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“Let them send it in and let them go vote,” Trump said in an interview with WECT-TV in Wilmington, North Carolina, when asked about the security of mail-in votes. “And if the system is as good as they say it is then obviously they won’t be able to vote” in person.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr told CNN that Trump “was trying to make the point that the ability to monitor this system is not good.” Told that voting twice is illegal, he said, “I don’t know what the law in the particular state says.”
Trump and Barr aren't stupid. They know that voting twice is illegal everywhere.
The whole idea is voter suppression. If you clog up the polling places with frivolous fake voters, it will prevent legitimate voters from getting the chance to cast their ballot. The clock will run out and the polling place will close.
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On 8/21/2020 at 11:20 AM, Steve Thomas said:
The Texas Tribune-ProPublica Investigative Unit
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/02/texas-border-wall-private/
“He built a privately funded border wall. It's already at risk of falling down if not fixed.
Keep your eyes out for corruption involving Bannon’s Build the Wall Project and Fischer Construction of North Dakota.
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Privately built border wall will fail, engineering report says
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/privately-built-border-wall-will-fail-engineering-report-says/
“It’s not a matter of if a privately built border fence along the shores of the Rio Grande will fail, it’s a matter of when, according to a new engineering report on the troubled project.
The report is one of two new studies set to be filed in federal court this week that found numerous deficiencies in the 3-mile border fence, built this year by North Dakota-based Fisher Sand and Gravel. The reports confirm earlier reporting from ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, which found that segments of the structure were in danger of overturning due to extensive erosion if not fixed and properly maintained. Fisher dismissed the concerns as normal post-construction issues.
“It seems like they are cutting corners everywhere,” said Alex Mayer, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso. “It’s not a Lamborghini, it’s a $500 used car.”
Since Fisher’s companies embarked on construction of the Rio Grande fence, the Trump administration has awarded about $2 billion in federal contracts to the firms to build segments of the border wall in other locations.
A second report, based on a geotechnical and structural inspection by the Millennium Engineers Group of Pharr, Texas, also hired by the National Butterfly Center, found that the fence was stable for now, but that it faces a host of issues. They include soil erosion on the river side — in some areas gaps up to three feet wide and waist deep, concrete cracking, construction flaws and what the firm concluded was likely substandard construction material below the fence’s foundation.
Fisher has said he wants to donate the Rio Grande fence to the federal government as well, although it’s unclear whether the government will take it. The fence likely will come with a hefty tax bill if not donated, after Hidalgo County recently appraised the land’s value at more than $20 million, which Fisher said his company will fight.”
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DOJ ‘preparing’ to indict top Trump fundraiser in scandal over foreign corruption of US government: Washington Post
Published 1 min ago on September 1, 2020
By Bob Brigham
“Yet another Trump insider is about to be indicted, according to a new report in The Washington Post.
“Federal prosecutors are preparing to charge longtime GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy in connection with efforts to influence the U.S. government on behalf of foreign interests, according to people familiar with the matter, a result of a sprawling, years-long investigation that involved a figure who helped raise millions for Donald Trump’s election and the Republican Party,” the newspaper reported. “Broidy is under scrutiny for his alleged role in a campaign to persuade high-level Trump administration officials to drop an investigation of Malaysian government corruption, as well as for his attempt to push for the extradition of an outspoken Chinese dissident back to his home country, according to the people, who, like others interviewed for this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe an ongoing investigation.””
Malaysian corruption money – that’s how Ivanka financed her Vancouver, British Columbia Trump Tower.
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The New Uighurs? Mongolians Protest as China Moves to Erase Local Culture
Mongolians are risking brutal recriminations by publicly protesting moves to end local language classes in school.
By Brendon Hong Updated Sep. 01, 2020 7:05AM ET
“HONG KONG—Students, teachers, parents, and others are staging protests in Inner Mongolia, a semi-autonomous region in northern China, by surrounding police stations and gathering outside schools. Thousands are congregating in rare displays of open defiance of governmental orders.
These demonstrations were sparked by the Chinese government’s directive issued in the summer to broaden the footprint of Mandarin Chinese in state-compiled textbooks and classroom instruction within the region, displacing the Mongolian language in academic environments and daily usage.
From Sept. 1 onward, the authorities will shift public elementary and middle schools’ language of instruction to Chinese, specifically for three courses—language and literature, history, as well as morality and law (which includes political and ideological indoctrination). The change will be rolled out in phases, eventually keeping just mathematics and art classes in the region’s dominant native tongue.”
