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As someone over at LGM cracked, Jared's official statement regarding the position of Chief of Staff will be:

"Although I am honored to have been offered the position, I have decided to decline accepting it as I want to spend less time with my family."

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JARED: [Tries to talk, but only gargling sounds come out] hahahaha...aw, poor Jared. Roy, I hope you're going to give him a gun at some stage.

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Not a bad idea. Like Elisha Cook Jr. near the end of The Killing: "THE JERK IS HERE!"

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I couldn't help but reference 'The Killing'. Amusingly, "Time magazine wrongly predicted that it would "make a killing at the cash booths", asserting that Kubrick "has shown more audacity with dialogue and camera than Hollywood has seen since the obstreperous Orson Welles went riding out of town on an exhibitors' poll"[!]—recording a loss of $130,000.

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A CoS Line, featuring such memorable tunes as “We Hope You Get It,” “At the Bolshoi Ballet,” and “Sing Sing!”. One of my favorites, Roy.

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Thanks! Also "What I Did For Graft"

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("He. . .went. . .to. . .Jared!" is supposed to be an ad campaign tagline, not an actual hiring process.)

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I'm telling you, people! We could put on a show!

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Possibly related: Kanye accuses Drake of threatening him as beef reignites

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Gotta keep that in mind for future installments!

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Yikes. Are there any photos of Sens. eating that? Also, Mexican street corn on every corner!!

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Plus, Joni Ernst demonstrating hog castration do's and dont's.

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man, I hate it when my beef reignites. Especially when I just got it put out

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I'd almost prefer that your depiction of events be the real one--what really goes on in the White House is probably loads more banal. The really pertinent issue, though, is John Kelly's impending departure: who'll play the straight man in your dramatizations once he's out?

(Typing this from my computer now; looks like Substack fixed the comments issue!)

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I forget, what was the issue again?

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I couldn't comment at all when I was typing from Microsoft Edge. Substack contacted me two days ago and said they'd fixed the bug. Thank you for letting them know!

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Ah right! I forgot this was your cognomen. Good!

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Now I know exactly where I was when I learned we lost Swaziland.

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UNGAWA!

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Remind me, the Chief of Staff needs a full real-live security clearance right?

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“El Furioso” and, once again I am LMAO. So good. So wee know the South Carolina Sleazeball Mick the Grifter Mulvaney will be acting CoS just like he was acting CFPB head since Jared bombed out. And the Kanye West impresssion is so funny becausee it actually sounds like something Kanye would say.

Meanwhile saw the writting on the wall because off the 130 investigations into his endless sleaze at DoI. Maybe Trump will bring him on as CoS if El Furioso doesn’t work out.

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Should be Zinke saw the writing on the wall to be clear.

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