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Feb 21Liked by Roy Edroso

What were these truckers hoping to accomplish? Lots of these guys live day to day. They need to get paid.

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Feb 21Liked by Roy Edroso

I laughed so hard at "cancelled my favorite show, Young Sheldon" it took me a full five minutes before I could read the rest. Well done.

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Feb 21Liked by Roy Edroso

Steve Rubbisher and his five flatmates are envious they didn't inherit a real estate empire.

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Feb 21Liked by Roy Edroso

Once again, the Maestro has banged out a piece that takes the breath away.

The initial hurdle for me is this trucker idiocy. After a very modest success in DC -- part of which clearly included making an impression on Roy (sort of how I felt about the tourists crowding Grand Central before retirement) -- and subsequent failures in Toronto, at the site of the Illegal Immigrant Invasion in Texas (itself something of an Edroso Joint® come to life and now this wherein the crackers will be defeated by the GWB -- who in their right mind cares. To quote America's Most Beloved First Lady, when it comes to manly men cosplayers, I really don't care, do u?

But this piece is a gem.

Really, some of these pieces should be collected into, like, quarterly print-on-demand books for sale at Amazon. Roy can become the commie political satirist near-equivalent of Dr Chuck Tingle.

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Feb 21Liked by Roy Edroso

I wonder how the (capitalist) employers of these truckers will be reacting to losing money and customers in the name of supporting Trump?

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"Chilling with the grandkids "

Holy shit is that funny!

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Feb 21Liked by Roy Edroso

This "movement" is such obvious bullshit that it boggles my mind that anyone would take it seriously. Truckers by and large cannot pick and choose which routes and jobs they will make unless they want to go broke. Owner-operators (independent) truckers are a tiny minority. It's not a nation of B.J. and the Bear out on the roads in their personal vehicles, picking and choosing routes based on what FOX news tells them. As with any issue, you can certainly find some subset of guys who will actually participate (what a word in this case!) in this fauxcott. But I don't think any city, let alone NYC has anything to be concerned about.

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Mmmmm, PJ Clark’s

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Feb 21Liked by Roy Edroso

Lol! I feel like Burt Reynolds in Boogie Nights: "Those are GREAT names!"

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Feb 21Liked by Roy Edroso

I’ll pass on commenting on delusional truckers and go straight to the latest from Talibama, where on “Judges Hospital,” the daily soap about a bunch of old white Christofascists pretending to be doctors, they’re telling the wimmenfolk their fertilized ova have more rights than they do. Sweet home, Talibama, where the zygotes are people, too.

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I love those names -- Peoni Doyenne, Chafe Dramaturgy, and Buff Toehold. And Bolt Upright, of course.

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LittlePig here (gotta fix that damn nym)

Boss, you know I love you like chicken, but keta ought to get a shout-out. I detect certain stylistic similarities....

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O fuck yeah, you nailed it with goons who think PJ Clarkes is a dive.

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