Shades of Native Americans.
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Head Of USPS Board Of Governors Is Also Director Of Mitch McConnell Super PAC
By Mary Papenfuss
“A new corporate filing Monday has revealed that the chairman of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors is also listed as a director of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s $130 million super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund.”
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Longtime GOP consultant: This election "is the most dangerous period since the Civil War"
NeverTrumper Stuart Stevens on how the party he helped build became a crime cartel ruled by a failed casino owner
I worked for more than 30 years at the highest levels in the Republican Party and even I cannot tell you what being a conservative means right now. Right now, all the Republican Party cares about is power. The Republican Party exists to elect Republicans. That’s it. In that way, it is like a cartel. There is no higher moral good.
The Senate just released a report showing that Trump and his inner circle actively colluded, if not conspired, with Vladimir Putin and his agents to steal the 2020 presidential election. Those efforts are ongoing. Trump and his inner circle are de facto traitors to the United States. How do Republicans reconcile their support of him with their loud claims to be so “patriotic”?
Power for power’s sake. That’s exactly what it is. It’s not complicated. It’s not new. It’s not novel. It’s not elegant. It’s just power.
Why has it taken so long for the chattering class and the American people as a group to wake up to the fact that Trump is a fascist and an authoritarian, and that he and his movement are a threat to the United States?
Donald Trump has always benefited from the inability to imagine Donald Trump. During the primaries there were 16 candidates who spent most of the time attacking each other because all they thought they needed to do to win was be one-on-one with Donald Trump. They believed that the Republican Party was not going to nominate a failed casino owner who talked in public about having sex with his daughter. It was like, are you kidding me? It’s not going to happen. But it did.
"If a historian or political scientist asked you to write the epitaph of this version of the Republican Party, what would it be?
The Republican Party was killed by a changing America. It became a white party and there were not enough white people."
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Appeals court rejects Michael Flynn’s attempt to have criminal case dismissed
"It means that the decisions will now be sent back to U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington."
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25 minutes ago, Steve Thomas said:
Portland Mayor, Ted Wheeler:
“President Trump, you bring no peace. You bring no respect to our democracy,” he continued. “You, Mr. President, need to do your job as the leader of this nation. I, Mr. President, will do my job as the mayor of this city. We will both be held accountable as we should. I’m calling out every other elected official in Oregon to join me. Not only in defeating racism but helping me to stop the violence as we are and will continue to be held accountable by all of our residents.””
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Donald Trump responds:
“Ted Wheeler, the wacky Radical Left Do Nothing Democrat Mayor (sic) of Portland, who has watched great death and destruction of his City (sic) during his tenure, thinks this lawless situation should go on forever,” tweeted the president. “Wrong! Portland will never recover with a fool for a Mayor… He tried mixing with the Agitators and Anarchists and they mocked him. He would like to blame me and the Federal Government for going in, but he hasn’t seen anything yet. We have only been there with a small group to defend our U.S. Courthouse, because he couldn’t do it….The people of Portland, like all other cities & parts of our great Country, want Law & Order. The Radical Left Democrat Mayors, like the dummy running Portland, or the guy right now in his basement unwilling to lead or even speak out against crime, will never be able to do it!”
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Portland Mayor, Ted Wheeler:
““One death is one death too many. Join me by denouncing all violence,” he said. “Yesterday’s event began with hundreds of cars filled with supporters of the president rallying and driving through downtown Portland. They were supported and energized by the president himself. President Trump, for four years, we have had to live with you and your racist attacks on Black people. We learned early about your sexist attitudes towards women. We’ve had to endure clips of you mocking a disabled man. We’ve had to listen to your anti-democratic attacks on journalists. We have read your tweets slamming private citizens to the point of receiving death threats, and we have listened to the attacks on immigrants. We have listened to you label Mexicans rapists. We’ve heard you say that John McCain wasn’t a hero because he was a prisoner of war, and now you’re attacking Democratic mayors and the very institutions of democracy that have served this nation well since its founding.”
“It’s you who have created the hate and the division,” he said. “It’s you who have not found a way to say the names of Black people killed by police officers even as people in law enforcement have. It’s you who claimed that white issue supremacists are good people. Your campaign of fear is anti-democratic of anything you have done to create hate and vitriol in our country. You have tried to divide us more than any other figure in modern history. Now you want me to stop the violence ta you helped to create. What America needs is for you to be stopped so we can come back together as one America while recognizing that we must demand that all people, Black, brown, white, every color from every political persuasion pull together and hold all people accountable in stopping racism and violence. We together are peaceful again under new leadership that reflects who we really are. We the people of this great nation.”
