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“You know what I mean? That’s like one of the most frustrating things that I can think about as far as tonight. Like just history in Inglewood. The Intuit Dome. The fans came out, they showed up and we got the short end of the stick. But I think they gave us a great, great energy tonight and I think the more they continue that the better our results will be. So, we appreciate the fans. We got to do our part and they definitely did theirs tonight.”

At its existing level of staffing, “the result is burnt-out therapists and patients who just get the short end of the stick.”

Because the past is so often prologue, Trump has tried his damnedest to keep us from connecting the dots between what he did last time and what he intends to do this time if he ends up on the short end of the electoral vote.

But he does have deeply felt beliefs about who is getting the short end of the stick in various situations, a vague and uncritical openness to “free thinking” and a suspicion of “wokeness,” and fratty interests in subjects like golf and hot babes.

So even Roy Cohn got the short end of the stick from Donald Trump.