The New Civil War and Attacks by MAGAts on State Governments

 I sent a similar message to Cuomo and I spoke to him like a native New Yorker and I will speak to you a bit like a native New Yorker.

Trump and the feds could fuck up a one man parade and they are fucking up the vaccine roll out. Getting a vaccine in an arm is not brain surgery. 

The FDA is mobbed up with big pharma and they will make windfall profits on this crises. Moderna and Pfizer are a bunch of criminal price gouging rat bastards. Their overpriced vaccines require impossibly low temperatures. The Oxford Astra Zenica vaccine is easy to make, safe and easy to store and can be made in North Carolina. There is no fucking patent on it and the people who run Oxford Astra Zenica aren't members of the corporate criminal elite bastard whose sole purpose in life is to become more obscenely rich every second. 

Buy the fucking Asta Zenica vaccine and get in arms. You can also have it made. It's 2 bucks a dose. That's chump change! Don't fuck around! Make the rich cough up 10 or 12 million to pay for it

The feds will continue to fuck up and Biden probably won't be able to straighten it out anytime soon.

Americans deserve a choice. If some asshole refuses the vaccine, let him suffer the consequences. Right now American have two choices and both are an RNA vaccines. While it is theoretically safe it was made by rat bastards. The Oxford Astra Zenica vaccine uses tried and true technology and is more effective and offers long lasting immunity. 

Any non MAGAt is able to safely administer a vaccine. One person on foot can administer 100 vaccines in 8 hours.  Retired nurses and diabetics can be deployed now to walk through neighborhoods knocking on door and jabbing arms. NC could have herd immunity in a month. 

THE NEW CIVIL WAR IS JUST GETTING WARMED UP!

MAGAts will probably attack Raleigh. Don't waste this opportunity to purge the gene pool. MAGAts are enemy combatants and should be treated as such. They have declared war on the USA. Draw them in and lay waste to them.  They will be there to kill you Roy. There is no reason not to shoot everyone of them. We are at war. They are the enemy.

Less MAGAts mean, less anarchy, less crime, less dead humans and a better society. 

Detain indefinitely the ones who surrender because they are POWs and are no longer protected by American law. Their trials should be by military tribunal and executions by firing squad should not be off the table. 

Enemy Combatant: Captured fighter in a war who is not entitled to prisoner of war status because he or she does not meet the definition of a lawful combatant as established by the Geneva convention; a saboteur. MAGAts are not entitles to the protections of the Geneva Convention

Trump wants a military tribunal for Brad Raffensperger. His MAGAt mob would kill the the VP if given the chance because they are too ignorantly evil to want to know that Pence had no other choice and there was nothing he could do to stop the certification. Is it moral to allow these animals to breath the same air as humans? Is it? 

Trumpism is a cancer that must be removed before any healing can happen. Start the process. When the MAGAts show up with their weapons of war hit them with everything you have from chemicals, to bullets. Don't even try to deescalate because it won't work and it will only cost human lives. The goal should be to protect the protectors who protect We the People and our institutions. Dead and maimed MAGAts will serve as a stark warning to the remaining MAGAts to never commit acts of treason again and never place a criminal or party over country. 

The mop up will involve rooting out of MAGAts by the NSA and FBI. We also need to look closely into the background of cops and heads of police unions. Lot's of MAGAts there.  As you know some cops were complicit in the storming of our Capitol. 

If you follow my vaccine advice, deployment can target areas with more humans than MAGAts. This is not a WWJD thing. This is a what would William Tecumseh Sherman or Colin Powell would do thing. We are at war. Cut it off and kill it and punish it.

Draw Em In - Mow Em Down - Box Em - In - Burn The Corpses - Hunt Down The Survivors -

 Op Ed: We can't let this opportunity pass us by. The MAGAts have made their intentions crystal clear. The MAGAts are loyal to treasonous, criminal liar Donald Trump and are hell bent on killing our leaders and destroying democracy. 70 million MAGAts voted for Trump and they are ready and willing to kill humans. 

Spray MAGAts with chemicals that will permanently blind them. 

Shoot to kill and shoot to maim. 

Use helicopters to douse them with nitric acid. 

Use flame throwers on them.

