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May The Space Force Be With You | Andy Borowitz
Season 1
Episode 6
From Reagan’s Star Wars to Trump’s Space Force, New Yorker magazine humorist Andy Borowitz examines why politicians who have no patience for science can’t resist spending billions on science fiction.
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