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381 "The Most Important Midterm Elections Ever"

The Fifth Column

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Democracy, I Don't, I Need the Blanket Over My Face

The president of the United States spent weeks, months, in fact, insisting that diabolical forces were conspiring to destroy America. And various pundits have been telling me for weeks that this week, yesterday, democracy would be coming to an end. I was in my hotel room and I said, when the polls closed, I want someone to come over and put a blanket over me and just have the end of it. But it's hilarious this is all happening, of course, in Arizona, which has a slate of people who are the craziest people on Earth running for office. They genuinely seemed to be hoping for Halbop to come so that they could don their poop, purple suits

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