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It's Thursday, January 14, 2021, from Slate, it's the Gist I, Mike Pesca. A lot of arguments

take some time to break down mentally. Gotta think about it. I'll give you one. The claim

that this was the most bipartisan impeachment ever. Most bipartisan. How can an effort that

includes members of two groups, more include members of two groups, than another effort

that included members of two groups? Maybe I shouldn't think of bipartisanship as being

like pregnancy. It either is or it isn't, but more like nudity, which seems absolute,

right, dictionary definition. But, you know, you could be naked except for your pinky ring

or naked but for a bonnet or naked but for a hat and sailor suit on your upper torso

and then your Donald Duck. But one claim that doesn't take much effort to assess is claims

of censorship. If you hear someone saying, you can't hear what I'm saying, then you

can pretty much be right and saying, you're an error. The big argument among conservatives,

some conservatives, the dishonest ones, these days, is not that they're not lying. That's

an argument they're making. It's an ancillary argument. They don't get much sympathy from

people who have already decided that they are lying. So they only make it among themselves.

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