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"Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt."
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"The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see."
"Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt."
"You are cordially invited to go fuck yourself."
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"I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography."
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