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Hello Bugles and welcome to your end of year 2021, 2021 Special and what a year 2021

it has been. There will be a live Bugle recording next week we are recording in Melbourne on

the 22nd of December there is also a bonus satirist for high show on the 23rd of December

if you want to come along to that and in Sydney on the 4th of January we've added a live

Bugle earlier in the evening on the 4th of January before the satirist for high show.

Before those shows however let's remind ourselves of all the great things to have happened

in 2021. All done let's look at some of the other stuff now and let's start in January

with events in Washington DC with Mark Steele and Harry Kondabolo.

Top story this week the American Uncivil War, it's well Harry you are our

Collapse of American Civilization Correspondent, a role which you've embraced with great

enthusiasm over the past four and a bit years. In fact you were on the first Bugle after we

relaunched just before the election of President Trump so just bring us up today with the last

recent events in Trump's America. Let me first say will the aliens get here already?

This is the time we're weak, we're diseased, we're destroying ourselves, this is the time.

You know there's a lot of things one could say about Trump but the man can make an exit.

He leaves with a bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. Wednesday started great,

you know it didn't start out all shit I actually felt optimistic for about an hour

because the Democrats won the Georgia runoffs which gave them control of the Senate, the House

and the presidency which is a huge paradigm shift right in American politics because it changed

the question from how Republicans going to prevent anything from being done to how are the

Democrats going to f**k this one up. That's huge. Very big victory also, it was Rafael

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