Every military age MAGAt must be neutralized. COVID-19 will not kill nearly enough MAGAts. We should give MAGAts free cigarettes and encourage them to continue their vulgar lifestyles.

House Democrats Briefed On 3 Terrifying Plots To Overthrow Government

WASHINGTON ― Capitol Police briefed Democrats on Monday night about three more potentially gruesome demonstrations planned in the coming days, with one plot to encircle the U.S. Capitol and assassinate Democrats and some Republicans.

On a private call Monday night, new leaders of the Capitol Police told House Democrats they were closely monitoring three separate plans that could pose serious threats to members of Congress as Washington prepares for Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration on Jan. 20.

The first is a demonstration billed as the “largest armed protest ever to take place on American soil.”

Another is a protest in honor of Ashli Babbitt, the woman killed while trying to climb into the Speaker’s Lobby during Wednesday’s pro-Trump siege of the Capitol.

And another demonstration, which three members said was by far the most concerning plot, would involve insurrectionists forming a perimeter around the Capitol, the White House and the Supreme Court, and then blocking Democrats from entering the Capitol ― perhaps even killing them ― so that Republicans could take control of the government.

The members of Congress whom HuffPost spoke to Monday night were extremely concerned by the call.

“It was pretty overwhelming,” one member said.

Officials on the call warned lawmakers about sharing too much information with the media, saying that divulging specific dates, times and countermeasures could aid the organizers of the plots. HuffPost is not disclosing certain information, such as who appears to be organizing these plots and when they are to take place.

One member was explicit that these groups were trying to get journalists to report on their demonstrations.

“Some of their main communications to organize these have been cut off, so they’re purposely trying to get the media to report on this as a way to further disseminate information and to attract additional support for their attacks,” this member said.

Democrats were told that the Capitol Police and the National Guard were preparing for potentially tens of thousands of armed protesters coming to Washington and were establishing rules of engagement for warfare. In general, the military and police don’t plan to shoot anyone until one of the rioters fires, but there could be exceptions.

Lawmakers were told that the plot to encircle the Capitol also included plans to surround the White House ― so that no one could harm Trump ― and the Supreme Court, simply to shut down the courts. The plan to surround the Capitol includes assassinating Democrats as well as Republicans who didn’t support Trump’s effort to overturn the election ― and allowing other Republicans to enter the building and control government.

All of these plots may never materialize. The Capitol Police have established a new perimeter with fencing and razor wire, and the National Guard has already been called in to help protect the Capitol and lawmakers.

But while Capitol Police assured members they were prepared for these terrorist plots, there was obvious concern from a number of lawmakers.

One topic of discussion was the need to put every member of Congress through a metal detector before the inauguration. A member on the call told HuffPost that there was an “eyes-wide-open realization” that Capitol Police needed to take precautions against “all these members who were in league with the insurrectionists who love to carry their guns.”

“You can’t just let them bypass security and walk right up to [Joe] Biden and [Kamala] Harris at inauguration,” this lawmaker told HuffPost.

Another area of concern was the Trump administration’s involvement in tamping down an insurrection. “I don’t think anyone has confidence that the folks at the Pentagon, that may or may not even be needed for some of this, or the Department of Homeland Security, where we don’t even know who’s in charge, are going to be cooperative,” one member told HuffPost.

One Democrat on the call also raised the issue of security for members coming from their residences to the Capitol, as well as traveling to Washington, given recent confrontations at airports and on flights between some protesters and lawmakers. One member who spoke to HuffPost said the Capitol Police didn’t have a satisfactory answer about that concern.

This member mentioned how the briefing had underscored the wisdom of Twitter suspending Trump’s account, as well as tens of thousands of accounts associated with the right-wing conspiracy theory QAnon, and said the decision to cut off the social media platform Parler “looked a lot smarter” given the efforts to recruit armed extremists to come to the nation’s capital in the coming days.

“It’s a decision that might ultimately save lives,” this member said.

One of the lawmakers who spoke to HuffPost said members of Congress were all experiencing difficult reactions to the storming of the Capitol last week.

“Most of us are feeling that,” this Democrat said. “But we are also feeling that we don’t have time to indulge too much of it, that this is not about us, that it’s about a job that’s way bigger than us, and we are just going to suck it up and get through, and we’ll talk about how nutty it is on the other side.”

