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Pro-Life Dem Admits in Charlotte: HHS Mandate Violates an Obama Executive Order and Is ‘Illegal’

Sep. 4, 2012 5:20pm Jason Howerton

Former Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak Says Obamacare is Illegal, Violates Obama Executive Order

Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., takes part in a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, FILE)

Former Michigan Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak, who served as an important swing vote during President Obama’s push to pass his signature heath care overhaul in 2010, now says the HHS mandate violates an Executive Order signed by the president and is plain “illegal.”

Stupak, a pro-life Democrat, said at the time that he could not support Obamacare without the president’s word that abortions would not be covered by the sweeping legislation.

Because he needed his vote, President Obama issued an Executive Order that supposedly ensured that abortions would absolutely not be covered by Obamacare. However, critics at the time argued that the presidential order was toothless and would not actually prevent abortions from being covered. Now, after retiring over President Obama’s health care law, Stupak has seemingly realized that he was duped and is claiming that the HHS mandate violates the president’s Executive Order and “statutory law.”

He argues that because the mandate covers “contraceptive services” and drugs that induce abortion, the entire thing is “illegal.”

“To tell you the truth, I am perplexed and disappointed having negotiated the executive order with the president.” Stupak said during a panel discussion. “Not only does that HHS mandate violate the executive order, it also violates statutory law.”

“If you go back to the Omnibus Budget Act of 2009, passed by Democratic House, Democratic Senate and signed by President Obama, that is probably the most specific particular language that no funds can be used to promote abortion,” he added.

Talking about the HHS mandate, he said “I think it’s illegal. I believe it has contraceptive services, it also has drugs that induce [abortions].”

Watch Stupak’s remarks courtesy of RedState:

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chips1
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 6:16pm
Where in the world do these Republicans get the idea they can negotiate with Satan? He was hit in the face with green pea soup!!!!

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- capelady
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 9:01pm
  He is a pro-life DEMOCRAT, not a Republican.. and he was a fool. He should have known the Democrat Party could not be trusted.
  
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- Gold Coin & Economic News
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 9:15pm
  Obama is a serial liar, He lied about what Romney did in his Bain ads, he lied to Stupak and he is lying to America every day. It is in his DNA:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sOY9GFM1cQ
  
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- fraumj
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 9:57pm
  It’s amazing…. if you have to go to the President (who is not a part of the legislative body) in order to get assurance with regard to a law being passed at the House, that tells me that Stupak already had doubts about the law to begin with and still voted on it anyway. I think he was too weak to make a stand. And now, he’s the one with pie on the face.
  
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- NancyBee
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 10:01pm
  You know what???? I can’t believe Stupek was that stupid!!!! He knew better!! He was either threatened or bribed…..either way I hope he’s miserable
  
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- Jezreel
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 10:12pm
  I am sure that he was told that the executive order was not any good but he went ahead and signed anyhow. Now he wants to make himself look good. He is playing games and is just as bad as any other politician.
  
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- Leadthemtothelight
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 11:27pm
  In the end Stupak will have to answer to the Lord for what he has done. A child is not a choice. The fact that he now stands back and plays the role of a victim is sickening. Obama and the over zealous dems never had any intention of honoring that agreement. The executive order issued at the time to ensure Stupaks vote is meaningless. Mr Stupak you are either unintelligent or posturing at this point to save face. When millions of american children meet their end at the hands of a tax payer funded abortionist you Stupak will have been the deciding vote….Congrats.
  
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- TexasCommonSense
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 8:52am
  Time to switch parties, Stupak.
  
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- poorrichard09
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 8:56am
  His name should be Stupidpac for ever believing The Big Liar.
  
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- TWO BITS
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 8:59am
  @chip1
  Stupak claimed to be a pro-life blue-dog democrat. He took the path of least resistance, with the expectation that the Supreme Court would cover his deceit. Now he will be judged accordingly.
  
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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 9:19am
  Stupak Save Your Breath For God
  
  Stupak you plunged a dagger into Catholics and babies everywhere not just in America. Your one vote pushed the illegal crime against nature to be carried out. You are now in the group of people on Earth guilty of mass murder. Millions cannot believe you still show you face in public. Good people have to live on the same planet with demons like you.
  
