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The Paddy McGuffin column

Hello and welcome back to the countdown to the end of days and things seem to be shaping up nicely for the apocalypse.

The beast has risen, the seas are beginning to boil and the Doomsday Clock is inching ever closer to midnight.
The key players are all coming into position.

A certifiable psychopath, racist, liar and fraud is ensconced in the White House. A man so criminally stupid that he rejects global warming as “fake” but claims his hair is real.

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