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Apr 24Liked by Roy Edroso

Wardrobe and styling, as always, on point.

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Apr 24Liked by Roy Edroso

You had me at “repulsive music”.

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Apr 24Liked by Roy Edroso

I find the idea that there are five women who hate themselves enough to get naked with Ted Cruz less plausible than a claim that Cruz Senior personally jumped from the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository and strangled JFK with his bare hands.

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Do you guys sit around Casa Edrosso, spending the day tossing witty bon mots made up exclusively of seldom used words and phrases?

I had to look up " Frustrum" because, "Dammit Jim, I'm a horticulturalist not a mathematician"

The first article I googled noted in the opening paragraph the word is

" Frustum " and is frequently misspelled with the second " r"

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Frustum.html#:~:text=A%20frustum%20(unfortunately%20commonly%20misspelled,with%20a%20single%20plane%20only.

Funny article !

Oh no! My boss was looking over my shoulder and I think she noticed " yellow streams" and "Pecker" in the article I was reading. I think she's headed to human resources! I could be fucked here, and not in the loving, reassuring way.

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Apr 24Liked by Roy Edroso

Just some random speculation about the impact of Trump’s legal woes, both his repeated violations of the gag order and the catch and kill allegations, on his base. I could be completely wrong about this, but I wonder if he isn’t beginning to tarnish a bit in their eyes. The MAGAs would never admit it to outsiders, but I wonder if they don’t grouse among themselves “if I were a criminal defendant and did any of this, I’d be held in contempt and I’d be in jail within minutes.” Likewise, when they fuck up in their personal lives, there are no Michael Cohens to deliver burlap sacks covered in dollar signs to make their problem go away.

I guess what I’m getting at is Trump loves to rail against the elites and the deep state and the Washington Blob and yadda yadda yadda. He positions himself as the truth-telling champion of regular folks. But I wonder if this trial isn’t giving his supporters a closer look at how very elite he himself is. Trump has been not-so-subtly trying to rally his supporters to come to the courthouse to protest, but they haven’t shown up. After all, J6 only happened because Trump was in a position of power and his voters believed the White House was at stake. But nobody wants to get arrested because as a defendant Trump can’t keep his mouth shut.

Also, the Pennsylvania primary was held yesterday, and Nikki Haley, who dropped out of the race in March, got 155,000 votes. Now, the vast majority of those people will vote for Trump come November. But what if about 20,000 of them stay home? Out of the nearly 7 million votes cast in Pennsylvania in 2020, Biden won by only about 80,000 votes. So those 20,000 people who might stay home could matter. Just speculation, as I said I could be completely wrong, but I wonder if some of Trump’s support may be softening around the edges.

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"DRAMATURGY: My degrees are all in the liberal arts. So I don’t get what’s going on legally here? So I have to give Trump the benefit of the doubt."

Ouch, I say.

And many kudos, Mr. Droso, for bringing us back to vaudeville with that ending.

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Apr 24Liked by Roy Edroso

Musk’s “random slur generator” for the whim. Finally, an appropriate use of AI, well within it’s data-crunching mindless abilities.

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Apr 24Liked by Roy Edroso

Your detailed fashion knowledge always amazes.

Also: love the giant Looney Tunes weight crushing Toehold.

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Apr 24Liked by Roy Edroso

Spectrum News, interviewing Trump supporters outside the courthouse, found a guy who described himself as "talk radio host" and said, "Well, since Biden won in 2020 campaigning from his basement, Trump's gonna win in a LANDSLIDE campaigning from the courthouse!" I was momentarily taken aback by the open acknowledgement that Biden won, but then I remembered how this works, "I will say this thing for the purpose of getting off this one wisecrack, but I can never be held to it, ever again." Like the Supreme Court with Bush v. Gore.

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Hey, this thing where Biden gets the Ukraine aid he wanted with ZERO concessions on immigration policy, would you call that a WIN for Biden? Because here's how Associated Press reports it:

"Biden’s long fight with Republicans over Ukraine aid has ended, but significant damage has been done"

AP reports on VJ Day: "Fight with Japan has ended, but significant damage has been done"

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I sometimes wonder if George Stephanopoulos ever reads your work and wonders if it's about him.

LISTEN! It's not the media's fault, it's OUR fault because we want pap and they only give us what we want and they would give us serious journalism but we won't watch it we'll change the channel WE'LL CHANGE THE CHANNEL OH GOD STOP CHANGING THE CHANNEL if only they could keep us from changing the channel by force or whatever, by drowning out the competitor's signals with their own like big FM stations used to do with their huge million dollar broadcasting towers but oh no those days are past now they have to compete they have to compete but it's OUR FAULT not their fault they're just giving us what we want THEY HAVE TO GIVE US WHAT WE WANT don't you understand it's THE MONEY THE MONEY THE ADVERTISING MONEY THE SPONSOR MONEY THEY HAVE TO GIVE US WHAT WE WANT OR NO AD MONEY it's not their fault IT'S NOT THEIR FAULT IT'S NOT THEIR FAULTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

Sorry. I'm okay now.

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Play Souza’s “Liberty Bell” and roll credit…

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Gotta disagree with Roy on this one. That joker is beautiful. Reminds me of a Sarah Coventry mid-century bracelet my mother had.

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BTW, the NY Pisst is mad that the military didn't gun down all the Columbia protestors, there's no place for me to park at work thanks to all the goddamn kids, and I'm probably going to have another package stolen because I'll be in the Tedium Factory when it gets delivered. Oh, and a dumbass on YouTube telling me how oppressed Christians are. I'm not in a good mood.

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Apr 24·edited Apr 24

A moment of silence please - hey you, I can see you stifling a laugh - for Jim Hoft and Gateway Pundit, declaring bankruptcy today in the face of a defamation suit by Ruby Freeman and Shae Moss:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/24/gateway-pundit-rightwing-website-bankruptcy

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