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Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 6:15pm
Why Obama is not run out of Washington I will never know.

Where is the honor amongst ourselves?
Where is the pride in America?
Where is the honesty?
Where is the integrity?

None are blameless – WE ALL co-sponsor this type of crap when we FEED it in the form of seeing immoral movies – watching immoral televison – allowing progressives a foothold in our schools.

I was forced to watch a movie this weekend where drug use was glorified – sex between adults and children was acceptable – anti-social behavior was encouraged – racism was allowed and a total lack of consequenses and responsibility was acceptable.

This is basic CORE problems we have here. Change is needed AT THE CORE

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- iblvingd
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 6:27pm
  Why do we as people not VET who we send to congress, Its our fault that we sent them their, either through complacent actions of not voting or not voting out the cronies that keep raping the American peoples money.
  
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- oldguy77
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 6:45pm
  Here is a little bit of wisdom I learned a long time ago.When a guy puts his arm around your shoulder,looks you in the eye and says trust me,he is lying thru his teeth.
  
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- Sgtjim
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 7:49pm
  You should not have been watrching Barneys home movies.
  
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- vadale
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 9:34pm
  I’ll tell you why he’s not run out on a rail….Read some of the comments from absolute morons on this forum. They still support this criminal…STILL. after all of this is known. They still love him. He voted to let babies born alive just die….What do they say? They don’t believe it….Once you prove it to them they say so what. They loved Clinton too. They didn’t believe he did anything to women… Once it was proven, they said so what. You can’t get through to people like this. They love lying.
  
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- vadale
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 9:36pm
  why?
  
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Schitzoid_Avenger
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 6:08pm
“I told you so” just doesn’t quite say it strong enough. Here’s hoping this is a real “see the light” moment and this guy will start standing for his principals in a real fashion and not just when it is politically fashionable.

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- CatB
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 6:45pm
  This A HOLE was told at the time .. I was in Michigan at that time … and people were so p.o. at this jerk you can’t believe .. even in Michigan this was too much … STUPAK is an IDIOT!
  
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- teddrunk
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 11:37pm
  CatB, and yet the morons voted both of them in.
  
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- termyt
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 1:45pm
  He “retired” because there was no way he could get re-elected in Michigan, of all places, after supporting that bill. He was so sure he was smarter than everyone else around him telling him the executive order was worthless.
  
  Too little, too late, Stupak. I’d say you deserved to lose your job if you had shown any reason at all the you deserved to have it in the first place.
  
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502_eagle
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 6:07pm
OH Cry me a river Bart. You knew dam well what was gonna happen. Democrats are always pushing for free on demand abortion, it’s what’s important to them.

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- dennisS
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 6:48pm
  Right! Stupak knew exactly what he was doing, he’s nothing but a pro-abortion communist just like his lord and savior, obama. Guess what Stupak, God wasn’t fooled. You’ll get to explain to Him and he can’t be BS’d.
  
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- db321
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 7:15pm
  Totally agree Eagle. I wonder if he will ever realize that he has been duped on some many things by this lair n chief.
  
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- needmoinfo
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 8:12pm
  Even if Obama is around another 4 plus years, he will be gone. Is this a contest to see how low his party followers will go to kiss his behind and turn their back on the rest of us? How do they expect to wash off all that muck and convince us they are the good guys later. Obama goes down and they must be determined to go with him. So be it. Here’s your hat what’s your hurry? Miss you already. Nice knowin ya. Write when you get work. Losers.
  
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nonliberal
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:54pm
I personally tried to tell you Bart. Your office received my emails and phone calls telling you what they were up to. You didn’t listen and now your surprised.

I was hoping I would never have to say it, BUT I told you so!!

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- Wishmich
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 10:25pm
  I told him, too. He was too weak. He wanted to be the hero. He didn’t want to hold up Obamacare and get any backlash. He wanted the cameras in his face with all his BS rhetoric about how pro-life he is and he demands no taxpayer money goes for abortions and he held O to the fire on the E.O. OMG, he acts like he didn’t know that would happen. He knew it. Weasel. He resigned because we were about to run him out on a rail for pulling this stunt.
  
