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jeebus! if I forwarded this to MTG's campaign, I bet that you'd be on the short list for chief of staff or at least head speechwriter. Peg Noonan eat your heart out.

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Sep 20, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

Damnit! Once again, I’m left flummoxed: is this satire? or serious reporting?

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Sep 20, 2023·edited Sep 20, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

"My struggle" was taken. Ha!

Says a lot she's not the most , insane, repellent psycho - troll on Team Pub.

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Sep 20, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

Greater fool, I.

Read the italic portion at the top of the post and, from past experience, assumed that it was made up -- I always fall for it when Roy does it -- and amazingly, I was wrong.

But then again, I also belied the thing at the end about it being an audiobook only.

Anyway, today’s post did me a service. I used to see Greene and Boebert pretty much the same, a Betty and Veronica thing where the only difference between them was their hair color. But in the past few days, I have now learned that Greene has a measurable IQ, albeit a modest one at best while Boebert is clearly a very sick person, in need of help if that’s possible.

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Sep 20, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

The subtitle: “Pay Attention To Meeeee”

This sketch is interesting because I see MTG as the quintessential bully type – the mocker, not the mockee. It’s a big reason she’s done so well for herself in the MAGA-verse. That and her proud ignorance, of course. There’s a level of gleeful malice in her antics, more than what’s required to merely establish the cruelty as the point.

All of which is another way to say she’ll continue to rise in GOP politics for the foreseeable future.

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Sep 20, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

"it would discourage them and make them trans."

Happens to me all the time. I break out in a cooooooold sweat! Like, I transpire!

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They've all gone dick crazy. One of them's grabbing' the dick in public. The other one is getting giant dick picks entered into the Congressional Record. They can't help themselves, apparently.

I'm concerned all this "Dick Mania" might be adversely affecting their judgement and their ability to govern.

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Sep 20, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

I see what you did here. You pulled an Andy Borowitz or Alexandra Petri. Well done...:).

Oh and “My Struggle”; genius!

By the way, if ever, one can make the case for Book Burning, we have one now. I guess like Trump Jr.’s book, the RNC will buy it in bulk. Or some right-wing billionaire. They certainly can’t have this masterpiece sit in some distribution center in East Bumble F....like Toucan Tucker’s holy opus.

And if toilet paper becomes expensive again due to inflation, you could always by a few copies at the Dollar Book store, on sale for the special low price of $.01....:)

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Sep 20, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

Do you think she really knows big words like “besmirch “? Just asking.

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Sep 20, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

"...they would lock me in the pantry so they could have their own private conversations themselves."

Kevin McCarthy says, "Hmmm... interesting..."

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Sep 20, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

I can’t imagine listening to that screechy Georgia twang for the whole half hour of her life story.

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Sep 20, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

An aside, but Milledgeville? OK, that explains one thing. (Generations of unruly Georgia children, including my spouse, were threatened to be "sent to Milledgeville" -- home of the state's insane asylum.)

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Sep 20, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

See? She's just the mirror image of AOC, with the... um... three letters, and also... um... THREE LETTERS! Bothsides, bothsides!

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Sep 20, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

Almost fooled me except it didn't use "tell-all" to describe the book, as her publisher's press release must have since it shows up in every news story about it. It's a frightening threat, isn't it? What more could we possibly take about her? I mean, this is someone who was kicked out of the House Freedom Caucus fer crine out loud. Of course, that may have more to do with her affair with Kevin McCarthy. Good thing she doesn't like musicals.

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including Lester Maddox last makes it art. And not just because it evokes Randy Newman's now (sadly but correctly unplayable) "Rednecks." But because you know the shrine includes an axe handle.

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It's like you're her ghost-writer or something... no judgment: times is tough all around

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