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RETIRED TECHIE, ASPIRING FIDDLER, AND OCCASIONAL APIARIST
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Reading Scapegoat (about the Duke of Buckingham) by Lucy Hughes Hall. “He was a favourite…Those people are not elected. They do not pass through the Civil Service selection process. They owe their power to the ruler’s favour, and they are accountable to that person alone.”

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Yep.

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Some of us have been saying this since 2020 and even before: Dems should make corruption *the* central issue in US politics and public life and go on the offensive against GOP/MAGA/Trump transparent and hypocritical corruption and grifting. Most voters hate corruption.

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X and Visa - new way to get your Social Security payments. Cheaper (probably) but a lot of power concentration. Add X as voice of the government. More power concentration. Just speculating but it’s plausible.

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Rainbow weather in the Lakes!

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