Amanda Terkel and Jennifer Bendery contributed to this report.

MAGAts Vaccines and the New York State Economy

The US is in a civil war. There's no arguing that. MAGAt are just getting warmed up. You can play defense or take the fight to them. The best thing to do is lure the MAGAts in when they attack the Capitol and if arrests become too difficult by civilian police, unleash sniper fire on them. These MAGAts are far worse than the inmates Rocky killed at Attica. 

The Israeli arm uses .22 caliber rifles with scopes and silencers when the Palestinians go wild. They shoot them in the legs. 

Have nets ready to round them up as they scatter. Detain and charge 1000's of them and lock them in holding cells and treat them as POWs and enemy combatants. Keep them in tight quarters so they will infect each other. 

During indefinite detainment employ psy-ops techniques because physical wound heal. 

COVID-19 

The FDA and the CDC could fuck up a one man parade. The UK has the right idea. They have 3 vaccines. The vaccine that will save the world is the Oxford Astra Zenica vaccine. The Brits are spacing the doses further apart. Single does are effective. Immunity increases over time. 

The federal government dropped the ball on this and they would have fucked up even without Trump's help. 

Patients should be allowed to make their own health care decisions with the advice of their doctor. Most doctors would agree that most of the vaccines are safe. I would be suspect of Johnson and Johnson's vaccine given their criminal track record and overall FDA corruption. 

A monkey can put a vaccine in someone's arm. Diabetics inject themselves daily. There are probably enough diabetics in NYS to administer vaccines and give the recipients instructions on how to deal with any allergic reaction. e.g. Take a Benedryl. 

Buy 20 million Astra Zenica vaccines and start jabbing arms. It ain't rocket surgery. Ask the rich fucks on Wall Street to pay for it.

Mask protocol was and is poorly explained. In the beginning Fauci who is weak said masks won't work. Masks work and even if some MAGAt slobber gets through the viral load will be reduced. 

Since COVID 19 is as deadly as a knife attack force should be allowed and encouraged against anti-maskers. Please rethink NY's overly strict gun laws. If the government want to end gun violence anyone on mental health meds can't have guns and domestic abusers should never have guns. A law like that will get guns out of the hands of a lot of MAGAts none of whom can be trusted with guns. 

If the NYS health department with help jabs 1 million arms a day it could reach partial herd immunity is 30 days. 

I was a census taker in 1990 in rural NYS. I know about how many households can be seen in a day. I also sold cable TV door to door. I also campaigned for Hillary and Obama door to door. One person can see a lot of people. Because the Oxford vaccine can be preserved with a small cooler with an ice pack one person can jab 50 arms a day just walking. 

Retired nurses and phlebotomists can be deployed along with off duty police and fire fighters. 

Buy the fucking vaccines and get them in arms now. 10,000 people averaging 50 injections per day X 30 days = 15,000,000 given the natural immunity in the 15% of the population NYS could have herd immunity soon. 

NYS has had 1,182,351 cases and has done more testing per capita than any other state. 

Your leadership helped a lot but a lot of credit goes to New Yorkers. The Cuomo haters will always be Cuomo haters and now they are most of the ones getting sick and dying. They are the anti-maskers and the anti vaxxers and they will be the ones showing up in Albany on January 17th with murderous and traitorous intentions. MAGAts sick with the virus or dead by the virus can't harm our public servants and our first responders. 

We are at war. If a deadly disease had started killing German soldiers do you think Ike would have given them the cure? He'd be a traitor if he did. The trash who voted for trash like Claudia Tenney don't deserve protection from this virus o they deserve the blessings of liberty that my friends and family fought to preserve for real Americans who respect the the rule of law and care about the well being and the rights of others. I lived in her district long ago and I can tell you, there are a lot of assholes there.

Free Legal Advice For Traitor Madison Cawthorn

Madison Cawthorn is a snake and not a particularly smart snake. He's not a particularly clever liar but seeing as how represent mostly rural North Carolina, stupid and inept works great for him. The morons and MAGAts who punks like Cawthorn pretend to care about are merely their marks. Punks never care about their marks.

Like his MAGAts, Cawthorn has probably never had an original thought of his own. Cawthorn is a tool and not a very sharp one but he's a very dangerous one.

