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Month: October 2020
This ad is not new, but … damn.
Colbert I. King writes in the Washington Post:
Credit the group One Million Moms with spurring me to brave covid-19-struck Washington, D.C., and make a beeline to the grocery store to purchase some Oreo cookies.
I could do no less in light of a scurrilous campaign the organization has launched against Oreo and its parent company, Mondelez International.
Not to be confused with the Million Mom March gun-safety organization, OneMillionMoms.com is an online ministry of the American Family Association, a self-described “conservative, pro-family” organization based in Tupelo, Miss.
One Million Moms is out of sorts because Oreo has joined with the nonprofit PFLAG — an organization of supportive parents, families and allies of LGBTQ people — to release “Rainbow Oreos.” These are described as cookies filled with Oreo cream in the colors of the Pride flag, and the company has launched the new product with a moving ad depicting a daughter and her partner introducing their relationship to her parents.
Moving is right. Got me.
The American Family Association admonishes Mondelez for not “remaining neutral in the cultural war.” One Million Moms believes the ad attempts to “normalize the LGBTQ lifestyle” and “brainwash children and adults” by “desensitizing audiences” to the “homosexual agenda.”
I’m surprised One Million Moms didn’t condemn rainbow Oreos as papist communion wafers.
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Later today, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts takes up an emergency appeal by Republican leaders of North Carolina’s House and Senate and the Trump campaign.
Amy Howe at SCOTUSblog explains the latest election intrigue from North Carolina. In settlement of COVID-19-related litigation brought by the North Carolina Alliance for Retired Americans (and specific litigants I know personally), the State Board of Elections extended the deadline for accepting absentee ballots from three to nine days after Nov. 3. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the appeal 12-3, explaining, “The extension simply makes it easier for more people to vote absentee in the middle of a global pandemic that has killed over 200,000 Americans.”
North Carolina Republicans and the Trump campaign, Howe explains, took dissenting judges advice and appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court:
Two days after three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit urged them to “take this case up to the Supreme Court immediately,” the Trump campaign and North Carolina Republicans did exactly that, asking the justices to block an extension of the deadline for absentee ballots in that state to nine days after the election. Timothy Moore, the Republican speaker of the state’s House of Representatives, and Philip Berger, the highest-ranking Republican in the state’s senate, told the justices that they should step in immediately to stop an “unconstitutional usurpation of power,” and “to avoid the specter of a post-election dispute over the validity of ballots received during the disputed period in North Carolina.” A second filing, by the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee, characterized the extension of the deadline as an “extraordinary attempt by an unelected state board of elections to rewrite the unambiguous terms of a statute enacted in June” by the North Carolina legislature.
Roberts handles emergency appeals from the 4th Circuit, Howe continues. He can act alone or refer it to the full court. Meaning, a newly confirmed Amy Coney Barrett could participate in the decision and break the 4-4 tie rendered in a similar Pennsylvania case on Monday. Roberts requested a response from parties by Saturday, Oct. 24, at 3 p.m. EDT.
The appeal filed by Moore and Berger argues for quashing the Memorandum issued by the State Board of Elections to implement the extension, arguing “administering the election in an arbitrary and nonuniform manner that will result in disparate treatment by inhibiting the rights of voters who cast their absentee ballots before the Memorandum was issued.”
One imagines an amicus curiae filing in support of Republicans:
BRIEF FOR AMICUS CURIAE HEADS, WE WIN, TAILS, YOU LOSE COALITION IN SUPPORT OF TIMOTHY K. MOORE, in his official capacity as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives; PHILIP E. BERGER, in his official capacity as President Pro Tempore of the North Carolina Senate; and Trump 2020 campaign.
