I am joined this week by Phil Boswell, Yvonne Ridley and Eva Comrie for our weekly Scottish political review programme. The furore of Adam Graham and the choice of where to house this convicted rapist is yet another avoidable banana skin our incompetent First Minister stepped on. Everyone else was, of course, not the guilty party. The SPS, Cabinet Secretary for Justice, the Judge, everyone to blame except Ms Sturgeon herself.
We reveal what sources have told Prism as to the machinations behind Cornton Vale being selected.
We ask if the location of Graham’s incarceration can be changed by the FM at the drop of a hat then why was Andrew Burns Scotland’s most feared sex offender now been placed in the women’s prison estate? Indeed should any sex offenders be allowed anywhere near vulnerable women.
Hannah Bardell and other SNP MPs want immediate action on Section 35 block by Westminster of the GRRB to go to Starsbourg and the European courts. Yet we still have 49 days to wait before SNP even discuss strategy over the Supreme Court ruling on Independence Referendum. A full 119 days after that decision was handed down. Does this confirm that SNP prioritise Gender issues over Scottish Independence? The panel gives their views on that question.
78 years after the liberation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, a memorial service was held at the camp. What was the glaring omission in this remembrance?
BRICS have scheduled an August conference to work on the implementation of a new global reserve currency. What will that mean for the global economy and for Scotland in particular? All this and much more on your weekly review show.
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I’ve just listened to Phil Boswell saying the Russians (he means the Soviets I suppose) freed us (Britain) from the Nazi’s.
Well that just happens to be true because they were really freeing themselves, that’s the bottom line.
If Hitler hadn’t attacked Russia (Soviet Union) and reneged on his pact with Stalin, then Stalin would have freed no one.
Sorry Phil, (I have nothing against you personally) but you seem to conveniently forgot to mention to the viewers that Stalin made a pact with Hitler – known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact – and in that pact they agreed to carve up Poland – a sovereign country – between them. Which they did.
Stalin thereafter sat with his arms folded (probably in that stupid looking ill fitting uniform he was rarely seen not wearing) and watched this island (Britain) being bombed to smithereens by his then allies (let’s not mince words here, they were allied) the Nazi’s and did nothing, just sat there in the Kremlin or his Dacha on his big fat ass gloating, whist smoking his pipe, and offering us absolutely no help whatsoever.
Churchill made a mistake as far as I’m concerned in his dealings with Stalin, he should have stood up to Stalin and told him upfront in February, nineteen forty five at Yalta, once you’ve freed Poland from the Nazi’s, then get out of there and don’t come back, our promise to stand by Poland applies to you as well, you abused them once in your pact with Hitler, you’re not going to be allowed to invade, then hang around and abuse them again.
Stalin was an aggressor, just like Putin is an aggressor. I happen to agree with sending arms to the Ukraine, once Putin ever gets Ukraine, then it’s Poland on the menu next, then whatever he can get away with, then it’s threatening us all with nuclear bombs the minute he hears us saying anything he doesn’t like the sound off.
Let’s not kid ourselves.
As for not inviting Russia to the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the German Auschwitz death camp, remember and don’t forget where Auschwitz is?, that’s right….in POLAND.
I’m sure the Polish people themselves (just like me) have nothing against the Russian people and wouldn’t mind them paying their respects, it’s just their leaders the Poles don’t want around.
Quite right, if it was up to me, and if it was my decision, I wouldn’t invite them either.
You are trying to rewrite history. What Phil said is correct and in fact 80% of German casualties were inflicted by Russians.The Ribbentrop Pact was Germany buying time,Russia was probably foing the same. No doubt you also think Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year with no provocation and that Putin is evil and Ukraine is defending western democracy.
But that’s not the full story is it David?
Throughout other theatres of the war, particularly North Africa and the Far East, the “ownership” of lands liberated by force of arms became the territory of the liberator. The Russians didn’t get a say in what happened in North Africa, the Pacific, the Middle East or the Far East, yet in Europe, where the Russian’s broke the back of Hitler’s war machine despite losses (however you account for them), which dwarfed all other losses, yet the Allies demand the right to walk back in to territories which the Russians had cleared by the same force of arms as liberators.