“President Trump, you bring no peace. You bring no respect to our democracy,” he continued. “You, Mr. President, need to do your job as the leader of this nation. I, Mr. President, will do my job as the mayor of this city. We will both be held accountable as we should. I’m calling out every other elected official in Oregon to join me. Not only in defeating racism but helping me to stop the violence as we are and will continue to be held accountable by all of our residents.””
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Even though #TrumpRiots is the #1 trending topic on twitter,
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23TrumpRiots
I’m more worried about the Karens:
https://boingboing.net/2020/08/28/heres-a-montage-of-karens-bu.html
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“President Trump on Saturday took a moment to hand out autographed photos of himself to emergency officials following a roundtable discussion of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Laura, which bashed Louisiana and Texas as a Category 4 storm earlier this week. He advised the officials to put the autographs up for auction online. “Sell this tonight on eBay. You’ll get $10,000,” he told one attendee. Signing a sheet of paper, he said, “If I put your name down, it loses a lot of value. So sell it tonight on eBay.” The event was part of a tour of Louisiana and Texas to survey damage and hear from state and local leaders about what they need for efforts to recover from the hurricane.”
So much for disaster relief.
Better than paper towels, I guess.
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German leaders condemn far-right attempt to storm Reichstag
https://apnews.com/43388137188cb685914c64a4a8589ee3
"BERLIN (AP) — Senior German officials on Sunday condemned attempts by far-right protesters and others to storm the parliament building following a protest against the country’s pandemic restrictions.
Hundreds of people, some waving the flag of the German Reich of 1871-1918 and other far-right banners, breached a security barrier outside the Reichstag late Saturday but were intercepted by police and forcibly removed.
About 300 people were arrested in front of the Reichstag and following an incident at the Russian embassy, according to police.
Robert Habeck, the co-leader of Germany’s Green party, called for a thorough investigation into the incident.
“The fact that Nazis with imperial war flags try to storm the Bundestag recalls the darkest period in German history,” he told the Funke media group."
Oh boy.
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MAKE IT STOP
MAKE IT STOP
DOJ interviewed USPS board member Bill Zollars in federal fraud investigation
Steve Mnuchin gave Bill Zollars' former company a $700 million loan to continue Pentagon work despite fraud probe
"A recently-appointed member of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors has been interviewed by Department of Justice investigators, as part of a federal suit filed against his former freight company for defrauding the Pentagon of millions of dollars, court documents show.
About two weeks after Bill Zollars, the former chairman, president and CEO of YRC Worldwide, Inc., was confirmed to the USPS board by the Senate in June, the Treasury Department awarded his former company a $700 million COVID relief loan. That came from funds designated for Pentagon contractors — but Zollars' former company, which he left in 2011, has been accused of defrauding the Pentagon during his tenure."
"Zollars also currently sits on the board of directors for Prologis, a logistics multinational that rents industrial real estate to the Postal Service, as well as to competitors such as UPS and FedEx.
HuffPost reported Wednesday that Prologis financial documents from this spring show that Zollars has been compensated with stock shares worth more than $1 million, and that he holds options to purchase thousands more shares. Zollars' Prologis bio says that he serves on the compensation committee."
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/28/politics/donald-trump-kamala-harris-attack/index.html
At his campaign rally in New Hampshirem Trump said,
“You know, I want to see the first woman president also, but I don't want to see a woman president get into that position the way she'd do it -- and she's not competent. She's not competent. They're all saying, 'We want Ivanka.' I don't blame you,"
1) In a tweet, Eric Trump said Kamala Harris was a whorendous choice. He later took that tweet down.
Here we go.
2) “Everybody” is asking for Ivanka. Is Trump going to blame his poor poll numbers on Mike Pence and dump him for Ivanka just before the election?
Is he going to pick a woman because Biden picked a woman? Will this be his "October surprise"?
Are we being groomed for a dynasty?
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White Vigilantes Have Always Had A Friend In Police
New data shows that far-right vigilantes, often with support from cops, have threatened protesters nearly 500 times since police killed George Floyd.
By Christopher Mathias 08/28/2020
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-vigilantes-kenosha_n_5f4822bcc5b6cf66b2b5103e
“A man in Iowa City, Iowa, allegedly drove his car into a crowd of protesters and, according to a criminal complaint, later justified the attack by telling police the protesters needed “an attitude adjustment.””