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commonsenseguy
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:50pm
to late idiot sell out you should have known that left wing commies are lairs this just the tip of the ice berg that is going to sink the great unsinkable ship called America, thanks to you and the other sell out’s we are screwed and will be from here on out, i would say i am surprised that obama lied,but pretty much everything he has done has been a lie. i just wish people would wake up and smell the **** he and the left is serving and realize that they will in the end end up eating the **** with the rest of us no matter what they have done for the cause.

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- bigbear_awake
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 6:02pm
  they all need to be kicked out and tried for treassion
  
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Mess23
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:50pm
He is part of a select few; who else can say they sold out 315,000,000 people.

I forgot, Obama wrote a non-binding memo that promised him he wouldn’t use federal money to kill babies.

Tell it to God!!!

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cloudsofwar
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:50pm
HEADLINE: pro life dem….. he’s not pro life he’s pro Obama.

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- commonsenseguy
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:54pm
  you got that right,once a commie supporter always a commie supporter.
  
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Gary_K
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:50pm
I hope everyone who supports abortion is haunted by all the murders they have had a hand in committing until the day they die , then forever in hell.

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- commonsenseguy
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:56pm
  i hate to tell you this,but anyone who will kill has no conscience that is how they justify what they do.
  
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- Twobyfour
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 6:53pm
  Commonsense, killed Fluffy (bunny) on friday for the weekend meals. How that works out in your book?
  
  BTW, the original meaning of one of the commandments in Hebrew does say “Thou shall not murder”, not “Thou shall not kill”.
  
  Thus I think I am ok in the God’s eye, despite how you see me.
  
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- greatgrandma
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 7:44pm
  Because of all the abortions, especially after birth abortions, we as a country are all held accountable. The law of Karma is coming down on this country hot and heavy. And if you think this is it? Well it’s not, with this health care, millions of old people, the mentally challenged, the severly handicapped, etc. are all going to be killed. More bad Karma. Welcome to the new world order if obama wins again.
  
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Godfather.1
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:48pm
He argues that because the mandate covers “contraceptive services” and drugs that induce abortion, the entire thing is “illegal.”

Sorry, but the morning after pill is not an abortion.

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- JimmyP
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 6:32pm
  Yes, it is not an abortion because Planned Parenthoodlums say it is not.
  Nothing to see here, move along, just keep you head down and nothing bad will happen to you…
  
  Funny how the pro abortion crowd likes to call themselves “Pro-Choice”; they seem to forget that the initial choice of putting one’s self in the position of creating life by a deliberate act of sexual intercourse is the only choice that matters. If the human body does what it is designed to do, 25% of the time a human being that becomes a “consequence”….
  
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- WindyDualism
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 6:38pm
  Couldn’t you get henchmen to post your silly dribble? What kind of mafiosa blathers on about morning after pills and worthless dems?
  
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cloudsofwar
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:44pm
abortion is MURDER and a SIN against GOD and your fellow man. Because we still have legal abortion in this country we will all suffer for it. Stupak who are you trying to convince??? you sided with the DEVIL now you live with it. Stupak you make me sick.

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- afishfarted
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:52pm
  Golly gee willikers. He actually thought he could dance with the devil and not get burned ?!?! silly democrat
  
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- commonsenseguy
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:53pm
  he is not losing sleep over his decision he was more than compensated for his vote,
  
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- StillSober
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:53pm
  You are absolutely correct abortion is MURDER!
  
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TEARS FOR AMERICA
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:43pm
Deceiving the American people by their smiles and lies while we are being destroyed…a house of cards going down…God have mercy on a wicked, weak people.

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Midwestgirl1116
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:42pm
You want to jump ship NOW? You are pathetic. No morals than and no morals now.

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floridareader
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:41pm
It’s your fault Stupak. Did you read the bill? Of course not!
And now when you walk around it sounds “flip-flop, flip-flop”.
Prepare your pen to sign the bill that will repeal Obamacare, Mr.

