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Sep 28, 2020 5 tweets 1 min read Read on X
(Date: Tuesday, 3 November 2020 - the final US election results are in. Trump has lost by a massive margin, biggest in history)
(A solemn, beaten looking Trump stares at the cameras)

(His face changes. A cruel wicked smile playing across his face)

(He goes to shake Bidens hand, pulls a knife, slices. )
(Trump holds a slice of Biden aloft. It’s clearly a piece of cake)

(Everyone is screaming as, one at a time, Trump works just way round the room, taking slice out of slice out of everyone & everything. All cake)
(You tense in your chair, squeezing a little too hard. The arm rest feels moist somehow.)

(You already know what happens now)
This is how we find out this is all a simulation. One massive British Bake-Off which we are all part of.

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