“Disturbing images also emerged of police cozying up to far-right activists: A cop in Georgia was photographed fist-bumping an armed militia member, and cops in Philadelphia posed for a friendly photo with vigilantes who roamed the city’s streets with baseball bats.
Still more stories emerged this summer of cops themselves relishing violence against protesters.
A police chief in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, was suspended for two weeks after writing a Facebook comment encouraging people to drive their cars through Black Lives Matter demonstrators.
“HIT THE GAS AND HANG ON FOR THE SPEED BUMPS,” he wrote.”
Since deleted Facebook page:
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On 8/25/2020 at 3:07 PM, Steve Thomas said:
"Emily Miller, the Trump-loving spokeswoman for the Food and Drug Administration who was hired just eleven days ago, has already been fired.
The New York Times reports that FDA commissioner Dr. Stephen M. Hahn gave Miller the ax after she “fumbled communications about a blood plasma treatment for Covid-19.”
Miller, a longtime gun rights activist and former journalist for the far-right One America News Network, has now tied the record for shortest tenure at a Trump administration job after former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci was similarly ousted after just eleven days."
“Ms. Miller could not be reached for comment.”
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I've been wondering...
What will happen to the personal data being vacuumed up by Trump's money machine once this is all over?
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1 hour ago, W. Niederhut said:
An alternative explanation is that Paul's constituents in Kentucky are all rabid MAGAts.
W.,
Local politics in Kentucky are as bad as they come.
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The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy:
A Model of Explanation by Vince SalandriaOriginal Copy published in Computers and Automation, Volume 20, No. 12, December 1971, pp. 32-40.
https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/FalseMystery/ModelOfExplanation.html
OUTLINE
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5. President Kennedy’s Own Estimate
of a Possible Military Takeover -
Dulles Suppressed Evidence of
Oswald’s Soviet Intelligence Connections -
Bundy Issued the First
“No Conspiracy; Lone-Assassin” Statement -
Important Foreign Policy Changes
Immediately Followed the Assassination -
Interconnections of the CIA and
Foundation-Dominated Scholarship
“Since November 22, 1963, when President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, there has been a great deal of research into the micro-analytic aspects of the assassination. I have been among the earliest and guiltiest of the researchers in my protracted analyses of the shots, trajectories and wounds of the assassination. The ransacking of the facts of the assassination is not a source of pride for me but rather of guilt. While the researchers have involved themselves in consuming preoccupation with the micro-analytic searching for facts of how the assassination was accomplished, there has been almost no systematic thinking on why President Kennedy was killed. We have neglected this essential work of constructing a model of explanation which fits the data of the assassination and explains the why of it.”
“Of course, secret elitist police organizations such as the CIA do not thrive on peace, democracy, and a contented and informed people. The power of intelligence agencies increases in direct proportion to the degree of sickness of a nation. A healthy and united people can localize the cancer of a power-usurping intelligence agency and eventually extirpate its malignant cells from the nation’s political life. Therefore, the intelligence apparatus which killed Kennedy has a need to keep our society in turmoil. It has — in order to maintain its power — to generate a high degree of chaos. Chaos is required to make a people willing to accept such strong medicine as is administered by the secret police in order to restore order and to stabilize a disintegrating society. It takes an acutely sick society to be able to accept as palatable the terrible cure — totalitarianism.”
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21 minutes ago, David Josephs said:
Hi Steve... Is this a question from a conclusion I offered, something you know for a fact, or just a general Q? as to "parting company" I don't get that impression.
With the three together at that exact moment, one would think that they'd attend meetings focused on these issues with other Cubans... Harlendale?
It would also be in the CIA's interest to have him incommunicado during their Mexico City "double-dealing", only to emerge in Dallas on the 3rd - just in time to stay at the Y near FBI HQ on Ervay. (The look on Hoover's face when he first reads the CIA places Oswald in Mexico at that same time must have been precious)Walthers places these men at Harlandale a few months before the assassination... This and the few locations around Beckley would make sense
plus he could not leave record of where he stayed during that week... or if he did it's gone in favor of MC evidence. If the Conspiracy angle worked, the CIA is in position to capitalize whichever way it goes.Re-reading the testimony it sounds to me that the repetition of "the trip" they would be taking was precursor set-up for the CIA's Mexico City charade...(he supposedly shows up the morning of the 27th in Mexico - impossible by car) the CUBANS with whom Oswald was traveling were more likely tied to CIA than FBI - it would be in their collective best interest to set up the patsy and then have them on a MC TRIP that never happens yet is one where the CIA Tap evidence transcript can serve as the totality of the evidence without worry of backtalk. Ozzie was an FBI asset infiltrating different groups as Bannister would have him.... Hoover knew he was trapped.
