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Not so much. Hence the vitriol and insults issuing from the mouth holes of the talking heads and the Congress critters, who depend on the largess of the ruling overlords.

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Not so much. Hence the vitriol and insults issuing from the mouth holes of the talking heads and the Congress critters, who depend on the largess of the ruling overlords.