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Hey, look, the obvious temptation is to just laugh at what you saw and heard last night just laugh at it just

shake your head at it it was 18 minutes of an angry old man yelling at us.

I posted this.

It was 18 minutes of an angry old man screaming at us

while he puts a plate of food that's gone bad in front of us, demanding we eat that food.

And at the same time, he's whacking us over the head with a two by four for 18 minutes.

Eat that bad food. Eat that food that's already gone rotten. He's hitting us over the head with a

two by four. And he's telling us this is the best we've ever had it.

This is the best we've ever had it.

It's so tempting to just laugh at and shake your head at. a fucking farce Trump is and what a joke that 18 minutes was.

But I'm going to ask you to do me a favor and don't laugh at it.

Don't laugh at what Trump did last night.

We have to defeat it.

And I know it's hard after something like last night.

I mean, last night in the 10-some years, this dude's been on the public scene.

That 18-minute speech last night, that was a doozy. I mean, somebody, I forgot who some media

outlet this morning asked me to sum it up, Trump's speech. And I said, and I tried to yell,

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