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The Simpsons Plunges Into Fiscal Cliff

Cartoon industrialist C. Montgomery Burns is still suffering a bit of election hangover — obviously consoling himself with repeated readings of “Nate Silver Can’t Add” and perusing his binders full of women — but pulls himself together long enough to relay this painfully simple explanation of the fiscal cliff situation:

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