Free Legal Advice For Traitor Madison Cawthorn 

After you resign, report to prison and name names. Federal prison is not all that bad and you will be surrounded by lots of  other liars and traitors. Maybe you'll get to pal around with Crazy Rudy, and the Trump clan.  The prison you will end up in is Butner in North Carolina. It's a medical prison.  You'll like it there.

On the outside it's unlikely that a traitorous little punk like you will get a moments peace. Look how it is for Pence. Unlike you, Mike Pence is a smart weasel and unlike you Mike Pence is lawful evil and you are chaotic evil like Trump.

You may be able to avoid prison or at least get a light sentence. Here's how.

1. Choose your own lawyer. A Republican lawyer will fuck you and you are too stupid to know you are getting fucked same as the moronic traitors who voted for you. 

2. You know you are a liar and so does everyone else but you don't know how stupid you are. It could be argued that you are not competent to stand trial. Like many of the mentally defective Trumpanzees who voted for you, you could plead ignorance and blame your handlers for brainwashing you.

If I were to sentence you knowing what I currently know about you, I'd sentence you to life in prison but if you named names you'd get as little as 80 months. I am beginning to rethink my stance on the death penalty. Maybe I'd sentence you to death by firing squad for treason and espionage.

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Two Traitorous Female Congress MAGAts That Need To Be GONE ASAP

Rep. Lauren Boebert is facing calls for her resignation after tweeting out information about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during the attack on the US Capitol that left five dead.

Ms Boebert has been called the "QAnon Congresswoman" for saying she hopes the baseless conspiracy theory alleging a demonic global paedophile ring that includes the majority of US Democratic politicians and features secret executions, clones and a mass, apocalyptic reckoning called "The Storm" is "real."

• District 3 — Lauren Boebert (R) Send Rep. Boebert a free fax

She has said she is not a QAnon follower, but said she was glad that the US Attorney General was investigating "deep state" activities.

She is the second QAnon-adjacent lawmaker elected to Congress. Rep Marjorie Taylor Green is also a follower of the conspiracy theory.

Ms Boebert - who also said she would carry her firearm to Congress - tweeted details of the lockdown on the day of the insurrection at the US Capitol carried out by supporters of Donald Trump.

She first shared that the lawmakers had been moved to the House chambers. Then, she tweeted out the "Speaker has been removed from the chambers."

While Ms Boebert did not provide specific details on Ms Peolosi's location, critics allege she was attempting to aid the rioters who were searching for her.

In video from the attack, some rioters can be heard yelling that they were "coming for" Ms Pelosi.

Protesters rallied at Ms Boebert's offices in Colorado on Monday calling for her resignation.

Rural Colorado United, an activist group organising the protests, called Ms Boebert "unfit" to serve Coloradans.

"Lauren Boebert has betrayed the American people and is a conspirator in the insurrection that occurred at Capitol Hill on January 6th," the group wrote in a press release. "As the citizens she represents in Congress, we cannot recall her and we cannot impeach her, but we do not accept that she is fit to represent the people of Colorado District 3 in Congress. We can only hope that her colleagues in Congress expel her."

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a senior Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, called on the Ethics Committee Monday to consider expelling or punishing Sens Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley for leading the charge in the Senate to challenge the results of the 2020 election, which he alleges directly influenced the angry mob of Trump supporters that attacked the Capitol.

In his request, Mr Sheldon cited Mr Cruz and Mr Hawley specifically, but said "perhaps others" should be considered for expulsion or punishment as well. It is unclear if those "others" would include Ms Boebert.

Just before the attack, Ms Boebert gave an impassioned speech in which she claimed some of her constituents were among the mob fighting the police on the Capitol steps at the time.

"Madame Speaker, I have constituents outside this building right now and I promised to be their voice," Ms Boebert said while challenging the results of the election in Arizona. "It is my separate but equal obligation to weigh in on this election and object."

Ms Boebert is no stranger to far-right extremist groups.

ABC News reported that her former campaign manager, Sherronna Bishop, had praised the Proud Boys, an SPLC-designated hate group that travels the country starting fights at protests and espouses a neo-fascist ideology.

The Proud Boys were among those who attacked the US Capitol. 

