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zipplewrath

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3. Something like that

Reply to leftieNanner (Reply #2)

Tue Jul 27, 2021, 04:32 PM

Jul 2021

I don't suspect any of them envisioned what happened. I think the expectation was that a small group of people (20 or 30) would somehow breach security and disrupt proceedings at the doors or in the gallery. Because, as you say, they're that stupid.

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