In their ongoing efforts to secure the vote and improve election security, North Carolina Republicans have spent the better part of the last decade in court. They have been joined by the RNC, the several Republican-controlled states, and the Trump administration in:
- Limiting who counts as a person for census purposes
- Gerrymandering targeting “African Americans with almost surgical precision“
- Photo/voter ID laws
- Restrictions on acceptable IDs
- Onerous document requirements for voter registration
- Street address requirements for registering in communities lacking street addresses
- Limiting days/times/locations for voter registration services
- Restrictions on ex-felon registration
- Restrictions on voter registration drives
- Violating the “Motor Voter” law by state DMVs
- Restrictions on early voting times
- Siting early voting locations remote to minority neighborhoods
- Restrictions on absentee voting
- Restrictions on absentee ballot drop boxes
- Voter roll purges
- Closing polling places
- Limiting voting machines in minority precincts
- Voter intimidation tactics at the polls
- “Disenfranchisement by typo“
- Decades-long effort to undermine confidence in the election process itself
This year, Republicans under the leadership of newly appointed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy (a Republican mega-donor with no prior postal experience) have gone to great lengths to make mail service more efficient. Allegations that his actions sabotaged U.S. mail service in an election year we reject as categorically false. Fake news. DeJoy removed sorting equipment and mailboxes because they were not needed during a pandemic in which record numbers of Americans would vote by mail. He issued instructions resulting in mail piling up in warehouses to reduce costs, not to drag out delivery times.
Key battleground states are experiencing “some of the nation’s most erratic mail service” as a result of heroic efforts to set the venerable U.S. Postal Service on the path to fiscal health.
We join this appeal not out of rank partisanship, no. We recognize success in this case will disenfranchise both Republican and Democratic voters. (Of course, we predict that more Democrats are likely to lose their votes than Republicans. That outcome is simply incidental.)
How dare the North Carolina Alliance for Retired Americans, the North Carolina State Board of Elections, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and lower courts foil well-laid Republican plans by extending the ballot acceptance deadline.
The Heads, We Win, Tails, You Lose Coalition defends the deeply principled belief that counting the votes of voters who cast absentee ballots later inhibits the rights of voters who cast their absentee ballots earlier.
For all of the reasons discussed above, this Court should once again limit the franchise of non-Republican voters and uphold the core value we proudly declare in our organization’s name. Failure to do so will raise “the specter of a post-election dispute over the validity of ballots” and threaten to delay certification of a slate of presidential electors long enough to allow the Republican legislature under state law to appoint electors of its choosing. We promise.
Respectfully submitted on this 24th day in October, 2020.
Update: Added “Closing polling places.”
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“Tonight had its ups and downs, but the highlight for me was that we’ll never have to watch Donald Trump debate ever again,” Stephen Colbert said in his live Late Show monologue Thursday night. But more important than that, the host reminded viewers that the second presidential debate was “the last chance for Trump to be seen by millions of eyeballs for free.”
After the first debate in late September, Colbert, like most Americans, felt completely demoralized, calling Trump’s refusal to condemn white supremacy “one of the most upsetting moments, not only of the night, but of my lifetime.”
This time, he was in a noticeably better mood, praising moderator Kristen Welker for keeping the president in line and giving Biden credit for forcefully fighting back Trump’s smears about his son Hunter.
Meanwhile, he said, “Trump sounds like three kids stacked in a trench coat pretending to be an adult. ‘I’m like a businessman doing business. I love office and eat taxes with my coffee. Three tickets for the boobie movie, please.’”
As Colbert put it, Trump “seemed to get spooked as the night went on” and started resorting to the foundations of his original 2016 campaign like “immigrants are scary.” At one point, the president actually talked about “murderers” and “rapists” coming over the U.S.-Mexico border.
“Trump’s closing with the line he opened this entire nightmare with,” the host said, playing a reverse video of the president and his wife Melania ascending the escalator at Trump Tower. “Goodbye, sir! See you at the tribunals!”
In response to Trump calling himself the “least racist person in the room,” Colbert added, “‘There are all kinds of Black people and Mexicans hiding out there in the dark. Could be, I don’t know, plotting and planning and waiting to pounce and I wouldn’t even know because I’m so not racist.’”
In the end, Colbert said Americans have a “tough choice” to make. “Do they vote for Joe Biden on November 3rd?” he asked. “Or do they vote for him early? Because the ultimate mute button is in your hands.”
