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Mike 03

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4. That's not how it works in regimes like this.
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 10:17 AM
Jul 2020

Being worshipful doesn't save you no matter how close you are to tyrants. As they collapse, their wrath moves closer and closer to the center of power. Could Pence go down like Goebbels or Bormann? Maybe. But I think it's more likely Pence will do exactly what Himmler, Goring and Speer did: panic and try to save himself at the very end.

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