Don’t misunderstand, I’m not excusing the Russians holding on to Poland. The point I’m making is the hypocrisy and double standards of the Western Allies in expecting the Russians to do something they weren’t prepared to do themselves. One rule for the Americans, French and British, but a different rule for the Russians.
Another element of this relates to Greece, where there were more shady goings on, but Stalin was persuaded to “look the other way” when the British quietly went to war with their former allies, the Communist Resistance fighters in Greece to make sure Greece didn’t become a Communist territory. It’s now referred to as the Greek Civil War, but it’s worth being a little cynical about the official story, because left to their own devices, the Greek Communists would have taken Greece. Stalin sat on his hands when he might have supported the communists.
It’s a matter for conjecture of course, but the root cause of the Cold War lay in the West being so asymmetric and untrustworthy about it’s dealings with the Russians. We speak with a forked tongue when it comes to the Russians. Do we suppose the Russians are as forgetful as we are about the harsh conditions of post WW2 politics? Lying and being disingenuous has been our MO for decades.
Do we in the West fully understand the peace imposed in the Bosnian War? Or more accurately, do we understand the peace from a Russian perspective? Are we aware that Kosovo is not recognised by Russia or Serbia, nor indeed a host of other countries? And NATO’s interpretation of Article 5 as the pretext to bomb Yugoslavia is as objectionable to the Russians as Putin citing the same Article 5 to defend Russian Nationals in Donbas and Luhansk? Quid pro quo. See? There’s that one rule for the West and another rule for Russia again….
Do you really think the situation in Ukraine just started with Putin’s spur of the moment decision to invade? Eastern Europe retains the potential to be an absolute powder keg, with NATO and Western Allies being as duplicitous and underhand as at any time since ww2.
The origins of this latest Ukrainian chapter run very deep, but if we EVER want to see true peace and lasting reconciliation in Europe, vilifying the Russians and muscling in on Russian territories and Russia’s spheres of influence isn’t the best place to start. Some would call it shit stirring… I would call it bloody stupid and dangerous.
Maybe putting a muzzle and a leash on our “media” would be a better place to start… The lies we’ve been told throughout this Conflict situation are on a par with Saddam’s WMD’s, yet the West still has no appetite for the truth and gulps down fake propaganda and indoctrination. We lie to ourselves almost as much as we lie to the Russians.
To the best of my knowledge, I’ve not defended the Russians in anything I’ve said, but even trying to be neutral and objective is considered a disloyalty by some. Just look at how Scott Ritter is treated; the former UN Weapons Inspector who blew the whistle on Saddam’s WMD’s. (Note too, the methods used to discredit him… but that’s another story).
Knowledge is power, but knowledge is also a threat to power, and sadly, the latter world is the one we’re living in.
And lastly, is it really appropriate to be playing games about Auschwitz commemorations? I mean really,… For goodness sake, how many victims of Auschwitz were actually Russian? The snub is just in very poor taste. This barbaric history is still living memory for some. All those Russian victims, or liberating soldiers, didn’t have descendants who might want to pay their humble respects?
Breeks an absolutely brilliant comment. Sadly, it has been my experience that those seeped in Russophobia, are also persons with severe Cognitive Dissonance. The truth of the Ukraine conflict or the truth of WWII or Cold War is something the Russophobes refuse to believe
I agree Roddy. It’s a great oversimplification I know, but when you compare the post WW2 attitudes of Western Europe with those of Eastern Europe, to me, I see the extraordinarily benign influence of the EU.
All the bitterness and hostility still festering away in Eastern Europe should be a warning to us all of how unstable Europe was for centuries before the two world wars, with petty imperialism and nationalist jealousies running rampant.
The European Union in contrast has fostered peace and mutual respect among nations, and a large degree of reconciliation.
I find it frustrating that most people nowadays judge the EU for it’s neoliberal tendencies, which I don’t exactly approve of myself, but the understated benefit of the EU has been to heal bitter divisions and advance beyond 19th century values. The built something positive and enlightened, and advanced our society.
Truth be told, the post war bitterness seems to thrive everywhere where the EU didn’t reach, and I firmly believe the pettiness of Brexit was much closer to the nationalistic ideals and exceptionalism of Eastern Europe, because the British were never “comfortable” with Europe. Or rather the English were reluctant about Europe. I think Scotland “got it”.
