My Magnum Opus & Eeyore Essay 3.06

Photo by Cesira Alvarado on Unsplash.

First published on Medium.
I find life fascinating.
However it would be a lot better if a fascinating life found me.

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We could expect to get everything we dream of.
Since Jeff Bezos has been that person, at least before he cheated on his wife.

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You will never get away with breaking all the rules, cheating, abusing, defrauding, lying, stealing…
And you thought I was going to say, except for Trump, didn’t you? Damn!

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No way Republicans could justly move a Black, former cop, candidate’s home of 18 years into another district, shortly after he filed to run.
Realize this is a southern state, specifically Georgia. Oh! Then yeah, very likely:
Nothing is as funny as it seems.
And it seems seeming is not as funny as being funny.

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Not all funny things need to make sense.
But if you don’t make more than cents being funny, you will have needs, like a day job.

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Voting rights to Republicans evoke a country club membership.
If you can’t overpay for an average meal and a round of golf, you shouldn’t be able to vote.

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Conservatives have this evolving boy band crush…
Remember the Scopes Monkees’ Trivia Redux from 1987?

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No joke can be that lame, and survive the editing process.
If I made enough to hire an editor, you would be right.

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Quality control is a good idea.
Unfortunately, good ideas (and jokes) are at a low ebb nowadays.

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Suppressing the votes of others is not a new phenomenon.
But Republicans have a very special relationship with stopping people of color from voting. It is called the white supremacist, Opie Floyd Addiction.

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Mayberry is a frictional town where white and black diversity educators now live in fear.
Barney Fife is about to present his first all-day diversity training seminar.

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Aunt Bee has baked another one of her delicious pies.
Punchline placeholder… Sorry, I was an hour late for lunch when I wrote that lead-in.

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Political humor is difficult.
To make it easier, consider the sources, the horse’s asses.

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The world is too complicated…
For that honesty, I will give you 3 wishes. 1st, rub or click my Gini co-efficiently.

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We must stop giving into our whims.
And I will, after I find my whims, and ask them if we have participated in a “giving into” recently. As old as I am, they may be inert, and dust covered.

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Why are Voter ID laws good?
They offer Republicans a cause to fight because they have nothing ethical, just, or moral to do anymore.

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By Richard The Chwalek.

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