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Time for me to make sure my voice to text app recognizes "Machiavellian".

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Nov 15, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

LOL. Only the clown car that is the Trump family could make a mediocrity like DeSantis look good. Compared to the Trump boys, mere baseline competence itself is enough. But I remain highly skeptical the GOP establishment can successfully thread the Trump --> DeSantis needle with the base.

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I think you're right to recognize DeSantis' oafish persona as real as the calculatingly dim-bulbedness exterior of some of our finest GOP luminairies.

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Nov 15, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

I have a great JPG of a pair of clown shoes that would fit all the guys mentioned in this piece, but unfortunately the interface doesn't allow me to attach it. 😀 more's the pity.

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Nov 15, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Yep, Kyle Rittenhouse is the key to the Republicans not losing the youth vote by a two-to-one margin next time. With Kyle out there in front, the Republicans will be on track to... um... lose the youth vote by a two-to-one margin.

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Nov 15, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

[DeSANTIS pulls a chair over, sits with his hands tented down between his thighs.]

The Trump Handgina! I guess since DeSantis already does Trump's air concertina and rhythmic hand pump stealing Trump's signature sit mode is right on target. Well done!

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A Always/B Be/G Grifting

Given what DeSantis has done in and to Florida, I can't help thinking about what happened to Huey Long.

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Nov 15, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Republicans who think DeSantis is the answer remind me of that bit in Bull Durham where Kevin Costner goes off on Tim Robbins: "You don't NEED a Blaupunkt Quadrophonic, what you NEED is a curve ball!"

I just don't see how you run a 21st-century political party without any idea of what government should do for people - or any agreement within your party that government should actually do ANYTHING for people. Without that, what do you have to offer? All that's left is the clown show, and DeSantis with his "groomers in the schools" nonsense is every bit as much a clown as Trump, perhaps moreso.

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Nov 15, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

"celebrity murderer KYLE RITTENHOUSE"

Is this Roy's head-nod to GM's edifying vocative post yesterday? Enquiring minds, an' all 'at...

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Nov 15, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

The fact that the right has made a celebrity out of non-medic Kyller Kyle is pretty much an indictment of how low they've sunk. It's like if back in the 80s they had had the CEO of Union Carbide on a speaking tour after Bhopal. Fucking ghouls.

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