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Critics see the deal as an affront to South Africa's long-standing relationship with Russia - though the country has remained neutral on the conflict in Ukraine.

“The RBG PAC has no connection to the Ginsburg family and is an affront to my late grandmother’s legacy,” abortion rights attorney and Ginsburg’s granddaughter Clara Spera said in a statement to the New York Times.

It can represent an affront to a supposed American meritocracy, while also being a reminder of a poorly done or cumbersome mandatory workplace training.

And it’s an affront to North Carolinians at large, whose right to a fair, orderly election has been sabotaged by a lawless court and the candidate it so obviously favors.

“Donald Trump is using footage and photos his campaign took at Arlington National Cemetery for political purposes,” it noted, describing it as “sickening” and an “affront to all those hundreds of thousands of families who never agreed to allow their deceased loved ones to be dragged into politics.”