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Sir, I note the uncanny similarity between Dr Strangelove’s RAF Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, seconded to the insane USAF Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper under President Merkin Muffley, and the younger Peter Mandelson, recent attending apparatchik at the Court of Donald J. Trump. Sadly, neither tenure ended well.
FRANK ORR


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