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Jan 11, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

(Are we or are we not counting the weekly column "Poopmouth" is having ghosted for him at Politico, which is the envy of NRO?)

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Jan 11, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

It doesn’t surprise me that this humorless huckster is popular with rightwing idiots, or that WaPo would give him the obligatory tongue-bath treatment.

What does surprise me is for some reason I didn’t have “MAGA anti-vaxxers refuse to humiliate themselves by submitting to the Librul Fauci Vaccine, proudly drink their own urine instead” on my Bingo card. Because I really should have.

Do you think we can persuade them that punching themselves in the face protects against Covid, as the resultant nosebleed will drain the virus out of their nasal passages? I say we give it a try, LMAO.

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my only nit to pick here is to rebut against the notion that these guys were ever within a lagrange point of sophistication. otherwise, it's like you've got an inside person at fox.

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Jan 11, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Brilliant.

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Jan 11, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Don't execute me, I'm only the jester!

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Jan 11, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Poopmouth messaged Mark Meadows during the January 6th insurrection that “This shit is getting fucked up,” but now he says he was referring to his chronic constipation, not the rioting Trumpists.

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Jan 11, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

I didn't know who Greg Gutfeld was, but you explained it pretty well.

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"Tabby Mith Jacuzzi" - For a moment, my heart stopped, but no. For now, at least, your imagination outstrips reality. For now.

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Jan 11, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Democracy dies in darkness, but death by darkness is too easy. Profiles like these ensure that democracy suffers whole lot of pain and torture first, the bastard.

PS Here's the comedian being funny:

https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/foxs-gutfeld-we-are-country-fighters-and-we-will-do-it-again-february-1st

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Jan 11, 2022·edited Jan 11, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

"⁰Post-smart TV: Mythos, Ethos, Chaos. “

Damnedest thing - last paper I wrote was

"Mythos, Chaos and Ethos-The Effect of Storage Temperature on Sugar Accumulation in the Potato Line ND860-2 and Its Progeny Lines"

Small world!

How fucked up it must be to be the hip, now. with - it comedian for the over 70 demographic. He's 57 so he can probably deliver the "Swollen prostate - Amirite?!" jokes with the right amount of edgy conviction.

Sitting around watching this sorry swill on a Friday evening because you have absolutely nothing better to do is some pretty sad shit.

I hope Trump is a fan.

True fact - Trump's Wu-Tang name is "Poopstain Killah"

This was funny AF btw.

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Jan 11, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

He makes Geraldo look good. And these co-hosts are gold. “Poopmouth Round Table,” a panel comprised of former Newsmax White House correspondent Tabby Mith Jacuzzi, house music podcast co-host Segundo Banana, and Rastt, a black guy.

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Jan 11, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

“He underlines these japes by clacking a pair of castanets he apparently keeps on his person.“ Japes—now there’s an underused word.

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Jan 11, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

I read, like, half way before I realized this wasn't reporting but a parody which is to say a parody beyond the extent to which those people are self-parodying.

Then again, there's the eternal problem that conservatives are incapable of creating true humor. Best was probably PJ O'Rourke on the rarest of occasions. I presume being reactionary and phobic of anything new and different limits the ability to spew jokes. OTOH, I have no doubt there's an audience for it, limited as the wit is. No accounting and all that.

But that name, Manfred Sheboygan: Too good not to reuse. Classic.

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not your finest work

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Jan 11, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Like Poopmouth, Gutfeld is a seriously unfunny guy. Reactionaries confuse malice with mirth, among other things.

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Jan 11, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

It IS a joke, just not one a writer from the Post, or the Gutfeld show, would recognize.

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