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"I hear you're free on Wednesdays". That is a golden burn. Bravo, Dark Brandon.

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That was a good one and if the debates actually do happen, Biden will rip him to shreads. Hopefully if everything goes the way it should in the world of multiple criminal trials, the one and only orange turd won't be free for very long. In the meantime, Mitt the flip said Biden should've pardoned the demented diaperload. Since he has been one of the few in the GOP to criticize the felonious king of crimin', what the hell is up with the about face bullshit Mitt?

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Pardon trump?! A better idea would be to dig up Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon, and revoke Nixon's pardon to put *that* fucker on trial, so we wouldn't have to hear "unprecedented" every 5 minutes.

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I'm with you I still want Nixon impeached. I kept a cassette of his resignation speech for years.

I doubt trump will show for the debate, but I would love to see one.

If it does happen I hope Joe takes off the gloves, this ain't a boxing match, it's a street fight, metaphorically.

I'd like to see Joe bait trump repeatedly with his mic cut. Slam him on his lies and policy failures, hit him with his own statements regarding Roe v Wade etc.

Tump thinks that appearing vigorous and alert is more important than substance. So he hoovers a bunch of whatever the drug of choice that day is to get jacked up before events. Remember the sniffles at his previous debates? Hm...If he's chasing the perfect buzz to be ready for the debate, I hope he overdoes it again.

Without the ability to interrupt and stop the narrative he really could have a heart attack.

On live TV. Just think of the ratings.

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The biggest ever ratings. No one has ever seen anything like. Big , strong men will be crying, etc. Etc

. Be there, it will be wild

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Jeff did everyone here a favor by posting that article from The Shallow State. They are correct - this debate will never happen. We all know trump's predictable moves by now.

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Let the dead rest.

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Hypocrisy is what is up with devout Mitt

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Well, I'm glad to see Mittens the Mormon has forgotten his brief period of acting "statesmanlike" and is back on brand as a KKKhrister Right Out-of-Touch Hack.

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I damn near stroked out when I heard Mitt say that on live Tv!! Whut??

Pardon Trump? Are you out of your fucking mind??!!

NO, Hell No

Ford pardoning Nixon is the main reason we are in this hellscape now

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Not quite as hypocritical as Penis-monitoring Mike Johnson

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You can count on nbc et al saying tangeranus won.

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Perfect! I had not yet heard, "tangeranus!" 🤣😂🍊💩

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I can't take the credit, I read it online somewhere...

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By the time the first debate rolls around Orange Vonshitzinpantz will also be a convicted criminal 🤣 Remember last time President Buttstench debated Biden the lying son of a bitch showed up with covid and tried to kill his opponent. I can’t wait for them to cut off his mic and fact check him on the live feed (which he won’t be able to see while being questioned.) This will be glorious.

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With those rules in place I wonder if he’ll even show up. Might be a good time for him to take Pukin up on his offer of a one bd rm half bath high rise condo in Moscow. It even has a toilet that flushes sometimes

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I like your plan for him with his buddy in Moscow. But he’s already preparing to avoid debating, he’s told the lemmings that Biden needs drug testing (projection, as usual). So he’ll end up refusing to debate on this latest pretense.

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He’d be crazier than we even think to debate Biden who will show him up for the blubbering idiot he is.

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The only thing that could have improved Biden’s delivery of that message would have had him saying that with his cool Joe sunshades on! 😄👍🏼

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I want him to wear those cool Joe shades all the time.

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My fave too

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I love the way he said it too.

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Loved it! 🙌

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During the 2020 campaign, my 94-year-old father was living with me the last 10 months before his death. We watched the debates between Biden and Trump, and my normally mild-mannered father yelled "shut the hell up!" at the TV. Just for the record, he was not talking to Joe Biden. 🤣

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😄Love that! Good memory of your dad for you!

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Some people get angry at liars. I do the same, that’s why I had to cut out TV news. I was hoarse and angry all the time

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Maybe Joe Biden wants to debate him early so that people can get a good look at the GOP product. I’m glad there’s no audience. Trump eats that shit up. He’s going to come across like the idiot he is…if he shows up.

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The only way he shows is if he keeps getting prodded into it until he overrules his handlers.

But either he chickens out and looks weak or ha gets clowned and we get half a dozen amazing campaign ads. This would be great news if we had free and fair elections, no gerrymandering, no roll purges, and no electoral college or Project 2025!

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Time to dump the electoral college. Why should a handful of states decide an election. And I say that as someone who lives in one of them.

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And why should Montana have the same votes as Cali?

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Exactly. It’s illogical

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California has the Population of Canada for F Sakes

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Electoral college based upon racism… not holding hope that it will go away soon, given the evident hatred and fear and bigotry still bubbling strong

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And the Repugnants illegal attempt to subvert the electoral count in 2020.

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I couldn't agree more Eva.

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Yup! Something needs to be done about that!

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I wish that I had known everything I’ve learned more deeply about our govt in the past 2-3 yrs back when I was 20-30. Have recently books by Heather Cox Richardson & Elie Mystal, & one called Minority Rule. I now understand that the Senate, the Electoral College, & the Supreme Court are all anti-democratic institutions & promote minority rule & that as our population has tended to concentrate in large metro areas, the minority rule is becoming worse & worse.

