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Is Bill Burr’s comedy meant to be taken at face value or is he doing a high-wire self-parody of the type of edgelord comedy that drew ire after a Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally?

Trump's warnings can be taken at face value.

New South Wales Police said they had previously been selling online for 10 times their face value.

It said that all invalidated tickets will be made available again through the official seller, Ticketmaster, at face value.

Iran’s official media in the hours before and after Israel’s attacks carried defiant statements that, at face value, suggest the decision to respond had already been taken.