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5. "If you cannot be trusted in small matters...

Reply to Tommy Carcetti (Original post)

Mon Jun 22, 2026, 12:53 PM

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…neither can you be trusted in large ones”. (From the Gospel of Luke, IIRC). An old maxim I recalled when reading your OP.

And if they can do it on small matters like this, they can do it on other things as well.

And the Trump regime can be guaranteed to cheat and grift in all matters large and small. Their governance, such as it is, can only be described as Soviet in style (particularly when it comes to the naked corruption and the “IDGAF” attitude toward even the slightest pretense of covering up their crime sprees).

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