MAGAts Planning Another Attack On January 17th

 The MAGAts planned the January 6th attack starting December 23rd. They have planned an even bigger attack for January 17th that will include state capitols. The time has come to stop blaming Trump for this and put most of the blame on the MAGAts. 

A Warning

The FBI has issued a warning that MAGAt will be attacking state capitols. Their terrorist plan was known for quite some time whether the states were adequately warned remains to be seen. 

Inside Job

Had the MAGAts succeeded in their mission on January 6, 2021 they will have killed, Mike Pence, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and more than 1 third on the American government. This was a national security event and security was woefully lacking. This was by design. The Trump DOJ knew this was coming and they allowed it to happen and they helped to make it happen. Corrupt off duty cops were instrumental in getting MAGAts into the Capitol building.

Solution

In a virtual round up, round up all registered Republican males between the ages of  18 and 60 and investigate them. Any of them who have criminal records should be detained immediately and indefinitely. Ones with ties to right wing groups should be aggressively interrogated. 

To ensure the well being of humans living in the United States 30 million of these dangerous animals will need to be euthanized and the female MAGAts will need to be spayed and young male MAGAts will need to be neutered. Offspring of MAGAts should be considered extremely dangerous because they are extremely dangerous. 

Bounties will need to be issued on MAGAts.

State Capitols will need to deploy snipers to repel the first waves of MAGAt attacks. 

A blood bath seems unavoidable. Kill em all and let God sort em out. They sowed the wind and now they must reap the whirlwind. Take no prisoners! When you spray a hornet's nest the only way to assure the area is safe is by killing all the hornets and destroying all the pupae. 

A Civil War Has Started

The South fired the first shots in the first civil war and the South has done the same thing this time. It is what it is and the MAGAts are what they are. You can't turn a whore into a housewife and you can't turn a MAGAt into a citizen. Patriots can turn and we should turn MAGAts into a corpses. 

Prevention

Since MAGAts are more a product of nature than nurture, their populations needs to be reduced to near zero. Spaying and neutering MAGAts is a good long term solution but for now extermination looks like the only practical solution. Any MAGAt guilty of sedition should be charged with a felony. Their subversive statements on social media should be considered felonious crimes. 

MAGAts should be turning themselves in to authorities to avoid the righteous wrath of patriots but most of them are too stupid to do that. 

Loyal Americans should be deputized and given a licence to kill MAGAts.   

COVID-19 is killing and will continue to kill mostly MAGAt but it will probably only kill around a million of them them. 70 million MAGAts voted for Trump in the 2020 election.

As to the Trump Crime Family

If they were simply run of the mill gangsters, life in prison would be the appropriate punishment but Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr, Ivanka Trump, Melania Trump and Jared Kushner should be executed after intense interrogations. Trump's enablers should also be executed and that would include every MAGAt who attended a MAGAt rally. 



National Review Chimes In On Traitorous Criminals Hawley and Cruz

 Op Ed: Trash like Trump, Cruz, Hawley, Graham, Rick Scott, Tim Scott, Rush Limabugh, Mark Dice, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Tucker Carlson, Lou Dobbs, Jeannine Pirro, Lindsey Graham, Louie Gohmert, Rand Paul, Madison Cawthorn, Ron DeSantis etc... could not exist without MAGAts. Republican voters are not victims of trash like Josh Hawley, they enable trash like Hawley, They create trash like Hawley. 70 million MAGAts voted for Trump in spite of knowing that Trump is a liar, cheater, criminal, idiot and a traitor. Maybe we can blame Trump's "win" in 2016 strictly on ignorance but even that would be a stretch. Trump's win then was mostly a function of the depravity of the GOP base and the 70 million votes he got in 2020 confirm that. 

Isaac Schorr can try placing the blame on mounting pile of trash that runs the GOP but his attempt fails miserably. The GOP leadership thinks their base is stupid because their base really is stupid and behind closed doors they freely acknowledge that. They probably also acknowledge in their minds that their base is evil because they know that they can't prove otherwise. 

Trash like Josh are what they are but to attribute the depravity that is the GOP base to sleazy politicians and right wing media scum doesn't even pass the smell test. The depravity that is today's GOP and the depravity the right wing media could not exist without the depravity that is the GOP base and the 70 million scumbags who voted for Trump.

