From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 07:31:44 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D´Oliveiro   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Sun, 18 Jan 2026 22:19:12 -0800, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >   
   >> I have written to my legislators in regard to this matter and hope   
   >> they can make progress into treating this boil on the USA's   
   >> derriere. I hope that some Republican voters will do the same with   
   >> their representatives.   
   >   
   >That’s assuming your checks and balances still work. The ease with   
   >which this dicator and his cohorts have managed to sweep them aside   
   >does not bode well.   
      
   That's the great weakness: too much depends on people behaving   
   sensibly, sanely, and politely.   
      
   Petulant 5-year-olds, sadly, are not known for behaving sensibly,   
   sanely and politely. And that is who is running the country.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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