If Democrats are serious about dealing with this outrageous judicial power grab, it’s long past time that they went nuclear on the people who have been facilitating it. This twitter thread by election law expert Rick Hasen, which points to a couple of excellent articles on the subject, tells the tale of a corrupt behind-the-scenes puppet master who has fundamentally changed American life in ways that will reverberate for generations:
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I’ve been calling on my conservative friends to condemn Leonard Leo, one of the key players in building the Federalist Society and promoting Trump’s judges to the federal courts, for backing a group trying to suppress the vote. But now there’s evidence of Leo’s self-dealing.
Here’s the piece @Dahlialithwick and I wrote @Slate in May on how same people pushing conservative judges for the court were spawning more voter fraud myths through the “Honest Elections Project” backed by Leo to defend laws making it harder to vote.
Then @Dahlialithwick and I followed up in this @Slate piece showing same people providing financial backing to get three former Bush lawyers from Bush v. Gore on Supreme Court are pushing legal theories going to SCOTUS aimed at suppressing the vote.
Leo’s activities with Honest Elections Project are despicable. His group is advancing crackpot theories which could be used to try to get the courts, which he helped to stack with conservatives, to accept sham voter fraud arguments which could affect voting outcomes.
And now comes this expose from @CREWcrew @RobertMaguire_ which shows that in addition to Leo’s despicable political conduct, it looks like Leo and a lot of people are getting rich while obscuring that through a series of organizations and corporations.
Some of my conservative friends have condemned others, like Kris Kobach, for advancing false, unsupported and dangerous theories of massive voter fraud used to try to suppress the vote and sway elections. But crickets about Leo, even after I’ve called it to their attention.
Why the silence? I hope it is not because Leo runs a very powerful network that puts conservatives on courts and in high positions, and it is fear of what opportunities might disappear if Leo were called out.
But his work should be condemned by all principled conservatives.P.S. Don’t be telling me Leo has “stepped away” from @FedSoc. So what? He’s created this network and has unparalleled influence in this world, making his advancing spurious voter fraud arguments in courts stacked with his judges particularly dangerous. 8/7
I took people at their word when they said that Leo had “stepped away” from the Federalist Society. But he’s still listed here as their co-chairman!
https://fedsoc.org/board-of-directors
Originally tweeted by Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) on October 23, 2020.
Leonard Leo is as close to being a rightwing superhero as there is. In legal circles he is a demi-god. And it turns out that he’s also personally corrupt and just as criminally devious and hackish as all the rest. I don’t know that anyone can count on “principled conservatives” to say anything against him.
This video was put together back in August. So he’s made the promise a bunch of times more recently, including in all the debates and town halls in the last month:
Trump last night in the debate on this subject, promising once again that he’s going to offer a better health care plan:
First of all, I’ve already done something that nobody thought was possible. Through the legislature, I terminated the individual mandate. That is the worst part of Obamacare, as we call it. The individual mandate — we have to pay a fortune for the privilege of not having to pay for bad health insurance. I terminate it; it’s gone.
Now it’s in court, because Obamacare is no good. But then I made a decision, ‘Run it as well as you can’ — to my people, great people — ‘Run it as well as you can.’ I could have gone the other route and made everybody very unhappy. They ran it. Premiums are down, everything’s down. Here’s the problem. No matter how well you run it, it’s no good. What we’d like to do is terminate it. We have the individual mandate done.
I don’t know that it’s going to work. If we don’t win, we will have to run it and we’ll have Obamacare, but it will be better run. But it no longer is Obamacare. Because without the individual mandate, it is much different. Pre-existing conditions will always stay. What I would like to do is a much better health care, much better.
We’ll always protect people with pre existing — so I’d like to terminate Obamacare, come up with a brand new beautiful health care. The Democrats will do it because there’ll be tremendous pressure on them. And we might even have the House at that time. And I think we’re going to win the House, okay?
You’ll see, but I think we’re gonna win the House. But come up with a better health care, always protecting people with pre existing conditions — and one thing very important. We have 180 million people out there that have great private health care, far more than we’re talking about with Obamacare. Joe Biden is going to terminate all of those policies.
Setting aside the nonsense about terminating policies, this is probably the most coherent response he’s given about what will happen if he’s re-elected: he plans to strongarm Democrats into signing on to some thrown-together junk GOP plan out of desperation once his handpicked justices throw 20 million people off their health insurance. The suffering will be immense.
