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Mar 5, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

“..like an overturned canoe”! Brilliant...

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Mar 5, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

And for some some reason I think of the final scene of the generally unfortunate “The Magic Christian”

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Mar 5, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

THANK you

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Mar 6, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

I respectfully disagree: it is a mess, but a very cool mess—and it likely paid Cleese and Chapman's rent and flavourless English ramen-equivalent for the year. I also liked the limerick, and the incest joke (something on the order of 'I and my sisters have been trying _mightily_ to produce an heir—separately, of course.' done in Sellers' best David Niven).

Now, a treble-bill of it, "What's New Pussycate?", and "Casino Royale" might produce a cerebral blastoma that looked like a map of Carnaby Street, but.

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The lava-lava, a traditional garb worn by some Samoan men, will present unique challenges when Bloomberg introduces a stop-and-frisk policy in his new kingdom.

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Mar 5, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

Wow. Can’t unring that bell

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Mar 5, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

I've spent quite a bit of time in the S. Pacific and the lava-lava is a practical piece of clothing there. Let's the air all up in there if you know what I mean. Frisking your typical Pacific Islander wearing a lava-lava might get you hacked up and fed to the sharks.

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Mar 5, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

Can someone explain to me how he won American Samoa?!

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Mar 5, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

Maybe the Jehovah's Witnesses backed him there.

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Mar 5, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

From what I understand it was a caucus and only like 130 people voted, and Bloomie had 7 paid staffers on the island.

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Mar 5, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

I never trust caucus results, which I think all but combine the worst aspects of democracy and bosses in smoke-filled rooms—though I admit to liking the Iowa system's resemblance to ranked-preference voting.

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Mar 5, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

Yes. In addition to the time involved discouraging turnout, I dislike how caucus results get rounded and re-rounded at various steps, which results in really distorted final numbers

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Mar 5, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

And don’t get me started on the apples & oranges of adding ballot vote totals with caucus vote totals and pretending it’s a meaningful “popular vote” total

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Mar 5, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

I want someone to explain how they get 6 electoral votes when so few people vote. Heck, they’re way over represented compared to even South Dakota, let alone California. What is wrong with the Dems and vote allocation anyway?

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Mar 5, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

Hey we will have 19 delegates at the Democratic Convention 3+X American Samoa

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Mar 5, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

Arranging tryouts with the Giants and Jets for some voters?

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Mar 5, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

Timely!... it was getting so that every time I saw Bloomberg, I would hear Steely Dan’s “The Fez” in my head

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Me too. And every time I get "The Fez" in my head I start grooving to it and passers-by think I'm having a seizure.

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Mar 5, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

“And once our arsenal is operational, we’ll take over Niihau and Lanai. Larry Ellison is defenseless!”

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Mar 5, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

A fine successor to Mr Duke.

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Mar 5, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

If you like conspiracy hypotheses: Bloomberg's candidacy was a feint designed to make Biden look better by comparison.

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Mar 5, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

Bloombergia lol so imaginative. Maybe Billy Joel is available to compose an anthem

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Finally, an anthem worse than the Star Spangled Banner.

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