We absolutely must be rid of the EC

The fact that a Republican presidential winner has only won the popular vote once in the past 32-36 yrs is abominable & cannot continue.

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Orange fella can’t speak w/o hearing his zombies laugh, groan, cheer, boo. They the cues he must have to know which lie he will repeat. So a no-audience would be golden. And the fart/sharts will be audible to the masses

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He’s like that character in A Face In the Crowd.

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Yes, great movie!

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That last scene with the applause machine… spot on Trump

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Andy Griffith did an incredible job with that role. I read a later interview where he said he had a hard time getting Lonesome Rhodes out of his head.

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An big advantage of early debate is it will provide plenty of fodder for ads against Trump for the Biden campaign. I am all for making ads quoting Trump and then cutting to footage of Hitler and Putin saying the same things with subtitles, or someone explaining it afterwards. Make sure to bring up women who are on deaths door and abortions. Make sure to ask him about what he is going to do with his list of enemies if in power. I want that to be spliced with footage of Hitler explaining to the German people how he only executed 77 of them in cold blood, rather than the 400 that he had executed. Another good one, would be Trump explaining and then shots of him entertaining out at Mar-a-lago, interspliced with Hitler having his close colleagues and their families over to a tea party at his place, while his enemies are being executed in cold blood. We should also include questions about immigrants, and his two immigrant wives and half immigrant son. What should happen with them? When is he sending Melania back, and will Barron go with her or stay here? Then we can splice to Hitler with his mistress and later wife Eva Braun and look at her Jewish grandmother, and listen to what Hitler has to say about Jews and the Nuremberg Laws.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nuremberg-laws

Clearly a good opportunity for Americans, who may not know much history of other countries, even if they immigrated from them, to get a quick take on modern World history and fascism. Mussolini and Putin would make good splices for fascist rhetoric, but not Lenin or Erich Honecker, because most don't know who they are. This is the kind of stuff that Putin does all the time. The Biden administration should be analyzing what Putin does, master manipulator with his propaganda. Zelenskiy certainly has, and it gave him an edge in the beginning because he was able to go after it when he had the full support of the US and our allies. That being said, I too doubt Trump's handlers will let him gobbeldy gook into a debate. However, the same tactics could be used with surprise cameras and interviewers popping up to Trump in any occasion that he has to talk again in public.

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I think many of Dumbass Donny’s supporters would be just fine with juxtaposing Hitler and Dumbass. They don’t remember or care that we fought a war against fascism.

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The Night of the Long Knives. Hitler’s very effective eradication of close friends and allies.

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Yes, the american aspiring brownshirts have no clue, what they are signing up for.

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Yes— the clueless people will become the new “camp” attendees…

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Can he show up if he's in Rikers? Imprisoned or not, if he's convicted and skips the debate, Biden should debate a cardboard Trump in an orange jumpsuit with his eyes closed and his head on his chest.

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Or he will bring disrupters, like he did when debating Hilary. A bunch of Bill’s accusers, in that particular case. It was the first time it hit me how actually evil Trump was (and is). It was so far off the “norm” scale I didn’t actually believe he had done it at first. It was mind boggling. But sure enough. Yup he had. So very Roy Cohn of him.

And then there was the debate with Biden when he came even though he had covid and could have infected everyone at the event.

Yeah…despicable was the right word…

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OT cannot perform without an audience. Well, he cannot perform at all, across many categories.

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He won’t show

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Round One to President Biden

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I’ll have a sad if Bloated Orange backs out. Not that I relish hearing his argle bargle, but the voting public needs to see him melt down in real time. I’ve bought a lot of popcorn in anticipation. Also, no drinking every time Trump says something batshit crazy. I’d be blackout drunk after 20 minutes.

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I think he'll back out, too. If CNN and ABC had any balls (and sense of patriotism), they'd then allow Biden to "debate" an empty lectern, or one featuring a life-size photo of you-know-who. I knew--dream on.

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I think Joe is going to keep goading, trolling , and baiting him right up to the end. He may be so infuriated he actually shows up and then implodes on national television. But only for the first one.

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Death by a thousand verbal cuts. Great way to drive Demento farther into his tunnel.

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A cardboard cutout of trumpolini with a list of crimes on his extra long red tie!

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Pretty pretty please can somebody on Biden's team bring a bowl of strawberries to the debate?

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I just got a "will you shut up man?" bumper sticker and I love it.

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i like one that says "I hear you're free on Wednesdays"

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I am not brave enough to use bumper stickers anymore. Trump supporters are everywhere and they have no impulse control over their rage. I don’t want my car damaged or to be harassed or harmed. Over 60 years old and never had to worry about blatant aggression and violence from my community before trump. A little concerned when Obama got elected but nothing compares to now.

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I hear you. I live in deep red country; these knuckleheads are just itchin’ to shoot them a genuwine liberul.

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You know it!! Just like that raging Nazi, racist, white supremacist who just flat out murdered a legally armed man in Rexas during the BLM protests, was convicted & sent to prison & now Gov Abbott has given him a full pardon.