It is very, very hard for me to respect people are still buying this snake oil. In fact, I can’t. Health care is a top priority for the vast majority of Americans, insured or not. Anyone who is willing to allow this imbecile to destroy what we already have and then keep “promising” something better for four more years is a fool. I’m sorry. They are.
This piece by NBC investigative reporters Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny about the genesis of the “Hunter Biden” scandal is hugely important. This isn’t about Donald Trump. It’s about the grotesque underbelly of the Republican Party that’s been operating for many decades. They are always present. And they are awful:
Some of the same people who pushed a false conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton that first emerged in 2016 are now targeting Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son, with similar falsehoods. Their online posts are garnering astronomical numbers of shares on social media.
The fantastical rumors, which NBC News is declining to repeat verbatim, echo specific plot points central to “pizzagate,” a viral disinformation campaign that predates QAnon but also falsely alleges a vast conspiracy of child abuse.
There is an important difference, however. The pizzagate-style rumors in 2016 were largely confined to far-right message boards like 4chan and parts of Reddit. But the Hunter Biden iteration of the same conspiracy theory took off last weekend with the help of speculation from conservative TV hosts and members of Congress. Their theorizing can be traced back to a new website that has been promoted by President Donald Trump and his surrogates.
The path of the conspiracy theory highlights how once-obscure and fringe claims are now able to reach mainstream conservative media and even elected officials in the run-up to the 2020 election.
The disinformation campaign appears to have been successful in its goal of generating a smear against the former vice president’s son. According to Google Trends, “human trafficking” is now the third-most common related search term for “Hunter Biden” in the last year, after “laptop” and “New York Post,” which point to search interest around the unconfirmed allegations that a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden contained evidence of crimes.
The New York Post published an article on Oct. 14 that it said was based on leaked private photos from Hunter Biden’s personal hard drive, including photos that appeared to show the younger Biden sleeping and screenshots of unverified emails claiming that he had used his position on the board of an energy company to set up a meeting with his father, then the vice president. Both Bidens have denied any wrongdoing, with Joe Biden recently calling the allegations a “last-ditch effort in this desperate campaign to smear me and my family.”
NBC News requested a copy of the hard drive, but Rudy Giuliani, the president’s lawyer, who had possession of the hard drive, has yet to respond. The New York Post article did not include any of the child abuse rumors.
But the child abuse conspiracy theories about Hunter Biden that emerged from the fringes of the internet began swirling before the New York Post article and can be traced to associates of former White House aide Steve Bannon. They are now reaching a fever pitch less than two weeks before the election, in which Trump trails Biden in most national and many battleground state polls.
Whitney Phillips, an assistant professor of communications and rhetoric at Syracuse University, said that pro-Trump trolls are “playing the hits from 2016” and hoping they stick with voters who didn’t hear the first iteration of the rumor four years ago.
She noted that pushing child abuse conspiracy theories echoes what Bannon has publicly advocated in an effort to alter how voters feel.
“This is gaslighting of the highest order,” Phillips said. “This has been the Steve Bannon playbook this entire time. He has celebrated the strategy of ‘flooding the zone with s—‘ — when you confuse people, when you make them angry, when you just sort of throw too many things at them for them to process.”
The re-run of an identical conspiracy theory from 2016, this time with Hunter Biden as the new target, gathered momentum in part because of a new disinformation pipeline promoted by high-profile conservative figures — including the president.
Before the Post
The earliest mentions of Hunter Biden’s laptop surfaced in late September, weeks before the New York Post article was published, according to Zignal Labs, a media intelligence platform that analyzed the social media conversation around recent Hunter Biden rumors for NBC News.
First Draft, a nonprofit that tracks misinformation and provides research and training for journalists, said the child abuse rumors originated from a nexus of pro-Trump figures. The organization is also a training partner of NBC News.
Keenan Chen, a First Draft researcher who has been monitoring the spread of the Hunter Biden rumors, said that they appeared to have originated from Dinggang Wang, an anti-Chinese government YouTube personality known for spreading misinformation about Covid-19.
