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Snackshack

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14. IMO- President Obama's biggest mistake...

Reply to angrychair (Original post)

Fri Jan 30, 2026, 02:08 PM

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...was telling us "That we need to look forward not backward"... when it came to an illegal war and torture in Iraq and accountability on wall street for 2008. This sent a clear msg that if you make the crime big enough you can get away with it.

As for the judicial branch, its failure happened in the summer of 2024... with an immunity ruling that never should have been given.

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