The National Review doesn't want to piss off its dwindling readership by telling them the unpopular truth so I edited the article with what I suppose the writer Isaac Shorr was really thinking but didn't say. I inserted what Issaac was really thinking in bold.

Josh Hawley Is Calling You Stupid Because You Are


Isaac Schorr
Fri, January 8, 2021, 4:21 PM EST

Are you a Republican voter? Do you plan to participate in the 2024 presidential primary? If your answer to these first two questions is “yes,” I have a third: Aren’t you angry? You're always pissed about something because most of you are losers.

Almost daily, Josh Hawley, the lean and hungry scumbag criminal legislator who helped incite an attack on his own place of work, intimates that a majority of Republicans are stupid. Make no mistake: The senator from Missouri is guilty of far more than pandering or misleading to appeal to “the base” on occasion. Your presumed actual ignorance and gullibility are the driving forces behind his every move suckers.

The latest insult came on Thursday, only a day after a conspiracy theory not only boosted by, but acted upon by Hawley — a snobby punk Yale Law School graduate who didn’t believe for a moment that the election was stolen by Democrats, or that it could be stolen by Republicans in Congress during the certification process — resulted in an attack on the U.S. Capitol building. But for Josh Hawley, the greatest tragedy of this past week is not that there was a failed insurrection egged on by the president of the United States. It’s that Simon & Schuster, the erstwhile publisher of Hawley’s forthcoming book, The Tyranny of Big Tech (Big Tech is another issue where Hawley assumes knows your ignorance), announced it would not move forward with the project. Here was Hawley’s response:

This could not be more Orwellian. Simon & Schuster is canceling my contract because I was representing my constituents, leading a debate on the Senate floor on voter integrity, which they have now decided to redefine as sedition. Let me be clear, this is not just a contract dispute. It’s a direct assault on the First Amendment. Only approved speech can now be published. This is the Left looking to cancel everyone they don’t approve of. I will fight this cancel culture with everything I have. We’ll see you in court.

If it’s a constitutional claim that Hawley is planning on making in court, he can expect to have about as much luck as the Trump campaign has had in recent months. Simon & Schuster’s decision is neither Orwellian nor a violation of the First Amendment, much less a “direct assault” on it. The government is not restricting Hawley’s speech. He is free to find a publisher willing to associate itself with him. I believe that Simon & Schuster should not have canceled this contract, as America is better off when its institutions abide by the spirit and not just the letter of the First Amendment unless they are publishing the lies of liars. Lies are not protected speech. But the company is under no constitutional obligation to associate with Hawley. I can certainly understand why it would not want to after Wednesday’s events.

The objective of Hawley’s statement is obvious: to take this personal event, which has occurred as a direct result of his own behavior, and to make Republicans feel as if this was a personal attack on them and their beliefs. It was not. But remember: Hawley’s political fortunes are tied to a bet that voters won’t think clearly. Restated: Hawley knows that Missouri's Republican voters are a bunch of depraved dumb fucks. A bet that he is all-in on after continuing to object to the certification of the election by Congress even after the assault on the Capitol.

Most insidious about Hawley’s assumption is that it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. When fake conservative officials such as Hawley and the disgraced Ted Cruz — leaders we’re supposed to be able to trust — propagate conspiracy theories, that signals to voters that these theories are or may be true. Conspiracy theories are natural, and laymen’s belief in them does not automatically make them stupid. We all have busy lives, and most Americans are unable to spend their every waking moment staying apprised of every political going-on. They rely on officials of their own ideological bent to tell them the truth. When those officials lie for perceived political benefit, it has consequences. Consequences made more serious by motivated reasoning and an inclination to believe the worst of “the enemy.” Consequences that are sometimes even bloody.

Much is made these days, especially by Senator Hawley, of “the elites” and their supposed disdain for regular Americans. For many years, and particularly since Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination in 2016, Senator Mitt Romney has been branded such an elitist. But Romney spoke far more wisely on this subject than Hawley on Wednesday: “The best way we can show respect for the voters who are upset is by telling them the truth!” Indeed. The older you get, the more facts of life your parents let you in on. It starts with Santa Claus, and it only gets more depressing from there.

I have one more question, then. What’s more condescending and scornful: truth or deceit?

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