Wang is connected to Bannon, the 2016 Trump campaign CEO, and Giuliani through Guo Wengui, a billionaire who fled China amid accusations of bribery and other crimes. The three men are board members of the Rule of Law Society, a nonprofit with a mission to “expose corruption, obstruction, illegality, brutality, false imprisonment, excessive sentencing, harassment and inhumanity” in China.
Wang did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Guo, who is a member of Trump’s country club Mar-A-Lago and was once the world’s 67th-wealthiest individual, befriended Bannon, a former Trump campaign and White House aide, in 2017, according to The Washington Post. Bannon was arrested by federal agents on Guo’s yacht in September and charged with fraud, tied to an alleged scheme to defraud donors to a social media campaign called We Build the Wall. He has pleaded not guilty and is scheduled to face trial next May.
The most prominent spread of the child abuse rumors involving Hunter Biden before the New York Post article came from Wang, whose Twitter thread of videos has been retweeted 20,000 times.
Twitter and Facebook have both instituted a series of new policies aimed at limiting election misinformation, though Wang’s videos do not necessarily violate those rules.
Wang’s videos picked up more momentum a month later, as conspiracy theorists speculated about what else could be on the hard drives after the New York Post article.
While Delaware authorities have said the hard drive is now in the hands of the FBI, its emergence triggered a wave of conspiratorial thinking that has reached mainstream conservative outlets. But vague rumors about Hunter Biden’s hard drive had already been spreading for a full month.
“Shortly after the New York Post story went online, some members of the QAnon conspiracy theory noticed Wang and his YouTube show, and started amplifying the unfounded pizzagate narrative and making it more visible in English on social media,” Chen said.
According to analysis by the nonpartisan nonprofit Advance Democracy, more than 1 in 10 shares of a tweet from Giuliani about the New York Post article came from accounts that identify with the QAnon conspiracy theory in their Twitter bio.
Just one day after the New York Post article, allegations of wrongdoing against the Bidens involving Ukraine were seemingly abandoned by many Trump allies and conservative media, which turned the focus to claims of China-related corruption, according to Zignal’s analysis. These conversations were dominated by Donald Trump Jr., the president and the actor James Woods.
But the most significant boost for the child abuse conspiracy theories would come from a website founded in May that has been embraced by Trump surrogates: Revolver News.
Please read this whole thing if you have the time. It’s vitally important to understand how this works and keep it in mind as they crank up the smear machine if Biden wins. It’s designed to defeat Democrats at the polls of course, but it’s greater purpose is to cripple them once in office and make Democrats disengage from the political process. Right now that may seem unlikely. Trump has turned the tables on them with his rampant corruption and betrayal. But they have obviously not been deterred.
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If you watched Donald Trump this past week, you might have expected him to show up for the final debate of the 2020 campaign on Thursday night as loaded for bear as he was in the first one. His rallies have been filled with scalding vitriol toward his political opponents and his Twitter feed has been nearly incoherent with rage. He seemed to be working himself up into a full-blown frenzy in anticipation of another Fight Club-style encounter with Joe Biden.
But Trump may have peaked a little early with his petulant interview with “60 Minutes” reporter Lesley Stahl on Wednesday and lost his mojo. He was so upset with Stahl’s questions that he suddenly ended the interview and flounced out of the room like a sullen teenager. The next day he followed through on his threat to release a White House recording of the interview, reportedly made for archival purposes. Trump described Stahl’s interview as a “vicious attempted ‘takeout'” and offered this summary on Twitter: “Watch her constant interruptions & anger. Compare my full, flowing and ‘magnificently brilliant’ answers to their ‘Q’s’.”
Since Trump apparently thought he’d done a great job with that dumpster fire of a first debate perhaps he thought releasing this interview would show him in the same light. It did. But it wasn’t a good one.
After having insulted the moderator, Kristen Welker of MSNBC, in the days leading up to the final debate, it looked like he was gearing up for another showdown. But by the time he got to Nashville for the debate at Belmont University, he frankly seemed to be somewhat spent.
It’s hard to know if all this was intentional as a sort of “tease” for the main event or if Trump just ran out of gas, but this debate was more or less civilized, at least in terms of his general demeanor. He was dour and hostile, of course, but he didn’t interrupt too much and generally followed the rules. (Naturally this meant that observers on Twitter and elsewhere complimented him for his “discipline.”)
