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I'm a glutton for punishment. C'mon Trump supporters, show you have a sense of humor.

YOU’RE SO VAIN (YOU PROBABLY THINK THIS JOB IS ABOUT YOU) YOU WALKED INTO THE PRESS ROOM LIKE YOU WERE WALKING ON GALILEE YOUR HAIR STRATEGICALLY GREY IN SOME SPOTS YOU GAVE THRILLS TO CHR-IS-SEE YOU HAD ONE EYE ON THE ‘PROMPTER AS THE PRESS CONFERENCE BEGAN AND ALL THE PRESS SAID THAT THEY’D BE YOUR LACKEYS THEY’D BE YOUR LACKEYS REFRAIN-YOU’RE SO VAIN, YOU PROBABLY THINK THIS JOB IS ABOUT YOU, YOU’RE SO VAIN, SO VAIN, I BET YOU THINK THIS JOB IS ABOUT YOU, ‘BOUT YOU WELL YOU HAD MY VOTE TWO YEARS AGO WHEN I WAS STILL...

Angered by an excise tax imposed on whiskey in 1791 by the federal government, farmers in the western counties of Pennsylvania engaged in a series of attacks on excise agents. The tariff effectively eliminated any profit by the farmers from the sale or barter of an important cash crop, and became the lightning rod for a wide variety of grievances by the settlers of the region against the federal government. While citizens in the east did not find it difficult to abide by the concept that individual states were "subservient to the country," people west of the mountains were less...