
Dustin Black
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“Basically you trace the national security state back to Lincoln: the suspension of habeas corpus, universal military service, high military budgets.
Certainly he left us with a centralized "blood and steel" state. And he had absolutely no right to hold the South in the Union. The South had every moral and constitutional right to leave.”
— Mar 31, 2025 08:46AM
Certainly he left us with a centralized "blood and steel" state. And he had absolutely no right to hold the South in the Union. The South had every moral and constitutional right to leave.”