There’s the 45-50 yr old Mom of several kids who had to report to Federal prison last month to serve 5 yrs. She firmly believes Trump will pardon her.

She was in that recent MSNBC Special about the magas

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I don't blame you. I live in Mexico and as far as I know there few if any trumpers. Can, and I am sure you can, imagine what it will be like if he wins. These raging dangerous buffoons will just come right out and push around and intimidate anyone they please cause "their guy" will protect them.

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I have so many stickers on my car at this point, I imagine anyone as fragile as a MAGAt would find at least one thing that offends them.

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Where can I get that bumper sticker?

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I'm pretty sure you can have them made on Vista Print and only do a handful if you want.

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Do a search on google search and I’m sure you’ll find a vendor selling them.

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I haven't found any yet.

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I think you’ll have to get them made, and sell them online.

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Where can I get that bumper sticker?

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I got it on Red Bubble

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Would LOVE to have that! “Will you Shut Up man!

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You’re so damn funny- and sometimes you don’t even have to work hard for it… the truth just generates laughter!😆

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Yes, thank you Jeff 🤣

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Deteriorating yes, but tragically, still fucking alive.........

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Amen, Brother. Amen. The good lord should take him now.

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Or a bad one, I'm not chosey.

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All the tough talk by trump blew up in his bloated face, and now he'll start backpedaling on his agreement. Get Ready to Crumble, Fucko!

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I love a President that tells it like it is; Trump is definitely A SICK FUCK! 😎

And, I think Trump will back out of the debates because his Aphasia is getting worse by the day.

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And a VP too!

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I hope when Vonshitsinpants backs out, Biden will keep goading him day after day. Calling him a coward, a fraud, chicken poop, on and on until trump gives in.

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I hope he has town halls every day that PAB refuses to debate.

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I think Melania needs to be goaded and laughed at as much as possible. now there will be some hell hath no fury jive.

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"chicken poop" Now that's a good one. You might want to suggest it to President Biden.

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well you know he's never say chicken-shit in public that is.

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"Little Donny Fuckface is a burst trash bag of personality defects" As a retired psychiatrist who practiced for over 30 years (and loved every minute of it), I can say that your diagnosis is absolutely correct. Well done, Jeff.

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Dynamite lede. Double dynamite.

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you're making me blush

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Aw, shucks.

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Was that "water" soliloquy really in answer to a question about the debates? Oh pls say yes. Tears of mirth coursed down my leathery cheeks. Orange Julius may feel ill-used and unfairly treated by having to shut up in the courtroom, but they may be doing him a favor. And Biden's zingers (I'll bring my plane. I hear you're free on Wednesdays) may be written by someone else, but that's fine. He delivers them perfectly. And that's why he has speech writers. It's about time.

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I did some additional googling. evidently, in response to being asked about the debate, Trump claimed that Biden was going to drop out and be replaced by Gavin Newsom, which led into the rant about water. so not as batshit crazy as my post implies, but still batshit crazy. https://www.rawstory.com/trump-biden-infirmity/

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Good grief…like that’s going to happen (Newsom replcing Biden). Entertain me for a minute…being a native Californian, Newsom would totally squash tRump in a debate. Newsom is incredibly intelligent and a great speaker and debater.

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Thanks for the image of Gov Newsom on stage with OT. Newsom is everything little DonDon wanted to be: handsome, smart, successful and in good shape. Having to share a podium next to Newsom would be torture for Trump. He would shrivel and shrink, the gusts of air escaping from the hideous Macy’s Parade bloated gas bag that he is

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😂. Very true though.

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Well, since Don Jr is dating Newsom's overly botxed and nipped/tucked ex, she probably thinks she can tell strories on him.

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Thanks, man. I had been wishing we could have seen the beginning a bit further back starting with Hugh Blewit's softball question.

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Whoever he's got running his social media accounts is on FIRE!

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Yes, I think Dumbass would answer a different question than the moderator asked, as long as he could criticize ’Sleepy Joe’ and the Dems.

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Donny Dementia is definitely gonna need a bigger diaper. And the NYT can go straight to hell,no one GAF about your bogus polls,(here's some numbers,Haley dropped out 2 months ago,and she's getting still getting 20% of votes in the primaries,'poll' that),and no one GAF about your opinions pretending to be news either,we have Fox for that.

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They are using the tabloid model of reporting just like Fox does.

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Trump will never follow through with debating Dark Brandon.His handlers won’t allow it either.He will back out with some lame, conspiracy theory that it was all Biden’s fault.

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the dumpster will schedule a golf game and claim he's overbooked.

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It’ll be something about his hair: the rain, the wind, the sun

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Right: OT is the victim of Dem/left wing conspiracy. Debate is already “rigged” so why bother showing up? This aligns with the permanent narrative of “See how I’m wronged,” that thrills his supporters. No way will he show.

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I'm hoping trump makes an excuse that's provably wrong - something like his wife's mother's funeral (which was held some time ago) or Barron's graduation, which I believe is within the next week or so. I doubt his handlers would allow that to happen, but it's fun to imagine.

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