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A Christmas present for the miserable bastard in your life

A Christmas present for the miserable bastard in your life

It's time to bring some gloom to the party

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Nick Cohen
Dec 09, 2024
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Perhaps you have a miserable bastard in your life. All joy has fled. Nothing makes them happy. They shout at news programmes – and think that helps. They doomscroll Twitter and refuse to call it “X” because in their mind calling it “X” would mean conceding ground to Elon Musk.

And they hate Elon Musk and Donald Trump and, well, pretty much everyone in po…

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