Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 195
Shake Up
“We often hear that words can’t hurt you. But that’s simply not true… Words do hurt. Words can kill. That has been proven right here in our home state.”
— Former Sen. John Danforth (R-MO), quoted by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, at the funeral for Missouri state Auditor Tom Schweich (R), who killed himself last week.
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