Open Mic SUNDAY 27th SEPTEMBER plus political caption competition

POLITICAL FACT OF THE DAY:
The Roman Republic lasted roughly five centuries before the Roman Empire.
POLITICAL QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The law is reason, free from passion.”
-Aristotle
TDB POLITICAL HAIKU OF THE DAY:
Billionaires plot
To conjure an overhang
Parliament stretches
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