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Ugh, that screenshot of Paxton’s smirking mug from CNN makes me think “Chevy Chase playing an even less likable version of himself.”
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Came here to make this comment, but you beat me to it. I would have changed “less likable” to “even smarmier”, but they’re roughly equivalent.
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Ugh, I am so thoroughly sick of wealthy White men getting away with crimes that would put anyone else under a fucking prison.
‘Somehow,’ for all that blusterous pomp & circumstance about creating a better government, the US still ended up as an aristocracy, only without inheritable titles.
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I’m not so sure about the lack of inherited titles; they are just corporate ones rather than aristocratic ones. 
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Red State ethics training, what a cesspit that must be!
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Why am I not surprised?
As far as I know, he has a lawsuit pending by some whistleblowers, but haven’t heard much about it lately.
Gods, it’s only Tuesday.
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It take 3 seconds. Their manual simply states “we have none”
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How on earth can it be restitution without any admission of guilt? The act of restitution implies Paxton enriched himself unfairly at the expense of others.
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Unfortunately, it is always Tuesday.
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In the US our justice system is irredeemably corrupt, top to bottom, and the rule of law is hanging on by a thread. How much longer are we going to put up with the kleptocracy before we begin to bring the parasitic financial class to actual justice?
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I pity the instructor who has to waste their time on that.
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I don’t know, he the instructor could have fun.
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