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Seth Cotlar
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I'm sorry...there's a USS WASP? And Trump is giving a speech from it? I mean, come on now.
For those unfamiliar with the genealogy of the term "WASP" (white anglo saxon protestant), here's a decent summary. wordhistories.net/2018/02/02/was…
And yes, I know the ship wasn't named after that meaning of the word...
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This episode is like some Tennessee Williams play where everyone in the family agrees not to mention Cousin Cyrus around the aging patriarch for fear that it'll send him into a violent storming rage.
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