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Tri-ox
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:41pm
Even a disgusting POS like Stupak acknowledges the truth once in a while.

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- Yankee
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 10:34pm
  He didn’t suffer, he just jumped to a DC law firm and got a fat raise. You suffered, babies even worse, Stupak not at all. When political careers die, the politicians return as well healed ghosts in better suits. What bothers me is that he thinks he still has something to say. Ghosts are not supposed to speak, just disappear, by bipartisan decree.
  
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cloudsofwar
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:39pm
oh boo hoo stupak you knew what you were doing. tell it to GOD on judgement day. oh BTW you will never be able to wash the blood off your hands.

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getalong
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:34pm
Stupak, Too little – too late. You should have done your homework, and not take the word of a liar. Don’t run for office again because you don’t understand that YOU work for the people NOT the other way around! And in representing the people in your district, YOU are expected to know exactly what you are voting on. Idiot!

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RANGER1965
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:33pm
…”Hey!! the guy said I won 20 million dollars, all I had to do was send him $350 for an administrative fee. He seemed like an nice and honest man over the phone. Who would’ve thought it was a scam?

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biohazard23
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:32pm
Sell-out ba**ard.

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flaboater1
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:29pm
Stupid is as stupid does…
What was Stupak thinking? That somehow Obama would honor his word?

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- Shasta
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 6:04pm
  Stupak was getting a lot of political pressure and was just looking for a way out. He knew the EO was worthless, but he accepted it b/c he is a spineless wimp.
  
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- Schitzoid_Avenger
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 6:10pm
  Yup!
  
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macombman
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:28pm
Did Bart really believe he could trust Obama? No one else diod.

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Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:28pm
But wait, Phillyatheist told us there was not public funded abortions. /sarc

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- biohazard23
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:33pm
  Yeah, for those non-human blobs of cells. Philly is a jerk.
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:43pm
  I’m about 180 degrees from Philly, but I’ll at least give him credit for arguing his case. He tries to do it in a civil way but like all of us, sometimes becomes a victim of emotion.
  
  He’s had some doozy positions on things for sure.
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:44pm
  Never trust a Chicagoian when he promises you won’t need an abortion and all healthcare is covered. Obama’s slogan for 2012 “Come on baby, I didn’t mean it, give me another chance.”
  
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- copatriots
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 6:10pm
  I find it fascinating that people like PHILLY post here and argue their positions. What is their ultimate motive or intent? They win no one to their argument. Honestly, it seems like they need attention and gain it by advancing the most offensive or horrific positions. What other purpose can be gained by a screen name including “atheist” on a conservative website? Or defending abortion that PHILLY wanted to clearly assert he has never participated in?
  
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copatriots
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:27pm
You should have known then what you know now, Bart. You caved and America is left with the 0-care monstrosity as a result. Shame on you, shame, shame.

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givemelibertyorgivemedeath
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:27pm
You are a MORON and satan was with you when you made your decision to go with obamacare.

May every aborted child who comes out of this mandate be with you on the day of your judgement.

Do not act like you did not know what this obamacare was all about. You knew and you went along with it.

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- copatriots
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:33pm
  Stupak indeed has blood on his hands…….as does Chief Justice John Roberts.
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:45pm
  Question is….Are we all going to go along with it? If Romney loses or if Romney wins and doesn’t repeal it…will you resist or will you have blood on your hands too?
  
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- TEARS FOR AMERICA
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:48pm
  We are all guilty and I pray Stupak is fessed up before he meets God…
  
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- copatriots
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:57pm
  The future is in God’s hands and I intend to do His will. We already stand guilty before him in this country for the 53 million abortions since Roe v. Wade in addition to the numerous other ways we let this most blessed country become the immoral, godless cesspool that it is has become.
  
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SocialistSlayer
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:25pm
Another Liberal Commie sorry to have supported obama! When you lay in a snakes den expect to get bitten you commie fool! You are only sorry because you are afraid of losing your Communist job you poor excuse for a human being!

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