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I listened to the writer of this book explain how the people in the Obama administration thought things would work the same way as they did in The West Wing. Properly hilarious stuff with very serious consequences.

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-obamanauts

Alper Cugun
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Alper Cugun

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