The problem this time wasn’t that his feral personality was on display. The problem was that when you actually got to hear the two candidates answer questions about policy without all the theatrics, it’s clearer than ever that even after almost four years in office, Donald Trump still has no idea what he is doing. Even in his subdued state, he played his most obnoxious greatest hits without any awareness that they are stale, stupid and offensive.
Biden, on the other hand, was well-informed about policy, answered all the questions directly and showed himself to be a normal human being. After what we’ve been through with Trump, those banal qualities almost have a magical feeling to them.
As always, Trump lied extravagantly. As CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale put it:
Trump was, as usual, a serial liar. For a fact-checker, you’re kind of sitting there with Biden. Occasionally you’re like, “Oh, that’s wrong.” With Trump, you’re like the “I Love Lucy” episode in the chocolate factory. You don’t know which one to pick up because there’s just so much.
Trump continues to “downplay” the pandemic and that couldn’t be more objectionable than it is right now, as we face a surge in cases that may end being worse than the original surge last spring. He went into his usual litany of BS about closing the borders to China and the supposed 2 million deaths that he prevented by doing what he did. He claimed that Biden was itching to shut down the country, to which Biden retorted, “Shut down the virus, not the country.”
Needless to say, Trump tried to get the phony Hunter Biden scandal into the debate since that was the real reason he even bothered to show up. He wasn’t successful. None of it was intelligible and it all no doubt sounded like gobbledygook to anyone who isn’t steeped in Breitbart-esque arcana. (And yes, it’s exasperating for the most corrupt president in history to lob such accusations at anyone else.)
When he absurdly accused Biden of taking half a billion dollars from China as vice president, the exchange that followed perfectly illustrated the difference between the two men. Here’s Biden:
My response is, look, there’s a reason why he’s bringing up all this malarkey. There’s a reason for it. He doesn’t want to talk about the substantive issues. It’s not about his family and my family. It’s about your family, and your family’s hurting badly. If you’re a middle-class family, you’re getting hurt badly right now. You’re sitting at the kitchen table this morning deciding, “Well, we can’t get new tires. They’re bald, because we have to wait another month or so.” Or, “Are we going to be able to pay the mortgage?” Or, “Who’s going to tell her she can’t go back to community college?” They’re the decisions you’re making, and the middle-class families like I grew up in Scranton and Claymont, they’re in trouble. We should be talking about your families, but that’s the last thing he wants to talk about.
Trump’s tone-deaf response?
That’s a typical political statement. “Let’s get off this China thing” and then he looks, “The family around the table, everything.” Just a typical politician when I see that. I’m not a typical politician. That’s why I got elected. “Let’s get off the subject of China.” “Let’s talk about sitting around the table.”
Come on, Joe. You could do better.
Trump’s smug cluelessness about the concerns of everyday people came through again in the discussion of race, when he once again insisted that the had “done more for African Americans than anyone since Abraham Lincoln,” adding that “there is no one in this room less racist than I am.” (Moderator Kristen Welker is Black.)
Trump preened about passing prison reform and blasted Joe Biden for a “super-predator” comment he never made — that was Hillary Clinton — and for supporting the now-infamous 1994 crime bill. This, coming from the man who took out that odious full-page newspaper ad demanding the death penalty for the Central Park Five, is bad enough. But as Biden pointed out, Trump’s been a big fan of putting more people in prison for a long time. This comes from “The America We Deserve,” Trump’s manifesto for his short-lived Reform Party presidential campaign in 2000:
We need to rethink prisons and punishment. The next time you hear someone saying there are too many people in prison, ask them how many thugs they’re willing to relocate to their neighborhood. The answer: None.
President Law and Order can’t have it both ways.
All in all, this was a fairly mundane affair by Trump standards. He managed to keep from turning it into a complete circus. But it may have actually hurt him with the voters. Instead of being shocked and appalled by the spectacle, they actually got to hear what he was saying. And that’s much, much worse.
He seemed to realize that once it was over:
The rest is filler.
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