Currently the EU is being squeezed between the unresolved hostilities of Eastern Europe, a resurgent 19th Century style English Nationalism which tried to make an enemy of Europe.
The irony of Western Europe rising above the bitterness and rancour of WW2 is that Europe left it’s military defence to the post war Alliance of America, Britain and France, and we now see a situation where Europe has a dependency on American dominated (NATO) defence, which unfortunately binds Europe to American foreign policy, which seems increasingly belligerent towards Russia.
My biggest fear now is that the EU may not survive these exterior forces acting upon it, and the post war stability and unity created by the EU will slowly fall back into the swamp of 19th Century Imperialism. I don’t like Ursula von der Leyden.
Sadly, I detect Euroscepticism on the rise here in Scotland. I do get it. I understand the temptation of EFTA, and lower level of commitment, but to me, Europe is about so much more than Economics. It is Europe, the EU, which needs MORE commitment, not less. If the EU stalls, or fails altogether, the World will be the lesser for it.
I honestly believe in my bones that an Independent Scotland throwing it’s weight behind the EU proper would be good for Scotland and a fortifying shot in the arm for the EU’s faltering self confidence and morale. Scotland belongs in Europe, and Scotland’s geographic location would bless Scotland with gateway status that will serve Scotland very well in perpetuity.
Solve the problems. Change the Neoliberal attitudes. Root out the greed and corruption, and reduce Europe’s dependency on NATO for defence.
The tragic thing, is that we are now on a failing trajectory. We are out of the EU, with heartbreaking spectacle of our SNP Government supporting Green Free Ports where the Brexit inspired deregulation will force Scotland in the opposite direct of European Convergence criteria. We are losing our pathway back to Europe and Sturgeon’s flops are signing up to it.
Scotland stands on the brink of some huge, huge mistakes which will take decades to reverse, but our SNP Government has completely lost it’s direction and mojo.
Sturgeon has to go. Frankly, 3/4 of the SNP needs to go with her, and the 1/4 that can stay need to sit at the back. Sadly, it may be too late for the SNP. Sturgeon should have gone in 2016. We took a big wrong turn in 2016. What mess this one woman has made of virtually everything she has touched.
You seem to have a very myopic view of world history, Stalin was not popular in Russia, but supported by western leaders, and if you truly know your history his rise was supported by the UK & US governments both in the kiĺling of their Royalty & thru trade agreements which suited our access to cheap grain & other materials. Perhaps you think an anti aggression pact with governments of an opposing ideology is a bad idea, and that arming, training & propagandising positively towards conflict is beneficial to the citizens of any country. It seems it hasn’t worked for any of the proxy war participants from Korea/Vietnam thru Syria/Iraq to Yugoslavia & Ukraine where NATO expansion & the support for terrorism & terrorist organisations including false flags, tripwires & mainstream media distortions of the facts and escalation to western sanctions & invasion which has kept the jackboot of imperialism firmly on the neck of the south america, middle east, far east thru the arming & tacit support of numerous western backed dictators since the death of Stalin.
It would seem your view of history is inaccurate.Stalin had nothing to do with the deaths of the Romanovs. The execution was carried out by the Ural Bolsheviks under the orders of Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918. Lenin was the leader of the Bolsheviks until his death in 1924. Only then did Stalin a Georgian become the leader of the Revolution.
One can’t rewrite history, that’s impossible.
Yes Putin is Evil, em you forgot to mention Stalin, He was evil too.
We’ll just have to agree to disagree.
Define evil.Have you reached this scathing opinion based on a lifetime of listening to Western Russophobia or gave you researched thoroughly? In your scale of evil where is Zelensky, Biden, Obama, Bush, Blair? Let me refer you to an article I wrote in October 2021 long before the SMO. Everything in it is factual,not propaganda.
https://www.barrheadboy.com/who-really-are-the-bad-guys/
Define an evil person?, I suppose it’s a person with little or no moral standards, someone who is just totally selfish and ruthless, a person like that would think nothing about bombing hospitals, and kids playgrounds, and invade sovereign countries and threaten to use nuclear bombs if he doesn’t get his own way.
I don’t know enough about Zelensky or Biden yet, to form an opinion on wither they are evil.
