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Since the police have decided that a White supremacist killing protesters is A-okay by them, I think we're going to start seeing an awful lot more of this. Trump has egged these assholes on for his entire presidency, and now he's pretty much calling on the militias and fascists to begin civil insurrection to take over the country in his name. And the police are on board with this program. This is not good.

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Imagine how much of this we're gonna see after the election!

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Not for nuttin, but Liberal fucking PDX mayor Ted Wheeler just asked for "concerned citizens" to help quell the protests. So I guess it's on. Civil War

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This could be the start of our own equivalent of the Freikorps.

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This is so brilliant, it takes my breath away. Clearly, it's the release of Roy's pent up energies from a week off. It makes the subscription price worth it in a single post! Should be cross-posted to the blog; I'm sure it'll incite a shit ton of subs!

But a few tangential points or whatever:

How come there's all the riffing about Donnie Jr. being all coked up but nada about Gullyfoyle?

For that matter, how come everyone's cool with Gullyfoyle having been married to Gavin Newsom, a Democrat? In his defense, he was deep in his alcoholic period and the divorce and, I like to think, realization of what he was married to, drove him to getting clean.

For that matter, why isn't Gullyfoyle pushing to marrying Jr. for the $$$ following the inevitable divorce? Is she afraid of a penurious payout (or payoff?) like Marla Maples got, so penurious poor Tiffany felt compelled to give a speech for Donnie?

And what's with Melania's look for her speech? (https://assets3.thrillist.com/v1/image/2887163/1584x3000/scale;jpeg_quality=60;progressive.jpg)Not just the bizarre outfit but here eyes actually opened to a normal extent instead of the usual slits from the shitty plastic surgery? Or did she do the same stuff Jr. and Gullyfoyle did?

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I'm reminded of the ticket seller in Johnny Cash's "The Night Hank Williams Came to Town" modified for Mssr Roso: "Get yer money's worth in the first post & the rest of the month is FREE!"

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Guilfoyle is perhaps hanging in for Junior's inevitable political career, when he will certainly have to fish or cut bait to please the evangelicals.

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Not going to never, but I’ll have to see Jr.’s political career to believe it.

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Likewise, I’ll have to see the evangelicals actually care about hypocrisy to believe it.

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I betting she's married to Hunter Biden in a few years...

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Wasn't that the same jacket with the "I Don't Care" thing on it?

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LOL. Considering Tucker Carlson -- who is more or less the conservative Id these days -- thinks the kid was just doing the cops’ job for them, does anyone doubt SOMEBODY in the White House floated an idea not too different from this?

Before he deleted it, Rod Dreher tweeted, and I shit you not, Kyle Rittenhouse was “a stupid kid who has ruined his life (!!!!!) by taking the lives of two others” and that phrasing is so fucked up I seriously wish someone in Louisiana rings his doorbell and sucker punches him in the throat. But then I wish that most days.

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I know I keep pointing out that Trump is like if they elected my father president, but I didn't realize Roy knew my father.

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I'm sorry -- I can' imagine how painful seeing this must be for you

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*CAN'T

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They hate democracy, always have, and have been training and arming Americans to destroy it. Because they see Trump as Boss of the United States, not President. Triumph Of The At Will.

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Yeah, very funny, Edroso. And I mean it, that was very funny. But I'm loving this RNC! So many memorable moments: Kimberly Guilfoyle screaming "I was a brown girl in a black and white world". Tomi Lahren calling our glorious president "wise like an owl" and the Hindi word for "jackass". Giancarlo, the Falwell poolboy, proudly declaring how "I moved on her very heavily. In fact, I took her out furniture shopping." It was great!

Did I mention I've been shitfaced for 3 straight days? Very strongly shitfaced.

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Who can blame you?

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Word. Today was one of those "eat the edible at 2pm" days

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Please tell me you’re actually considering a musical about Roger Stone... maybe like DIE DREIGROSCHENOPER, except funny?

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Right now the USA is a hellhole. Rioting in the streets, the West on fire, the strongest hurricane in history destroying the Gulf coast, covid-19 deaths nearing 200,000. Where are the ads blaming this on Trump? The RNC is nothing but, "The future with Biden will be a disaster!" Wha? The country's a disaster right now. I'm done with the "Joe's a decent guy who will take care of you" ads running up here, I want "Trump has ruined your life!" ads from now until November.

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The USA is a failed state that managed to successfully hide its report card for the last twenty years...

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I put it at dar more than twenty years but more like founded on lies and mostly downhill since.

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The Lincoln Project did a bunch of those but they've shifted focus lately to just beating up Trump.

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Ideally, we should do both.

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My memory's not the best but I kind of remember that at his inauguration, attended by many more people than are now dead from Covid thanks to Donnie, didn't he promise us that he'd bring us American Carnage?

If so, mission: Accomplished!

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Making up for lost time with a vengance, I see.

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For some reason Roy’s latest reminded me of Endgame. I think it was Mark Meadows channeling the Cumæan Sibyl through his rictus at the end.

HAMM: What's he doing?

(Clov raises lid of Nagg's bin, stoops, looks into it. Pause.)

CLOV: He's crying.

(He closes the lid, straightens up.)

HAMM: Then he's living.

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High praise, thanks.

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Well deserved.

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Love it all, but especially "a musical about Roger Stone" and "goes to the riot"--like going to the State Fair in search of adventure and romance!

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Hilarious, thank you. Laughter really is the Best Medicine!

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Let us hope!

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> dressed like Jennifer Lawrence in Red Sparrow

[Post Brin/Schmidt {Web image}-search:]

Red decolleté dress,black overcoat, red bustier-like dress, or black double-{mango*-hammock}?

*(not the bad kind)

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