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Funniest line about the election: “The Motherfucker is back”

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To wake up the morning after Election Day was to understand the appeal of oblivion. Regaining consciousness meant assuming the crushing weight of the darkest knowledge. The Motherfucker is back.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard,” wrote American journalist H.L. Mencken in 1916

The rest is not worth reading, since like most of the post-election prattle it assumes, against evidence, that most voters had knowledge and well-formed preferences.

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