But Obama, Bush, Blair are all evil, so is Peter Tobin, the Yorkshire ripper, Ian Huntly, and of course Hitler, Stalin. There’s many more, big and small, but I will save space and stop there.
So you don’t like the USA and Britain because their leaders are hypocrites and have double standards?, they invade other sovereign nations for their own selfish purposes, whilst telling everyone they are the leaders of the free world.
I have to agree with that, they definitely are hypocrites and have double standards, I don’t have anything against the American people though, or any of the British people, and the same for the Russian people, nothing against any of them.
Putin made a serious mistake when he invaded the Ukraine, he thought they were going to welcome him with open arms, be greeted with flowers and cheers of hip hip hooray . I’ve seen the Ukrainians interviewing captured Russian soldiers, and just about every Russian says they don’t even know why they are in the Ukraine, they were told they were fighting Nazi’s, and now they’re finding out that just isn’t true.
I suppose I’ve been brainwashed and that’s just propaganda though.
I’m sure some Ukrainians have Nazi views, (so do some Russians) but we get that type everywhere, I actually know someone personally right here in Scotland who absolutely hates Jews and thinks Hitler is wonderful. Maybe if Putin finds out about him, he might decide to invade over here.
By the way, if the Russians do invade here, and send those woman soldiers you referred to in that video.
Could you please do me a favour?, let me know which beach they invade, so I can personally head over there and welcome them with open arms, some of them look quite tasty.
Putin must leave Ukraine, and stay out. One thing’s for sure, he didn’t send any of those woman to the Ukraine.
Anyway…as I said on my last post, we just have to agree to disagree.
There’s a better video than yours that’s also available on you-tube.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJN7MOiUWJg
I bet you do not even know about civil war of 2014 that saw the Ukrainian Nazis on Kiev’s orders kill 15,000 of their own people in Donbass. Are you familiar with the Maidan coup organised by CIA? The genocide? The burnings in Odessa? If you do then you are nothing more than a warmongering US apologist.
According to the Kremlin, the revolt on Maidan was a Western conspiracy. It was a CIA-inspired coup designed to get the Ukraine out of the influence Moscow’s.
Well (apologies to Mandy Rice Davis) Putin would ficken well say that wouldn’t he?.
But there’s probably at least some truth in it. Because the CIA are into everything, I know that.
I know they ship the drugs into the United States, I know about operation paperclip. And I know a hell of a lot more.
Let’s just see shall we, what were the Ukrainians standing in the square protesting against.
To Whit..
Viktor Yanukovych… corruption, opulence and decadence in Ukraine.
Ukraine’s disgraced president, Viktor Yanukovych, used to boast to other heads of state about how corrupt he was, according to Georgia’s former president Mikheil Saakashvili.
When former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych fled the country following the 2014 Maidan revolution, Ukrainian citizens who stormed his Mezhyhirya mansion discovered a palace of cartoonish opulence with guilded bathrooms, a private zoo, and a floating restaurant in the shape of a pirate ship. A good illustration of this extravagance is the $11 million he allegedly paid for a chandelier and his seven tablecloths worth a staggering $13,000.
This private opulence was all paid for with public money. Embezzlement in the Yanukovych era is said to have taken the form of theft, corruption in public procurement, rigged energy prices, and misuse of carbon-emissions allowances.
Yanukovych and his associates, known as ‘the Family’, are believed to have embezzled as much as $37 billion and stashed it in bank accounts and company shares around the world, including in EU countries such as Austria, Latvia, Cyprus, Italy, and the Netherlands.
No wonder he was kicked out, and had to take to his heals as fast as he could to Moscow.
Democratic elections were held, and guess what?, Petro Poroshenko (the chocolate king) was voted in, and he wasn’t much better than his predecessor, he was just as corrupt.
The Ukrainian people (and that’s who I care about) haven’t had much luck have they?.
By the way…Anyone can post pictures of Nazi’s on the internet and claim they were all Nazi’s at the Maidan square protesting.
If I was a Ukrainian, I would stand and protest against Yanukovych too, that doesn’t make me a Nazi or as you imply… a warmonger.
And I want you to please take that (warmonger) comment back, you might have said it in the heat of the moment, and you obviously have strong opinions on this subject, I can accept that.
