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Jun 17, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Candelabra culture > cancel culture

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Jun 17, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

So I’m reading and wondering: a post like this, how much is original writing and how much is Roy copying and pasting from some of that vile brain warping poison he exposes himself to.

And is my wont to give he wing nuts a scintilla of sobriety and give their idiocy credibility, if one is listing America’s awesome accomplishments one would think the end of racism would rank as one as proof that we’re not a racist nation at all.

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Jun 17, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

LOL sheer genius, Roy.

*Rep. Gullywasher touches earpiece* “Hold on, my pastor is contacting me and I guess would like me to add his comments or finish with a prayer…..wait, Liberace WHAT you say?!”

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Jun 17, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

The knockout game.

Ah, that takes me back!

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Jun 17, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Let me just say "Behind the Candelabra" is among my favorite monster movies...

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I'll be honest, I blame * the Jazz cigarettes more than the Rock and Roll music for my

Slovenly Hippie Habits.

In retrospect, it was a great choice which I've never regretted.

My Mom, when presented with an untidy mess** would tell me or one of my offending brothers "Don't be such a slove" ***

* credit, actually

** perhaps the only type

***rhymes with "glove"

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Jun 17, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

I was lucky enough to see Liberace on his last Midwest tour. The arena was filled with people the age I am now - my date and I were probably the youngest there by 30 years. It was a great show, he really knew how to work a crowd. The staging didn’t allow him to drive on in his limo but everything else - the white piano, the candelabra, the capes - was just like the Liberace my Grammie watched each week instead of “Gunsmoke.” Amazing.

We went back to the same arena the next week and saw ZZ Top. No doubt the only two in the audience who were at both shows.

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Jun 17, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

And Critical Race Theory is just this year's Cancel Culture, which was the new Political Correctness, which was the update on Liberal Media Bias: all things that aren't the boogyman the Rightosphere makes 'em..

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This could be a...

wait for it...

a "Liberacial" holiday...

I'll see myself out

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Jun 17, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

There are SO MANY OTHER BILLS pertaining to the injustices, worries, and other shit I and all other Black Americans have to endure every fucking day of our lives that should be passed.

“See what we did for you? Now stop complaining that we don’t do anything for you. You HAD A BLACK PRESIDENT, REMEMBER!”

This country is beyond fucking ridiculous, in so many ways.🙄😐😑

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Jun 17, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Personally, I'm all for Liberaace Day. Why not celebrate a flamboyantly gay performer? My mother-in-law loved him, or so I'm told.

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Jun 17, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Meanwhile, when is Tom “Old Fields” Cotton going to propose Simon Legree Days? (January 1 to June 18 and June 20 to December 31)

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Jun 17, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

"cancel race critical woke culture theory mob Democrat days" is a work of art. Reminds me of the genius scene in Easter Parade where the fabulous Jules Munshin as the waiter makes an imaginary salad, "Mix, mix, toss, toss." Only you did it with words.

Also you may need a link to explain "Ebonics" for some of the younger folk. What a shitshow that was.

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Fess up, Roy. You took a speech from that Kennedy asshole from Louisiana and attributed it to this Gullywasher character, didn't you?

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When I look at that picture I see a man who would be perfectly comfortable using a gold toilet.

Just sayin'.

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As Sen. Cornyn of Texas said yesterday, the designation of Juneteenth as a national holiday is "a purely symbolic gesture". And with that he turned back to supporting vote suppression and disenfranchisement, especially for POC, voting against police reform and so forth. A Juneteenth holiday is arguably long overdue but it won't change a single R voter or Congress critter's attitudes and practices towards POC.

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