Near the bottom of this post is yet another FBI report denying Oswald in Mexico... again, many left in the record IMHO, as Hoover's way of getting back at the CIA...
What suggests to you they went their separate ways? and why?
More below...
David,
The bit about parting company was just a general question on my part. Whether Oswald went to Mexico, or stayed in Texas traveling around, I just don't remember him being described as being in the company of two guys who fit the description Sylvia Odio described.
Although, in the Sports Drome incidents Floyd Davis and Price talked about another guy at the Sports Drome - a big guy with a beard. They didn't know if he and Oswald were together or not.
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/davis_f.htm
Mr. DAVIS. There was a fellow with a black beard in that booth No. 7, at the same time. I remember him because he was outstanding, you know, and I went to these fellows in booth No. 8, and was giving them heck about shooting at the wrong target. And this other fellow, I remember him because he wouldn't say anything to me. I tried to speak to him two or three different occasions, because he had a lot of guns, and I thought he would be a good customer.
Mr. LIEBELER. The fellow with the beard?
Mr. DAVIS. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. He was how tall, approximately?
Mr. DAVIS. He was over 6 feet and he weighed a good 250 pounds. A big bruiser.I give a lot of credence to the Alice, Texas sighting, and I don't remember any Cubans being mentioned there.
As far as Harlendale, those Cubans were SNFE, and Odio's people were JURE. They didn't mix very much.
Among the Miscellaneous CIA Series, there is an unauthored FBI Report of the various anti-Castro groups in Dallas: JURE, 30th of November, Alpha 66-SNFE, etc.
REPORT: JUNTA REVOLUCIONARIA CUBANA; SEGUNDO FRENTE DE ESCAMBRAY (OPERATION ALPHA 66); DIRECTORIO REVOLUCIONARIO ESTUDIANTIL; MOVIMIENTO REVOLUCIONARIO 30 DE NOVIEMBRE; FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE
NARA Record Number: 104-10320-10070 Spr
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=28726&relPageId=2
On pages 4 through 6 of that Report, Manuel Rodriguez Orcarberro furnished a list of the present officers of SNFE.
I believe that those were the people that Walthers' source saw.
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You too can become a lawmaker in the State of Washington.
Questions are being asked, you know?
https://www.inlander.com/spokane/blind-links/Content?oid=20165904
"In December, Washington state Rep. Jenny Graham, a Republican in the 6th District, posted a Facebook link to an article at a site called "Vaccine Impact" about the weaknesses of the Pertussis vaccine.
But the article not only perpetuates a long-since-disproven link between vaccines and autism, the "Vaccine Impact" site has since become an unabashed QAnon conspiracy site, perpetuating bizarre claims about globalist pedophiles harvesting "children's blood just before they are murdered as a sacrifice to Satan."
In another December Facebook post, Graham wrote that the "appetite to have sex with children as young as infants is a growing business" and linked to a blog post claiming that makes the dubious claim that "a significant portion" of 460,000 missing children a year "end up in sex dungeons to be exploited and repeatedly raped by ... demons."
Literal demons, the blogger explains in another post — or more specifically Reptilian-human hybrids put into positions of power by evil extra-dimensional beings.
Graham says she was unaware of the weirder views on those sites, but didn't express regret about sharing those links.
"The trafficking is real, and sadly enough, so is the occult situation," she says, explaining that she knew someone in a cult. She says it's her job to ask tough questions and engage on important issues."
I wonder when we are going to return to burning people at the stake.
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Donald Trump Jr. Denies Rumors That He Was On Cocaine During His RNC Speech
“I guess there must have been something with the lighting,” Trump Jr. said.
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- Tucker Carlson -
“How shocked are we that 17-year-olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would?"
Maybe the Kenosha Guards and the Proud Boys could set up recruiting booths at junior proms around the country.
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The inevitable end result of our last 56 years
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I live in constant fear.
I can't even go outside anymore.
I'm terrified that some wild, crazy-eyed anarchist dressed all in black is going to throw a big bag of soup at me.
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