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>But to be fair you may be on to something there, as the current speeches on "pandemics" and some similarly silly older ones seem to come from a preconceived notion that the average U.S. citizen is an idiot: ready to consume, digest and assimilate anything that comes out in the news. (It was catalogued yesterday that the Prez used the word 75 times during the speech..)
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Ok, who's been teaching the monkey new words?