But I found that comment personally offensive, it was insulting, as well as totally out of order and uncalled for.
I HAVEN’T INSULTED YOU, I’VE JUST EXPRESSED MY OPINIONS. Sorry you don’t care for them, I thought that’s how we create rashional debate, discussing our different opinions.
Any fool can go on the safety of the internet and insult people for just having an opinion/s we don’t agree with. Maybe you think I deserve it, because I don’t tow the line with everything other people say.
I actually thought you were someone who was above all that?. Well it seems I was wrong about there.
I’m actually surprised you allowed my comments on your Blog in the first place, you didn’t block me, you could have, but you didn’t, so I give you respect for that.
That’s one of the reasons I went on Scottish prism, to try and learn, that doesn’t mean I can’t think for myself.
You might not agree with me or agree on anything I’ve ever said, that’s fine, but as I indicated above…we can at least agree to disagree.
I hope you dont mind I have passed your details on to some bridge sellers I know and their Nigerian Geberal friends. They do love the gullible simpletons.
As I said, it’s easy to insult people on the internet, but not so easy to do it to their face.
If I did need to offend someone on the net, and I’ve actually done it before because they deserved it, I’m not a hypocrite I’d also say it to their face if they wanted.
So I’ll just concede this one, you win, I’ll just leave it at that.
Enjoy your bridges
Excellent, Roddy.
Phil: they are all woman facing. All of them. Yes, compassion should be applied inasmuch as we should not harm or hurt people unnecessarily, but there is no way to get this straight unless we do hurt the so-called ‘true trans’. All that phrase means is that a man can no longer cope with his dysphoria and/or his paraphilia and has decided to adopt a female persona. That, in no way, should entitle him to enter female spaces or rights or services, yet, for over six decades that is precisely what these biological males have done, leaving the door open to this latest wave of porn-sick men who have taken advantage.
It has to be faced and accepted that these men are all woman facing on various levels and at various degrees that are almost wholly sexual, larping or men’s rights based. That is the point: not only are they men, but they are almost all fetishistic men or real woman-haters. So, even if they are not sexual predators per se, they are using females and children for their own fetishistic fantasies. Repeal the 2004 GRA. Strengthen the 2010 Equality Act. No biological man, ‘transitioned’ or not, in female spaces. No man with legal status as a ‘woman’ except in very, very limited circumstances. Younger women with children should not take them to Pride rallies where ‘furries’ – fetishists – target children.
Decent men, with wives, daughters, granddaughters, nieces, cousins, aunts, parents must help us to fight this, but they have to accept, too, that women are not having a go at their sex all the time, and blaming them. We are pointing out the obvious: that these men’s sexuality is so often deviant and twisted, and even ‘true trans’ is very disrespectful of females. Woman facing is every bit as reprehensible as black facing because it is yet another form of appropriation, of colonisation, of parasitical invasion.
Independence cannot be achieved while this nonsense is still on the go. Bringing it into an independent Scotland would be disastrous, given how rapidly Scotland fell to this ideology. Totalitarians do not – ever – recognise nationalism and national boundaries. That is simple fact. This aspect of the ‘trans’ movement has not been debated at all. Also, women’s rights are never well represented in totalitarian states. Had we gone before this ideology took hold, Eva is right: we would have had constitutional rights and civil rights embedded in the new state.
The vast numbers who joined the SNP after 2014 were, many of them, the ideologists of the far left of the Labour party. Plenty of former Labour people were fed up and wanted independence, too, but the ideologues sneaked in along with those – and they were the ones who were promoted. The Greens were already ideologues and ‘woke’, and the minute they went into a loose coalition with the SNP, our fate was sealed.
However, we have to find a way of saving the rump of the SNP after these people have been ousted, and build up ALBA to either take over, or join with the SNP, in an independent Scotland, and, together, they take us forward. Independence will come, and it will come sooner than some think.
Reading David Yuil’s dialogue it never ceases to amaze how folk like him can construct in their minds such mal-considered commentary.
For David it’s a simplistic call to provide arms to Ukraine. Russia it seems want to annex Ukraine, then Poland and no doubt the world thereafter.
Without doubt armchair warriors like David are seperated from reality. To misquote a widely held trope, why jaw jaw when you can war war.
