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Hell is empty, and all the devils are here

Rudy Giuliani's "Masked Singer" appearance represents a massive failure of society to hold its worst actors accountable.

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Parker Molloy
Apr 21, 2022
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But felt a fever of the mad, and played
Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners
Plunged in the foaming brine and quit the vessel,
Then all afire with me. The King’s son, Ferdinand,
With hair up-staring — then like reeds, not hair —
Was the first man that leaped; cried “Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.”
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest: Act 1,…

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