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Fall is here, right? The leaves are starting to fall, I'm guessing it is all over the country,

or at least all over the northern half. And as the leaves are falling, so are the laws.

How do we take America back from the suckers and the Uber wealthy. Who are these suckers?

How do they end up there?

And that speaks to this larger issue, which is

if you don't have any principles, you've got nothing.

It's true of individuals and it's true of businesses.

It's true of nations.

If you don't have principles you've got nothing. And Trump has no principles. His only principle is I win. They lose. Right? That's it. Everything is in the context of that.

The reason why most of us obey the law, it's not because we're afraid of going to jail.

I don't do it because it would be wrong.

I understand it would be disruptive of banking and of society.

I mean, you and I presumably don't walk through stores

looking over our shoulders trying to figure out where the cops are to decide whether or not to shop

live something we just don't shoplift because we know it's wrong and this is

stuff we learn when we're little kids the difference between wrong and right or right and wrong.

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