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Patricia Fox's avatar

Tour de force! I laughed, I cried. I despair.

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The Halfway Cafe's avatar

Same while writing it... but heavier on the despair!

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Joberta Wells's avatar

😁😁😁👏👏👏

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The Halfway Cafe's avatar

🥰

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Susana Salgado's avatar

👍👍👍👍 what is sad is those people exist.

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The Halfway Cafe's avatar

And they really do exist. People who brazenly admit out loud they're racist.

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Keith Morrison's avatar

I know this is satire, but she sounds exactly like some Magats I know.

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Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

This is scripture for the Book of White Delusion, chapter Blessed Are the Willfully Clueless. I read this aloud like a Southern gothic sermon and nearly spoke in tongues by the third saliva choke.

Bertha LaFollette is the patron saint of misdirected rage—clutching her Made-in-China flag while yelling at a Korean Navy vet for sabotaging her toilet paper budget.

MAGA grief is real, but it’s grief for a world that never existed and a prosperity that was never promised. They scream “economic anxiety” with Confederate flags and “Jesus Saves” bumper stickers while cheering billionaires who wouldn’t even hold the door for their oxygen tank.

Brilliant work. Keep the graffiti news coming. It’s the only gospel I trust these days.

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Yamuna Ramachandran's avatar

omg this is brilliant.

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The Halfway Cafe's avatar

You're too kind 🥰

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Joe Ivory Mattingly's avatar

Satire too close to the truth

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The Halfway Cafe's avatar

Halfway real news, baby!

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Pat Marlin's avatar

Too true to be satire.

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The Halfway Cafe's avatar

Yeah that piece is like the thinnest veneer of parody. It's sometimes hard to steel-man Republican arguments because they're so often made in bad faith or are just kind of delusionally under-informed.

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Jane Raitano's avatar

Because they too ignorant to know that Puerto Ricans are Americans

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Norman Goldman's avatar

Very well done!

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Rewd Awakening's avatar

How many more lies will we survive?  Everything this heartless, cruel man has done is a criminal offense or a lie. His hair is a fucking lie for Christ sake. His education, crowd size all of it has been a lie or a grift to line his pockets with taxpayers money. His greed is shared by many people around him, lying to the American public daily and repeatedly. Young people are going to develop illness like we have never seen before and we are already seeing this. The mainstream media is part of this greed. These men and women are not journalists and have chosen to ignore us during these times and report nonsense. We are going to die if we don’t form a plan and rise up to this terrorist network kidnapping American citizens off the street and deporting them to foreign prisons without due process. This is terrorism. Look at the SCOTUS, cherry picking cases to invalidate your rights. We are under attack America. This won’t go away on its own and you are ignorant if you think it will. I’d like to remind you of 1/6/21. This greed wasn’t possible to achieve without using religion as a weapon and people as pawns. Many of these people need to make a very important distinction between true Christians and extremism. Maga is and will always be EXTREMISM. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/new-apostolic-reformation-christian-nationalism/

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Glynn Kegley's avatar

I almost hit like. I like all but your comment that mainstream media is part of it. They are not.

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Rewd Awakening's avatar

They are. They are not working for you.

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Glynn Kegley's avatar

So how do you keep up with what’s going on?

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Rewd Awakening's avatar

Podcasts and reputable sources. Right now you have @MeidasTouch Network @Aaron Parnas @Aaron Rupar @Democracy Docket these wonderful guys doing great work.

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Glynn Kegley's avatar

These guys get their news from the same place I do. Mainstream media. Then they create oped pieces to tell you and their other users what they think about it. They lack resources to do otherwise.

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Rewd Awakening's avatar

If you have a podcast, book, or blog you’d like to mention … do so … Meidas is the best in the business

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Rewd Awakening's avatar

Whatever!

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Glynn Kegley's avatar

Rolls eyes. These guys get their news the same place I do, and then create opeds on what they learn. They lack the resources to do anything else.

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Frances Leones's avatar

I'm equal parts miffed because people like LaFollete exist and amused because this parody of a character is so full of BS.

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Peteyimage's avatar

The white construct is outta control!

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Mikey's avatar

Yeah, racists get so annoyed that non - Caucasians are citizens who expect justice, democracy, a living wage, housing, food……

”Eewww,” they say, “They are so demanding!”

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OhDonna's avatar

This was a barn burner. Sad but oh so true.

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The Halfway Cafe's avatar

🍻

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