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Sep 8, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

With a caveat or two, I was pretty amused by this.

Small caveat: Maybe I'm repeating myself, but Roy-Trump speaks much better than the real Donnie.

Huge caveat: Maybe it's a phase but I'm just finding it harder to laugh at Trump. Probably the continuing way he's shitting on the nation while his party is in fact a much bigger problem than Donnie is.

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Sep 8, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

"And any films by the Spike Lee guy; can't be showing any of those because it's always the White people who are doing the racist thing with him. And what's with his name, Spike Lee? What is, he like Chinese-African or something? Oh, and we need to really clamp down on any movies with that Sidney Porter guy and Harry Belfontaine, too. So if your kids are getting exposed to these things, make sure you report that pronto, like."

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Sep 8, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

OK, I laughed so hard at Huck Finn being Antifa my cat became concerned and my son came in to check on me. In my house there is no higher compliment to an Edroso skit than that.

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Sep 8, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

God forbid Miller ever reads Twain's "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Also, may I recommend Hearn's "The Annotated Huckleberry Finn"? The amount of historical/sociological detail about antebellum America that Twain packed into H.F. is astounding.

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Sep 8, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

"ciccuriculum" OK, Donnie your turn. You said it. Now spell it.

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Sep 8, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

"Stephen has a bunch of his own book recommendations. One is about a camp full of saints that people tell me is very strongly religious -- Jerry Jr. and Franklin will love that -- and a couple of diaries from some guy named Turner. Real action stuff. The rest of them he's having translated from the original German. Stephen says they're terrific.

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Sep 8, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

It's funny because it's true?

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Sep 8, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

Remember when W. used to "spread the propergeranda" ?

And the GOP has been self destructing for decades; Drumpf is just the nadir.

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Sep 8, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

I didn't read the orders until you just quoted them.

What a weaselly way for Trump to claim he's supporting his racist fans while not actually having to do anything. None of those HR policies say anything about one race being more evil than another and so except where the local manager is an asshole, there really won't be any impact. Its more likely that all these orders do is just allow James Damore-like assholes to complain to HR that the diversity training made them feel uncomfortable.

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Sep 8, 2020Liked by Roy Edroso

A 45 minute essay on this topic and music theory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJA

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For me it’s one of the most magic things I’ve ever witnessed in politics. I’m still trying to figure out the trick. David Blaine has nothing on them.

“Hey Rocky...watch me pull an elephant outa my ass, (nuthin’ up muh sleeve).”

“RAAHHH!!”

“Oops....don’t know muh own strength!”

“And now here’s something we hope you’ll REALLY like!”

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"Degenerate art", ouch, ouch, ouch.

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As too-often, I feel compelled to mention the "Mr Show" segment in which America plas to Blow Up the Moon!. They get a signing chimpanzee to press the Big Red Button that'll do it, but he puts a spanner in the works by pausing to ask 'Why?'.

The point is argued for weeks and weeks, until finally they resolve the question by using a chimp that can't sign.

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