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Dec 7, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

"I think he was a saint or maybe a tennis player" is a fake quote worthy of the real MTG.

So yes, I spit out my coffee laughing, but it's laughter tinged with despair, because there is almost no daylight between Roy's excellent parodies and the real thing.

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Dec 7, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

"But he does it with no enthusiasm."

It's the enthusiasts (or some sort of 'asts' anyway) who are the real heroes.

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Dec 7, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

I bet Rep. Floorwax graduated some dum loudly from Trump's Real Estate Academy too.

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Dec 7, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Rep. Marcy Patty Joni has too many 'y's and not enough 'i's.

As Joe Zawinul said: "Merci, merci, merci..."

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Dec 7, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Personally, I'm putting my support behind Marci Patty Joni, she sounds like my kind of insane girl (and I'm sure that she would approve of my use of the term "girl"). Who do I threaten again?

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"-my face glows like I was Jesus and I have tears in my eyes of gratitude and wonder. "

One day, Bob and Ray. The next, Flannery O'Conner.

What a remarkable place!

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Dec 7, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

"Start calling your Representatives and making death threats for me now!"

Laughing now while I can because it's going be reality soon, maybe lather this mor-- wait, gonna check, shit, it's already happening.

Ah, well, congress is going be a historic entertainment for the next two years. Ad donnie being primaried and SCOTUS even more extreme and, wow. May well be too much for my elderly system...

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Dec 7, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Whomever they pick, s/he will be in line to assume the Presidency after the Jan6 traitors nuke the White House. Aren’t there a dozen Rep Reps ripe for indictment for seditious conspiracy? Pare that majority! (This message brought to you by what we would see if liberals thought the way wing nuts do. It’s kinda fun, to tell the truth.)

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Dec 7, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

It's like if the Democrats had been taken over by the Weather Underground in '68 and then ran Dohrn/Ayres '72 and lost all 50 states to Nixon (instead of just the 49 that McGovern lost) and then decided the problem was they weren't radical enough, and they needed to go look to their good friends in the Khmer Rouge for pointers.

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Dec 7, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

“On top of that the doctors say I have a serious mental illness, they call it a social path, and one of the symptoms is I can’t tell when I’m going too far, so you can be sure I won’t ever tell you you’re going too far either because how would I know.”

You’re on a roll, Roy: two perfect posts to start the week.

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Dec 7, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Rep. Floorwax has dissociative personality disorder. His other persona is Dexter Desserttopping.

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Dec 7, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Will enter history as the "Dolchstosslegende Speakership".

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"Nothing is forbidden and everything you can get a permit for." - Goddamn big government has a permit for everything!

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Tough choice for a House Republican. Needs pics of Rep. Joni to help them.

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Marcy Patty Joni sounds a lot like Herschel Walker. Do you suppose there's a family connection?

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This post reminded me of a book The Onion put out long long ago, called This Stupid Century. IIRC it was a future history of the early 21st century, and featured things like a dance fad that was marching to John Philip Sousa. They had a section on politics, but the only part I remember was the "Nutty 99th" session of congress. I should dig it up to see what's coming.

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