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Wow, the moment with the "minister" trying to clarify that Gob does NOT look like Ice-T is just priceless.

Ice-T is superannuated these days, but you have to speculate that his role on that show may be one of the best trolls in history. All the same elderly scolds who thought Ice-T was the Antichrist in 1990 now think he's fucking Matlock...

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"God looks more like Tom Selleck in Blue Bloods." Heheh

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'Thinks like him, to, of course.'

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Nov 22, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

TWO HOURS LATER: "Thanks to our newest interstate gerrymander, let's give a warm welcome and round of applause to the newest member of the Wisconsin Chamber of Fasces And Corporations, Kyle Rittenhouse!"

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Nov 22, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

I’m not even sure this qualifies as parody, it’s too sickeningly accurate. Ugh. But yeah, acquittal is not enough, there must be fucking *valorization.* It seems like only yesterday – because it pretty much was – there was the qualifier, “well, of course he never should have been there in the first place, but….” Now it’s like he’s Batman.

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I'm with you - felt a little sick after reading it. Bleah.

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Too many of the parodies are too close to reality for comfort.

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Nov 22, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

2 marks for “illegitimi non carborundum” sampler

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So given the current political situation, I predict a number of VEERRY interesting dinner-table conversations later this week, and also the family unity of many being completely and irreversibly shattered.

I hope I'm wrong - there's little more tragic than hating your own family - but I don't think I am. Guess we'll see, huh?

My roommate wondered how many people will be shot as a result of these arguments. Under the circumstances, I'd say it's a fair question.

Please be safe. As I'm sure we're all aware, some of these motherfuckers are nuts.

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Re: SUV smashes through parade in Waukesha

"Hey, he felt threatened by the parade and didn't have his AR-15 with him! What would you have him do?"

- Tucker Carlson, tomorrow night

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Nov 22, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Still waiting on the skin color of the driver before Tucker takes a stand on that one.

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If the people he killed were all liberals, I'm reasonably certain Tucker would grant him provisional white man status regardless of his actual genetics.

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Nov 22, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Tucker's been strangely quiet about the brave Patriot who exercised his Second Amendment rights against the gun-grabbers at the Atlanta Airport. Can't imagine why.

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Twas a black guy trying to escape a cop chase

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I think it would be more that the parade was marching on the street and no one stops a truck from getting where it needs to go, regardless of permits

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Nov 22, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Grateful as hell to anyone who csn make laugh about this unspeakable moment in history.

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Nov 22, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

How much practice did that sobbing (without tears) take?

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That's how REAL MEN sob.

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Some scary shit there.

Nicely done.

I was getting gas yesterday and at the pump in front of me was some doughy looking teenage boy putting gas in an old Corolla. There was sticker on his bumper for the marching band of one of he local High Schools. He was wearing a white shirt and what looked like black uniform pants. I got the impression he was going to or just leaving some part time retail or restaurant job. Probably too busy to go on out of state Murder Safaris.

So maybe ( or maybe not!) If someone had gotten young Kyle a clarinet or maybe a job busing tables up at Golden Corral he wouldn't have the time to gundown (relatively) unarmed people.

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So many of them could have been saved by early intervention with some decency, which is why some people take the effort to prevent that from ever happening.

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Pretty sure marching band kept my hoodlum ass out of jail.

The fact this all boils down to( or bubbles up from) rich people not wanting to pay taxes , still, is astonishing. How did that song go?

"He's taught in his school

From the start by the rule

That the laws are with him

To protect his white skin

To keep up his hate

So he never thinks straight

'Bout the shape that he's in

But it ain't him to blame

He's only a pawn in their game-"

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As it was in the beginning, so shall it be in the end

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Now you’re starting to sound like one of us dotards, Maestro.

Every now and I then, I get a twinge empathy or something of Rittenhouse— like, take him at face value— then I remember that he was raised by a parent who drove him out of state to a demo with an assault rifle in hand.

Not gonna say he can’t transcend that but I wouldn’t bet on it either.

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I'll be honest, I can't think of a single murderous clarinet player.

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Nov 22, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Gotta hand it to Tucker: if you can make a documentary that forces Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes to decide Fox is too disgusting to work for, you have reached Goebbels-level fascist propagandizing. Now if only the cable providers would feel the same way, and take Fox News off the basic channel list. How many MAGATs would pay extra to watch Three Dolts on a Divan and the White Supremacy Hours (He said/She said)?

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Nov 22, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Or “Die Perspektive” with Irma Grese—I mean Laura Ingraham.

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Of all of the crimes of Tucker Carlson, the one I can never forgive is that he was responsible for causing me to feel a momentary twinge of respect for Jonah Fucking Goldberg. It passed quickly but it's an experience I would not like to repeat.

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Really looking forward to the panel discussion where Kyle Rittenhouse and Josh Hawley discuss porn and video games.

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[shudder]

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If I was Kyle (and I'm glad I'm not), I would really lay low at this point rather than strut my stuff on Fucker Carlson. Accidents can happen.

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I just don't see that baby face carrying the weight of being a symbol, let alone a leader. He's likely already being bombarded by hustlers and grifters who want a piece of his 15 minutes, he's probably gonna wind up broke even if the families of his victims decide not to sign up for the circus a civil lawsuit would be. It all boils down to who he and his momma pick for his daddy figure. Good luck kid, you don't deserve it but you're gonna need it.

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