Nato is at war with Russia. The German Foreign Minister recently said Germany was at war with Russia. And was it not another senior German politician who admitted that the Minsk Agreement was an agreement to give Ukraine time, time to arm that was.
So if I may opine cynically, get out of your armchair David, take your family and go join war war. Put your money where your mouth is so as to speak.
For me my call is for negotiation and an end to hostilities.
Mind you, and this is no flippant comment, we all might be bankrupt before then. Or all dead.
Another great Prism. Good to listen to wise folk! Thank you to all.
Hi Jan, yep each Prism just keeps gettin’ brawer.
Been thinking that the following saying can now be understood in 2 different ways…
Hola, just wanted to make sure y’all checked out the magic tune at 25:48:
https://youtu.be/yLu4GbCUMRI?t=1548
The theme tune to Sturgeon’s stand-down (Growth):
https://youtu.be/yLu4GbCUMRI?t=1997
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100 per cent correct, Lorna.
You seem to forget the Chamberlain appeased Hitler and as a result Czechoslovakia was annexed by Hitler. Rule Britannia UK,Ok. Also the wonderful Churchill starved to death 1 million Bengals in the Name of the Benevolent Empire that gave the natives railways. Stalin, Hitler and Churchill are all war criminals.
Actually Churchill’s famine killed 3.5 million Bengalis, the previous British induced famine had killed 8 million. In one Indian state the Brits murdered nearly by two times what the Nazis managed in their holocaust.As they say the winners write history.
You seem to have a very myopic view of world history, Stalin was not popular in Russia, but supported by western leaders, and if you truly know your history his rise was supported by the UK & US governments both in the kiĺling of their Royalty & thru trade agreements which suited our access to cheap grain & other materials. Perhaps you think an anti aggression pact with governments of an opposing ideology is a bad idea, and that arming, training & propagandising positively towards conflict is beneficial to the citizens of any country. It seems it hasn’t worked for any of the proxy war participants from Korea/Vietnam thru Syria/Iraq to Yugoslavia & Ukraine where NATO expansion & the support for terrorism & terrorist organisations including false flags, tripwires & mainstream media distortions of the facts and escalation to western sanctions & invasion which has kept the jackboot of imperialism firmly on the neck of the south america, middle east, far east thru the arming & tacit support of numerous western backed dictators since the death of Stalin.
As for evil perhaps you don’t think a Civil war & the breaking of multiple accords & conventions since a fascist coup d’etat in 2014?
Since 2014 Ukraine has closed all non-state media refused to implement devolution, criminalised the use of Russian as a native language, cut pensions to regions of Ukraine society & use of militia & national military to murder 14,000 civilians, refused to negotiate ceasefire in cahoots with the Boris/Truss/Sunak govts & have lost an estimated 500k conscripted men in a futile attempt to retake by force regions who have categorically voted to join the Russian Federation, subjecting them to terrorist attacks civilian populations such as Crimean Ports & Bridges, Russian Financial Diatricts & villages
How Scots can ignore our positive links to Russia & the fight for workers rights & believe right wing press propaganda from English & Capitalist oligarks is beyond me, cherry picking a news narrative designed to keep us fearful controlled & in poverty. Hitler & Zelensky both ran on a peace & nationist sovereignty platform before investing in war, fear & persecution using ethnic purity & puritanical religious dogma to instigate a victim mentality which became fascist aggression & world conflict, just a is happening with US/EU/UK allies Israel Taiwan, The Philipines & Argentina next.
I enjoy prism and find it very informative. I would be more than happy to see the back of the FM. However I feel in all the frustrations with her a couple of the contributors in recent weeks have crossed a line into the language of outrage, without as clear an analysis of the issues. Eva is very analytical and incisive in her comments, and no doubt these are skills learned as a lawyer, and it is good the panel are not all the same, but let me encourage the contributors to keep the arguments incisive and not just keep expressing unsubstantiated outrage. there is also quite a lot of innuendo about NS now, and with the commentators being much closer to political circles than I, it may well have substance, but if you cant or wont put it in the public domain please dont demean the debate with it. you are better than that.
Perhaps you can clarify this ‘unsubstantiated rage’ you allude to or the innuendo?
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